Umar Dzhabrailov businessman husband. From presidential elections to "white powder". Business and banking

Umar Dzhabrailov is a statesman of the Russian Federation, representative of the Chechen Republic in the Federation Council, deputy head of the Committee on International Affairs. Trustee of the public movement “Russian Islamic Heritage”, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. In addition, Umar Dzhabrailov is a successful businessman and a regular at social events. It is not difficult to guess that Dzhabrailov is Chechen by nationality. He was born in Grozny on June 28, 1958. After graduating from secondary school, Umar decided to go to Moscow to try to build a career.

Arriving in the capital, in 1973 he entered the fur technical school. Then there were mandatory 2 years in the ranks of the Soviet Army (Strategic Missile Forces) and an attempt to enter the prestigious MGIMO. Alas, Umar did not have enough points, and he was forced to wait a whole year to get into the coveted university the second time. He chose his specialty “International Economic Relations”.

In 1985, Dzhabrailov received a diploma with honors and free distribution. However, only a year later he got a job as a laboratory assistant at one of the departments of MGIMO. He worked in this field for a couple of years, after which he went into business - he began to represent various foreign companies in Moscow, fortunately in 1989 they were visible and invisible, and everyone needed smart specialists who spoke languages. An expert in English, German and Italian, Dzhabrailov was in great demand.

In the first years of the new Russian reality, Dzhabrailov accumulated initial capital, which allowed him to open his own business in 1992. He founded the Danako company, which received a contract to supply petroleum products to state enterprises; in addition, the company owned a network of gas stations in Moscow and the Moscow region. After 2 years, Dzhabrailov met American businessman Paul Tatum, head of the joint venture Intourist-RedAmer Hotel and Business Center and took the position of first deputy general director of this enterprise. In 1996, Tatum was killed; The American previously stated that Dzhabrailov threatened him. However, guilt was not proven.

In 1997, Dzhabrailov created the Plaza holding group, which included Danako, the Quiet Harbor advertising agency, and the Okhotny Ryad and Smolensky Passage trading companies. According to experts, Plaza controlled up to 20% of the outdoor advertising market in Moscow.

In 2000, Dzhabrailov decided to try his hand at big-time politics. He registered as a candidate for the post of President of Russia and took part in the elections, despite the fact that the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case into fraud of votes for his nomination. Dzhabrailov took eleventh (last) place in the elections, gaining only 0.08% of the vote. However, it is unlikely that the entrepreneur seriously counted on victory. Most likely, he wanted to promote himself once again.

In 2004, Dzhabrailov left his post head of the Plaza holding, in connection with his appointment as a representative of the Chechen Republic in the Federation Council of Russia. It was Dzhabrailov who in 2006 suggested that Chechen President Alu Alkhanov resign from his post. Soon Dzhabrailov's powers in the upper house of the Russian Parliament were extended; they expire in 2011.

Umar Dzhabrailov was married twice and divorced the same number of times. From his second marriage he has two daughters - Donata and Alvina, who live with their mother in the Principality of Monaco. When communicating with the press, he sometimes complains about the unsettled nature of his personal life, but one gets the feeling that this is feigned. It is more willing to believe that the large number of women surrounding him is Dzhabrailov’s lifestyle, and not a way to find one.

Another noticeable feature of Dzhabrailov is his passion for social events. He tries not to miss a single significant event, always tries to be visible, attracts attention to himself. There are opinions that such advice (to always be noticeable) was given to Dzhabrailov a long time ago by his famous fellow countryman Makhmud Esambaev.

Dzhabrailov has an interesting attitude towards money. He is indifferent to them, but not dismissive. He knows his financial ceiling well and therefore feels comfortable within these limits. He believes that money just accompanies his lifestyle.

Alexey Chernov

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.

Umar Alievich Dzhabrailov was born on June 28, 1958 in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. His father Ali (Alvi) Israpilovich Dzhabrailov was deported to Kazakhstan; after returning to Chechnya, he held the position of secretary of the district Komsomol committee, worked in the oil industry of the republic and wrote poetry. Umar's mother is Rumi Abubakarovna Sarakaeva. After graduating from Grozny school No. 17, Umar went to Moscow in 1973, where he entered the fur technical school. From 1977 to 1979, he served in the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) in the city of Korosten, Zhitomir region. During his service, in 1977, Dzhabrailov joined the CPSU, where he remained until 1989.

