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"Accidentally fired three bullets"
The famous detective Sherlock Holmes, I remember, in moments of boredom, took a revolver and began to decorate the opposite wall of his office with the patriotic monogram “V. R." The powerful oligarch Umar Dzhabrailov was apparently also bored on Wednesday night. From loneliness or, conversely, an excess of emotions - God knows.
Dzhabrailov is registered in this house.
But he did much the same as a great lover of opium and crime puzzles: he took out his award pistol on Okhotny Ryad (royal apartment with three rooms and a kitchen). But our police officers are not Mrs. Hudson's quiet housekeeper. They quickly grabbed Umar Alievich and took him to the Department of Internal Affairs in the Kitai-Gorod district.
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August 29. 22.30. Three police officers arrived at the scene, they proceeded to the 6th floor and knocked on room No. 633, where the stranger was heading. A question came from behind the door: “Who?” The police introduced themselves, the door was opened by a man holding a gun in his hands, pointed at the floor. The police officers demanded to put down the weapons, to which Dzhabrailov replied:
The police still managed to persuade the citizen to put the gun on the floor. They saw holes in the ceiling. Dzhabrailov was handcuffed and taken to the police station. The businessman's weapon - a Yarygin brand award pistol - was confiscated.
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Dzhabrailov was awarded a weapon - a Yarygin pistol - by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, information about when and for what merit is not publicly available.
The history of the creation of the Yarygin pistol stretches back to 1990, when the USSR Ministry of Defense announced a competition for a new pistol to replace the PM pistol. As of the beginning of 2010, Yarygin pistols began to enter service with units of the Russian Armed Forces, internal troops, special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and other law enforcement agencies.
The target firing range from the PY is 50 meters. At a distance of 25 meters, it ensures the defeat of a living target wearing personal armor of the 2nd class (such body armor should, in theory, protect against a shot from a PM). There are 18 cartridges in the magazine. The main disadvantage is the large weight of the weapon - 0.95 kg. It is impossible to penetrate a standard concrete floor or ceiling in a building with a shot from a PY. So Dzhabrailov’s neighbors were not threatened by random bullets.
Umar Dzhabrailov and his assistant Rakhman Yansukov in that very room.
August 30. 2.50. The businessman was placed in a temporary detention center. Soon an ambulance arrived from around the neighborhood, but the doctors found no reason for hospitalization.
One of the doctors says:
IN 4.15 we were there. Dzhabrailov sat alone in his cell and greeted us warmly. He smelled faintly of alcohol. The patient complained of pain in his teeth. He literally complained that he had recently installed expensive implants, but his teeth still ache. That's why he can't sleep.
We gave an anesthetic injection and offered an antiallergic drug. They also advised me to complain about poor quality dental care. We stayed in the temporary detention center for about 15 minutes. When parting, Dzhabrailov shook hands and warmly thanked for the medical assistance.
A version appears that Dzhabrailov did not like the maid from Central Asia who brought the fruit he ordered for dinner. The businessman allegedly became angry and pulled out a gun. A total of three shots were fired into the floor and ceiling.
However, as hotel workers explained to MK, only waiters are responsible for delivering food to guests. If there are not enough of them, then managers are involved in the matter. Our source also did not confirm this: Dzhabrailov knew this maid so well (he lived in the hotel for about 2 years in different rooms) that he even greeted her. He met her completely calmly and was fully dressed.
9.00 . In connection with the night incident at the hotel, a criminal case has been opened under Article 213, part 1, paragraph “a” “Hooliganism” (minimum fine of 300 thousand rubles, maximum 5 years in prison), explained the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow. Public Mash claims that white powder was found in the room and was sent for examination. Several well-known narcologists, having learned from MK who they were talking about, refused to comment, vaguely hinting at a personal acquaintance with Umar Alievich.
10.00 . At the entrance to the Four Seasons Hotel, security is on alert. Outsiders are identified at once. They either know their “friends” by sight, or they unmistakably identify them by their external polish. Almost all guests drive up to the front entrance in expensive foreign cars. The car doors are opened by efficient young doormen in red jackets, with a tightly glued smile. This tight smile is the hotel's standard card. Literally everyone is happy to be a guest, from the security guards to the girls at the reception.
“It’s not the poor people who stay with us - they’re either foreigners or our businessmen,” a hotel employee reports dryly. -Have you seen the prices for rooms? It’s unlikely that a mere mortal can afford a night in our hotel.”
At the reception, the girls take reservations, give out keys, and are kind to clients. True, the number of the latter decreased noticeably after the evening shooting.
I would like to accommodate the Chinese delegation in a hotel. Is it possible to check in today? - the young man is interested.
Yes, no problem, how many guests are planned?
A lot of. We're just worried, is it safe here?
What do you. We are fine. Security, CCTV cameras. Security is very strict.
I heard there was a shooting incident the day before?
What are you talking about? Everything is calm here, don't doubt it. Nothing bad happened.
Of course, you won’t have to wait for any official statements from the hotel administration. It is beneficial for management to hush up the unpleasant incident and not create a fuss.
“Last night the alarm went off - everyone heard it. But no one was evacuated from the building. I contacted the boss and they reassured me that it was a mistake, don’t react,” recalls one of the shopping center security guards. - I forgot about it. And today I read on the Internet that the signal went off just for shooting. But no one was notified of anything. Everything was quiet and peaceful. There was no panic."
Dzhabrailov lived and shot in this hotel.
12.00. Umar Dzhabrailov is registered in Novy Arbat. From his house to the hotel - about 20 minutes at a leisurely pace.
The relatively new high-rise building is surrounded on all sides by a high fence. At the entrance there is a barrier, a security guard, and a sign “Entry by pass”.
But we haven’t seen him here for two or three years,” says a local resident. - About ten years ago, many stars lived here - Kobzon was often seen, Prigozhin, Dzhabrailov passed by in a car.
Did the businessman live quietly? - I ask.
No one seemed to complain about the shooting. But people said among themselves that Umar was a hot man. A few years ago he apparently went to Chechnya. Later there were rumors that he settled closer to the Kremlin. But no one else saw him here.
16.00 . The courtyard of an old building on Ilyinka Street. The situation around the Kitai-Gorod Department of Internal Affairs office is calm, although there are clearly more people here than usual. Dzhabrailov's fellow countrymen appear near the department, their number is growing. One of them, with a long beard, said that he sympathized with the businessman and came to support him.
From the very neighborhood, meager information leaks out. In order to avoid excesses, it was decided to allow only those registered on its territory into the department. And if we take into account that the Kitai-Gorod Department of Internal Affairs serves the lands inside the so-called Kremlin Ring (Okhotny Ryad - the embankments of the Moscow River - Kitai-Gorodsky Proezd), then only the head of state can now get here from the street. There are simply no residential buildings here.
Rakhman Yansukov, the president of the Avanti entrepreneurs association for the development of business patriotism in Russia (it was founded by Dzhabrailov), comes out to the journalists. “We don't believe this happened. Umar Alievich - purely positive person. And he is well characterized in his work” (the last phrase causes a healthy laugh). Yansukov reported more important information on his Instagram: Dzhabrailov’s speech at the “Year of Development of Russian Regions” forum on September 14 is not cancelled. This means that Yansukov is definitely not afraid of his boss being arrested for hooliganism.
