This assumption was made by The New York Times after analyzing the exclusive information that came into its possession. They, according to the publication, were provided by Israilov himself and contain copies of never published materials, namely the ex-guard’s complaints to the Russian prosecutor’s office and the European Court of Human Rights about the actions of Kadyrov and his people in Chechnya.

These complaints were filed in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Along with Umar, his father Sharpuddi acted as a plaintiff, claiming that for more than 10 months Kadyrov illegally held him in captivity and subjected him to torture, including gas burner, writes with reference to the newspaper InoPressa.ru.

The documents report torture and extrajudicial executions of others detained by illegal means. One of those executed, according to Israilov, was previously beaten with shovel handles by Kadyrov and Adam Delimkhanov, now a State Duma deputy. Another prisoner was subjected to sodomy by a certain high-ranking police officer, and then killed on Kadyrov’s orders.

Israilov Jr. wrote that he himself was subjected to beatings and torture. According to him, Kadyrov personally participated in many such acts, which he apparently perceived as entertainment. For example, he himself tortured people with electric shocks or shot at their feet.

As Israilov told the publication, on April 15, 2003, he and two of his comrades were detained by pro-Kremlin Chechens. They were beaten for two days and then taken to a boxing club in Gudermes and shown to Ramzan Kadyrov, whom almost no one knew at the time. At that time, Kadyrov commanded the security of his father Akhmad, which was called the Presidential Security Service.

As Israilov said, Kadyrov ordered the prisoners to be taken “to the base” - to the city of Tsentoroi, which by 2003 had become the informal capital of the rebels who had switched sides. There, FSB officers, according to Israilov, beat him, forcing him to confess to the murder of at least 17 people. Then Kadyrov and his guards started beating him. This was repeated several times a week for three months. Kadyrov fired a pistol at his feet and also subjected Israilov to electric shocks.

Israilov also described how Kadyrov shot during interrogation a certain Aidamir Gushaev, who was in charge of the finances of one of the rebel cells.

According to Israilov, in the summer of 2003 he was brought in shackles to a sauna, where Kadyrov invited him to join the presidential guard. The alternative was obvious, and Israilov agreed because he did not want to die.

Kadyrov’s administration said in January that they did not have information about Israilov’s service under Kadyrov’s command, but, according to materials Russian authorities, Israilov actually served in this unit since the end of 2003, the newspaper writes.

According to Israilov himself, he served in Tsentoroi for about 10 months and during this time he observed the torture of at least 20 illegally detained people, mostly relatives of militants.

At the beginning of 2004, Israilov was transferred to his hometown, where he headed a police unit. The war turned from a Russian-Chechen conflict into civil strife, and Umar Israilov's father persuaded him to desert. In November, Umar Israilov and his wife reached Belarus using false passports, gave the border guard $20, and he allowed them into Poland, where they asked for political asylum.

Two weeks after their escape, Umar Israilov’s father and daughter-in-law, as well as his father’s wife, were arrested and taken to Tsentoroi. Earlier, the father and his wife's apartment was ransacked, $6,000 was stolen and their three children, the eldest 12 years old and the youngest 6, were locked inside, the lawsuit says.

Israilov Sr., according to him, was beaten in the fitness center, which served as a dungeon: he was chained by his hands to a billiard table, and his legs were tied to an exercise machine. Eight people beat and kicked him, knocking out three teeth. They sought information from him about Umar. He was also tortured with electric shocks.

Umar Israilov claimed that Kadyrov and another representative of the Chechen authorities called him in Poland and demanded to return, threatening to kill his relatives. “I won’t come back,” Israilov snapped and stopped the conversation. The women were soon released, but the father was kept in custody for more than 10 months, until October 4, 2005.

According to Israilov Sr.’s complaint to the European Court of Human Rights, in early 2006, a Russian investigator demanded that he sign a statement that he had made up the story about the arrest in order to hide the fact that he was spending time with his mistress. Israilov threw the paper in the investigator’s face and fled with his wife to Norway, where he received political asylum. By that time, Umar had moved to Austria and received asylum there.

