Farkhad Akhmedov

Farkhad Temurovich Akhmedov (Russian: Фархад Тимурович Ахмедов, Azerbaijani: Fərhad Teymur oğlu Əhmədov; born 15 September 1955) is a Russian self-made businessman of Azerbaijani origin.

Background

Akhmedov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR in 1955 to Azerbaijani parents - Teymur and Asadi. He was a young schoolboy when his father was sentenced to death for state-property embezzlement in a debauched case in the USSR by the KGB. He then fled to Moscow at the age of 15 with 48 rubles, studied to be a mechanic; spent several years in the Navy and graduated from the Moscow Veterinary Academy's Commodity Research & Animal Commodities department as a specialist in fur. He was the first Azeri businessman to move to London in the 1980s, and then eventually began selling machinery to oil and gas companies all over the world and later moved into production himself.

Akhmedov is known to have many close friends made in the early 1980s such as the late Boris Berezovsky, Pyotr Aven, Roman Abramovich and Eugene Shvidler. There are many photos of them all in the 1990s and 2000s holidaying together with their families in the French Riviera.