PASHA Holding

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PASHA Holding LLC
Company typePrivate company
Industry Financial services
Founded2006
Headquarters Baku, Azerbaijan
Area served
 Azerbaijan
Turkey
Georgia
Montenegro
Key people
Jalal Gasimov, CEO [1]
Services
Total assets Increase2.svg AZN 11.9 billion (2019)
Total equity Increase2.svg AZN 2.6 billion (2019)
Number of employees
8500+ (2019)
Website http://www.pasha-holding.az

PASHA Holding is an Azerbaijani conglomerate. [2] [3] Its major holdings are Kapital Bank (81.08%) [4] and Pasha Bank (71.7498%). [5] [6] PASHA Holding is owned by the Aliyev and Pashayev families in Azerbaijan, two of the most powerful families in the country. [7] The company has been embroiled in high-level corruption in Azerbaijan. [2] The company has substantial government contracts across different sectors. [8]

The revenue in 2023 was 1.3 billion Euros. [3] It has more than 20,000 employees and total assets of 11 billion Euros. [3]

Pasha Holding was founded by Arif Pashayev, the father of Mehriban Aliyeva (née Pashayeva), the first lady of Azerbaijan. The ultimate shareholders of the company are Pashayev and the first daughters of Azerbaijan's authoritarian ruler Ilham Aliyev, Leyla and Arzu. [9] [10] According to news sources, Mehriban Aliyeva is not involved in the business. [3] [9]

The company built the Four Seasons hotel in Baku, which involved destroying part of the Baku Fortress Wall of the Inner City. [2]

Among other subsidiaries are Pasha Insurance, Pasha Life and many others. [2] [11] The company operates in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Montenegro, Uzbekistan and Georgia. [11] Pasha Holding owns a 50% stake in the Mandarin Oriental Bodrum Hotel. [12] [13] In 2024, Pasha Construction invested 200 million US$ in building a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [14] In June 2024, Pasha Holding announced a possible IPO in 2025 at the Azerbaijani Stock Exchange, with a possible double listing in Dubai or Turkey. [3] Pasha Holding has been partnering with the Baku International Jazz Festival for more than ten years. [15]

The Aliyev regime made PASHA Holding an "official partner" of COP29, raising questions by anti-corruption non-profit Transparency International. [16] [17]

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  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "PASHA Mischkonzern will an die Börse". Focus. 2024.
  4. ↑ Kapital Bank. "About Kapital Bank - Section Shareholders".
  5. ↑ KAP Public Disclosure Platform. "KAP Public Disclosure Platform Merkezi Kayıt Kuruluşu AŞ".
  6. ↑ Turkey, Fortune (3 May 2024). "Pasha Bank, Türkiye'deki Faaliyetlerini Güçlendiriyor | Fortune Turkey" (in Turkish). Retrieved 28 May 2024.
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  11. 1 2 Pasha Holdings. "Group Structure".
  12. ↑ "Azerbaijan's PASHA Holding confirms acquiring stake at Türkiye's largest hotel". Trend.Az. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  13. ↑ alice (28 February 2023). "Revealed: Aliyev family's holding bought 50 percent of a luxury hotel in Bodrum". MEYDAN.TV. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  14. ↑ kunu.uz. "Azerbaijan eyes to build a five-star hotel in Tashkent". Kun.uz. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  15. ↑ "18 YEARS PARTNERS". bakujazzfestival (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  16. ↑ "'Official Partners' of Azerbaijan's COP29 Climate Summit Linked To Ruling Aliyev Family and Their Inner Circle". OCCRP. 2024.
  17. ↑ "COP Co-Opted: How corruption and undue influence threaten multilateral climate action" (PDF). Transparency International. 2024.
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