Trump International Hotel and Tower Baku, Azerbaijan. As reported by the New Yorker, in 2012 the Trump Organization signed a licensing deal to develop the Trump International Hotel and Tower Baku, Azerbaijan.
Ivanka Trump took particular interest in the interior design of the project and made a video promoting it.
Expert opinion cited in the article suggested that the Trump Organization should have been aware that a multi-million dollar development funded by the inexperienced son of an Azerbaijani government minister was likely to be corrupt. The Mammadovs were politically exposed persons (PEPs) as defined by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Moreover, Azerbaijan has been described by the U.S. State Department as being surrounded with “… corruption and predatory behavior by politically-connected elites.”