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Abdullayev, Elshad
CMAZE•FIDE ID: 13403087•Born: 35
Standard Elo
2120
Elshad Islam oglu Abdullayev is an Azerbaijani lawyer and former university rector who gained wide popularity in 2012 after producing and publishing hidden camera videos, raising public and international awareness of corruption in the Azerbaijani government. The controversy that arose as a result came to be known as the Gulargate scandal, after former MP Gular Ahmadova of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, who featured in the first video. He lives in exile in France.
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