Umar Dzhabrailov in the food city shopping complex. Shot by Umar Dzhabrailov

Russian entrepreneur, statesman, 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. Representative in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the executive body of state power of the Chechen Republic (2004-2009), deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs (2004-2009). Founder and head of the Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of Business Patriotism “Avanti”

"Biography"

Chechen by nationality.

1973-1977 - Study at the Fur Technical School of Rospotrebsoyuz in Moscow.

1977-1979 - Service in the strategic missile forces in the city of Korosten, Zhitomir region.

1979-1980 - Student at the preparatory faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Dzhabrailov changed his mind about asking the court to return his pistol

Ex-senator Umar Dzhabrailov appealed to the court with a request to return Yarygin’s award pistol, which was taken from him, press secretary of the Tver court Anastasia Dzyurko told RBC. However, Dzhabrailov’s petition was soon withdrawn.

Umar Dzhabrailov bought the Patriot shooting gallery after the shooting at the Four Seasons

Former senator Umar Dzhabrailov acquired the Patriot shooting club in Moscow and intends to train there himself. In November, the court imposed a fine of 500 thousand rubles on Dzhabrailov. for the shooting at the Four Seasons Hotel

Umar Dzhabrailov will open the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chechnya

Umar Dzhabrailov will open the Museum of Contemporary Art in Grozny. The project will be “no worse” than the Solomon Guggenheim Museum and the Tate Gallery in London, the ex-senator promises

The court fined Dzhabrailov half a million rubles for shooting at a hotel

The court found former senator from Chechnya Umar Dzhabrailov guilty and imposed a fine of 500 thousand rubles on him. for the shooting at the Four Seasons Hotel in central Moscow at the end of August. Dzhabrailov said he was “more than pleased with the verdict”

Dzhabrailov pleaded guilty to hooliganism and asked the court not to ruin his life

Former senator Umar Dzhabrailov, accused of hooliganism with the use of a weapon, admitted his guilt and repented during the trial. An RBC correspondent reports this.

Dzhabrailov was fined 4 thousand rubles. for "white powder" at Four Seasons

Businessman Umar Dzhabrailov was found guilty of drug use. At the end of August, he started shooting in a Four Seasons room, and during his arrest, as RBC reported, they found “white powder” on him.

The criminal case of the shooting of Umar Dzhabrailov in the hotel was transferred to court

The investigation of the criminal case against Umar Dzhabrailov has been completed, the case has been transferred to court, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. At the end of August, a businessman started shooting in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow.

Dzhabrailov was assigned a psychiatric examination

A businessman detained for shooting at a Moscow hotel at the end of August is ready to undergo an examination, his press secretary said. RBC sources previously reported that Dzhabrailov was tested for drugs and the results were positive

Dzhabrailov explained the shooting as a nervous breakdown after a meeting with billionaires

According to the businessman, everything boiled inside him when the “commercialists” who made billions in blood refused to help the charitable foundation

Dzhabrailov refused a polygraph test on Channel One

Businessman and former senator from Chechnya Umar Dzhabrailov, detained on August 29 at the capital's Four Seasons Hotel on Okhotny Ryad after the shooting incident, refused to participate in the Channel One program “Actually,” during the filming of which the characters are subjected to polygraph (detector) tests lies). This was reported to RBC by a source close to the filming process on the channel.

Dzhabrailov spoke about the reason for the shooting at the Four Seasons and the “white powder”

The businessman, detained for hooliganism, told RBC that he did not drink alcohol or drugs, and also accused the hotel staff of provocations. “I simply expressed my rebellious protest in this way,” the former senator explained the shooting

Doctors confirmed Umar Dzhabrailov's drug intoxication

A medical examination of businessman Umar Dzhabrailov, detained for shooting at a hotel, showed that he was in a state of drug intoxication. Unknown powder and pills were found in his hotel room

The media learned about Dzhabrailov's explanation for the hotel shooting by checking weapons

Ex-senator Umar Dzhabrailov explained to the police that he shot at the ceiling with an award pistol to test a weapon that he had never used before. Dzhabrailov was detained for shooting in a room at the Four Seasons Hotel

A video appeared with the detained Umar Dzhabrailov in the bullpen

A video of the detained ex-senator from Chechnya Umar Dzhabrailov in a pre-trial detention cell at the Kitay-Gorod police station has appeared on the Internet. The video was published on the website of the Izvestia newspaper.