Journalists tend to believe the Israilovs, and Kadyrov’s press service condemns the “campaign to discredit” the Chechen authorities

As the publication emphasizes, the accusations brought by Israilov occupy a special place, since he was not a human rights activist or an independent journalist, but an insider.

27-year-old Umar Israilov was a controversial figure - he took part in a disgusting war, and at least one of his motives was revenge, the newspaper writes. Journalists spent several months verifying the versions of the Israilov father and son, interviewing witnesses and independent investigators - almost all of them wished to remain anonymous, and publication of the material was delayed so that some of them had time to change their place of residence.

In addition, The New York Times emphasizes, journalists obtained evidence from another former Chechen insider who managed to escape from the republic and is now forced to hide - he claims that he himself saw how Umar Israilov was tortured.

Kadyrov and Delimkhanov refused to give interviews in response to all these accusations and the publication, the newspaper writes. The representative of the Chechen president only released a statement in which he condemned the “large-scale and targeted campaign” to discredit the president and government of Chechnya. Behind this are “the ideologists of terrorism and the armed criminal underground,” the statement said.

Shortly before the murder, Israilov was threatened by Kadyrov's agent. Putin's entourage refused to "comment on rumors"

The American publication also provides details of Israilov’s murder. Last year, Israilov told Austrian authorities that Kadyrov's agent had threatened him. The person he pointed to admitted that he was tasked with returning Israilov to Russia.

On January 9, the newspaper notified Putin's secretariat of its intentions to interview Russian officials regarding Israilov's allegations. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was unwise to comment on the rumors.

On January 13, Israilov left his apartment in Vienna to buy yogurt. Several men approached him on the street - at least two. An argument arose between them, and one of the men tried to hit Israilov with the handle of a pistol. Israilov started to run. One of the pursuers opened fire. Israilov received three wounds and soon died, the newspaper reports, citing official representative Austrian prosecutor Gerhard Jarosz.

“Kadyrov’s guards” were released again. Although the generals promised: those who kidnapped and tortured people in Moscow will be punished, they will go to prison, there will be a trial

Officers from the central apparatus of the FSB (the names of the editorial office are known) contacted Novaya Gazeta and stated that almost all of their department refused to go to work, and they were even ready to put their service IDs on the table. The reason for such a decisive demarche was the recent release from custody of Chechen police officers, who in 2011 in Moscow kidnapped a man, extorted money from him and subjected him to severe torture (). The indignant security officers reported that, despite personal control over the investigation of the criminal case by the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, all those arrested were nevertheless released, and the principal investigator was fired. Moreover, the case allegedly contains telephone “wiretapping” of conversations of the accused from pre-trial detention center No. 6, from where they gave instructions to intimidate witnesses. We talked with FSB officers and found out additional details of this high-profile criminal story.

The security officers set up a meeting in a cafe near Moscow.

“You see, they didn’t just spat on our souls—our families were put at risk,” Colonel R. was indignant. “Why did we go to Chechnya and collect evidence?” There we were herded by natural bandits in uniform, and we almost became hostages. People in the department are extremely outraged!

“And now we find out that these same “Kadyrov’s guards” who are involved in crime in Moscow were quietly released,” adds Major N. “How do we understand this?” It would be better if we took the bribe that was offered to us...

Novaya Gazeta reported on the detention of several Chechen police officers last year. After the article was published, there was a big uproar, and high officials from the security forces swore that the perpetrators would be punished.