Meanwhile, a PAZ with riot police arrived in the yard. And the human rights activist whispered to journalists: there’s no point in hanging around here - Umar is in the hotel during investigative actions.
A version emerged that Dzhabrailov was reloading the pistol and accidentally fired. Three times in a row.
The show went on. It was time to place bets: would the court dare to send the all-powerful oligarch into custody? And applaud the Moscow police, who showed amazing integrity.
18.00. . Apparently, about not leaving the Four Seasons Hotel. It's good that the gun was confiscated from him.
EXPERT OPINION
Director of the Institute of Narcological Health of the Nation Oleg ZYKOV:
In psychiatry there are the concepts of “noses” and “pathos”. Pathos refers to personality traits, and noses refers to diseases. The combination of personality characteristics and the manifestation of diseases ultimately gives a clinical picture of what a person does and how consciously he does it.
For example, in narcology there is the concept of “pathological intoxication” - when a person is in a narrowed consciousness and does monstrous things, but does not remember it at all. This is pathology. And in judicial practice there are examples when a person is found not guilty of terrible crimes because he did not realize what he was doing and was in an extreme form of noses - illness.
But there is also pathos, when a person, due to his vile character, after drinking a little or using a psychoactive substance, commits meanness. This is a manifestation of the personality traits of a particular person.
There are other painful manifestations of reactions to chemicals. Based on the results of the examination, a person may be declared insane in relation to a particular crime. Sometimes people are completely incompetent due to their mental status, which means that, in principle, they cannot be responsible for their actions due to various systemic pathologies such as schizophrenia.
There are a huge number of psychostimulants that can lead to aggression. Recently, synthetic cannabinoids have appeared, and after their use, schizophrenia-like reactions are observed.
Special forces are on duty at the Department of Internal Affairs building just in case.
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Umar Dzhabrailov, 59 years old, heads the Russian-Qatar Business Council and the Board of Trustees of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
He is the founder and head of the Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of Business Patriotism “Avanti”.
Dzhabrailov gained fame back in the 1990s. In December 1992, he founded his own company, Danako, which owned a network of gas stations in Moscow and the Moscow region and a contract for the supply of petroleum products to state enterprises.
In 1994, he met American businessman Paul Tatum, head of the joint venture Intourist-RedAmer Hotel and Business Center. In 1996, Tatum stated that Dzhabrailov allegedly threatened to kill him in order to remove him from among the founders of the joint venture. In November of the same year, Tatum was shot by an unknown assailant in an underground passage near the Kievsky railway station. Dzhabrailov was banned from entering the United States.
In 1997, Dzhabrailov created the Plaza holding group. The group included the Danako company, the advertising company Quiet Harbor, and the trading enterprises Smolensky Passage and Okhotny Ryad. In 2000, Dzhabrailov participated as a candidate in the Russian presidential elections. Took last, eleventh place with 0.08 percent of the votes.
The name of Dzhabrailov appeared in a number of crime stories - about the murder of the vice-president of the First OVK bank, former chief accountant of Plaza Lyudmila Krasnoger, the murder of the owner of the advertising agency Ator and Quiet Harbor Vladimir Kanevsky, the assassination attempt on the Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow government Joseph Ordzhonikidze. No connection could be proven.
In January 2004, Dzhabrailov was appointed to the Federation Council from Chechnya. In October 2009, Dzhabrailov was prematurely deprived of his powers as a senator on the basis of a personal statement. In 2009–2013, he was an adviser to Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Sergei Prikhodko.
In the late 90s - early 2000s, Dzhabrailov gained fame as a lover of social capital parties and a heartthrob. One of his friends was Ksenia Sobchak. Dzhabrailov was married twice, but divorced both times. He has two daughters from his second marriage - Danata and Alvina, who live with their mother in Monte Carlo. Dzhabrailov speaks English, German and Italian, understands French, Spanish, Czech and Hungarian. Member of the United Russia party.
Full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Candidate of Political Sciences. Defended his PhD thesis at the Russian Academy of Public Administration.
An extinguished Chechen aristocrat shoots at the ceiling of a five-star hotel, the police take up a perimeter defense and are preparing to repel the assault, white powder, a written undertaking not to leave.
Everything is fine, this is the Russian Federation.
Umar Alievich Dzhabrailov was relaxing at the Four Seasons Hotel on Okhotny Ryad. By nightfall he was overcome by wild hunger. For some reason, dinner was served in the room not by the waitress, but by the cleaning lady.
Umar Alievich Dzhabrailov is a Chechen, former senator, former presidential candidate, personal friend of Kadyrov, once a key mediator in relations between the Kremlin and Grozny, banned from entering the United States since 1996 (the contract killing of an American citizen), a famous collector of contemporary art. Dzhabrailov did not specifically appreciate such treatment - and opened fire. To the ceiling, from Yarygin's award pistol.
You can imagine the language in which the Four Seasons people described their problem with the police. “You understand, this is a very delicate matter. How can I say this... In our room here is a stubborn Chechen celestial with a firearm. What? No, it’s not gold, it’s regular... Although wait a minute, I’ll clarify...”
Glory to Allah, the police have arrived (Rahmat to these brave people). The team found holes in the ceiling and shell casings on the floor. Dzhabrailov looked wildly, but did not shoot.
Dzhabrailov, to the police: “I won’t give up without a fight.”
They put him face down on the floor, handcuffed him and took him to the Kitaygorod police station to get him processed.
Almost immediately, Chechens began to gather around the police station, and soon the building was surrounded by a dense ring of aggressive bearded people in tracksuits. The Chechens were waving their injuries. They willingly communicated with the press and periodically began chanting “Ramzan is coming!” All this put the police in a special mood - because it began to bear a bad resemblance to the Grozny train station in the winter of 1994. The difference was that it was now unclear whose side the federal government was on.
The Department of Internal Affairs announced the “Fortress” plan (which officially exists for the all-round defense of such objects from revolution, jihad, the living dead and the apocalypse). You can imagine what conversations were going on inside at that moment, among the people dismantling machine guns from the gun store.
- Comrade Lieutenant, will they save us?
- Don't know. Save water guys. If Ramzan comes with tanks, we are finished.
Ramzan did not have time: Dzhabrailov was quickly released on bail. A criminal case was opened against him (malicious hooliganism, up to five years). The award pistol, according to rumors, may be taken away. United Russia suspended Umar's membership in the party. An unidentified white powder was found at the hotel.
The introduction of the “Fortress” in the Kitaygorod police station was denied by the police press service. To be honest, we do not know whether this plan involves the distribution of machine guns.
Moral of the day: if you get stuck, don’t touch the barrel. Well, if possible, avoid being Russian in the Russian Federation - next time Dzhabrailov may shoot not at the ceiling, but at you, and he, too, will be released on his own recognizance. That's the way things are now - you never know whose side the federal government is on.
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Biography, life story of Umar Alievich Dzhabrailov
Dzhabrailov Umar Alievich is a Russian businessman of Chechen origin, statesman and public figure.
early years
Umar Dzhabrailov was born in the city of Grozny on June 28, 1958. In his youth he moved to Moscow. In 1973-1977 he studied at the Fur Technical School of Rospotrebsoyuz. From 1977 to 1979 he served in the strategic missile forces in Korosten (Zhitomir region). After the army, for a year he was a student at the preparatory faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1980 he became a student at this educational institution. In 1985 he graduated from the university with honors.