Dzhabrailov was taken from the police department for investigative activities at the Four Seasons

Ex-senator from Chechnya, businessman Umar Dzhabrailov, was sent for investigative measures to the Four Seasons Hotel, said Denis Nabiullin, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission. An RBC correspondent reports this.

Former senator from Chechnya Umar Dzhabrailov was detained in Moscow

Well-known businessman and former senator Umar Dzhabrailov was detained by law enforcement agencies in the center of Moscow, sources told RBC. Dzhabrailov was armed and warned the police: “I won’t give up without a fight.”

Former senator from Chechnya Dzhabrailov was taken to the Kitay-Gorod police station

An RBC source in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs spoke about the details of the detention of businessman and former senator from Chechnya Umar Dzhabrailov in a Moscow hotel. A source at the Four Seasons confirmed that there had been a shootout and that police had arrived.

More details on RBC:

"Avanti" - time for change

— Rakhmen Shah-Magomedovich, tell us about the AVANTI project.

– In September 2014, Russian entrepreneur and statesman, philanthropist Umar Dzhabrailov founded Russia’s first Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of Business Patriotism. It was created in response to the call of Russian President V. Putin to activate all internal forces for the prosperity and growth of the country in a difficult international situation.

Searches were carried out in the house of the ex-senator on Rublyovka

The house of former senator Umar Dzhabrailov on Rublevka in Moscow was searched in a criminal case of extortion of two million dollars.

Moscow police conducted searches in a house on Rublevskoye Highway, which, according to operatives, belongs to former member of the Federation Council Umar Dzhabrailov.

Report of FBI agents on the conflict between Umar Dzhabrailov and Paul Tatum

Basic facts of financial fraud

The FBI obtained the following information from its sources: Americom Business Centers, Incorporated was registered in the state of Florida with an authorized share capital of $25,000 ($0.01 per share).

Americom's corporate headquarters were located in Irvine, California. The corporation's accounts were opened with First Interstate Bank (Suite 150, 650 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, California 92626, American Bankers Association number: 122000218, account number: 360301159). In addition, AMERICOM opened two accounts (one with AVO BANK and the other with Dialogue Bank in Moscow). Americom Business Centers in Moscow also had an offshore account with Barclays Bank International on the island of Jersey (Library Place, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands) for payroll.

Together with Russian partners and the Radisson Hotel group, Tatum organized a joint venture in a hotel complex, the cost of which was estimated at millions of dollars, which included a chain of stores, office space and the hotel itself. Initially, the Russian partners in the joint venture were represented by the Mosintur organization.

Russian partners received 50 percent of the profits from this joint project. The second half came from the Radamer partnership, which included the Radisson Hotel company. (Moscow), which received 20 percent of this share, and Americom Business Centers (Moscow), which received 80 percent of half the profits. In addition, the Radamer partnership received 4 percent of turnover as a management fee and compensation for all operating expenses, including marketing support from the United States. In addition, incentive bonuses were paid for various achievements and based on the results of work during the year. On the other hand, the Russian partners were to receive a rent of $6 million per year.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_9941.htm

Dzhabrailov sold the business to Kobzon under threat of ruin
It will no longer be possible to bring the Attica signs into compliance with Moscow standards

As Kommersant has learned, the famous singer, entrepreneur and State Duma deputy Joseph Kobzon acquired from another famous entrepreneur, Umar Dzhabrailov, the Attik company, which specializes in installing advertising signs in the capital. Mr. Dzhabrailov sold Attik under the threat of ruin: the capital authorities wanted to demolish most of the structures owned by the company. The arrival of Joseph Kobzon will help the signs remain in place.
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© "RBK Newspaper", 08/31/2017, Number front, Photo: RIA Novosti

Margarita Alyokhina, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Yulia Sapronova

Police on Wednesday evening released the ex-presidential candidate on his own recognizance. Umara Dzhabrailova. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a businessman started shooting at the Four Seasons Hotel. Holes in the ceiling and white powder were found in his room.