After the army, Dzhabrailov returned to Moscow, deciding to enter the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but he missed one point and studied for a year in preparatory courses. As a result, he entered the Faculty of Economics of MGIMO with a degree in International Economic Relations and graduated with honors in 1985. Dzhabrailov received a free assignment, but could not get a job due to the fact that he did not have a Moscow residence permit. Later, information appeared that KGB General Philip Denisovich Bobkov, who was called the “godfather of Moscow business,” helped Dzhabrailov successfully graduate from MGIMO. In 1986, Dzhabrailov got a job as a laboratory assistant at one of the departments of MGIMO, where he worked until 1988. In 1989, Dzhabrailov began working as a representative of a number of foreign companies in Moscow (their names are not specified in the press). According to some reports, Dzhabrailov earned his initial capital from so-called Chechen advice notes, receiving money from the Central Bank using non-existent bank orders: such scams were common in the early 90s, when a telegram with a password was enough to transfer funds.

In December 1992, Dzhabrailov 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 for state enterprises. Umar's younger brother, Hussein, was appointed deputy head of the company. In 1993, Dzhabrailov, together with a colleague in the gas station business, the owner of the Arsi company, Gocha Arevadze, became the owner of the French fashion store Danata in the Slavyanskaya hotel. In 1994, he met American businessman Paul Tatum, head of the joint venture Intourist-RedAmer Hotel and Business Center. Umar transferred affairs in Danako to his brother and in July 1994 became the first deputy general director of Intourist-RedAmer, in this post he was able to defend the Slavyanskaya hotel for the company from the Moscow Property Committee. In 1996, Tatum stated that Dzhabrailov threatened to kill him in order to remove him from among the founders of the joint venture, and in November of the same year he was shot by an unknown assailant in an underground passage near the Kievsky railway station. Dzhabrailov's involvement in this murder was not proven, but he was banned from entering the United States.

After the murder of Teytum, Dzhabrailov was first acting and then advisor to the general director of Intourist-RedAmer. He became deputy general director and director of marketing and leasing of Manezhnaya Square OJSC. Then he managed to take the Radisson-Slavyanskaya complex out of its control, and in 1997 he created the Plaza holding group and became its general director. The group included the companies "Danako", the advertising company "Quiet Harbor", the trading enterprises "Smolensky Passage" and "Okhotny Ryad". The Plaza Group controlled 20 percent of the outdoor advertising market. At the same time, some media outlets accused Dzhabrailov of supplying weapons to Chechen militants with money earned from business.

In 2000, Dzhabrailov's candidacy was nominated for the presidential elections of the Russian Federation by the initiative group "Power of Reason" headed by him. Dzhabrailov participated in the elections, despite the General Prosecutor's Office opening a case of falsification of votes for his nomination, but in the end he took the last eleventh place in the elections with 0.08 percent of the votes. The press noted that he participated in the elections for the sake of self-promotion.

In the early 2000s, Dzhabrailov was on the board of directors of the Russian Capital bank and in April 2001 was elected chairman of the board of directors of the First OVK bank after acquiring its large stake. The murder of the vice-president of the First OVK bank, former chief accountant of Plaza, Lyudmila Krasnoger, was associated with Dzhabrailov. According to the GUBEP, the woman objected to Dzhabrailov’s scams with shares of a number of Moscow banks, which led to their bankruptcy, which gradually developed into an open conflict between them. In addition, the murder of Krasnoger, in turn, turned out to be connected with the “Pumane case”: according to unofficial data, its perpetrators were the Ivanov brothers, who were part of the “Kingisepp group” or “Pumane gang”, which was engaged in contract killings. Dzhabrailov was also involved in the murder case of another of his business colleagues - the owner of the advertising agency Ator and Quiet Harbor, Vladimir Kanevsky.

