He currently lives in a rented villa and was able to negotiate with the local authorities not to extradite Russia.

Ex-owner Cherkizovsky market Telman Ismailov, accused of contract killing, is hiding in Montenegro. An informed source told The CrimeRussia about this. According to him, the fugitive oligarch agreed with the ruling circles of this country not to extradite him to the Russian authorities.

Recall that last year the Ismailov family lived in a mansion on the territory of the Mardan Palace hotel complex in Antalya. However, fearing that they would be extradited to the Russian authorities, they left Turkey, as local law enforcement agencies had questions for Telman Ismailov. According to Turkish investigators, he is implicated in the murder of thief in law Rovshan Dzhaniev (Rovshan Lenkoransky). Then the family of the oligarch moved to France. But even there he did not feel safe, since he was put on the international wanted list through Interpol.

He currently resides in a rented villa in Montenegro. It was there that he recorded his recent video message, where he expressed fears that his brother Rafik Ismailov could be “eliminated” before trial. An investigation was completed against him and soon the charge of organizing the murder of two entrepreneurs (part 2 of article 105 and article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) must be approved by the prosecutor's office, after which the materials will be submitted to the court.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow decided to arrest in absentia the ex-employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vagif Ismailov, the brother of the former owner of the Cherkizovsky market Telman Ismailov. He is believed to have provided ley line cover for a family clan that is accused of a series of murders. According to Rosbalt, Telman and Vagif Ismailov left Turkey, where they were Lately and moved to France.

As a source in law enforcement agencies told the agency, the court granted the request of the Investigative Committee to elect Vagif Ismailov a measure of restraint in the form of detention. This was done in order to put the former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the international wanted list: he fled from investigators in the fall of 2016, almost simultaneously with the detention of his brother Rafik. Vagif was charged in absentia under articles 222 (illegal possession of weapons) and 105 (murders) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

At first, the detectives believed that he was in Russia, trying to "resolve" the situation. However, later they learned that Vagif had moved to Turkey - to Telman Ismailov. Both brothers until recently lived in a huge residence located on the territory of the Mardan Palace hotel complex in Antalya. The hotel itself was disconnected from electricity at the end of the summer for debts. According to operatives, the Ismailov brothers, fearing that Turkey might extradite them to Russia, moved to France, where they are currently staying.

It is worth noting that this country is not alien to Telman Ismailov. This follows from the materials of the investigation against the ex-employee of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Dmitry Zakharchenko. One of the witnesses in the case testified that Zakharchenko was well acquainted with Ismailov, from the time when he owned markets in the Moscow region. After Ismailov's departure from Russia, Zakharchenko, according to the witness, suggested that he meet Telman in France to discuss a possible joint business project.

Vagif Ismailov served in various departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including in the department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District, which investigates crimes committed by ethnic groups.

In addition to the fact that a lot of operational information has been collected on Vagif Ismailov, businessman Sergei Gavryushin testified against him. For more than 15 years he was an assistant to Rafik Ismailov, was responsible for all economic issues, and often carried out instructions from Telman Ismailov. Gavryushin was also the general director of Mercury-R LLC (the only founder is Rafik Ismailov), which owned the Abramtsevo clothing market and a number of similar “points”.

According to the source of the agency, Gavryushin said that several times in the Prague restaurant he witnessed conversations between Telman, Vagif and Rafik Ismailov - both about planned murders and about interaction with corrupt employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the witness, on behalf of Telman and Rafik, he delivered expensive gifts and envelopes to the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of one of the districts of the capital, who now continues to work in the law enforcement unit. Gavryushin also said that a number of operations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs against the owners of other markets were financed by the Ismailov family. In this regard, a new line of investigation may appear in the case of the brothers - in relation to the law enforcement officers who helped them.

According to detectives, when the Cherkizovsky market, the main source of income for the Ismailovs, was closed in 2009, family members began to look for other large-scale facilities where trade could be moved. In particular, they liked the gigantic Abramtsevo market, located in the Balashikha district of the Moscow region. However, he was under the control of the authorities of the "Lyubertsy" group and businessmen associated with it. As investigators suspect, at first the Ismailovs and the gangsters agreed on a joint business.