Nameless shooter

Employees of the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs on the evening of Wednesday, August 30, announced the release on his own recognizance of a man who had fired at a hotel room in the center of Moscow the day before. “At 18:15 [he] was given a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave the place,” says the official statement from the press service of the central administration, received by RBC.​

The detained man turned out to be businessman and ex-senator from Chechnya Umar Dzhabrailov, two RBC sources close to law enforcement agencies said. Throughout Wednesday, police did not release the man's name. The fact that it was Dzhabrailov who was detained for shooting at the hotel was confirmed to RBC by members of the Public Monitoring Commission for Moscow Denis Nabiullin and the press service of the United Russia party, which reported that it would suspend the businessman’s membership in it after reports of his detention. In accordance with the party's charter, this happens automatically if a criminal case is initiated against its member, United Russia explained.

Representatives of the businessman on Wednesday claimed that they knew nothing about what happened. After Dzhabrailov’s arrest, press secretary Grigory Gorchakov was only aware that he was in Moscow; his assistant Rakhman Yansukov also stated that he could neither confirm nor deny this information. After Dzhabrailov’s release, his representatives did not answer RBC’s calls, and the entrepreneur’s own phones were blocked.

Award pistol and white powder

Unofficial information about the arrest appeared on social networks around 10:30. Within an hour after this, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs published an official statement; it did not name the shooter. “On the evening of August 29, the police received a report that a guest was violating the rules of residence at a hotel located in the central part of the city. Police officers who arrived at the scene detained a man who fired upwards from his award-winning pistol. There were no injuries as a result of the incident,” the message said. In connection with the shooting, a criminal case was opened for hooliganism (Article 213 of the Criminal Code), the police clarified.

It was Dzhabrailov who carried out the shooting; it happened at the Four Seasons Hotel on Okhotny Ryad, two RBC sources clarified. On Tuesday evening, hotel security guards saw a guest in an elevator with a gun in his hand. They called the police patrol using the panic button. The Kitay-Gorod police department received a signal about this at 10:30 pm on Tuesday. When police arrived at the scene of the call, hotel security showed them surveillance video that showed a man with a gun standing in the elevator.

[Mash, 08/30/2017, 11:58: Tonight, millionaire and former Russian presidential candidate Umar Dzhabrailov carried out a shooting at the Four Seasons Hotel. A businessman ordered dinner to his room, but instead of a waiter, the cleaning lady brought him the food. Umar was offended by this and, taking out a pistol, he began firing at the ceiling, demanding to call his superiors. The civilian chief soon arrived, handcuffed Umar and sent him to the police department, where he is still sitting. - Insert K.ru]

Police and security officers went up to the sixth floor, where an armed guest exited the elevator. The door to room 633 was opened by a man holding a gun pointed at the floor. When the police demanded to put the weapon on the floor, he said: “I won’t give up without a fight.” After repeated requests, Dzhabrailov put the gun on the floor, the police entered the room and handcuffed him. The squad found gunshot holes in the ceiling of the room. [...]

["Kommersant", 08/31/2017, "Man with an award pistol": Explaining the origin of the weapon, the detainee provided the police with permission to store and carry Yarygin's combat pistol, which he was awarded by order of the then head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliev. The businessman explained the shots into the ceiling as his unfortunate mistake. According to his version, while relaxing in his room, he decided to test the pistol, which he had never used for several years, and since he had no experience in handling weapons at all, he fired several random shots upwards.
From the scene of the incident, investigators seized spent cartridges, bullets and solid cartridges remaining in Yarygin’s 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. Please note that standard cartridges are issued to the recipient along with the pistol and their quantity, brand and serial numbers are entered in a special invoice, which the owner must keep along with the permit. 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). However, sources close to the businessman’s entourage claim that he had a full set of standard ammunition.
The detainee has already undergone an examination to establish whether Mr. Dzhabrailov was under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the shooting (according to the police, he did not look quite adequate, and in addition, a suspicious white powder was found in his room). True, the results of the research will be known in a few days.
One way or another, the police investigation qualified the incident at the hotel under Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - “Hooliganism” committed in a public place. People around the businessman believe that this version of the investigation does not correspond to the circumstances of the incident. The shots, in their opinion, were fired accidentally, and moreover, not in a “public place.” A hotel room, according to civil law, is the temporary place of residence of the citizen who rented it. Thus, Mr. Dzhabrailov will most likely get off with administrative punishment. But he will have to return the weapon to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. For now, 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. - Insert K.ru]