Dzhabrailov was associated with unsuccessful attempts on the life of Joseph Ordzhonikidze, who was then deputy prime minister of the Moscow government, and, according to some information, wanted to remove the Chechen from the hotel business in the capital. Immediately after the news of the second attempt on Ordzhonikidze in the summer of 2002, Dzhabrailov hastened to announce that he was not the mastermind of this crime, although no one brought these charges against him. Moreover, Dzhabrailov himself accused Ordzhonikidze of murdering his cousin Salavat, whose corpse was found near the scene of the assassination attempt on Ordzhonikidze. According to Dzhabrailov, Salavat, a sniper who fought in both Chechen wars on the side of the militants, was killed by Ordzhonikidze’s men and then thrown to the scene of the staged assassination attempt. Despite statements by the Moscow prosecutor that this crime has been “practically solved,” the names of those who ordered the assassination attempt and other contract killings in which Dzhabrailov was involved never became known. Meanwhile, the perpetrator of the second attempt was caught in October 2008 in Poland, some media reported his name - Alikhan M..

By the beginning of 2004, the Plaza group lost its main assets. Dzhabrailov left the post of president of the group in January 2004, when he was appointed representative of the executive body of state power of the Chechen Republic in the Federation Council. In the upper house of parliament, he became deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs. In this post, in November 2006, he was the first official in the government of Chechnya to invite Alu Alkhanov to resign as president of the republic. Alkhanov voluntarily resigned in February 2007 and Ramzan Kadyrov was elected in his place. Dzhabrailov's powers in the Federation Council were extended in July 2007 and are due to end in 2011.

Umar Dzhabrailov's nephew, 20-year-old Moscow State University student Akhmed Dzhabrailov, married his childhood friend19-year-old Khava Zaurbekova.

The wedding took place on August 31 in one of the most luxurious restaurants in Moscow « SAFISA". According to the groom's mother, Ahmed departed from the traditions according to which parents advise a young man who to marry, and chose the bride himself. Akhmed has been friends with Khava Zaurbekova since he was 12 years old. The girl lives in Grozny with her parents and studies at the Chechen State University.

Newlyweds Akhmed and Khave Dzhabrailov

The couple approached the ceremony more than seriously. Of course, about 500 guests are invited to the celebration! The confectioners of the SAFISA restaurant took on the task of creating the wedding cake. The delicacy, which became the highlight of the evening, cost the newlyweds several million rubles.

There were no Russian or foreign stars at the event. The guests of the evening were entertained by Chechen artists and Nadezhda Kadysheva.

A luxurious dress from Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad was made for the bride.

Bride with mother-in-law Aset Dzhabrailova

It is noteworthy that the girl flew to the capital from Chechnya on a private plane, which Akhmed sent for her.

Bride with friend Elina

“He is as deep a romantic as my older brother Umar,” admits the groom’s father, Hussein Dzhabrailov.

Khuseyn Dzhabrailov with his friend Idris

The Dzhabrailov family says that Akhmed is very similar to his uncle Umar Alievich and is his favorite nephew.

Guests from Grozny led by State Duma deputy Adam Demilkhanov and the groom's father Khusein Dzhabrailov
Bride and groom's sister Aina
Next to the bride are the groom’s elder brother Timur and the groom’s sister Aiza
One of the guests of honor Rakhman Yansukov

Former senator and representative of Russia in PACE Umar Dzhabrailov, 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, the policeman found Dzhabrailov in a state of either drug or alcohol intoxication. The detainee has already undergone the appropriate 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, the door was opened by Dzhabrailov himself 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 hotel said that 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 the senator

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 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 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, 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.

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 Rakhman Yansukov, head of the Avanti Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of Business Patriotism and 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, first deputy general director of the Rossiya Hotel, Khusein Dzhabrailov, 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. Valentin Stepanov, Khussein Dzhabrailov’s senior assistant, called the weapon “his” and put forward the version that he found a bag with a 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 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 “Rook” pistol by government decree in 2005, and the permitting documents for it were signed by Rashid Nurgaliev himself. Ramzan Kadyrov presented the weapon to his fellow countryman in a solemn ceremony, but it was not possible to establish for what particular merits the senator received the award. 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 Mr. 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.