Telman Ismailov: what is the former owner of Cherkizon famous for? Passion for luxury Ismailovs Blog brought to the search

Ismailov Telman Mardanovich - CEO group of companies "AST" and the owner of the restaurant "Prague", former owner Cherkizovsky Market, Vice-President of the Eurasian Congress of Jews.

Assets

The main assets of Telman Ismailov are concentrated:

finance, construction, trade, transport, restaurant business, jewelry production (AST group of companies).

State

Biography

Education

1973-1976 - studied at the Azerbaijan People's Economic Institute. D. Buniat-Zade.

1980 - graduated from the Moscow Institute National economy named after Plekhanov.

Career

At the age of 18, being a 1st year student at the Azerbaijan National Economic Institute, he became the director of a commercial store.

After that, he worked as an economist at the Ministry of Trade, as well as an expert at Vostokintorg.

1987 - founded his first cooperative "Commercial charity company» .

1989 - created the first of the AST group of companies.

1989-1991 - opened 52 commercial stores in Moscow, then - the Luzhniki market. Now the company owns part of the territories of the Cherkizovsky market.

Opening of the Cherkizovsky market Telman Ismailov

2012 - agreed with the government of Moscow the first development project after the liquidation of the Cherkizovsky market - a hotel complex with apartments with a total area of 23.4 thousand m2 near the Kremlin.

Hobbies

Collecting watches, of which he collected about 2 thousand.

Engaged in patronage.

He was a sponsor of the singer Abraham Russo.

It is the general sponsor of the Terek Football Club (Grozny).

The name of the AST group of companies Telman Ismailov came up with the first letters of the names of his sons Alekper and Sarkhan and his own name.

2006 - enters the circle of suspects in the attempt on the life of the artist Abraham Russo.

2009 - opened the most expensive hotel in Europe "Mardan Palace" on the Turkish coast. The businessman spent $1.4 billion on its construction.

The hotel is named after Telman Ismailov's father: Mardan. It would have been 100 years old on the opening day of the hotel. After the opening of the hotel, Telman Ismailov asked for Turkish citizenship.

Opening of "Mardan Palace" in Turkey

IN different time Ismailov invited to his place:

Jennifer Lopez - $1.5 million;
twice Mariah Carey - $ 1 million per performance;
Twice Ricky Martin - 850 thousand dollars per performance;
Robbie Williams - $1 million;
Avril Lavigne - $1 million

For going to one of the parties on Cote d'Azur Telman Ismailov flew in on a personal gilded Falcon aircraft, the British newspaper Financial Times included him in the list of the most extravagant rich people in the world.

2009 - a video was published in which the mayor of Moscow calls "the main day of the year" not Victory Day or Russia Day, but Telman Ismailov's birthday. According to those present, Yuri Luzhkov presented Telman Ismailov with a unique watch worth $1,500,000. The guests described the holiday as "shocking with transcendent pathos and luxury."

Anniversary of Telman Ismailov

Telman Ismailov plans to build another hotel in Turkey, now the most expensive in the world, and purchase the Turkish Antalyaspor football club.

Family

Married, two sons.

Wife - Tamara Ismailova.

Son - Sarkhan Ismailov.

Son - Alekper Ismailov.

Notes

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The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia - a major Moscow businessman, former owner famous Cherkizon (Cherkizovsky market). He was accused of organizing a double murder and arms trafficking. Ismailov's story is unique: once he was one of the most powerful people in the capital, but soon after the market closed in 2009, his star began to fade - and now he faces life imprisonment. I remembered how Ismailov's career developed, and tried to figure out where and when the businessman turned the wrong way.

Disgraced Cherkizon

The inhabitants of the east of the capital have always disliked the Cherkizovsky clothing market that arose in the early 1990s, comparing it with the famous Khitrovka. However, the market successfully existed until 2009, thanks in part to its social function: low-income citizens could easily dress up there for modest money. In addition, the market has become a wholesale base for small businesses throughout European Russia from Murmansk to Derbent. Cherkizon was unique phenomenon for its time - a kind of state with its own unwritten laws, around which a whole infrastructure has grown, designed to satisfy the various needs of visitors and workers. The authorities repeatedly tried to drive out the merchants or at least to ennoble the territory of the huge market, but they did not achieve success in this matter soon.