[MK.Ru, 08/30/2017, “Umar Dzhabrailov as Sherlock Holmes: details of the shooting in a fashionable hotel”: The businessman was placed in a temporary detention center. Soon, due to his complaints of insomnia and toothache, an ambulance arrived in the neighborhood, but the doctors found no reason for hospitalization.
One of the doctors says:
- At 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 emerged that Dzhabrailov was reloading the pistol and accidentally fired. Three times in a row. - Insert K.ru]

[MK.Ru, 08/30/2017, “Police fear an attack by fellow countrymen of the detained Umar Dzhabrailov”: Meanwhile, 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. - Insert K.ru]

On Wednesday afternoon, Dzhabrailov was taken from the police department to investigative measures at the Four Seasons, Denis Nabiullin, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission, told RBC, who arrived at the Kitay-Gorod police station to check whether the businessman’s rights were being violated during his arrest. The hotel did not comment on the situation: “The safety of hotel guests and employees is always our top priority. All further inquiries can be directed to the Moscow police,” concluded Four Seasons. A guest named Umar Dzhabrailov, according to hotel representatives, did not check in with them.

So far, a criminal case against Dzhabrailov has been initiated only under the article “Hooliganism” (Article 213 of the Criminal Code), the maximum punishment for which is seven years in prison, but such a term faces a criminal who not only used weapons, but also resisted government officials. If substances seized during an inspection of a hotel room turn out to be narcotic, then the businessman may be charged with a crime under Art. 228 of the Criminal Code, which establishes punishment for the storage, sale, acquisition, manufacture and transportation of drugs. Depending on the severity of the act, which in the case of storage is determined by the mass of the substance found, the punishment can be up to 15 years in prison.

“Hooliganism belongs to the category of crimes of medium gravity. The man is a Muscovite, he is registered here: there is no reason to believe that he will disappear. Quite often such a preventive measure is chosen; there is nothing unusual about it. Usually in such cases they are not taken into custody. If the weapon were illegal, the question would have been different,” lawyer Andrei Knyazev commented to RBC on the preventive measure against Dzhabrailov.

Party member, senator and presidential candidate

Umar Dzhabrailov ​in 2004–2009 was a senator from Chechnya, as well as deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs and a member of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). From 2009 to 2013, he was an adviser to Russian Presidential Assistant Sergei Prikhodko for international affairs, and in 2015 he headed the Avanti association of entrepreneurs for the development of business patriotism.

In 2000, Dzhabrailov took part in the Russian presidential elections from the initiative group “Power of Reason”. Then the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case on the facts of forgery of signature sheets in support of Dzhabrailov by initiative groups. According to the voting results, he took last, 11th place, gaining 0.08% of the votes.

Dzhabrailov graduated from the Faculty of Economics of MGIMO and began his career as a businessman in the late 1980s. In 1988, he began working at the Moscow cooperative gallery as an art inspector. In the 1990s, Dzhabrailov created the Danako company, which operated a network of gas stations in the Moscow region and in the capital, as well as "Plaza" group, which included, in particular, the Smolensky Passage and Okhotny Ryad shopping centers. In addition, he owned the Moscow Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel.

In 1996, an American businessman Paul Tatum accused Dzhabrailov of threatening to kill him in order to remove him from the founders of the joint venture Intourist-RedAmer Hotel and Business Center (Dzhabrailov was the deputy general director of this company). In November of the same year, Tatum was shot in an underground passage near the Kievsky railway station, but Dzhabrailov’s involvement in the incident could not be established.

According to SPARK-Interfax, Umar Dzhabrailov is now a co-owner of nine companies. Among other things, he owns a controlling stake in the investment and construction company Avanti StroyGroup, which is engaged in the construction of residential buildings in Reutov and Moscow, in particular the ZILART residential complex on the territory of the former ZIL. At the end of 2015, the company declared a net profit of 39.1 million rubles. Dzhabrailov himself said in an interview in 2016 that he owns two construction companies. The second is MS Region, which has existed since 2009 and has received contracts in the Gulf countries, the former Yugoslav republics and Russia. These companies are part of the Sila Group holding.