But then conflicts began to occur between them over the division of profits. And they continued even after the closure of the market in Abramtsevo. At the same time, the shooting of the leaders of the "Lyubertsy" organized crime group began, many of whom had already managed to legalize themselves, became businessmen or even deputies. The detectives, including thanks to the testimony of witnesses, have every reason to suspect that it was the Ismailovs who were behind the attacks. So, according to the source of the agency, it has already been established almost with certainty that the family sent their militants to one of the Lyubertsy "authorities" who lived in the village of Tomilino. He was fired upon from firearms, was injured, but survived. “Five murders have been proven so far, but about ten more episodes of criminal activity are being developed - these are assassination attempts and murders,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

At the moment, the criminal case is being investigated by the RF IC under five articles of the Criminal Code - 210 (organization of a criminal community), 105 (murder), 222 (illegal possession of weapons), 172 (illegal banking), 167 (arson). According to the materials of the case, members of the organized criminal community (OPS), led by the Ismailov family, committed murders by prior agreement for mercenary motives, they are also charged with arson. Currently, the victims in the case file are mainly members of the "Koptevskaya" organized crime group and businessmen associated with them.

The reason for the conflict with the "Koptevskaya" organized criminal group was associated with the struggle for the right to control a number of metropolitan wholesale markets. In the late 1990s, the Ismailov family laid eyes on profitable properties in the Northern Administrative District (SAO), in particular, the Lianozovsky market, the market in West Degunino, and several shopping centers.

However, representatives of the "Koptev" group, who did not want to share the profits, were related to most of the Ismailov objects that were of interest. A conflict arose between the then leader of the "Koptevsky" Andrey Lobanov (Loban) and the family of the owner of "Cherkizon", which ended in the murder of the "authority".

After that, according to operatives, the Ismailovs began to "fight" already with Loban's successors - also members of the "Koptevskaya" organized criminal group. Within five years, at least seven "authorities" were killed. The main chord of this war was the arson of the Lianozovsky market in October 2005, which, according to investigators, was committed by order of the Ismailov family. The Koptevskys and businessmen associated with them had to agree with the claims of the Ismailovs and create partnerships with the family.

At some point, the Ismailovs sold all the objects and, according to the terms of the agreements, had to give part of the profits to their partners. For example, the share of businessman Vladimir Savkin from the sale of the Stroymarket No. 1 shopping center was $ 5.5 million. However, he was tritely “thrown”. Savkin began to remind the family of the debt, mainly his claims were addressed to Rafik. When he became too insistent, the businessman was invited to a meeting to discuss the details of paying off the debt. During it, in May 2016, Savkin, along with his friend Yuri Brilev, was shot dead. A case was initiated, within the framework of which all the details of the activities of the Ismailov family “surfaced”.

As Rosbalt has already reported, in addition to Gavryushin, Rafik's "right hand" Harry Belotserkovsky is actively cooperating with the investigation. According to Belotserkovsky's testimony, in 2000 he, together with Rafik, came to the Prague restaurant, where he witnessed a conversation with Telman Ismailov. During it, the brothers discussed the need to eliminate the "authority" of the "Koptev" organized criminal group Andrei Lobanov, as well as the details of the crime.

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"Telman Mardanovich is shocked by what happened and does not want to talk to anyone," a person from Telman Ismailov's entourage replied to Vedomosti's request for an interview after it became known that the member of the group VTB Bank of Moscow filed for bankruptcy. Things are getting worse than ever: creditors are seeking to seize property around the world. The businessman believes that a raider seizure of his assets is taking place, two of his acquaintances told Vedomosti. But it seems that the problem is that Ismailov did not moderate his ambitions after the loss of the Cherkizovsky market - there was simply not enough money for megaprojects.

