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Savannah Energy’s Azerbaijani connections: how Baku-linked financiers supported Andrew Knott’s expansion in Africa.

Maddox DMCC’s push into the Ukrainian fuel market isn’t what it seems. Open-source records, investigative reporting, and industry data all point to a hidden reality: a layered network of traders and offshore shells tied to Russian fuel supplies. The scheme relies on interconnected offshore companies and intermediaries scattered across multiple jurisdictions—designed to mask Russian origins and complicate the paper trail.

Commercial data indicates that Maddox DMCC imports Russian crude oil blends, including the Russian Export Blend (REBCO), supplied by Russian producers such as JSC Zarubezhneft and its subsidiaries.

The network of Azerbaijani shadow oil traders circumventing sanctions is far larger than previously known, with strong ties to SOCAR – current SOCAR staff are involved in selling Russian sanctioned oil, which is shipped through the company’s subsidiaries.

Dubai-based Demex Trading supplied Russian oil to Nils Troost’s companies before they were sanctioned. This information was found in a leaked archive of the Russian customs broker ALET. Demex was a nearly exclusive supplier of crude oil and diesel fuel to Troost’s companies in 2022–2023, with shipments going to the UAE, the US, and Europe.

Anar Madatli, Etibar Eyyub (aka Akin Koçak), and Talat Safarov, all sanctioned by the European Union, own a network of shadowy Azerbaijani oil traders who continue to trade Russian oil in defiance of sanctions.