Kamaladdin Heydarov

Kamaladdin Heydarov Fattah oglu (; born 15 July 1961) is an Azerbaijani politician and businessperson, serving as the Minister of Emergency Situations.

He has close ties to the ruling Aliyev family in Azerbaijan. BBC News described Heydarov as among "the wealthiest and most powerful in the governing elite" in Azerbaijan. He chaired the State Customs Committee from 1995 to 2006.

Early life Heydarov was born on 15 July 1961 in Nakhchivan City, Azerbaijan. He has graduated from Baku State University with a degree in Geography.

In 1992, he left Azerbaijan for Uzbekistan and opened several business firms there.

Political career He founded a company called Gilan in the 1980s, but the details about the company are opaque. In this role he was widely reported to have extracted bribes from companies importing goods into Azerbaijan. According to a 2010 leaked US diplomatic cable, Heydarov accrued "massive wealth" as chairman of “an agency that is notoriously corrupt, even by Azerbaijani standards.”

BBC News described Heydarov as among "the wealthiest and most powerful in the governing elite" in Azerbaijan.

Daphne Project scandal Heydarov was implicated in the Daphne Project investigation into secretive investments across Europe and the Middle-East through a Maltese bank.