From Baku to Cherkizon

A native of Baku, a native of a large family of Mountain Jews, Ismailov has been in business since childhood: first he helped his father, a Baku guild worker, then managed the first commercial store in the city, then went to study at the Plekhanov Institute in Moscow and stayed in the capital. Here he met the first deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee and the chairman of the city commission for cooperative and individual labor activity Yuri Luzhkov and Commission Secretary Elena Baturina. In 1989, when Ismailov founded the AST group, he was already on friendly terms with Luzhkov.

In 2009, Ismailov first entered the Forbes rating of the richest Russian businessmen with a fortune of $ 600 million. Despite the fact that the AST group was engaged in different types business - construction, hotel, jewelry and security - the basis of her well-being was the Cherkizovsky market. The group controlled a significant part of a huge flea market, located on more than 200 hectares near the metro of the same name.

"Cherkizovsky" was repeatedly tried to close, since 2001 the prosecutor's office has repeatedly won courts to terminate land lease agreements, but the market continued to work. Everything changed on June 1, 2009, when the then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attacked the customs officers at the government presidium. “A few years ago, I practically disbanded the entire leadership of the customs. And what? The [smuggling] channels both worked and still work. In one of the markets there are goods worth more than $2 billion, so far [they] have not been destroyed and there are no owners,” Putin scolded the security forces (quotes from Interfax). What kind of market he had in mind, it soon became clear. At the end of June 2009, the Cherkizovsky market was temporarily closed due to violations of sanitary standards discovered by Rospotrebnadzor. The FMS then found hundreds of illegal migrants in the market. Land lease agreements with the Russian state university physical education were terminated through the arbitration court, the buildings were demolished, and this is the story of the largest in the CIS clothing market ended.

Telman Ismailov's business empire

In fact, they didn’t want to close the market, Ismailov’s acquaintances and those who participated in its liquidation now assure. It's just that various power structures competed with customs officers for control over the cash flows passing through Cherkizovsky, collected folders with compromising evidence and regularly reported their contents to the top. And so, just when the ground for attacking the customs was prepared, at the end of May 2009, Ismailov arranged a grand celebration in Turkish Antalya on the occasion of the opening of the Mardan Palace hotel, on the construction of which he spent almost all available funds - more than $ 1 billion. Hollywood stars, including Sharon Stone and Monica Bellucci, were presented with precious gifts, fireworks thundered. The fact that the co-owner of the Cherkizovsky market spends money earned here with such noise was the last straw that broke the patience of the authorities, recalls a former Moscow official. Ismailov preferred to wait out the hype in Turkey, where an equally luxurious house was built for him next to the Mardan Palace. True, in Russia he had to sell Suleiman Kerimov one of his most important assets in Moscow - the Voentorg shopping center to be reconstructed.

Life after the market

Unexpectedly, Ismailov found out that he had few friends in Russia, and many enemies. “Ismailov's main problem is how he understands friendships,” said one of his former business partners. “When he needed someone or just liked him, he brought this person closer to him, literally showering him with expensive gifts in oriental style - diamonds, gold. All of his entourage got used to this, and squabbles quickly began within those close to him - so, this one was given more, me less. And the offended very quickly came to hatred for Ismailov. So he made more than one enemy. And when the easy money ran out, the gifts ran out, and it turned out that there were no close people around, ”explains the interlocutor.

“Ismailov bought all his assets with money earned on the Cherkizovsky market, during his work there were no interruptions in cash. As soon as it turned out that this flow was no more and that money was not very easy to earn at all, Ismailov’s business went much worse,” said the former Moscow official. New assets - Voentorg, the Prague restaurant, the same Mardan Palace - did not bring comparable profits.

Therefore, immediately after the closure of the Cherkizovsky market, Ismailov tried to return to the market business he knew, but already outside of Russia. According to Ukrainian media, Ismailov tried to become a co-owner of the large clothing market "Seventh Kilometer" near Odessa, but unsuccessfully: the company managing the market was acquired by partners of the then President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

Ismailov tried to open a second market in Kazakhstan. In 2010, on the site of the Zhibek Zholy car market near Alma-Ata, the ACT wholesale clothing market was solemnly opened. According to the description on the nur.kz portal, it resembled the Moscow “Cherkizovsky” - the market housed a customs terminal, a hotel, exchange offices, a pharmacy, Groceries and dentistry.