Labor activity
For two years after defending his thesis, Umar worked within the walls of his native MGIMO as a laboratory assistant. Then he spent a year as an art inspector at the Moscow cooperative gallery.
From 1989 to 1994, Dzhabrailov served as General Director of Danako LLP. In 1994-2001, he was first deputy general director of the Russian-American joint venture Intourist-RadAmer. In 1996, he was also Deputy General Director and Marketing Director of Manezhnaya Square OJSC. In 1997, he became an advisor to the general director of the Radisson Slavyanskaya complex.
In 2000, Umar Alievich ran for the post of President of the Russian Federation. According to the voting results, he took 11th place.
In 2001, Dzhabrailov became chairman of the board of directors of the First Mutual Credit Society bank. From 2001 to 2004, he served as president of Plaza Group LLC.
From 2004 to 2009, Umar Alievich was a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Chechen Republic, a member of the Committee on Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Property, a member of the Committee on International Affairs and Deputy Chairman of the Committee. He was awarded a certificate of honor from the Federation Council.
In 2009-2013, Dzhabrailov worked as an adviser to Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Sergei Prikhodko.
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Umar Dzhabrailov is a member of the United Russia party, a member of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In addition, he is the organizer of the youth movement “Strength”, a trustee of the public movement “Russian Islamic Heritage”, chairman of the Russian-Qatari Business Council, the creator and head of the Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of Business Patriotism “Avanti”.
At one time, Dzhabrailov was a graduate student at the Russian Academy of Public Administration. He successfully defended his dissertation and became a candidate of political science. Later he was accepted as a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Problems with law
On the night of August 29-30, 2017, Umar Dzhabrailov was at the Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow. At one point, the silence was broken by a terrible noise - Umar took out a pistol and fired several shots in his room. Frightened hotel staff immediately called the police. Law enforcement officers who arrived at the scene detained Dzhabrailov and searched his room. Empty cartridges and weapons were found in the room, for which Umar had all the documents. Also, according to press reports, white powder was found in the room. He was sent for examination.
A criminal case was initiated against Umar Alievich under the article “Hooliganism”. The businessman spent only a few hours under arrest, after which he was released on his own recognizance.
According to the media, Umar grabbed the gun at the moment when food was delivered to his room. It was not the waiter who brought the plates, but the cleaning lady. This fact outraged Dzhabrailov so much that he shot several times at the floor and ceiling. Later, Umar himself told the public that he shot completely by accident due to his inability to handle a weapon.
Personal life
Umar Dzhabrailov was married twice. The second wife is an artist. The entrepreneur has two daughters – Donata and Alvina.
At different times, Umar met with such famous beauties as the socialite
A former senator and representative of Russia in PACE, who was detained yesterday for shooting in a hotel room, spent less than a day in the Kitay-Gorod police station. After interrogation, the suspect of hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, provides for punishment of up to five years in prison) was released on his own recognizance. During these 24 hours, Dzhabrailov’s own version of what happened became clearer, the origin of the ill-fated pistol became known, and other murky stories were recalled in which the Vainakh businessman and legislator was involved. His ill-wishers, whom he has made quite a lot of in recent years, are meanwhile making full use of what happened to discredit both the senator himself and his patrons from Ramzan Kadyrov to Dmitry Peskov.
News agencies report the inadequate condition in which the ex-senator was at the time of his arrest. According to TASS, police found Umar Dzhabrailov in a state of either drug or alcohol intoxication. Umar Dzhabrailov has already passed the relevant examination, but the result will become known only in a few days. A source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the 59-year-old guest entering the elevator with a pistol drawn was seen by security guards, who immediately called the police. When law enforcement officers quickly arrived and knocked on the former senator’s room, Dzhabrailov himself opened the door with Yarygin’s pistol in his hand, and he declared: “I won’t give up without a fight.” Law enforcement officers saw a bullet hole in the ceiling of the room and detained Dzhabrailov.
RIA Novosti reports about white powder from the businessman’s license plate, which was also sent for examination. A source at the Four Seasons, owned by Andrei and Yuri Khotin, said that Umar Dzhabrailov has been living in the room where the shooting took place for two years and even keeps a cat there. This is quite in keeping with the spirit of his entire luxurious social life, which migrated from the nineties into the 2000s.
The fate of Senator Umar Dzhabrailov
In 2004, Dzhabrailov sold his business and became a senator, but practically did not change his lifestyle. He gladly showed journalists his mansion; under the leadership of Aidan Salakhova, he collected contemporary art: for example, he was the first in Russia to buy works by Anish Kapoor. Now Umar Dzhabrailov is a philanthropist, chairman of the board of trustees of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, vice-president of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia for strategic and special projects. Several years ago, he donated more than 150 works from his personal collection to the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and there was even a special exhibition “The Gift” there. Let us remember that this is also the name of a charitable foundation close to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
The heyday of Dzhabrailov’s business and social life occurred in the second half of the nineties. Then it was accompanied by numerous media revelations and denials by representatives of the ex-senator. The entrepreneur's name was mentioned in connection with the case of the so-called “Chechen advice notes”: the use of false payment documents on stolen forms was a common type of fraud. But Umar Dzhabrailov himself denied his involvement in this case. As Dozhd reports, the ex-senator had a small oil business, and by the end of the 90s he took on real estate in Moscow.
Before joining the Federation Council, Umar Dzhabrailov headed Gruppa Plaza LLC, which managed the Rossiya Hotel, Smolensky Passage, Moscow Business Plaza business center, etc. From 2009 to 2013, he was an adviser to Presidential Assistant Sergei Prikhodko .
Umar Dzhabrailov “This is an award pistol”
The version of what happened, voiced by Umar Dzhabrailov himself, boils down to the fact that the weapon malfunctioned. “The shot happened accidentally. Umar has an old Yarygin award pistol, which, when the bolt is pulled, can fire itself. This is exactly what happened tonight: Dzhabrailov pulled the shutter and a shot rang out,” said the head of the Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of Business Patriotism “Avanti” and a former assistant to the senator. On specialized weapons forums one can indeed find complaints about the design of this weapon, but it is doubtful that the senator from Chechnya does not know how to use a pistol at all.
In 2000, as the media reported, Umar’s brother, the first deputy general director of the Rossiya Hotel, came to the attention of the police. It was reported that in one of the hotel rooms, GUBOP employees found an entire arsenal: a sniper rifle with a silencer and two magazines, an AKS-74U assault rifle, four TT pistols, two PM guns, a homemade submachine gun, a device for firing small-caliber cartridges, 17 magazines for machine guns and pistols, two optical sights and more than 300 rounds of various calibers. The senior assistant of Khussein Dzhabrailov called the weapon “his” and put forward the version that he found the bag with the weapon at the door of the room and, thinking that the owner had forgotten it, brought it inside. This version looked unconvincing, but the rest of the work on the “Chechen trace” led nowhere.
American businessman Paul Tatum accused a Russian of threatening to kill in 1996. He believed that Umar Dzhabrailov wanted to remove him from the founders of the Intourist-RedAmer Hotel and Business Center enterprise (Dzhabrailov was deputy director in this company). After some time, the businessman was shot not far from the Kievsky railway station. It was not possible to prove Dzhabrailov’s involvement in the crime. To this day, the entrepreneur is prohibited from entering the United States.