In 2009, a massive campaign against Cherkizon was launched in the media. The TV spots talked about abuses in the market, and the appearance of some dangerous goods was directly associated with the name of the main shareholder of the market - Telman Ismailov (a fortune of 0.6 billion dollars according to data). Who exactly and why launched an attack on largest market capital is still unknown. However, it was Cherkizon who had in mind the then Prime Minister, calling for the fight against smuggling. “Smuggling is a separate issue, and the struggle seems to be underway, but there are few results. In one of the markets there are goods worth more than two billion dollars, so far they have not been destroyed and there are no owners (...) The result of the struggle should be imprisonment. Where are the landings?” Putin said at a meeting of the government presidium on June 1, 2009.

According to one version, Ismailov incurred the wrath of high-ranking officials by the fact that in the same 2009 he opened the seven-star Mardan Palace hotel in Antalya, Turkey, which became the most expensive in the Mediterranean: its cost was 1.4-1.6 billion dollars. Especially for the beach of this hotel, special sand was brought from Egypt, which does not burn your feet in the heat; gold leaf and natural crystal were used to decorate the interiors, and wines were offered to guests at a price of four thousand dollars per bottle. The presentation of the hotel was attended by world celebrities, the ceremony was led by an actress.

Russian authorities it could be outrageous that all this luxury was created on the profits from smuggling and other crimes of Cherkizon (according to some reports, in 2009 he brought the owners one million dollars a day). But Ismailov's special cynicism was that the businessman had invested one and a half billion dollars (45 billion rubles) in the Turkish coast, while the whole country was chipping in for the construction of facilities for the Sochi Olympics. By the way, their total cost, including donations from Russian businessmen, according to official figures, amounted to 214 billion rubles.

Following the media to attack the security forces on the market. June 7, 2009 (SKP) announced an investigation in connection with the discovery of goods dangerous for consumption at the Cherkizovsky market. It was noted that a group of unidentified persons brought and placed in the warehouses of Cherkizon more than six thousand containers with clothes, shoes and other goods without warehouse and shipping documents.

According to the UPC, in 58 containers they found children's clothes and shoes that did not meet sanitary and epidemiological standards - they were to be destroyed. The investigation opened a criminal case under Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Production, storage, transportation or sale of goods that do not meet safety requirements”). At the end of June 2009, Cherkizon was closed. High-ranking officials discovered unsanitary conditions, smuggling and brothels on the territory of the market, then control services came and the work of the market stopped forever.

On the Turkish coast

Shortly after Cherkizon was finished, on August 6, 2009, UPC investigators with operatives and special forces soldiers went to the famous Praga restaurant on the Arbat. Like Cherkizon, it belonged to the AST group of companies headed by President Telman Ismailov. The security forces, in the best traditions of the "mask show", effectively conducted a search in "Prague" with the seizure of documents.

Officially, the investigative actions took place as part of the investigation of a criminal case initiated against the former rector of the Russian state university physical culture, sports and tourism (RGUFKSiT). He was accused of abuse of office: Matytsin allegedly leased a piece of university land with an area of about 665 thousand to KBF AST. square meters. This site was used by Cherkizon for trade, but the land was in federal ownership, which means that the ex-rector had no right to lease it.

However, AST's lawyers then stated that the case of university lands was only a pretext for searches, and investigators seized documents related to Telman Ismailov's business. In particular, the lawyer said that investigators had already seized documents related to land lease during searches in Prague in 2007, which means that in 2009 they, apparently, were looking for something else. As a result, late in the evening of August 6, the investigators took away several dozen boxes of papers and computer system units from Prague.

Surrounded by Telman Ismailov, both the closure of Cherkizon and the searches in Prague were then associated with part of a large campaign against the entrepreneur.

“Telman Mardanovich still hopes that his troubles were organized by one of his competitors and in the end, even with some losses, the situation will be resolved. But for those who are closely familiar with what is happening around his business, it is already clear that the orders come from the very top, ”a close acquaintance of Ismailov told the media.

Already at that time, the owner of Cherkizon took steps to minimize possible consequences campaigns against him. Ismailov moved to Turkey and took up the registration of citizenship of this country.

Originally from Baku. His father was a merchant, and since the age of 14, Telman has been working with him. At the age of 18, he becomes the director of the only commercial store in Baku.

