Afghan Biographies

Nabizada, Kamal Nabizadah


Name Nabizada, Kamal Nabizadah
Ethnic backgr. Qizilbash
Date of birth 1957
Function/Grade Business magnate in northern Afghanistan
History and Biodata

2. Previous Function:
Volunteer trade Attache afghan Embassy Moscow (20090331)

Head KAMAL NABIZADA FOREIGN ENTERPRISE LLC, TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN (20191100)

3. Biodata:
nabizada_kamalKamal Nabizada, son of Gholam Nabi was born on 27 November 1957 in northern Balkh Province. He went to Bakhtar High School in Mazar-i-Sharif and studied at Balkh University. Nabizada is a Shia Tajik (Qizilbash tribe). He is a business magnate in northern Afghanistan. His ties to Russia date back to the days when he served as Russia's conduit for funneling military assistance to former Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. He is close to the Jamiat Party, especially to Jamiat's Governor Atta and Ahmad Zia Massoud.

Nabizada is a national trader and granted fund for Arezo TV Station in Balkh Province in Dec. 2005. The station is currently funded by the owner, Kamal Nabizada, who used to own the venture together with the governor of Balkh province, Ustad Atta. Advertising (from businesses and national NGOs) and sponsored programming are an additional source of funding, with prices ranging from $3 a minute to $5-20 a minute, respectively.

Kamal Nabizada also owns the Kamal Nabizada Export and Import Company. He is the founder of the Nabizada Foundation which is one of the most active charity organization in Afghanistan. It has taken part in many reconstruction projects including hospitals, schools, clinics, and mosques, among others.

Nabizada, who imports fuel from Russia and Uzbekistan to Afghanistan, described the rampant corruption at the Heyratan border in northern Afghanistan as a problem "harder to fight than the Taliban. Nabizada says he is a close friend of Atta Muhammad Noor. (20090331)

He has business links with Hasin Fahim who got a major loan of $21 million for the Kabul Oil Company, in which he had no partial ownership , but Mohammed Ismail Ghazanfar, the owner of Ghazanfar Bank; Atta Muhammad Noor, a former Northern Alliance commander and now the governor of Balkh Province; and Kamal Nabizada, a business magnate in northern Afghanistan. Ghazanfar subsequently sold his share to the Kabul Bank chairman, Farnood.  A Central Bank  report says that auditors doubt that the Kabul Oil Company’s loan could ever be repaid because it “has no operation now in this field and has not left any moveable or immoveable assets (chattels or real estate.)” No one seems to know where the money went. (NYT 20110328)

Kamal Nabizada claims his name was forged on documents of the Kabul Naft fuel company, which borrowed millions of dollars from Kabul Bank. He said Friday July, 3 2020 that the primary court in Kabul had already considered his case and acquitted him two years ago. But Mairajuddin Hamed, the head of the appellate court in Kabul, has revoked the verdict of the primary court and put his name among the debtors again.(20200703)

Nabizada holds a diplomatic Afghan Passport and a Russian passport.

His wife and his four children are U.S. citizens and reside in Rockville, Maryland.

He speaks Dari, English and Russian language.

Last Modified 2020-07-03
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