Tag: Alkagesta
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Google demonetises The Maltese Herald over its investigation on sanctions-busting oil company Alkagesta
After an extensive correspondence with our GoogleAds service-provider, we can confirm that GoogleAds has demonetised us and have taken us off their platform in response to a very extensive and year-long campaign of legal warfare, and vexatious copyright and trademark claims by Alkagesta. This action follows the suspension of our Instagram account on the same…
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Alkagesta’s biggest client was a major Russian oil buyer: Turkish Russian oil sales allegedly on the decline
Following continued investigations, The Maltese Herald can confirm that Turkish industrial conglomerate TüpraÅŸ is Alkagesta’s biggest oil client, and TüpraÅŸ has also been a major Russian oil client. However, TüpraÅŸ announced last year that it was halting Russian seaborne crude-oil imports, and current reports state that Turkey has also been reducing its intake of Russian…
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Meta shuts down our Instagram account and restricts our accounts over multiple vexatious trademark reports by Alkagesta
The Maltese Herald has been the only Maltese press outlet to extensively investigate Malta’s major oil-bunkering company, the Azeri-owned Alkagesta. We have explained in extensive detail the operations of this company, its activity in Russian oil trading, contraband-Libyan oil, and its hidden ownership. Its owner was also arrested in Azerbaijan over oil trafficking and fraud.…
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We’re buying Russian oil now – and apparently it’s OK
Malta imported at least two batches of Russian oil cargo since the war on Iran started, once on the 24th March and the other time on the 12th May. The imports were sold in Malta by a Greek-owned ship called Romeos, and the oil was transported and bunkered by the local bunkering company called Zeta…
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Who is trading Russian oil in Malta? It’s Alkagesta of course
The link between Alkagesta, Malta’s largest oil trader and bunkerer and the Greek shippers, who come to Hurd’s Bank, bearing Russian oil can’t even be more clearer. Alkagesta is sourcing Russian oil bought originally under the EU-imposed price cap by Greek shippers which is then bunkered by the local industry at the Evos terminal in…
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Azeri Press: British lawyer paid £1 million to take down articles on Adnan Ahmadzada’s companies from the internet
The Azeri press is reporting that a British lawyer called Tim Maltin of MaltinPR (no relation to Malta) was paid up to £1 million to take down articles about Adna Ahmadzada’s companies from the internet. The Azeri press is reporting that Tim Maltin was delegated to address articles about Oilmar DMCC and Maddox DMCC, both…
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A reply to the Wiki vandals doing Alkagesta’s bidding
There has been an extensive debate on multiple pages on Wikipedia with some contributors and commentators on the website accusing The Maltese Herald of not being reliable and also of being a personal blog (The Maltese Herald originated from my personal website). The Maltese Herald started in October 2024 with three employees and two part-time…
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The Maltese Herald featured in a new Swiss investigation on Alkgaesta
The Maltese Herald has been featured in a new investigation on Alkgaesta: Malta’s largest oil bunkerer. The secret-owner of the Azerbaijani oil trading cony based in Malta, Adnan Ahmadzada was arrested last year in Azerbaijan over oil fraud. He is suspected of trafficking Russian oil and mixing Russian oil with other oil products. The new…
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Alkagesta’s pipsqueaks accuse us of racism and pro-Armenian bias: this is false
Alkagesta, being the fraudsters that they are, have reacted to our investigation about them on The Maltese Herald with a very extensive PR campaign that involved sponsored articles on the local press, vexatious copyright claims to Google about our articles, and also a blogging campaign with rumours, stupidity and disinformation. One of the latest accusations…
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Alkagesta announces €15 million credit line from FIMBank
Alkagesta, Malta’s largest oil cargo-handler, has acquired a credit line of $15 million from FIMBank. The company announced this news itself on its website. The credit line is unusual because Alkagesta uses foreign banks for its operations such as Raiffeisen Bank, which is the largest European bank still operating in Russia. Alkagesta is under increased…
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New trading link between Elctrogas/SOCAR clique and Alkagesta emerges
A new connection between the Electrogas/SOCAR clique of traders and Alkagesta, Malta’s largest oil cargo-trader, has emerged thanks to an indirect link found by oil and energy industry press outlet Euro Asia News. The article notes that Maddox DMCC, a commodity trading company in Dubai, lists Russia as one of its major oil suppliers along…
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Kamran Agayev, Alkagesta’s frontman, is living in Moscow – Azeri press
Kamran Agayev, who looks like he could have worked as a night-club bouncer, but is actually the official owner of Alkagesta, is living in Moscow, Russia, according to the Azeri press. Despite official records showing that Kamran Agayev is the majority shareholder of Alkagesta, he is widely believed to be fronting his cousin, Adnan Ahmadzada.…
