He is the son of the politician and entrepreneur Vakha Agaev who in 2004 founded the company Yug-nefteprodukt, that primarily focuses on the wholesale distribution of petroleum and petroleum products[2] and previously played an important role in the export of oil from Chechnya.

[3] In 2000 Bekhan Agayev was awarded a Candidate of Sciences degree from the Kabardino-Balkarian State Agrarian University named after V. M. Kokov.

In December 2011, he was elected to the State Duma of the 6th convocation, running from the United Russia.

[1] He was born on March 29, 1975, in Grozny, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

[1] His father, Vakha Agayev, served as a deputy in the State Duma of the sixth convocation representing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).