Farkhad Akhmedov

About Farkhad Akhmedov

Birth Day: September 15, 1955
Birth Place: Moscow, Russia, Russia
Occupation: Businessman

Farkhad Akhmedov

Farkhad Akhmedov was born on September 15, 1955 in Moscow, Russia, Russia. Farkhad Akhmedov got his start selling Russian sables at the London commodity exchange. In 1987 he founded Tansley Trading, which supplied equipment to Russian gas producers. Six years later, he became a minority shareholder (got 5% shares) in Nortgas, an oil and gas company in Siberia that was a former joint venture between Gazprom and U. S. company Bechtel Energy. In 1998 he bought Bechtel Energy's remaining 44% stake, increasing his share to 49%. He became chairmen of Nortgas around the same time. In 2012 he sold that stake for $1.4 billion. Akhmedov has since invested $55 million of his cash into a pomegranate juice factory in his native Azerbaijan, where his father worked during the Soviet era. In 2014 he bought yacht Luna from Roman Abramovich
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Popular As Farkhad Akhmedov
Occupation Energy
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born September 15, 1955 (Moscow, Russia, Russia)
Birthday September 15
Town/City Moscow, Russia, Russia
Nationality Russia

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Farkhad Akhmedov’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Farkhad Akhmedov was born in the Year of the Goat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. Appearance is important too. Compatible with Pig or Rabbit.

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Biography/Timeline

1945

Akhmedov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR in 1945 to Azerbaijani parents – Teymur and Asadi. He was a young schoolboy when his Father was sentenced to death for state-property embezzlement in a debauched case in the USSR by the KGB. He then fled to Moscow at the age of 15 with 48 rubles, studied to be a mechanic; spent several years in the Navy and graduated from the Moscow Veterinary Academy's Commodity Research & Animal Commodities department as a specialist in fur.

1980

Akhmedov, who always lived in Moscow; started to expand his Business to England in the early 1980's and began trading Russian-sourced Sable-skins on the London Commodities Exchange. In 1987 he founded Tansley Trading Ltd, which sourced and supplied both new-western and second-hand Russian equipment to Russian gas producers.

1993

As a result of supplying them equipment, in 1993 Akhmedov bought a 5% share in Northgas, an oil & natural gas field founded by US engineering company Bechtel, based in Siberia which has a field in the Arctic Circle. In 1998, he bought-out Bechtel's remaining share as they did not see any Future value in developing the field for oil and natural gas production.

2004

Akhmedov was Chairman of the Committee on Legal and Judicial Affairs in the Russian Federation Council from 2004 – 2009. He helped push through several laws encouraging the protection of children, animals, decreasing bureaucracy within the state and increasing transparency laws for Russian officials.

2005

In 2005, threatened with the loss of his license by the Russian state to produce gas, Akhmedov agreed to give Gazprom 51% of his shares, in return for not pursuing any claims against Akhmedov.

2007

2007–2010 Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe representing Russia.

2010

Akhmedov was a monitor from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in the 2010 Azerbaijani parliamentary election. Some say that Akhmedov's role was biased, being born in Azerbaijan. However, Akhmedov did produce recommendations on Future elections and the public noted that Ilham Aliyev's Father, Heydar Aliyev ordered the execution of Akhmedov's Father, Teymur. This could have made Akhmedov's position biased against the current President at that time, hence the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe continued allowing Akhmedov to be a monitor and even allowed him to have the final decision in whether to accept and recognize the elections. Many political analysts see this as being the most important decision, which was in Akhmedov's hands, in deciding whether to allow the Aliyev legacy to continue.

2012

To date, Akhmedov does not have any political roles and spends most of his time in Baku, at the time due to his late mother living there - according to Azerbaijani media. Akhmedov's late Father, Teymur, was buried near Akhmedov's residence in Baku. His corpse was found in 2012 due to extensive searches and personal intervention by Ilham Aliyev.

2015

In 2015, Akhmedov emerged publicly as a major buyer in the art auction market. He purchased Mark Rothko's Untitled Yellow and Blue for US$46.5 million.

2016

In 2016, Akhmedov was credited by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu - the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Turkey) for helping in the recuperation of relations between Russia and Turkey. Notably, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu stated that I also have a friend Farhad Ahmedov, a former Russian senator, whom I know since my work in PACEParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Farkhad grew up in Russia, grew stronger in economic terms and even was a senator. Then he returned to Azerbaijan. He very much loves Azerbaijan, Turkey and Russia. He was also in close contact with Putin and knows him well. Farkhad Akhmedov offered our President to write a letter to Vladimir Putin. He said that a letter will be more effective than numerous meetings of Turkish and Russian delegations. If we look at the contents of the letter, we will see that it reflects what Farkhad Akhmedov said. Proposals by Farkhad Akhmedov as a man, who knew Putin as a close friend, were very valuable.

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