One of those arrested is Adam Israilov (nephew of Zelimkhan-Bes)

Photo from the mobile phone of Adam Israilov, who was detained and released

Photo from Adam Israilov's mobile phone

On the right - Zelimkhan Israilov (Demon)

This man, who is well acquainted with the arrested “Kadyrov’s guards,” was detained in November 2012 with a bag full of money, but was forced to release

Let us briefly recall the circumstances: on August 23, 2011, citizen Zh. was kidnapped near the Daria shopping center on Stroginsky Boulevard (the editors know his last name, but in the criminal case he goes under the pseudonym Grigory, so we will continue to call him that way). According to the investigation, police officers seconded to Moscow from Chechnya to protect the head of the republic and members of his family during their visits were involved in the abduction. Namely: Khozh-Akhmed Israilov, detective officer of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Nozhai-Yurtovsky district of the Chechen Republic (he had a Stechkin pistol (APS) No. LV 991 and a travel certificate with an order to protect the President of the Chechen Republic and members of his family); Adam Israilov, SB traffic police inspector of the rapid response traffic police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic (Stechkin pistol No. SV 1656K and a travel certificate with an order to protect the President of the Chechen Republic and members of his family); Dzhambulat Makhmatmurziev, detective officer of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Shelkovsky district of the Chechen Republic (“Stechkin” No. SV 380 and a travel certificate with an order to protect the President of the Chechen Republic and members of his family); Muskhadzhi Musulaev, detective officer of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Urus-Martan district of the Chechen Republic (“Stechkin” No. SK 653K and a travel certificate with an order to protect the President of the Chechen Republic and members of his family); Ibrahim-Bek Tagirov, former employee of the Organized Organized Crime Control Department of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate; Aslanbek Temirov, native of the village. Belgatoy, Shalinsky district of the Chechen Republic, and Akhmed Dzamikhov, native of the village. Zalukodes Zolsky district of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

At first Gregory presented their service IDs, then smashed his head with the butt of a pistol, forcibly brought him to the village of Meshchersky (near the Moscow Ring Road) and threw him into the basement of the house of businessman Nabi M. According to operational data from the FSB, businessman M. was previously an active member of gangs, and in his house on the Moscow Ring Road periodically are holding hostages.

According to the criminal case materials, Gregory extorted 3 million rubles or new car"Lexus". At the same time, Chechen police handcuffed him to an iron table, beat him with an iron crowbar and raped him with a billiard cue. When the hostage stopped showing signs of life, he was taken to Strogino at night and abandoned at a bus stop. Two hours later, a passer-by saw him bleeding Gregory and called an ambulance. Doctors took the victim to the intensive care unit of the 67th hospital and made a disappointing diagnosis: “closed craniocerebral injury in the form of a brain contusion and subarachnoid hemorrhage with the development of focal and cerebral symptoms, intra-abdominal injury to the rectum (defect of the anterior wall of the rectum).”

Fortunately, Gregory survived and gave evidence. A week later, his kidnappers were arrested: the Israilovs (Adam and Khozh-Akhmed), Makhmatmurziev, Musulaev, Tagirov, Temirov and Dzamikhov. And three days later they detained him on suspicion of complicity Zelimkhana Israilova, operational commissioner of the Center for Ensuring the Safety of Persons Subject to State Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya (Stechkin pistol No. SK 1055 K), Yunus Rasukhadzhieva, junior sergeant of the regiment of the Military District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya (GSh-18 pistol No. 090676L), Muslim Kaigarov (born in 1990, a native of Chechnya) and Mikhail Rabuev (born in 1990, a native of Chechnya). All of them were charged with kidnapping, extortion and causing grievous bodily harm.

Grigory and Valera Osetin

We found out the identity of the hostage. Previously Gregory engaged in theft of expensive foreign cars in a gang of a native South Ossetia Valeria Kh. (Valera Osetin). Valera Osetin lives in Lyubertsy and accepts orders for the theft of Lexuses and Porsches, and then, with the patronage of corrupt security officials, drives them to Chechnya, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and South Ossetia. For example, in the summer of 2012, a gang allegedly stole twelve Lexuses in Moscow.

