NAZIM BAYDAMIRLI

About Nazim Baydamirli

Nazim Baydamirli (former surname Mammadov) was born on 4 May 1963, in Gadabay district.

Nazim Baydamirli received secondary education at the Baku Planning and Accounting Technical College. After completing his military service, he received his higher education at the Voronezh State Agrarian University of Russia. In 1989, he graduated from the Faculty of Earth Structure of this university with honours. From the same year, he worked as a junior researcher at the Voronezh Agricultural Institute, and as a teacher at the Voronezh State Agrarian University. Nazim Baydamirli, who studied at the graduate school of the university, defended his scientific work and received the title of candidate of economic sciences.

In the 1990s, he started doing business in Russia. In 1993-1999, he was the general director of “Capital X” LLC in Lipetsk. Since 1996, he has headed “Imperial LTD” CSC.

In 2000, he worked as the president of “Global Caspian LTD” in Baku, and in 2003-2005, he worked as the general director of “Binapmetal” LLC.

Nazim Baydamirli, a member of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, was also a MP of the third convocation of the Milli Majlis – in the parliamentary elections held in November 2005, he was represented in the Milli Majlis from Gadabey-Tovuz electoral district No. 104 for 5 years. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Economic Policy of the Milli Majlis during his tenure as a MP.

In 2010, he again submitted his candidacy from the same constituency but withdrew shortly before the election.

On that eve, YAP called on the party members who nominated individually to withdraw. However, Nazim Baydamirli did not listen and did not withdraw his candidacy. Shortly after that, the employees of the Department of Preliminary Investigation of Tax Crimes started inspections at the “Logman Clinic” LLC owned by him, all the documents belonging to the clinic were taken away, and the enterprise was accused of tax evasion.

At that time, Nazim Baydamirli considered what happened as pressure on himself.

The former MP from time to time spoke about the monopoly in the country and the arbitrariness of officials in his speeches in the press and his posts on social media. In 2012-2013, there was a scandal between him and the head of “Baku Steel Company” LLC at that time, Rasim Mammadov, who is currently in prison. The former MP claimed that “Baku Steel Company” sends its men to small metal workshops, threatens them, closes those enterprises, and destroys the jobs of those who do not agree with it.

The former MP, who is the general director of “Baydamirli Holding”, has been in prison since 4 July 2023. He was charged with articles 146 (in the old (1961) edition) and 182.2.4 (extortion – when committed to obtain a large amount of property) of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan SSR.

The charge filed under the previous criminal legislation refers to the period when Nazim Baydamirli was engaged in business in the city of Lipetsk in the 1990s. In the materials of the criminal case, it is claimed that in 1996, Nazim Baydamirli threatened Azerbaijani Mursal Ibrahimov, who was involved in the alcohol business in Russia, to kidnap and kill himself and his family members through members of the criminal world. He asked him to give up the 40,000 dollars he had invested in the business, as well as 70,000 dollars. In the end, Mursal Ibrahimov refused 40 thousand dollars and paid 28 thousand dollars to Nazim Baydamirli.