Corruption’s Posterchild – understanding the challenge to Azerbaijan’s security sector
This is a photo from 2017, showing the Azeri President and his wife whom he has just nominated Vice-President. In 2012, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project named Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev its corruption “person of the year.” According to the project, Aliyev was awarded this dubious distinction based on extensive reports and “well-documented evidence” that the Aliyev family had used its influence over a period of many years to take advantage of profit