Ismailov's partner in the Kazakh AST market was Alexander Mashkevich, an old acquaintance, co-owner of mining and metallurgy Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) and one of the richest people in Kazakhstan (see inset for more details). Ismailov was familiar with Mashkevich from the Eurasian Jewish Congress, where the first was president until 2011, and the second was his deputy.

According to Kazakh media, the AST had problems due to its distance from the city. In 2011, it turned out that the owners of the market did not even pay about $ 5 million in addition to several reconstruction contractors, because of which they went bankrupt, and their employees gathered to rally. Ismailov and Mashkevich had to hold a press conference and publicly promise to pay off their debts to the builders.

Now the name of the AST market has been returned - the international trade center "Zhibek Zholy". It is run by a European production company controlled by Mashkevich and his ERG partners. Whether Ismailov remained in the project is unknown. Neither he nor Mashkevich responded to Vedomosti's inquiries.

Pass home

Return to Russian business Ismailov tried with the help of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. In a March interview with the Azerbaijani online publication Haqqin.az, Ismailov confirmed that Kadyrov asked for him before Putin. “At one time, I was very close friends with the father of Ramzan Kadyrov, the late Akhmat Kadyrov. Yes, I have very good relations with Ramzan Kadyrov. Asked not only by him, but also by many other persons in the highest elite of Russia, ”said Ismailov.

In early 2010, Ismailov, together with his son Sarkhan, flew to Grozny to meet with Kadyrov. As a result of the negotiations, Ismailov promised to "look" at investment projects in Chechnya and agreed to sponsor the Terek football club. Sarkhan Ismailov was appointed vice-president of Terek. The club was headed by Kadyrov himself.

But investment projects in Chechnya, the businessman did not appear. Perhaps because by that time it became clear that the federal authorities needed investments in another region. Back at the end of 2009, Putin said on a direct line that he did not see any crime in the construction of a hotel in Turkey, but investment resources "would be nice to implement in the Russian Federation<...>For example, it would be possible to invest in the construction of hotel complexes in Sochi for the 2014 Olympics - no one forbids.

Already in April 2010, Ismailov signed an agreement with the Olimpstroy corporation on the construction of hotels in Sochi with 4,000 rooms worth $800 million. , when it became clear to us about the failure to meet deadlines, we had to urgently look for a replacement investor - literally grabbing the first oligarch that caught our eye by the jacket. This did not add points to Ismailov, ”recalls one of the officials who oversaw the preparations for the Olympics. The project was transferred to the structures of Viktor Vekselberg.

In 2013, Ismailov returned to Chechen football. At the beginning of the year, he organized a friendly match between Kadyrov's Terek and the Israeli club Beitar (Jerusalem), owned by his friend Arkady Gaydamak. The match ended with the score 0:0. And the owners of the clubs agreed on the transfer of two Chechen football players to Beitar - Zaur Kadayev and Dzhabrail Kadiev. What caused the anger of Beitar fans, who did not want to see Muslims among the club's players.

It was partly because of the protests of the fans that Gaydamak became firmly established in his desire to sell the club. And he announced that he was selling Beitar to Ismailov and his partners: State Duma deputy and Kadyrov's adviser Adam Delimkhanov and Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakh businessman and son-in-law of the Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan. But Beitar fans thwarted that deal as well. After this failure, Ismailov moved away from Chechen football: Rakishev's structure became the sponsor of Terek instead of him.

Kadyrov's press secretary Alvi Karimov declined to comment, Rakishev's press service did not answer Vedomosti's questions.

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Competition of creditors

In 2013, Ismailov handed over his companies to his sons and top managers. For example, a share in key companies group "AST-98" and "KBF AST" he distributed among his sons Alekper and Sarkhan. And AST Kolkhoz Klinsky, which owns 3,000 hectares of land in the Klinsky district of the Moscow region, was transferred to the Factoria company, established shortly before this transaction by the general director of KBF AST, Igor Morozov.

