Heydarov was also implicated in a 2018 investigation by the Daphne Project into companies that invested in secret across Europe through a Maltese bank.

He received a master's degree in International Security and Global Governance from Birkbeck, University of London, in 2008.

Tale Heydarov is chairman of the Board of Gilan Holdings, a conglomerate business in Azerbaijan.

[5] Heydarov is Founder and Chairman of the European Azerbaijan School (EAS),[6] a private co-educational day-school applying the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, Cambridge International Examinations and the IB Diploma Programme.

[8][9] From 2006 to 2019, he was Chief Editor of Visions of Azerbaijan magazine, which began in 2006 but also launched as a digital TV channel in 2016.