In the 1980s, Ismailov moved to Moscow and got a job as an economist at the Ministry of Trade, and then went to work as an expert at Vostokintorg (All-Union Association for Trade with the Countries of the East). He meets Yuri Luzhkov, who at that time served as chairman of the commission of the Moscow City Executive Committee on cooperative activities. Twenty years later, already being the mayor of the capital, Luzhkov congratulated Ismailov on his fiftieth birthday with the words: “Telman! You are our brother! We go with you through life! Ismailov also had friendly ties with the former vice-mayor of Moscow, Iosif Ordzhonikidze.

In 1989, Telman Ismailov opened his first Moscow business - he registered the AST group. The abbreviation consists of the first letters of the names of the owners - the businessman and his two sons: Alekper-Sarkhan-Telman. AST started with clothing trade. During the first year of work, she opened 52 commercial stores in Moscow - no one in the city had done this before.

The group began to grow. A few years later, it included dozens of companies in the most different areas: hotel business(“AST-Gof”), construction (“AST-Kapstroy”), publishing (“AST-Moscow Polygraphic House”), transport (“AST-TransService”), jewelry business("AST-Gold"). Ismailov owned the Moscow restaurant "Prague" on the Arbat, the department store "Voentorg", as well as the famous wholesale markets - Luzhniki and Cherkizovsky.

It became the main capital of Ismailov. In 2006, Cherkizon was the largest wholesale clothing wholesale center in the European part of Russia, and Ismailov himself took 76th place in the Forbes list in 2007 with a fortune of $ 260 million.

Protection of domestic producers

According to unofficial data, Cherkizovsky was inhabited by 100 thousand inhabitants. In 2006, there was an explosion on the territory of the market. As a result of the attack, 14 people were killed and 61 injured. The investigation found that the explosion was organized by members nationalist organization"Saved" to "stop the influx of immigrants".

Chinese smuggling, illegal immigrants, prostitution - in such conditions Cherkizon existed for more than 20 years. Mass checks of the market began after the arrest of a large consignment of contraband goods in the warehouses of the AST company. In 2009, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly criticized the market: “As for smuggling, one of the markets sells goods worth more than $2 billion.” After that, the market was closed.

The official reason was the violation sanitary norms. The government said that the closure of the market is a measure to protect domestic producers: merchants at Cherkizon did not pay taxes and "strangled" local production. “Each point on the Cherkizovsky market meant a stopped shop in Russia,” Stanislav Naumov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, said then.

On the territory there is a zoo and singing fountains. The opening ceremony was attended not only Hollywood stars- Sharon Stone and Monica Bellucci, but also Deputy Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov.

Vladimir Putin also drew attention to the hotel. He stated that he did not see crime in Ismailov's construction of a hotel in Turkey, but hinted that it would be nice to create the same projects in Russia, for example, in Sochi for the Olympics. In response, in 2010, Telman Ismailov signed an agreement with the Olimpstroy corporation on the construction of hotels in Sochi worth $800 million. However, no money was found, and the construction of Olympic facilities had to be abandoned.

Heavy loans

Ismailov's affairs after the closure of the Cherkizovsky market went worse. He took out new and new loans to pay off old debts. BM-Bank (Bank of Moscow) and the Mangazeya structures of Sergei Yanchukov helped him. When the banks demanded to return the money, the businessman began to hide them. In 2014, Telman Ismailov handed over his companies to his sons Alekper and Sarkhan and nephew Zaur Mardanov to save himself from creditors.

In parallel, Ismailov organized the withdrawal of funds abroad: he directed $ 8 million to purchase a shopping center. Another scheme is to bankrupt yourself. He took out new loans from fictitious organizations registered to his acquaintances. It was supposed to work like this: in case of bankruptcy, the seized property is divided among creditors in proportion to the amount of debt. If the debt to "their" organizations exceeds the debt to the Bank of Moscow, then the bank gets a penny, and all property is returned to the owner.

However, in the end, the court declared Ismailov bankrupt, and the creditors took all the assets from the businessman. VTB received the Praga restaurant, AST and Tropicano shopping centers. Shopping center in the USA he was also arrested at the suit of the Bank of Moscow. A chic mansion with a view of Skolkovo went, according to Rosreestr, to the Settlement and Credit Bank, family owned Deputy of the State Duma Vakha Agayev.

In 2015, the famous Mardan Palace was also sold for debts. A Turkish bank bought the hotel at an auction for $124 million, although its value was estimated at $248 million. It was in 2015 that Ismailov last time got into Forbes list. Then the magazine estimated his fortune at $ 600 million. In March 2017, the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, by its decision, began selling his property.

