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• Blog post / Oct. 28, 2016

  • Oil, Gas & Mining
  • Azerbaijan

  The transparency movement should not be duped: Azerbaijan is gaming the system whilst brutalising its people

  Vicious oppression of independent civil society and endemic official corruption are a fact of life for many Azerbaijanis. So how can the country remain a member of EITI, a landmark transparency scheme founded on the principle of the freedom of civil society to hold government to account?

  
• Blog post / Sept. 6, 2017

  • Corruption & money laundering

  Can the EU learn from the Azerbaijani Laundromat scandal in helping tackle anonymous company ownership?

  The latest in a series of leaks uncovered by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
• Report / Dec. 6, 2013

  • Oil, Gas & Mining

  Azerbaijan Anonymous

  Click here to read the press release.The international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was set up to give citizens of resource-r…

  
• Press Release / Dec. 6, 2013

  • Oil, Gas & Mining

  Mystery figure behind Azerbaijan’s state oil company revealed

  Click here to go to the report page. Azərbaycan oxuyun. Пресс-релиз на русском. Findings pose a challenge for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
• Report / Dec. 9, 2013

  • Oil, Gas & Mining

  Кто скрывается за государственной нефтяной компанией Азербайджана

  Результаты расследования указывают на недостатки Инициативы прозрачности добывающих отраслей (EITI).

  
• Report / Dec. 9, 2013

  Azərbaycan dövlət neft şirkətinin arxasında duran gizli fiqur məlum oldu

  Click here to read in English. Пресс-релиз на русском. Araşdırma nəticəsində əldə olunan faktlar Mədən Sənayesində Şəffaflıq Təşəbbüsünə olan etimadı azaldır
• Press Release / Dec. 19, 2013

  • Corruption & money laundering
  • Oil, Gas & Mining

  Azerbaijan Anonymous: Response to Socar

  In its statement regarding Global Witness’ report ‘Azerbaijan Anonymous’ Socar asserted that “There seems to be underlying tone in the Report to portray in a negative way and with envy the increasing influence of SOCAR”  and claims that the report “relies on inaccurate sources of informati
• Briefing Document / Feb. 11, 2014

  • Corruption & money laundering
  • Governments
  • Oil, Gas & Mining
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Turkmenistan

  «Положения о гражданском контроле»

  Необходимо, чтобы граждане и гражданские организации, которые они представляют, могли привлекать к ответственности правительственные органы в процессе выдачи лицензий и контрактов на разработку месторождений полезных ископаемых.
• Press Release / Oct. 16, 2014

  • Oil, Gas & Mining

  Azerbaijan must reverse civil society crackdowns to remain within landmark transparency scheme

  The international board meeting of the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) confirmed today that Azerbaijan was in breach of its requirements, by preventing civil society stakeholders from meeting, organising, accessing funds and speaking freely.  
• Briefing Document / March 4, 2015

  • Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijan Anonymous: Correspondence with SOCAR

  In December 2013 Global Witness published Azerbaijan Anonymous in which we called for the release of information concerning who the real owners are of companies involved in the extraction and trading of oil that belongs to the Azerbaijani people, and how these companies got access to these deals.