In 2005, for stealing a Mercedes from the daughter of a high official Gregory convicted. After serving his sentence, he got a job and was planning to remarry. But Valera Osetin found him and offered to steal a Lexus for 18 thousand dollars, ordered by a “militant from Dagestan.” Gregory refused and threw Ossetin out of the entrance. Then Ossetin decided to take revenge on him and involved his friends from among the Chechen police officers in the case. He told them that Grigory steals ten foreign cars a month and does not “unfasten” anyone.

On August 23, 2011, Valera Osetin called Grigory and appointed a “shooter” at the Daria shopping center on Stroginsky Boulevard, where the persons mentioned above were already waiting for him.

Security squad

As Novaya Gazeta has already reported, Kadyrov’s “metropolitan security department,” numbering approximately 30 people, is permanently stationed in Moscow. The fighters are allegedly based in the apartments of the President Hotel, have automatic weapons, communications equipment, and their cars are equipped with special “non-inspection” passes.

The operational management of the department is carried out by police lieutenant Zelimkhan Israilov, nicknamed Bes, who was mentioned in the list of detainees (sometimes he uses documents in the name of Bislan Khakimov). Bes drives around the capital in a Mercedes ML-500 with license plate P *** KR 150 RUS (owner is Natalia R., who lives in Mytishchi) and allegedly uses government communications.

Let us remind you: the Demon first appeared on March 18, 2007, when in the center of Moscow he did not share the road with the driver of the “Nine” Kochetkov. As stated in the police report, “a fight broke out between Israilov and Kochetkov - as a result, the latter fell, hit his head on the curb and died on the spot” ( the criminal case was soon closed).

Then - on August 25, 2008 - on Novoyasenevsky Prospekt near the cafe " Eastern cuisine“During the armed showdown, Israilov received a bullet wound in the chest and was taken to the hospital. In addition to Bes, detective Muskhadzhi Musulaev was injured, and Dzhambulat Makhmatmurziev (both are mentioned in the list of those detained in the kidnapping) took them to the intensive care unit Gregory). On the opposite side, a native of Baku, Mamedov, and a Muscovite, Nikitin, were wounded ( the criminal case is closed).

And on January 5, 2009, Israilov himself used the official Stechkin: according to investigators, he burst into a bus that cut him off and shot the driver Porshnev in the leg. True, Porshnev turned out to be not a timid person, and Demon suffered from his crowbar (together with Demon in the car was the intelligence officer of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, police lieutenant Ismailov).

The case received great public attention, the leadership General Prosecutor's Office in personal conversations with journalists " Novaya Gazeta“assured that the crime would not go unpunished. However, the criminal case was closed by the Investigative Department of the Moscow Closed Administrative District. And here is a new high-profile story with kidnapping and torture Gregory.

Investigation

How the investigation into Grigory’s abduction took place needs to be told in detail. Firstly, the next day after the arrests, a former employee of the capital’s Organized Crime Control Department A. (nickname Bandyugan, the editor’s name is known) arrived at the MUR and FSB and allegedly hinted at possible troubles if the detainees remained in custody. Then some visitors from Grozny appeared at the investigator, and then at the MUR and the FSB, and allegedly offered 3 million 500 thousand euros for release.

Taking into account the identities of the detainees and their high connections, the criminal case from the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the North-West Administrative District of Moscow was transferred to the First Directorate for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the State Investigative Directorate for Moscow. Additionally, the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, took the progress of the investigation under personal control.

During interrogations, the detainees assured that they were not involved in the crime. However, witness testimony and billing data indicated otherwise. In particular, a curious neighbor testified against Valera Ossetin, who remembered his guests and car license plates (after threats she was taken under state protection).

Then the suspects' lawyers found witnesses who claimed that on the day of the abduction Gregory Some of the arrested were attending a wedding in Chechnya, while others were burying a friend in Nalchik. Moreover, the investigators were even shown photographs. But this “alibi” turned out to be fictitious: a group of investigators and FSB officers was sent to Chechnya and the KBR under heavy special forces protection. During interrogation, the “witnesses” were constantly confused in their testimony, and the photographs, as it turned out, were taken a year earlier.

