Bakhtiyor Fazilov

Bakhtiyor Fazilov (born July 30, 1975) is an Uzbek businessman with a portfolio that includes the energy company Eriell, and the construction company Enter Engineering.

Fazilov created Eriell in 1999. Through deals with the Uzbek state-owned energy giant Uzbekneftegaz, Eriell gradually built a monopoly on the drilling of Uzbek oil and gas fields. Eriell entered the Russian market in 2008, making deals with Gazprom, Rosneft and Novatek, as well as selling a 46% share of the company to Gazprombank, the financial arm of the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom.

After the death of Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov and the ascendancy of strongman Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the presidency in 2016, Fazilov's firms have prospered. Since 2017, the company has won billons of dollars worth of contracts for the Uzbek state.

The ownership structure of Fazilov's companies is opaque. Investigative reporting have linked Fazilov to offshore companies in Cyprus, Belize and Jersey.