Rovnag Ibrahim oghlu Abdullayev (Azerbaijani: Rövnəq İbrahim oğlu Abdullayev; born 3 April 1965 in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani politician who was the longstanding CEO of SOCAR, Azerbaijan's state-owned oil company from 2005 to 2022.
[1] During his tenure, SOCAR was widely characterized as corrupt by transparency advocates and anti-corruption specialists.
[6] As the head of SOCAR, Abdullayev earned a modest salary and had no other known sources of official income.
At the age of 25, Abdullayev's 25-year-old son, Rashad, bought a luxury flat in London for $22.4 million through an offshore company.
[7] Rashad has also been spotted wearing a Roger Dubuis Excalibur Quatuor, valued at more than a million dollars.