It is known that Umar Dzhabrailov was awarded the “Grach” pistol by government decree in 2005, and signed the permitting documents for it himself. The weapon was presented to a fellow countryman in a solemn ceremony, but for what particular merits the senator received the award could not be established. According to media reports, “Yarygin” has been seized by investigators as evidence. And after the investigation is completed, his representative may well petition the court for additional punishment of the accused in the form of deprivation of his award weapon. In this case, the pistol will be sent to the special storage facility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs award fund.
From the scene of the incident, investigators recovered spent cartridges, bullets and solid cartridges remaining in the store. All of them were sent for examination, which will establish whether Umar Dzhabrailov used ammunition included in the set of award weapons or others. When using other ammunition, the owner of the award pistol may be held liable for illegal circulation of ammunition (Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
In relation to the hotel hooligan, organizational conclusions were also drawn along party lines. The Moscow branch of United Russia told Vedomosti that Dzhabrailov's membership in the party was suspended during the investigation. Presumably, Umar was not very upset by this news. He loses much more from the departure of Elizaveta Peskova from the Avanti association he founded, where she served as an adviser to the head of the organization. Peskova’s representative claims that this happened on August 20, and the news about the departure of the daughter of the presidential press secretary “coincided” with the shooting of Dzhabrailov, allegedly by accident.
As previously reported by the media, Umar Dzhabrailov paid for Elizaveta Peskova’s voyage to Crimea in order to draw attention to the problems of his friend Rakhmutdin Dadaev, who owns the South Sevastopol ship repair plant.
10.25.2002, "Like a squirrel in a wheel"
Mamlakat Nakhangova in Chechen
During the reign of the CPSU, personnel officers (all personnel officers from the personnel departments of enterprises to the KGB, where, ultimately, the most important personnel decisions were made) spent a lot of time compiling and writing all kinds of questionnaires, finding out under a magnifying glass all the little things in the life of almost every person. There could be no “white spots” in the biography. The personnel officers knew everything about everyone. Now this is no longer the case, everyone can come up with a legend for themselves, equip it with more or even less plausible details and become a hero or a dissident according to their choice.
Umar Dzhabrailov is no longer young and has seen the times when personnel officers were in power. It may seem that not a single personnel officer in those days would have ever allowed a Chechen to take a responsible position. Unreliable nationality. However, there were exceptions. In the Soviet Union, from the moment of its founding, they loved to talk about the equality of all the peoples of the great country, as well as the strong and selfless friendship between them. To convince anyone of this, it was necessary to present representatives of all the most colorful peoples of the country of that time, then everyone could point a finger at them and say, here he is, who achieved everything thanks to the Soviet Motherland and the Communist Party. Equal chances for everyone, just like Rockefeller - a shoeshine boy in the USA. One should not think that such lucky ones were chosen from some nomenklatura or their faithful offspring. All-Union Personnel Service, i.e. KGB, preferred worker-peasant biographies. Therefore, when the girl cotton grower Mamlakat Nakhangova, who found herself in the Soviet epic, sat in the arms of the father of all nations, her biography and the biographies of her parents and other relatives, equipped with the appropriate resolutions and seals, had long been lying in the local KGB office. The Father of Nations did not like liberties.
After the death of the leader of the peoples, his successors were imbued with the corrupting influence of the West and left the matter of creating national personnel and national signs, not just completely to chance, but so, they handed it over to the local, very specific, national nomenklatura. Nevertheless, such successful national cadres (let the readers forgive me, but I don’t know a better term for this phenomenon) were still fabricated. The unreliable Chechens also had them. Let us at least remember General Dzhokhar Dudayev. The Soviet general is a Chechen, commander of a long-range aviation division (strategic bombers), a member of the CPSU and its various party committees, a darling of fate, capable of opening the door to many bureaucratic offices with his foot. All the stories of Western radio voices about the expulsion and oppression of the Chechens seemed like idle fiction, one had only to look at the valiant mustachioed face. But there was also the most important dancer of the Union, Makhmud Esambaev, and Hero of the Soviet Union, Ruslan Aushev (not a Chechen, but almost). It so happened that Umar Dzhabrailov was lucky; he managed to fit in behind Mamlakat Nakhangova.
Umar Alievich was born on June 28, 1958 in Grozny. His father in his youth was the secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, however, thanks to the tortuous history of all Chechens in the Soviet Union, he did not advance far in party work. Umar was a smart guy, studied well, was fond of mathematics and easily completed his eighth year. Then his family made a seemingly strange decision - Umar went to Moscow, where he entered in 1973. at the Fur College. As funny as it may seem, it was easier for Umar to get a secondary technical education in Moscow than in Checheno-Ingushetia. Firstly, there was less competition, and secondly, at that time Chechens were almost unknown in Moscow and therefore they were treated more indifferently. At the same time, anyone more or less familiar with the personnel policy of that time understands perfectly well that such a trip to Moscow could not have been made without the sanction of the right person.
To become a full-fledged national cadre, it was necessary to serve in the army. Dzhabrailov ended up in 1977. into the elite troops of the Strategic Missile Forces and served quite quietly until 1979. in Zhitomir. Education and love for the exact sciences helped Umar get into these troops. In the army he joined the CPSU. Then it was the easiest way to merge with the leadership and direction. Dzhabrailov served brilliantly.
And here the fate of our hero takes a sharp zigzag. Umar Dzhabrailov enters MGIMO University of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study the most prestigious specialty “International Economic Relations”. The competition for the faculty of the same name with this specialty exceeded 20 people per place. For example, in order for the now well-known TV presenter Alexander Lyubimov (and he studied at MGIMO only a year younger than Dzhabrailov and, as their then classmates say, Sasha and Umar even in those days had mutual sympathy for each other) enter this faculty , his father, former KGB resident in Great Britain and Denmark Mikhail Lyubimov, who then worked as the head of the department at the so-called Andropov Institute (training intelligence officers for his beloved Soviet Motherland) and personally knew the entire leadership of Lubyanka, including the then head of the PGU (now called SVR) Vladimir Kryuchkov, was forced to use all his influence. Beloved son Sasha needed protection powerful of the world Togo. Umar Dzhabrailov arrived without any visible help. The help was invisible. In order to receive it, the future businessman had to study at the preparatory department. Because he didn’t get one point in the exams (in fact, completely different points were counted there). As he himself says: “...I was lucky, my documents were accepted at the preparatory department...”. Usually, this preparatory department of MGIMO accepted those who had work experience in their specialty; not just anyone was accepted immediately after the army. Why is Umar Alievich so lucky?
Personnel employee
Even then, the head of the Fifth Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, the Directorate for Combating Ideological Sabotage, drew attention to Dzhabrailov. Philip Denisovich Bobkov. The same Philip Bobkov, who soon became First Deputy Chairman of the KGB, and later, under Yeltsin, headed the Security Service of Most Bank and a bunch of associations of former GB employees. Such necessary help allowed the smart Chechen young man not only to overcome all sorts of entrance obstacles (for example, a character reference certified by the same KGB was required), but also to successfully graduate from college. By the way, since his studies, Umar Dzhabrailov has been able to speak Russian not with a Chechen accent, but with a soft southern Russian accent, which is very unusual for a Chechen. Dzhabrailov worked like a man possessed on languages, not only Russian, but also foreign ones. It was obvious that he could make a high-flying national shot. After graduating from MGIMO in 1985, he received free placement. According to the version he himself circulated, he could not get a job due to the lack of Moscow registration.