Passion for luxury

The businessman became famous for his passion for luxury. The media write that he flew to a party in Nice on a gilded plane, gave the singer Nikolai Baskov a villa in Turkey for his birthday, and his collection wrist watch has more than 2 thousand copies.

Among the friends of Telman Ismailov are not only representatives of show business. He also has friendly relations with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. The businessman himself admitted in an interview with the Azerbaijani edition of Haqqin.az that in hard times Kadyrov asked for him before Putin: “Yes, I have a very a good relationship and with Ramzan Kadyrov. Asked not only by him, but also by many other persons in the highest elite of Russia.

Back in 2010, after a visit to Chechnya, Ismailov agreed to sponsor a local football club"Terek" (now - "Akhmat"). At the same time, club president Ramzan Kadyrov appointed Sarkhan Ismailov, the son of a businessman, as vice president of Terek. Ismailov's children, like their father, are famous for their passion for a luxurious life. Both sons studied and lived in Switzerland. There, filed by the media, they were witnesses in the case of an accident. Four Russians staged a race on expensive cars, as a result of which the pensioner suffered. Ismailov's sons were driving the Bugatti Veyron and Mercedes McLaren, Swiss police reported.

Now various banks are trying to declare him bankrupt. In September of this year, the National Standard Bank filed a lawsuit against Ismailov Jr.

The younger son Sarkhan studied at the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. He also owns 37.5% of the AST group of companies and is also experiencing financial difficulties. Sarkhan Ismailov's Rolls Royce car was arrested for the debts of the Mardan Palace Hotel. Another 25% of AST belongs to Telman Ismailov's nephew, Zaur Mardanov.

Searches near Ismailov

When in the fall of 2017 the security forces raided Telman Ismailov with searches at 12 addresses, the media put forward various versions of what was happening. The priority was that the searches were related to fraud against one of the banks. According to another version, the businessman was searched because of the case of the murder of two entrepreneurs.

Telman's brother - accused of shooting the owner of shopping malls Vladimir Savkin and the founder of Lyublino-Motors Yuri Brilev. Our source even then said that the searches at Telman Ismailov's were connected precisely with this case. The same version was put forward by the businessman's lawyer.

The double murder was committed in May 2016 in the Moscow region. Rafik Ismailov is now in custody, he was charged under the article "Murder of two or more persons." According to the Investigative Committee, the financial dispute between Rafik Ismailov and his business partner Savkin could have been the motive for the execution.

Ismailov and Savkin were co-owners of a large shopping and entertainment center in Moscow. According to the investigation, Rafik Ismailov sold the business and took all the money for himself. In order not to return the debt of $ 5.5 million to Savkin, he ordered a former partner, the investigation suggests. Brilev, the founder of Lublino Motors, could become an accidental victim - he witnessed the attack.

As a result, he took all the blame on himself, was recently convicted, and received 13 years in prison.

The second brother of Telman Ismailov - Vagif - former officer The Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is also involved in this case and has been put on the wanted list. In April last year, it was reported that Telman Ismailov also became a defendant in the investigation of contract killings: an arrested member of the group testified against him. In them we are talking not two, but eight murders.

The son of "King Cherkizon" kicked his wife with two children without money to the street October 5th, 2017

A woman works in a church buffet for 15,000 rubles and huddles with her children and mother in a room at the church. And once Catherine was civil wife Sarkhan Ismailova, younger son owner of the Cherkizovsky market Telman Ismailov. The woman believes that she was the main love in his life. She told the 360 TV channel about her story.

“Three days ago I came to the house where we lived with the children and Sarkhan. There is a huge red banner on the gate: “For Sale”. I dialed the indicated phone number, I ask: how can you sell a house with people registered there? This is my home. They hung up the phone.

According to Ekaterina, Ismailov is the love of her life. They met at the age of 18 at the ballet, and two months later they began to live together. He courted beautifully, gave flowers, rolled around Moscow at night.

In Lesnoy Gorodok, a three-story Greek-style mansion stood out from the rest of the houses. Nearby are two more buildings - one for guests, the other for servants. The children of Ruslan and David are registered in this property, and it is registered to Ekaterina Romanova. The woman showed pictures taken in the apartment. Curtains for 200 thousand dollars, custom-made by Italian designers. Antique French furniture, marble columns with a gilded sheen.

