{"id":169630,"date":"2015-08-25T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/mystery-company-quickly-wins-more-than-120-tenders\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:33:05","slug":"mystery-company-quickly-wins-more-than-120-tenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/mystery-company-quickly-wins-more-than-120-tenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Company Quickly Wins More Than 120 Tenders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Local officials have never heard of Install Service LLC, the Azerbaijan company that has won the contract to build this road between Jamilliy and Demirchiler.
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\n \u00a0A company that sprang to life three years ago with a capital stake of US$ 15 has since won more than US$ 16 million in contracts from the Azerbaijani government.\n<\/p>\n

\n It is unclear who is behind the company and what exactly it does, although it generally involves construction and roadwork. The single individual who shows up on company paperwork calls it a \u201cgift from God\u201d but seems to know little about it.\n<\/p>\n

\n What is clear is that government officials, including the tax office and agencies that awarded more than 120 contracts to the company, have nothing to say about it.\n<\/p>\n

\n In the murky world of Azerbaijani procurement, a company can be formed and soon have dozens of contracts, even if the main office is almost impossible to find.\n<\/p>\n

\n Install Service LLC was formed on Feb. 14, 2012 with an original capital of about US$ 15. Usually companies need one year’s experience participating in tender applications for Azerbaijan government projects before they begin to win contracts.\n<\/p>\n

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\n won a contract worth about US$ 146,000 from the Lerik Region local government for \u201cRenovation, Procurement of Construction Works.\u201d Lerik is in Azerbaijan\u2019s southern mountains near the border with Iran. Before 2012 was over, the company had won eight tenders totaling about US$ 400,000, with all funding coming from government budgets.\n<\/p>\n

\n The number and size of contracts grew rapidly. \u00a0In 2013, Install Service won 53 tenders with an approximate value of US$ 10.5 million; in 2014,
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\n valued at US$ 6 million.\n<\/p>\n

\n An OCCRP reporter attempted to discover more about the very first tender the company won from the Lerik Region local government, and sent an official request to the State Procurement Agency seeking the names of companies that competed against Install Service for the job. The State Procurement Agency did not supply the information and suggested that any such request should be directed to local government authorities.\n<\/p>\n

\n The Lerik regional government also declined to provide that information.
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\n , spokesman Atamali Najafov said the job was renovation work and was of high quality. “I am not informed about how much was spent,” he said. “But I don\u2019t recall the name of Install Service LLC.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Another early tender involved a job for Baku Metropolitan, the rapid transit system for Azerbaijan’s capital city.\n<\/p>\n

\n When asked what companies had competed for that tender, Baku Metropolitan replied: \u201cin this case, according to Article 9.3-1 article of the “Law on Access to Information,\u201d we can provide you with information only on the conditions of services provided, their price, and changes in those conditions and prices. Therefore, we can not fulfill
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\n The Ministry of Taxes refused to provide any information on tax documents Install Service may have filed on the grounds that access to information on taxes is a commercial secret.\n<\/p>\n

\n Since there was no government information available, OCCRP went looking for the company’s legal owner, Eldar Aliyev. He is registered to vote from an address in Sabunchu district in northeast Baku, a hard-to-find property at the edge of the city. Aliyev operates a real estate office and a car repair service at that address, but there was no sign of any construction equipment.\n<\/p>\n

\n Aliyev refused to answer financial questions about Install Service. In an interview, he said Install Service was “a gift from God” and that most of the business he does is dictated to him by a “religious voice” he hears.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI don\u2019t remember exactly when we founded Install Service,” he said. “I don\u2019t know the location of the company very well, as it is located in the city center. They take me to the office by car when I am needed.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I am informed about what the company is doing. I have always visited every place where work was being done. When the rivers flood, I go there immediately. \u00a0Our company has equipment brought from overseas. The company has about 50 to 60 trucks and bulldozers to pave the roads.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We do what we are asked to do. If we are told to clean the riverbed, we do that; if we are told to pave the roads, we do that. We have also done a lot of work in the subway system. But I am not a computer that can remember everything.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Aliyev said any further questions should be addressed to Atakishi Muellim.\n<\/p>\n

\n Atakishi Muellim identified himself on the phone as a company representative. He refused to meet a reporter in person, and suggested questions to be directed to yet another company representative, Elmer Muellim.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe don\u2019t want the media to publish anything about our company,” Elmer Muellim said in a phone interview. “We are paying our taxes on time. They are coming and checking us.”\n<\/p>\n

\n He also refused to meet a reporter in person, and refused to give any information on other company officers or any addresses other than Aliyev\u2019s. Muellim said the government has all the information it needs about the company in order to award tenders.\n<\/p>\n

\n Install Service currently has a US$ 3.35 million government contract in the Terter region near the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabagh to construct a highway between Jamilli and Demirchiler. But Jamilli municipal chairman Sardar Mammadov and Demirchiler municipal chairman Rashid Soltanov both say they have been heavily involved in this local road project, and that neither of them has ever heard of a company called Install Service LLC.\n<\/p>\n

\n They say the road is being constructed by the Terter Region’s own Department of Roads.\n<\/p>\n

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