It should be noted that many (if not all) KGB personnel had a hole in their biography the size of one year, when the uninitiated in these subtleties could not understand what they were doing. Naturally, every regular KGB officer needs time for special training. After a pause, Umar Dzhabrailov received a residence permit in Moscow and in 1986 - 88. worked as a laboratory assistant at the same department of MGIMO.
At the end of the 80s of the 20th century, it became obvious that Gorbachev’s perestroika was gradually developing into the abolition of socialism. And then the far-sighted leadership of the KGB began to implement a program to seize the most important economic levers of the future “free” Russia. The same Philip Denisovich Bobkov was put at the head of this program, who attracted a group of promising clients from the same Fifth State Administration to its implementation; his Chechen protégé, who by that time had begun to turn sour, was also included in this group, performing rather routine tasks for the next penetration to the “Moscow Chechen community” (this is what was then called what we now call with masochistic pleasure the “Chechen mafia”). Among those people who were then prepared to take the places of the new Russian oligarchs, first of all, the names of Vladimir Gusinsky, Vladimir Potanin, Alexander Lebedev and some others come to mind. It was precisely these people that the corresponding special services (the KGB, in all its guises: FSK, FSB, etc., and less often the GRU) provided most favored nation treatment in the creation of their economic enterprises.
We know these names, they succeeded, but, without a doubt, there were also people who turned out to be failures, or at least those who did not fully realize such opportunities. Our hero failed to become an oligarch in the full sense of the word, such an oligarch as, for example, Vladimir Potanin. Umar Dzhabrailov did not have enough patience. He decided to make himself. His former bosses did not interfere. For what? Everyone who has ever worked for them always comes back. Sooner or later. Then it seemed so to them, they didn’t know that the system they had been building all their lives could fall apart or, at least, change beyond recognition.
Missing years
The official biography of Umar Dzhabrailov speaks rather sparingly about the early 90s. Even less is written about where Umar Alievich got his notorious initial capital and by what pike command he ended up being a representative of the Moscow State Property at Radisson-Slavyanskaya. Dzhabrailov seemed to jump out of oblivion and appear out of nowhere. This is usual for Russian business. Let's try, however, to restore the connection between times.
Umar Dzhabrailov earned his first big money in a trivial way. He earned them from “Chechen advice notes.” For those who have forgotten, let me remind you that in the early 90s, the Soviet banking system, unadapted to new conditions, began to fail. Non-cash money began to travel from one bank to another for weeks and even months. And this is within Moscow, and transferring money from one city to another has generally become a chore. In 1991 - 92 There were actually several banking crises, as a result of which money could not pass from bank to bank for 3 months. And then, in order for the economy not to die completely, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation decided that money could be credited to the accounts of companies by the receiving bank upon presentation of a bank order - an advice note, drawn up and signed in accordance with the necessary requirements by the sending bank. It was meant that in any case, the money would be debited from the sending bank when issuing an advice note. The state banks of that time (all sorts of menateps and bridge banks were exotic back then) seemed to be reliable.
In Chechnya, they didn’t think twice and stole some of these advice forms, and forged the signatures and seals. And thus, for several months, taking advantage of the confusion, they received purely specific money on non-existent orders. This scam was called “Chechen advice notes.” It must be said that even then it was said that the advice notes were in fact not Chechen at all, but Moscow. Since the state banks from which cash was withdrawn were precisely Moscow ones. However, this business, so to speak, was quickly brought under the control of the Chechens, in particular, Umar Dzhabrailov.
Of course, Umar Alievich now publicly denies such things. Back in 1997 in an interview with the newspaper “Arguments and Facts” (the interview was conducted by a journalist with the characteristic surname Batuev) he said:
The advice notes were created not by Chechens, but by those at the top of the banking system. I did not receive a penny from these advice notes, but on the contrary, I suffered. For the petroleum products sold, my company received bills with non-existent money. And the company went bankrupt (or re-registered and renamed “DANACO”? Huh? - editor’s note). I earned the money for the start-up capital quite legally and therefore today I am not hiding somewhere abroad and not sitting with my tail between my legs. I just took out loans from banks. Loans in the early 90s were fabulously profitable because the ruble was falling precipitously and the value of the dollar was increasing. And he made money on the exchange rate difference.
I can’t believe that someone sold Umar Alievich bills without money. They returned them as nicely, but why companies go bankrupt can also be easily understood by asking the simplest questions. But did that company pay all the taxes (even though they were ridiculous, according to the same Dzhabrailov) and did they pay the suppliers back for the oil? But I’m not the only one who hasn’t forgotten how bank loans were taken out in the early 90s. Somehow it didn’t work out for free, no one did. As for the specific recipients of bags of money on Chechen advice notes, you really can’t find them anymore. Why does anyone need extra witnesses? And Umar himself, of course, did not substitute himself.
However, here he did not have enough measure. It was not without reason that it was then that the first disagreement arose with a new friend - corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Boris Berezovsky. As eyewitnesses of that meeting remember, the not yet completely bald oligarch yelled at Dzhabrailov in a thin falsetto: “We gave you, the Chechens, a cash cow, and you slaughtered it!” Boris Abramovich meant that the operation was carried out too crudely, drew too much attention to itself and did not bring much greater profits. Therefore, the new friends separated for a long time.
Dancer time
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Makhmud Esambaev - dancer |
Nevertheless, Umar Alievich had a lot of money. And he wanted to make them even more. Former patron Philip Bobkov, who is actively developing the vein of Vladimir Gusinsky and is now tied to too close relations with one of the highest ranks of the Israeli military intelligence "Aman" Yakov Nimrodi (who could not stand any Chechens), got off with smiles and meaningless hints. He had no time for Umar. And then Umar Dzhabrailov came to the only Moscow Chechen who was not barred from entering the top of the Moscow Government.
Makhmud Esambaev has been a legend of Soviet art since the 60s of the last century. And the Moscow upstarts - the parvenu, the retinue of the new Moscow mayor Luzhkov, even then tried to imitate in everything the gilded - pompous style of the collapsed state. It seemed to them that this is the only way real empires look, where they are destined to become patricians. And a fragment of a real empire - the old dancer Makhmud Esambaev - received entry to all the new bosses from Tverskaya. They still love the same pseudo-imperial style - the remodeled Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Tsereteli statues - this is now, but then instead of castles with turrets there was Esambaev. The same one, without stooping to the brink of a buffoon, knew how to be not only pleasant, but also smart, acting as an adviser not only in matters of art.
Almost ninety-year-old Makhmud Esambaev affectionately received the young man. And he became his guru. And Umar Dzhabrailov again went to school as before. Esambaev understood perfectly well that in order to advance in a city like Moscow, an unknown Chechen had to be not so much very rich as very cunning. Umar was not the only one who came to the dancer for the same thing, but not everyone had the strength and patience to follow all his instructions. What were they like? Makhmud Esambaev acted as a born PR man. He was talented not only in dancing. Understanding full well that his life was short and he would have very little to guide his young student through the life, Esambaev ordered Umar to be public. Every single day he must prove to everyone around him that he strives for the light, participates in all social events, in charity, patronizes the arts, and cares for pretty women. And in general, a helipad and a dandy. Only such an image could help the then inexperienced Dzhabrailov become part of the Moscow crowd. However, Esambaev was an artist, and therefore instilled in his student an overly theatrical style. Hence Dzhabrailov’s love for short jackets and skinny trousers. What looks already comical on a man over 40.