At the beginning of 2014, Ismailov re-registered the three largest objects in Moscow - the Praga restaurant, the Tropicano business center and the AST shopping center in Izmailovo to offshore companies from the British Virgin Islands - Tigerim Limited, Ergon Inc. Ltd. and Thunderwide Holdings Limited respectively. Representatives of the AST then assured that they were all controlled by Ismailov.

But the restructuring of the business coincided with the appearance of claims from creditors. According to Vedomosti, now the debts of Ismailov and his former companies exceed $ 586 million, which is comparable to the assessment of his fortune by Forbes magazine. It seems that his family has only one asset left that creditors do not claim: it is one of the largest distributors of premium alcohol - AST-international invaeronment with a revenue of 10.4 billion rubles. in 2014. Who claims the rest?

claims against son

In January 2015, Sobinbank filed a lawsuit with the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow against Telman Ismailov's son, Alekper Ismailov, to recover a debt of 11.5 million rubles. under the guarantee for the company "AST-Amaroli Impex", which produces children's and women's tights. In March, the proceedings were terminated - the parties entered into an amicable agreement. It lasted only four months. In July, the Dorogomilovsky court issued a writ of execution to recover the debt from Alekper Ismailov. According to the FSSP, the debt has not yet been repaid. Sobinbank did not say whether it would require personal bankruptcy of Alekper Ismailov.

Businessman Sergei Yanchukov was the first to demand that Ismailov return the debt. Ismailov met him in 2010 when he was looking for a partner for joint projects, Kommersant wrote. It was with the structures of Yanchukov that Ismailov discussed the idea of ​​transferring the Cherkizovsky market to Odessa, the former Moscow official assures. “Yanchukov was associated with influential people in Ukraine, but there was such a seething of the elites that even his administrative resource was not enough,” says the source of Vedomosti. The main owner of the Mangazeya industrial group, Yanchukov, is from Odessa, but since 2006 he has been doing business in Russia. In 2011, he married the daughter of the former mayor of Kyiv, Leonid Chernovetsky, Kristina.

In 2010–2011 Sezaria, controlled by Yanchukov, issued loans to Ismailov's offshore Tandum for $100 million until 2013. But Ismailov very quickly stopped servicing this loan, and at the request of Sezaria, the District Court of Nicosia (Cyprus) in 2014 froze the businessman's assets for $134 million. According to " Kommersant”, these assets included Mardan Palace in Turkey, the Ismailov estate in France, the Safisa Moscow celebration house, the AST Hof hotel on Bolshaya Filevskaya Street, the Moscow Printing House (AST-MPD), etc. Yanchukov purposefully bought Ismailov's debts - at a big discount, one of their mutual acquaintances knows.

Some of these assets were claimed by other creditors. For example, the AST Hof hotel and the hotel complex project on Nikitsky Boulevard were transferred to the structures of the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) for debts, Kommersant wrote, citing representatives of Yanchukov's Mangazeya. Head of Department strategic development"MBA-Moscow" Leonid Mileev told "Vedomosti" that "the bank had no commercial relations with the AST group”, and advised me to contact the head bank in Azerbaijan for comments. The IBA did not answer Vedomosti's questions. However, the customer of the project on Nikitsky Boulevard in 2013 was close to IBA Management Company"Fortrast Global", follows from the documents submitted to the architectural council of Moscow.

Ismailov owed more than $200 million to Turkish banks and the builders of Mardan Palace. The largest creditors are Halk Bankası ($100 million and 50 million lira) and Garanti Bankası ($76 million and 40 million lira). The owner of the hotel also has a multimillion-dollar debt in taxes, work insurance, as well as utility debts to the municipality of Antalya. “There is a group of people in Turkey who are spreading misinformation about me. This is done on purpose. They want me to get out of this country. I completely refute this information. I repeat: I have no plans to sell this hotel,” Ismayilov fumed in an interview with Haqqin.az in March 2015. The businessman assured that his debt to Turkish banks did not exceed $110 million.