On August 9, the Dozhd TV channel reported that the trip of Dmitry Peskov’s daughter to a shipbuilding plant in Crimea to resolve a business dispute was organized by the Avanti association. Elizaveta Peskova was a member of the association until recently and left it a few days ago, a representative of the association told the TV channel.

Dzhabrailov is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. He is known as a philanthropist and collector and is on the board of trustees of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMMA). In the announcement of the exhibition of selected works from Dzhabrailov’s collection “New Element” (held at MMSI in 2014), the ex-senator is called “one of the few serious and consistent collectors of contemporary art in Russia.”

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On August 29, 2017, several shots were heard in one of the apartments of the Four Seasons Hotel in the center of Moscow - fortunately, into the ceiling. The shooter turned out to be a famous Russian businessman of Chechen origin, Umar Dzhabrailov. This incident became another striking touch in the colorful biography of the 59-year-old businessman, who on this occasion decided to complete this biography himself, reporting in an interview about the shell shock in the war in Chechnya and the award pistol he received there. When and how he managed to fight, history is silent, but there is another irrefutable fact: in the second half of the 1990s, Dzhabrailov distinguished himself on a completely different front - in the redistribution of the capital's hotel business under the patronage of Yuri Luzhkov's team. Then loud shots were also heard, although with different consequences.

"Radisson-Chechen"

One of the most prestigious places in Moscow in the 1990s was the Radisson-Slavyanskaya Hotel. Jewelry and watch boutiques, a Japanese restaurant, a Kodak cinema with a Dolby Surround sound system - all this was new to young Russian capitalism. US President Bill Clinton and Hollywood star Sharon Stone stayed here. The image of a beautiful life abroad was completed by the office of the international news agency Reuters - right at the entrance to the hotel, thanks to which reporters could often watch their newsmakers - large entrepreneurs and bankers - enter the Radisson.

But there were also businessmen about whom Reuters did not write at that time, and just outside the agency’s office the scene with their participation was repeated with enviable regularity. Two Caucasians, surrounded by guards in black, walked towards each other from different ends of the corridor. Having met, the men began to hug, and the guards tightly closed the ring around their bosses. The older one, usually dressed in a black leather biker jacket and an informal baseball cap, was named Umar Dzhabrailov. The other, Hussein, was his younger brother. Many at that time considered these natives of Grozny to be co-owners of the hotel, so the Radisson-Slavyanskaya was often ironically called the Radisson-Chechenskaya.

Hotel "Radisson-Slavyanskaya". Photo: Wikipedia/Shakko

The Dzhabrailov brothers came to conquer Moscow back in the mid-1970s - they studied here at the fur technical school. Hussein, however, was assigned to procure furs and furs in Udmurtia, from where he went to study at the Grozny Oil Institute, since the Dzhabrailovs’ father worked in the local oil industry. Umar, having served in the missile forces (where he prudently joined the CPSU), managed, albeit only the second time, to get into MGIMO - and in 1985 he received a diploma in International Economic Relations with knowledge of English, German and Italian. I spent a year pushing around in Moscow without registration, but still got a job as a laboratory assistant at MGIMO, and then as an art inspector at the Moscow cooperative gallery.

“From 1989 to 1992, he was a representative of a number of Western companies in Moscow,” the biography of Dzhabrailov Sr. further states without specifying details. He himself spoke about his path to business in an interview with Arguments and Facts like this: “Around 1990, I visited the countries of Eastern Europe, looked at how the private business of my Hungarian and Czech friends was going (we became friends at the institute) , and after that Napoleonic ambitions appeared. True, at first everything was only on paper, because I did not have the financial basis to implement my ideas.”

In response to the interviewer’s assumption that the notorious “Chechen advice notes” helped create the financial base for the ambitious businessman, Dzhabrailov said: “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. 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 1990s 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.”

In December 1992, Umar Dzhabrailov founded the Danako company to supply petroleum products to state-owned enterprises with a small network of gas stations in Moscow and the Moscow region. Soon, brother Hussein, who by that time had worked in the oil and gas production department of Starogrozneft, came to his aid from Grozny - he became deputy director of Danako LLP, and then the de facto head of this business: older brother Umar at that time was absorbed in completely different matters .