So, he had to become rich and harmless, imposing and understandable, smart and necessary. Necessary for their new partners on the Moscow stage. So that no one would have the idea that he was communicating with a bandit. In the literal sense, Umar Dzhabrailov was never a bandit. He had no need for this, he solved all his affairs without noisy “bazaars” and “shooters”. However, for some cases there was, as they said then, a brigade on hand. Its remains (about 40 people) have survived to this day, rather as a nostalgic tribute to the past.
"Blue" period
Our hero quickly managed to become one of the people who were doing the most important things in Moscow at that time. Management and privatization of property. Unlike the nasty Chubais, the resourceful Luzhkov did not give away city real estate and other property forever; he liked to give everything to management, to a trust. This then and now is invariably led by Oleg Mikhailovich Tolkachev. And Umar Dzhabrailov quite easily managed to please him. It is not only beneficial to cooperate with him, but also to please him. Here Umar managed to take advantage of one human weakness of Oleg Tolkachev and his friends.
Alas, Russia is not America or Europe, and we are very suspicious of same-sex love. And for government officials this is compromising evidence, just like for Duma deputies or editors of newspapers of national renown. Because of this, in Russia such people are forced to flock together. And create what is called the “blue” mafia. What it is? It’s quite difficult to explain, you have to feel it yourself. If you do not have access to the Mosimushchestvo, to some Duma deputies from the Union of Right Forces, or to the editorial office of the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, then you will have to look for some less high-ranking community. Naturally, Umar Dzhabrailov was not gay, to which there are many witnesses, or rather female witnesses. However, his viciously sophisticated style, his constant appearance at all sorts of glamorous parties created a feeling of comfort in communicating with him for these people, who were not entirely happy in Russian conditions.
And Umar Dzhabrailov was recommended by “someone” from the Mosimushchestvo as first deputy, and then acting. General Director of the joint venture "Intourist - RedAmer Hotel and Business Center". This is what is now called the Radisson-Slavyanskaya Hotel. However, in order to become the head of such a prosperous enterprise like this, relations with the Department of External Relations of the Moscow Government were also needed. And Joseph Nikolaevich Ordzhonikidze has been handling all external relations in Moscow for many years now. Then Joseph Nikolaevich and Umar Alievich were friends.
Joseph Ordzhonikidze
It so happened that the relationship between Umar Dzhabrailov and Joseph Ordzhonikidze became dominant during his journey through the wilds and thickets of Moscow. When everything was fine with Umar Alievich and Joseph Nikolaevich, everything was fine with our hero, and when everything was not fine in the relationship, then not everything was fine at all. Who is this the all-powerful Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government Joseph Ordzhonikidze?
Joseph Nikolaevich is ten years older than Umar; he was born on February 9, 1948 in an ordinary Georgian family. His family had nothing to do with Stalin's People's Commissar. After graduating in 1971 Tbilisi Polytechnic Ordzhonikidze was assigned to the Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing Plant. It was there that he became a Komsomol organizer and followed the well-worn Komsomol ladder. Already in 1973 he became secretary of the Factory district of the Komsomol of Tbilisi. Thanks to the patronage of the then second secretary of the Tbilisi City Committee of the CPSU Boris Nikolsky (former Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government, and now a member of the Federation Council from the capital), Ordzhonikidze gets an internship in Moscow, where he serves in a small position as an instructor. Then he becomes first the secretary, and then the first secretary of the Georgian Republican Committee of the Komsomol. Next, Joseph Nikolaevich is transferred to Moscow and becomes one of the secretaries of the Komsomol Central Committee. At the time of perestroika, Ordzhonikidze oversaw all commercial projects of the Komsomol, one of his consultants was the future Moscow mayor Gavriil Popov.
Joseph Ordzhonikidze moved to the Moscow City Hall back in 1990. Under Popov, he was an adviser on foreign economic relations, and in the Luzhkov administration, through the post of head of the Department of Foreign Relations, he rose to the rank of Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government. Joseph Ordzhonikidze oversees the foreign economic activities of the Moscow Government. And what is it? These are, first of all, hotels in Moscow. Iosif Nikolaevich also oversees individual “large-tonnage” projects on behalf of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. First of all, this is the construction of Moscow City. He also oversees Moscow gambling establishments. If there were brothels in Moscow, there is no doubt that they would be supervised by Joseph Ordzhonikidze. And opium dens. However, thank God, Moscow is not Amsterdam yet.
It is no secret that all these areas, due to the presence of a huge amount of cash, are under the close attention of various criminal groups. It is also no secret that the most powerful of these groups in Russia in general, and in Moscow in particular, are Georgian criminal groups. For example, the number of thieves in law of Georgian origin in Russia is greater than the number of thieves in law - Slavs. On the other hand, the Chechen mafia has long been the talk of the town. And the easiest way would be to explain the relationship between Ordzhonikidze and Dzhabrailov from the point of view of friendship and enmity of these criminal communities. There's probably something to it. But not all. As I already said, calling Dzhabrailov a bandit is a mistake. Tough, stopping at nothing and using any methods, yes, but a bandit, no. It's just not necessary. There are more highly effective methods of making money. Joseph Ordzhonikidze may also know anyone, but he is much more of a businessman and official than anyone else.
And therefore, the relationship between these friends and enemies has always been purely business in nature. Nothing personal, as the characters of Al Pacino and Marlon Brando said in the famous film. When it was profitable for Joseph Ordzhonikidze, he used Umar Dzhabrailov. It stopped being profitable - threw it away. It's a shame? Probably, but what can you do?
I will not retell in detail the history of relations around Radisson-Slavyanskaya and, following the precepts of Sergei Dorenko, I will not report that it was Umar Dzhabrailov who “ordered” his then partner Paul Tatum. This story was discussed too long and tediously, and therefore it was probably not forgotten. Not yet. I will only note that all accusations against Dzhabrailov are based on only one thesis - Quo vadis? That is, who benefits? You never know, to anyone's benefit, Paul Tatum was an overly smug and impudently active person, even for today's Russia. And he had plenty of enemies. By the way, Joseph Ordzhonikidze was one of them. Tatum interfered with him with his activities, oh, how he interfered.
Umar Dzhabrailov also made money from his relationship with Joseph Ordzhonikidze. A standard Moscow scheme was applied - city property was placed in trust by Dzhabrailov's management company - the notorious Plaza group. And I must say, Umar Dzhabrailov turned out to be quite a tough and qualified manager for the 90s. Everyone made money and everyone was happy.
However, privatization of Moscow hotels also began. And then Umar Dzhabrailov tried to get what he thought was his share. His companies tried to participate in the privatization of the Belgrade Hotel, which was the first to go under the hammer. And then Joseph Nikolaevich considered it necessary to throw Umar out of the joint business. As Dzhabrailov himself says, their personal relationship ended in early 2000, and then the first attempt on the life of Joseph Ordzhonikidze occurred. This story is well known - Ordzhonikidze was shot at the head office of AFK Sistema, located on Leontyevsky Lane, in the backyard of the city hall building on Tverskaya. Both then and now this assassination attempt was explained by Ordzhonikidze’s economic problems associated with the Moscow-City complex. Umar Dzhabrailov was not mentioned in any versions.