We created our comfort. We thought we would live in this house for a long time. And, of course, when I left here with the children, I did not think that forever. Now I want to return to this house again. This is my home. I tried to contact Sarkhan, but the old phone is not available. There is no contact with his friends. During these four years that we have not been together, he has never called and asked if everything is fine with the children? Where do they live?

Sarkhan Ismailov

Sarkhan introduced me to his father Telman Ismailov in a restaurant in France. All his family knew me, his friends. His mother did not love me very much, because she did not want him to connect his life with a Russian girl. Sarkhan and I had not just love, but also good friendly relations. Even when he was forced to marry a girl of their nation, on the day of the wedding he told me: "You will always be with me."

However, four years later, the whole fairy tale ended. My father started having problems with business, the Cherkizovsky market was closed. The man almost killed Catherine.

- Once he almost strangled me in the car, random passers-by saved me.

Later, the house became expensive to maintain. In this regard, Sarkhan offered to move to an apartment for a while.

- We took the most basic. After all, in a few months they were supposed to return to this house. I remember sitting with the children in the car. And the guards took out our things. Then I went up to the apartment. And the car with the children took off. I realized that he decided to leave me and take the children.

Telman Ismailov

The father brought a nanny to the children, who spoke Russian poorly.

“My father and my brother,” says Romanova’s 13-year-old daughter Lana, “settled me in some apartment with an incomprehensible woman-nanny who even spoke Russian poorly. She turned on cartoons for us so that we would not interfere with her. During this time, my father came to us only twice, the first time he said we were moving to live and study in Turkey. The second time he wanted to take his brother to a restaurant, but the boy began to act up, and his father beat him. And four months later he called and said: "I'm returning you to your mother."

The family moved out of the rented apartment because there was nothing to pay. Catherine was offered to live at the temple in a small room, since there was nowhere to go, she agreed. The deceived woman began to work in a church canteen with a salary of 15 thousand rubles. Living with servants, nannies and governesses, she did not know how to do anything. At first, everyone in the temple laughed at her.

Family, friends, business and searches - the main thing from the biography of a businessman

On September 14, the businessman Telman Ismailov was searched: they checked eight apartments belonging to his family. What became famous for the owner of the Cherkizovsky market and what they can look for in the text of Sofya Savina.

The searches at Telman Ismailov's house were reported by his lawyer Alexander Dubrovinsky. “Searchs are underway at 12 (!) addresses. Dozens of people are involved. They are looking for something that they cannot find” (the spelling of the source is saved. - Approx. ed.), - he wrote on Facebook. The searches began at half past six in the morning and even took place at the businessman's nephew and his mother-in-law, Ismailov himself told RBC.

"You are our brother!"

Telman Ismailov is from Baku. His father was a merchant, and since the age of 14, Telman has been working with him. At the age of 18, he becomes the director of the only commercial store in Baku.

Yuri Luzhkov congratulates Telman Ismailov on his jubilee. Source: YouTube

The group began to grow. A few years later, it included dozens of companies in various fields: hotel business (AST-Gof), construction (AST-Kapstroy), publishing (AST-Moscow Printing House), transport (AST-TransService ”), jewelry business (“AST-Gold”). Ismailov owned the Moscow restaurant "Prague" on the Arbat, the department store "Voentorg", as well as the famous wholesale markets - Luzhniki and Cherkizovsky.

It was the Cherkizovsky clothing market that became the main capital of Ismailov. In 2006, Cherkizon was the largest wholesale clothing wholesale center in the European part of Russia, and Ismailov himself took 76th place in the Forbes list in 2007 with a fortune of $ 260 million.

From Cherkizon to a seven-star hotel

According to unofficial data, Cherkizovsky was inhabited by 100 thousand inhabitants. In 2006, there was an explosion on the territory of the market. As a result of the attack, 14 people were killed and 61 injured. The investigation found that the explosion was organized by members of the nationalist organization "Spas" in order to "stop the influx of immigrants."

Cherkizovsky market

The official reason was a violation of sanitary standards. The government said that the closure of the market is a measure to protect domestic producers: merchants at Cherkizon did not pay taxes and "strangled" local production. “Each point on the Cherkizovsky market meant a stopped shop in Russia,” Stanislav Naumov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, said then.

