Why Tahir Garayev and Etibar Eyyub Needed Azim Novruzov’s Uzbek Passports to Feed Putin’s War Machine

British sanctions have exposed the 2RIVERS empire of Tahir Garayev and Etibar Eyyub: through Uzbek nominees and a network of shell companies, they transferred 90 billion dollars via Russian oil trading. The UK has finally woken up and imposed sanctions on this large-scale network of shadow oil traders led by Tahir Garayev and Igor Sechin’s business partner, Etibar Eyyub. These gentlemen trade in Russian sanctioned oil as if sanctions were a minor inconvenience. The list includes 175 companies and 48 tankers. In the past few months alone, at least $90 billion worth of oil has passed through the hands of Tahir Garayev and Etibar Eyyub. Ninety billion, Karl! And now it turns out that the empire of these sanctioned oil traders includes not only the Azerbaijani segment but also the Uzbek one. Enter Azim Novruzov and his compatriots. The Uzbek Cluster – How Bilal Aliyev, Islombek Blakhatov, and Feruzabonu Abdullayev Became the New Faces of Tahir Garayev’s Shadow Fleet After Etibar Eyyub and Tahir Garayev’s first companies were sanctioned and effectively unable to operate, the oil traders began creating new companies en masse. They would process several shipments of Russian oil through them and then liquidate the legal entities to [...]

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