But during the second attempt on Joseph Ordzhonikidze, the corpse of Umar’s cousin, Salavat Dzhabrailov, was found near the scene of the assassination attempt. In fact, his name is Salaudi. The Chechens do not have Salavats, they are not Bashkirs. Salaudi Dzhabrailov was not the most dangerous Chechen. I must say, and not the luckiest. His commercial projects were never successful, and therefore he had to constantly change his occupation. In general, in his family, Umar is really the smartest; his brothers: Hossein, Husain and Eli are rather simple-minded guys, although reliable. That is why they are listed as general directors and founders in various Umar enterprises. In fact, Umar controls everything.
Let's return to Salaudi. He disappeared two days before his body was found next to documents at the scene of the assassination attempt. Umar’s nephew Nazim even gathered all his 40 fellows on this occasion; it seemed to the Dzhabrailovs that this was a regular showdown. And someone simply tried to “run into” them. Then the cheerful Russian media announced that it was Salaudi who tried to kill Ordzhonikidze. And he shot with a pistol at the armored Volvo of the Deputy Prime Minister, despite the fact that Salaudi’s cousin, Umar, helped buy this member. An anecdote, and nothing more. Then completely ridiculous versions appeared, they say that Salaudi fired a pistol at one point of the armored car in order to penetrate it. Yeah, at one point of a moving car, brilliant plan. Still, no one, not even the Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government, should consider everyone a fool.
And then everything happened completely calmly. Slavyanskaya Hotel and Business Center LLC, a joint company of AFK Sistema and the Moscow Government, has terminated all relations with the Plaza group as a management company. On this occasion, a letter was sent signed by Gurami Mzhavanadze, naturally, the creature of Joseph Ordzhonikidze. Who would doubt it.
Dzhabrailov's trust business is ending. Although, no one evicted him from his office in the same “Slavyanskaya”; his stores operate there as well. All this is temporary. The East does not like a lot of sudden movements. Umar Dzhabrailov's hotel business has collapsed. Not because he worked poorly, no, it’s just that now the time has come to privatize all these numerous savoys and golden ears. And there is no need for an extra competitor here. Dzhabrailov is also not needed as a management company. The global chains Hyatt and Hilton have come to Moscow, and now they are already fighting for the right to be management companies of Moscow hotels. Nothing personal just business.
Shops and bandits
Umar Dzhabrailov was involved in many types of business. Here is a network of gas stations owned by his oil company DANACO, a business known to us in outdoor advertising, shops, etc. However, he never managed to break into the circle of the Berezovskys, Gusinskys and Abramovichs, where he aspired. It was not possible to get the desired dividends from the business with the former oligarch Alexander Smolensky, with whom Dzhabrailov, together, hoped to raise the bankrupt SBS-Agro bank, renamed by the hasty partners to 1 O.V.K. The ungrateful Smolensky did not believe in the purity of Dzhabrailov’s plans and mercilessly “threw” his partner. I just didn't do anything. Our hero never managed to get to the Smolensky Palace in Vienna. Although, they say, I really wanted to. But Austrian subjects (and Smolensky is now an Austrian) are not to be trifled with. EES.
Last year, at a time when the deterioration of relations with Ordzhonikidze was not yet so noticeable, Umar Dzhabrailov tried to sell someone what he had. In a flash, the now impoverished first Russian millionaire Artem Tarasov appeared, now playing the role of the elusive Joe and hiding from someone in London. Tarasov, a close friend of another Moscow illustrious Chechen entrepreneur Malik Saidullaev (owner of the Milan concern, which runs the Russian Lotto lottery), as usual, lied to Umar Dzhabrailov and promised that the shares of his Plaza group would be listed on the London Stock Exchange . The funny thing is that Umar bought it for a while, believing the swindler.
Nevertheless, attempts to sell everything to someone continued. In particular, Roman Abramovich personally could act as a buyer, according to our hero. However, Abramovich’s structures took an interest and realized that Dzhabrailov’s business is based on relations with Moscow officials, and if they do not exist, then everything turns out very sour. Only trusts, property is not enough.
Thus, Umar’s attempts to become one of the high-flying businessmen did not end in anything. It’s not without reason that at the prestigious Swiss and French ski resorts, where elite-fed oligarchs like to spend time, the hero of our story skis mostly with girls.
Moreover, after the old epic with Paul Tatum, once again remade in 1999. Sergei Dorenko, suddenly it turned out that Dzhabrailov’s entry into the United States was closed. They won’t give you a visa or, even worse, what they’ll do to Borodin. It seems that there is nothing wrong with this, the same Kobzon is also not allowed into the States, and even more serious people, such as the Cherny brothers. However, Dzhabrailov began to be pulled in Europe. The most unpleasant thing is that even in Monaco, where he lives ex-wife with their daughters, they somehow unfairly tried to grab Dzhabrailov by the gills and put him in jail for 3 days. Accused of links to organized crime. Specifically with the thief in law “Petrik”, i.e. Alexey Dinarovich Petrov. He is Mr. Suvorov, he is Lenya the Cunning. It is unlikely that there was anything serious behind this relationship. The “Mazutkinskaya” organized crime group, headed by Petrik, was controlled by the late Otari Kvantarishvili and the imprisoned Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik), and they did not really like the Chechens. In particular, as people who know this environment say, Otari warned Ordzhonikidze, whom we knew, against any transactions with any Chechens.
Dzhabrailov was also accused of having connections with Lechi Islamov (Boroda), one of the leaders of the Chechen organized crime group in Moscow. It is unlikely that Umar Alievich needed Beard to resolve his affairs. He himself could have done no worse. Dzhabrailov also had business connections with Ricardo Fanchini, who was wanted by Interpol for a whole bunch of criminal offenses. However, many others also had relationships with Ricardo Fanchini, for example, those who placed advertisements for Kremlevskaya vodka on outdoor advertising modules. Because it was Ricardo Fancini who was the owner of this brand. Maybe, of course, they are all bandits, but it’s hard to believe.
Did it seem to you that our hero is just a victim of circumstances? No, his methods are varied. Any competitor or partner of his is always under the gun of not only the sharp gaze of narrowed eyes. Let us remember the story of the murder of the general director of “Quiet Harbor” (“ATOR”) Vladimir Kanevsky (there are other stories), the man who made Umar his business in outdoor advertising. But Vladimir Semenovich was Umar’s partner. He mastered the methods of Ordzhonikidze and Dzhabrailov to perfection. Only where the Deputy Prime Minister simply removes people he no longer needs from business, his former partner removes them from his life. Nothing personal just business.
Such a flair of a bandit continues to follow Dzhabrailov to this day. I must say that he sometimes flaunts them. But every medal has a downside, you have to pay for everything, and not everyone offers a hand.
From under the stick
One of the greats (to my shame, I don’t remember who) said that if you don’t engage in politics, politics will take care of you. This becomes increasingly true the higher status a person has. Umar Dzhabrailov always shunned politics; in his position, only such adventures were missing. How is it, an advanced reader will ask, who managed to read my work to this point and not lose his jaw from boredom? After all, Umar Dzhabrailov participated in the 2000 presidential elections?