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

Umar Dzhabrailov is a businessman, former senator from Chechnya and ex-candidate for the presidency of Russia. As sources told RBC, he was armed and warned the police that he would not surrender without a fight.

What is Umar Dzhabrailov famous for? - in the RBC review.

Photo: Frank Villagra / Kommersant

Umar Dzhabrailov is 59 years old. He was born in Grozny, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. His father Ali Dzhabrailov worked in the oil industry of the republic. Dzhabrailov studied in Moscow, at the Fur College of Rospotrebsoyuz and at MGIMO (graduated from the Faculty of Economics). Served in the missile forces.

In 1988, he began working at the Moscow cooperative gallery as an art inspector. In the early 90s, he founded the company Danako LLP, which was engaged in the supply of petroleum products to state enterprises.

In 1994, after meeting American businessman Paul Tatum, the founder of the joint venture Intourist-RedAmer Hotel and Business Center, he became the first deputy general director of this company. But in 1996, Tatum accused Dzhabrailov of intending to organize an assassination attempt on him. In November of the same year, he was shot dead in an underground passage near the Kievsky railway station. Dzhabrailov’s involvement in the murder could not be established, but he is prohibited from entering the United States.

Umar Dzhabrailov and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. 1999

(Photo: official website of the AVANTI association)

In 1997, Dzhabrailov became an acting adviser. General Director of the Radisson-Slavyanskaya complex and President of the Plaza group of companies. He was a member of the board of directors of the Russian Capital bank, and in April 2001 became chairman of the board of directors of the First OVK bank.

In December 1999, Dzhabrailov announced that he intended to run for president of Russia. He was nominated by the initiative group “Power of Reason”. In February 2000, the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case into allegations of forgery of signature sheets in support of Dzhabrailov by initiative groups. As a result, he took last, 11th place in the elections, gaining 0.08% of the votes.

Hajj in Saudi Arabia, 2004. President of the Chechen Republic Akhmat Kadyrov (second from left) and Senator from Chechnya Umar Dzhabrailov

In 2004, Dzhabrailov became a senator from Chechnya, leaving his post as president of the Plaza group. In 2005, he created the Russian Islamic Heritage movement, the goal of which is to defend the rights of groups of Muslims studying Islam (jamaats).

Umar Dzhabrailov, Ramzan Kadyrov, Chairman of the Government of Chechnya Sergei Abramov. 2004

In November 2006, Dzhabrailov invited the then President of Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov, to leave his post, which he did in February 2007. Ramzan Kadyrov was elected in his place. In October 2009, Dzhabrailov, of his own free will, resigned early from his post as senator. From 2009 to 2013, he was an adviser to Sergei Prikhodko, assistant to the President of Russia (now Prikhodko heads the government apparatus). Dzhabrailov is a member of the United Russia party

Umar Dzhabrailov participates in Dmitry Dibrov’s show “Oh, Lucky!” on NTV channel, February 2000

(Photo: Sergey Mikheev / Kommersant)

According to SPARK-Interfax, Dzhabrailov is a co-owner of nine companies. The largest of them is LLC Investment and Construction Company Avanti Stroygroup. Among the company's facilities is the Zilart residential complex on the territory of the former ZIL automobile plant. Dzhabrailov also owns Avanti LLC, Agroresurs LLC, Umar Dzhabrailov Company LLC and others.

Umar Dzhabrailov and Joseph Kobzon

Dzhabrailov is the chairman of the general council of the public platform for the development of business patriotism in Russia “Avanti”. According to the Dozhd TV channel, the trip of Dmitry Peskov’s daughter to a shipbuilding plant in Crimea to resolve a business dispute was organized by this association.

Dzhabrailov is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts (according to the charter of the academy, outstanding figures of foreign and Russian culture and art, as well as persons who, through their active charitable and sponsorship activities, make a significant contribution to the development of the academy and Russian culture as a whole, can be elected honorary members). He is known as a philanthropist and collector - he is on the board of trustees of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMMA). In the announcement of the exhibition of selected works from Dzhabrailov’s collection “New Element” (held at MMSI in 2014), the businessman is called “one of the few serious and consistent collectors of contemporary art in Russia.”