After the closure of Cherkizon, Ismailov went to live in Turkey. There, two months before the market closed, he built the seven-star Mardan Palace Hotel, named after his father: a portrait of Mardan Ismailov hangs on the first floor of the hotel. The Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper rated it as "the most expensive hotel on the continent": the cost is $1.4 billion. Gold leaf, crystal jewelry, Italian marble were used for its construction, and the sand for the beach near the hotel was specially delivered from Egypt. On the territory there is a zoo and singing fountains. The opening ceremony was attended not only by Hollywood stars - Sharon Stone and Monica Bellucci, but also by Deputy Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov.

Mardan Palace

Hide and seek with money

In parallel, Ismailov organized the withdrawal of funds abroad: he directed $8 million to purchase the Craig Valley Plaza shopping center in Las Vegas. Another scheme is to bankrupt yourself. He took out new loans from fictitious organizations registered to his acquaintances. It was supposed to work like this: in case of bankruptcy, the seized property is divided among creditors in proportion to the amount of debt. If the debt to "their" organizations exceeds the debt to the Bank of Moscow, then the bank gets a penny, and all property is returned to the owner.

Craig Valley Plaza shopping center in Las Vegas. Source: Omninet Capital

However, in the end, the court declared Ismailov bankrupt, and the creditors took all the assets from the businessman. VTB received the Praga restaurant, AST and Tropicano shopping centers. A shopping center in the United States was also arrested at the suit of the Bank of Moscow. The chic mansion overlooking Skolkovo went, according to Rosreestr, to the Settlement and Credit Bank, owned by the family of State Duma deputy Vakha Agaev.

In 2015, the famous Mardan Palace was also sold for debts. A Turkish bank bought the hotel at an auction for $124 million, although its value was estimated at $248 million. It was in 2015 that Ismailov was last listed by Forbes. Then the magazine estimated his fortune at $ 600 million. In March 2017, the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, by its decision, began selling his property.

Family rules of life

Among the friends of Telman Ismailov are not only representatives of show business. He also has friendly relations with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. The businessman himself admitted in an interview with the Azerbaijani edition of Haqqin.az that in difficult times, Kadyrov asked for him before Putin: “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.

Back in 2010, after a visit to Chechnya, Ismailov agreed to sponsor the local football club Terek (now Akhmat). At the same time, club president Ramzan Kadyrov appointed Sarkhan Ismailov, the son of a businessman, as vice president of Terek.

Ismailov's children, like their father, are famous for their passion for a luxurious life. Both sons studied and lived in Switzerland. There, according to media reports, they were witnesses in the case of an accident. Four Russians staged races in expensive cars, as a result of which a pensioner was injured. Ismailov's sons were driving the Bugatti Veyron and Mercedes McLaren, Swiss police reported.

Alekper, Telman, Sarkhan Ismailovs

According to eyewitnesses, the president of Uzbekistan arrived in Antalya at the wedding of the eldest son of a businessman, Alekper Ismailov, and presented the newlyweds with a helicopter. Alekper Ismailov still owns a 37.5% stake in the AST group of companies. Now various banks are trying to declare him bankrupt. In September of this year, the National Standard Bank filed a lawsuit against Ismailov Jr.

The younger son Sarkhan studied at the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. He also owns 37.5% of the AST group of companies and is also experiencing financial difficulties. The other day, a Turkish publication reported that Sarkhan Ismailov's Rolls Royce car was arrested for the debts of the Mardan Palace hotel. Another 25% of AST belongs to Telman Ismailov's nephew, Zaur Mardanov. The Vedomosti newspaper, citing its source, reported in 2014 that the businessman's family are nominal owners, and control over AST belongs to Telman Ismailov himself.

relatives in law

What did they want to find at Ismailov's during the searches? They put forward two versions. According to one of them, the searches are related to fraud against one of the banks. This was reported to RBC by a source close to the investigation.

According to other sources, the businessman was searched because of the case of the murder of two entrepreneurs. Ismailov's brother, Rafik, is accused of shooting the owner of shopping malls, Vladimir Savkin, and the founder of Lublino-Motors, Yuri Brilev. An Interfax source said that the searches at Telman Ismailov's were connected precisely with this case. The same version was put forward by the businessman's lawyer.

The second brother of Telman Ismailov - Vagif - a former officer of the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - is also involved in this case and has been put on the wanted list. In April of this year, it was reported that Telman Ismailov also became a defendant in the investigation of contract killings: an arrested member of the group testified against him. They are not talking about two, but about eight murders.

Sofia Savina