Our hero's participation in the presidential elections is nothing more than PR and banter. On the one hand, Umar received very decent publicity (by the way, the same Artem Tarasov skillfully uses the status of a former presidential candidate in London, a swindler, but a presidential candidate), on the other hand, it never occurred to anyone in power that he was going to take this seriously. And the Chechen businessman mocked our democratic values to his heart’s content. There was another reason: Umar did not at all like the role that was provided to him in 1999. his many past and present patrons. It would be nice if he was simply forced to finance the OVR, however, the insinuating Philip Denisovich Bobkov once again appeared on the horizon and reminded him of something. As a result, Dzhabrailov had to take a political position and hang up well-known posters about baoBABs, Roma and family. If only he knew that Roman Abramovich does not forgive this. Never.
Naturally, I would be wrong if I ignored the issue of Umar Dzhabrailov’s relationship with what we call Chechen militants. Especially in light of the events of the day before yesterday. In the period 1994-96. As any Moscow law enforcement officer knows, all Chechen entrepreneurs were taxed by the authorities of the then Ichkeria. Did Dzhabrailov pay him? Apparently, yes, because he remained alive. They also said that in one of the banks, whose office was located on the territory subordinate to Umar’s structures, two brothers of Vakha Arsanov, the then vice-president of Chechnya, who has now disappeared somewhere, worked. There was a lot of talk about the fact that Dzhabrailov’s close relatives also served in Chechnya as someone there.
Nevertheless, the struggle for the independence of Chechnya worried Umar insofar as. It was not included in his commercial plans. Another thing is that at that time he had very bad relations with a loyal supporter of the federal government, the former mayor of Grozny Beslan Gantamirov. Gantamirov was a tough and independent man and, unlike Dzhabrailov, he knew how to shoot from an AKM and lead his men into attacking machine guns. Dzhabrailov was a huckster for him, in general, they did not like each other.
However, after Beslan Said-Alievich was sent to prison (some say for embezzlement, and some say he simply disappeared from the arena for a while), Dzhabrailov took several conciliatory steps towards his opponent. When Beslan was released from prison, Umar even spoke at some meetings of Moscow Chechens as Beslan's personal envoy. Then their paths did not cross, since Beslan went to lead in Chechnya, and Umar remained in Moscow. Since then, Umar Dzhabrailov has demonstrated complete disinterest in what is happening in his homeland. The businessman himself never took the idiotic thoughts of his advisers that he should become the president of Chechnya seriously and only chuckled.
The genius and the slave of PR
In order to follow the precepts of the great dancer, Umar Dzhabrailov has to constantly be in sight. In the early 90s, Umar’s PR was simple: once again to get photographed by an idle photojournalist next to Yuri Luzhkov. Preferably a little to the side and behind. And then carefully spread the rumor that, they say, he, Umar, is especially close to the Moscow Government, and he is Luzhkov’s son-in-law and his “cashier.” And there was even a rumor that he was really a son-in-law, and he had the nickname “Son-in-law” among the Chechens. But everything ends quickly; now even Luzhkov’s security guards understand PR. Who mercilessly drive away from the retinue all those who should not be there.
I had to adjust my already theatrical image. Now he has become a full member of the bohemian party. Presentations, presentation of all sorts of dubious awards (for example, the “Silver Galosh” for dubious achievements in the field of Umar’s beloved PR), sponsorship of installations by supposedly contemporary artists (who publicly empty their stomachs on Red Square and run naked, pretending to be dogs), fashion shows and views. And everywhere Umar Alievich is one of the main characters. All this smacks of the same theatricality as the very strange and elaborate attire that he wears. Love for bohemia is a dangerous thing. And there are dangerous habits in use there. Cocaine, for example. Umar did not escape this hobby, which greatly increased his rating in such circles. And dropped it in others. But in this unreal world of the drug addict’s dreams, they got used to it. He is one of his own. Although, there are a lot of “new Russians” there, but they move around in this world at will, and Umar Dzhabrailov almost out of obligation.
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I even had to open my own club “Virus” and support a pop group of the same name. And hold special events in this establishment, during breaks looking under the girls’ skirts and slapping them on the butt. And what? Matches the image. What kind of helipad and dandy is it without feeling the charms of girls? He even has to choose high-status mistresses who are more famous, so that they are also difficult to name. At first, he used various cute photo models included in various top ratings there. Then it was the turn of the larger birds.
Dzhabrailov became the official lover of the daughter of the former mayor of St. Petersburg, or to be more precise, just one of them, Ksenia Sobchak. Of course, the ladies' man immediately showered her with a bunch of jewelry: all sorts of necklaces and necklaces made of black pearls and God knows what else. When the aspiring socialite Ksyusha was robbed, the theft cost either 200 or 600 thousand dollars in jewelry alone. But such reprimands do not bother the daughter of the current senator from Tuva Lyudmila Narusova; in addition to Dzhabrailov, there is also the failed publisher of the Russian “Penthouse” Alexander Shustrovich and St. Petersburg oil tanker Vladimir Leibman. There are probably others. In general, all these gentlemen look at least stupid in company with Ksyusha. As if none of them knew that the word “public”, when applied to Mademoiselle Sobchak, has a very distinct connotation. I won’t speak for Shustrovich and Leibman, but our hero understands everything perfectly well. But he is involved in this story.
The story of multiple loves between Dzhabrailov and Sobchak is just a promotion of Umar Alievich’s own name. And there is no doubt that they will still come together and separate, kiss and swear, and every glamorous audience will listen to this. And they will discuss for a long time that Umar Dzhabrailov came to the premiere of the next musical alone and was boring, and Ksenia Sobchak came not with Leibman or Shustrovich at all, but with some very pretty, but clearly “pinkish” girl. And at this time someone nearby was inconsolable. Just a soap opera. There is nothing personal in this love relationship either. With ordinary women, Umar is simple. And the employees of the same Virus club could see this more than once. And he is not shy even in front of his guards. However, this is already a “strawberry”.
Any attempts to use Ksyusha not only for its intended purpose, but as an opportunity to “make friends” with her influential mother and thus get the opportunity to slip another high level, ended in nothing. Bed is not a reason for business. Yes, in general, mom is not having the best time right now. I had to leave the financial management of various funds, but in Tuva you can lobby a little. However, these are no longer the concerns of our hero.
Of course, Ksyusha herself is no stranger to PR, and she has to raise her image, during breaks trying to become a fashion model for advertising underwear. Well, I laugh at everything about this, but what is it like for Dzhabrailov himself? A man who is not only not poor, but also oriental? But in the East, the attitude towards women is still not so relaxed. Truly he became a slave to his mask. But somewhere far away, still in Monaco, live two beloved daughters: Alvina and Donata, and it is there that not the happiest father goes every year to celebrate his birthday or some simpler holiday in their company. I deliberately do not write about the ex-wife of the current bachelor; this is a topic for a separate story. In the meantime, Umar walks around Moscow as an eligible bachelor for all sorts of semi-secular things.
If Umar Dzhabrailov had been born 10 years earlier, he would no doubt have become an influential ambassador of our country to some notable foreign power. Or he would become a senior KGB officer, or maybe the party boss of Checheno-Ingushetia. If he had been born 10 years later, he could have become a brilliant manager of some transnational corporation with business not only in Russia. Or he could become a minister or a major publisher. But he was born in 1958, and his time was our time. He became who he is. With all its beautiful and scary features. You just can't imagine him happily lounging on the beach. At least in Hawaii, at least on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. This is the kind of person he is. Like a squirrel in a wheel. He runs and cannot stop. What will happen next? Let's find out.