Nearly five months after Ramin Isayev was sentenced to 14 years in prison, his attempt to overturn the judgment on appeal has failed. On January 27, 2026, the Baku Court of Appeal rejected Isayev’s appeal and upheld the judgment issued by the Baku Court on Grave Crimes. Judge Murad Mammadov chaired the hearing. The decision…

Years before his name became associated with one of Azerbaijan’s most prominent corporate criminal cases, Ramin Isayev had a very different public profile. He was the general director of SOCAR AQS, appeared at international energy conferences, spoke about technology and modernization, signed agreements with foreign partners and presented his company as an increasingly international player…