A son of Azerbaijan’s former Minister of National Security, Eldar Mahmudov, who was dismissed from his post in 2015 after a spectacular fall from grace. Although Mahmudov worked as a government official for his entire career, his family controls a business and property empire across Europe worth over 100 million euros, a 2020 OCCRP investigation found.

In 2015, a few days after his father’s sacking, Anar Mahmudov closed his corporate bank account at Credit Suisse. A few months later, he also closed his personal account.