Nevertheless, several creditors immediately initiated enforcement proceedings involving the sale of the hotel. So, Garanti Bankası achieved the appointment of the auction on November 2. The initial price of the hotel and villas is set at $244 million, which is almost 6 times less than the investment made, according to Ismailov, in Mardan Palace.

Mardan Palace is closed for repairs from December 21 to March 1, the operator told Vedomosti hotline Tez tour. The renovation of the hotel will be carried out by the new owner, one of the employees of this company assures. An employee of the hotel itself confirmed the closure for renovations, but noted that there was no information about a change in ownership.

The Bank of Moscow, which became Ismailov's largest creditor, is also interested in the Turkish hotel: judging by court materials, the debt of its structures to the bank reached $ 286 million by October 2015. In October, an official notice from the Bank of Moscow was placed in the Turkish press demanding the bankruptcy of two companies - AST Insaat Turizm, which owns the Mardan Palace, and Olimpus Insaat Turizm Gida Otelicilik Nakliey, which manages the Ismailovs' property in Antalya. The court will consider the claim of the Bank of Moscow on December 2, 2015 - a month after the proposed auction for the sale of Mardan Palace. It turns out that even if Ismailov manages to persuade Turkish creditors not to sell his hotel, he will only receive a delay of a month.

Angry Creditors

Since July, the Bank of Moscow has been demanding in the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow the collection of debt from Ismailov's structures Tropicano Finance B V and Rusline 2000 and from Ismailov himself, who vouched for loans. The court seized the businessman's personal assets: an apartment in the village. district, land plot in the village Skolkovo, Odintsovo district, and two residential buildings in Aprelevka, Naro-Fominsk district (data from Kommersant).

“Behind the monumental facade of the dazzling palace with a beautiful view of the “Medvedev project [the Skolkovo innovation center]” hides dazzling beauty, the brilliance of gold, breathtaking luxury. I have never seen anything like it in my life. And even in the cinema,” a journalist from the Azerbaijani edition of Haqqin.az enthused in March 2015, after visiting Ismayilov’s house in Skolkovo. However, according to Rosreestr, a plot of 1.7 hectares in Skolkovo and two residential buildings with an area of ​​2362 and 2372 square meters. m Ismailov do not belong. In the summer of 2014, they were transferred to the Settlement and Credit Bank. The bank belongs to businessman Batyr Agayev, whose father, Ramzan Kadyrov's friend Vakha Agayev, and brother Bekhkan Agayev are State Duma deputies. It was not possible to contact the Agaevs: their phones in the State Duma were not answered.

And October 1, the day the bankruptcy law comes into force individuals, The Bank of Moscow filed a lawsuit to declare Ismailov bankrupt.

The lender is trying to take the pledged assets for a pittance, it follows from the statement of Ismailov's press service, made after the filing of the lawsuit. The Bank of Moscow pledges three of Ismailov's most valuable Moscow assets - the Praga restaurant, the Tropicano business center and the AST shopping center. After failed negotiations with the Bank of Moscow, Ismailov learned that "the loan from the AST companies was transferred to the debt service of VTB." The loan curator is Andrey Puchkov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of VTB. He offered to “take away” all collateral assets for $33 million, although their market price is at least $250 million, follows from the statement. The press service of VTB declined to comment on the situation. But SPARK data shows that in June 2015, the CEO was replaced in all three companies that own pledged assets. Now they are managed by Vladimir Tsypin, who previously worked in the structures of VTB.

In a press release, Ismailov recalls that the AST group received its first loan from the Bank of Moscow back in 2006 and always paid its debts in good faith: for the entire period, Ismailov paid $70 million in interest to the bank and returned $50 million. In 2014, when everyone had borrowers of foreign currency loans had problems due to a jump in the dollar, Ismailov agreed with the Bank of Moscow to sell two objects - Tropicano and the AST shopping center. Even a buyer was found - the Progress company agreed to pay $148 million and made a deposit of $14.8 million in July 2014. The bank did not complete the deal, and Progress was able to return the deposit only through the court.

Who was this failed buyer? According to SPARK, the founder of Progress is Oleg Veselov, who has more than 20 companies where he was the CEO or founder. And the general director of Progress turned out to be lawyer Yulia Dolinskaya, until recently a member of the board of directors of Sodruzhestvo Bank. Dolinskaya told Vedomosti that the founders of Progress forbade commenting on the situation with Ismailov. Last Friday, October 16, the Central Bank revoked the license from Sodruzhestvo Bank due to the unsatisfactory quality of assets and the complete loss of its own funds.

Ismailov is sure that everything that is happening is a raider attack, one of his acquaintances claims. He says that he asked for help in communicating with VTB one of the influential businessmen. “Ismailov needs to sell assets, there is a buyer, but the bank does not give permission for the sale, it is hard trying to achieve bankruptcy of the debtor,” another person who met Ismailov said. “As far as I know, two major creditors of Ismailov - Bank of Moscow and Yanchukov adhere to a common tough position towards the businessman, and it will not be easy for those who want to help, ”says the source of Vedomosti.

The former owner of the Cherkizovsky market, now an ex-millionaire, Telman Ismailov has been put on the international wanted list. The Basmanny Court of Moscow ruled to arrest the businessman in absentia. He is accused of organizing two murders committed in March last year. According to some reports, Ismailov has been living in Turkey for several years. However, our embassy in Ankara has no information about his whereabouts. Telman Ismailov's brother, Vagif, was also arrested in absentia. He is also put on the international wanted list.

"Tsar Cherkizon" Telman Ismailov was declared bankrupt by the court. His property was auctioned off. Now, as soon as Interpol receives official papers, there is no time richest man Russia will start hunting law enforcement agencies around the world. Ismailov was put on the international wanted list, reports .

Murder and arms trafficking. We are talking about a crime committed in May 2016, when the bodies of the owner of several shopping malls, Vladimir Savkin, and the founder of a car dealership, Yuri Brilev, were found on Novorizhskoye Highway with gunshot wounds. The alleged motive is the financial dispute between Savkin and Ismailov.

"No one notified Telman Ismailov about the upcoming indictment. To date, this decision has been appealed, because it is based on unreliable data that he was hiding. He has never been hiding from anyone. He has been living in Turkey for many years," Ismailova's lawyer said. Marina Rusakova.

The former billionaire is not particularly active in in social networks. But it is known that in the summer Ismailov rested with his grandson and granddaughter, including on the Aegean Sea. Met with the Ambassador of Qatar and the representative of Saudi Arabia in Turkey and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu. He called everyone his friends. Telman Ismailov in general has always been very kind to his surroundings. Chic and shine. With whom he could not make friends - he bought those. Let it be for a while.

The life and business empire of Telman Ismailov is collapsing, as is his brainchild - the seven-star Mardan Palace Hotel. Ismailov built it for one and a half billion dollars. Opened in 2009 surrounded by Sharon Stone, Richard Gere and Monica Bellucci. And in 2015, almost for next to nothing, 120 million, the hotel was bought by the Turkish "Helkbank" - one of the creditors of Telman Ismailov. The businessman is seriously in debt. As a result, there was not a trace left of the glitter of golden toilet bowls, silver forks and crystal chandeliers. There are no more staff at the hotel. The alarm is not working. Thieves steal everything they can. They even tear down the fence.

Ismailov began his ascent to the top of the business from the Cherkizovsky market. Cherkizon, well-known throughout Russia, has illegally set up shopping malls, including on the territory of the Institute of Physical Education. The goods are smuggled, often hazardous to health. Tenants and merchants are mostly illegal immigrants. This business empire existed, among other things, thanks to corruption. And no competition. More precisely, if it was, then all issues were resolved very quickly. Information appeared in the media that Ismailov may be involved in at least six contract killings. The total number of victims of business showdowns is more than two dozen. And that's not counting the organization of the criminal community. There is evidence that the investigating authorities are also quite actively working in this direction.