Meanwhile, dozens of appeals were sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Duma with a request to release “innocent residents of the Chechen Republic fighting crime, who became hostages of corrupt FSB and Ministry of Internal Affairs officers and enemies of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.” Unfortunately, among the signatories was a well-known journalist from Public Chamber. We contacted a colleague, and he did not rule out that “he could have automatically slipped some kind of letter.”

But, despite the opposition and threats, the operatives were sure that the criminals who kidnapped Gregory, will receive a well-deserved punishment.

But when the head of the Investigative Committee, Bastrykin, stopped demanding monthly reports on the progress of the investigation, the investigator, Chingiz Berikov, who was leading the case, was fired. And immediately after Berikov’s dismissal, Bes and four others were released. And on February 19, 2013, the criminal case was unexpectedly transferred from the Main Investigation Department for Moscow to the Investigation Department for the Central Administrative District. The new investigator immediately changed the measure of restraint, and the last kidnappers Gregory released from pre-trial detention center No. 6. Let us recall: 1st Deputy Chairman of the RF Investigative Committee Vasily Piskarev recently stated in an interview that “all criminals, without exception, must be punished and we should not have untouchables.” But it turned out that now an ordinary district police officer has been entrusted with understanding what is left of the case.

Security officers from the cafe

“You know, on the day when the last of them was released, we got drunk in the whole department,” Colonel R. smiles sadly. “And in the morning we wrote a certificate-memorandum addressed to the director of the FSB.”

“The assistant director of the FSB came and said that there was an order from the very top: “Do not touch Kadyrov’s entourage until the end of the Olympics in Sochi.” They say they will deal with them later.

- Yeah, let's put up with bandits armed with Stechkin rifles and with Ministry of Internal Affairs certificates on the streets of Moscow for another year and a half? - added Major N.

- We are not reporting for duty yet. Or maybe we should go on a hunger strike and hang a poster on the Lubyanka?

Public requests for information

Head of the Chechen Republic R.A. Kadyrov

Dear Ramzan Akhmatovich!

We ask you to evaluate the information provided in S. Kanev’s material.

Are the persons mentioned really police officers of the Chechen Republic seconded to Moscow to provide your security?

Where did the police officers of the Chechen Republic get such huge sums of money (see photo)?

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Bastrykin A.I.

Dear Alexander Ivanovich!

Please tell us who exactly gave the order to release from custody those accused of kidnapping and torture? On what basis was investigator Chingiz Berikov fired from the Investigative Committee? Why was Nabi M., a resident of the village of Meshchersky, not questioned, in whose house the hostage was kept?

REACTION

Sergei Kanev’s publication “Moscow-Yurt” caused a strong reaction from Internet users, burst onto the federal news agenda and received more than 400 thousand views in less than a day. By evening, the first official reaction appeared. So, the representative of the President of the Chechen Republic, that Ramzan Kadyrov “has no security at all”. Thus, it remains unclear whether the travel certificates for the protection of President Kadyrov and members of his family, discovered during the arrest, are counterfeit.

Second to publish reacted investigative committee. The answer was written in the form of an “explanation” from the first person - the official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin. Markin called the fact of the meeting between FSB officers and a Novaya correspondent “fiction,” discovered a typo in the spelling of the name of former investigator Berikov, and at the same time clarified the reasons for his dismissal. Berikov, as a representative of the Investigative Committee writes, did not become a victim of the “lawlessness” of his superiors, but left for family reasons. Vladimir Markin clarified: initially 11 people were involved in the case. The involvement of the four has not been confirmed. Of the remaining seven, five were arrested. But soon the preventive measure was changed for them too, because... The “mitigating circumstance” was the immoral personality of the victim, of whose abduction the arrested were accused.

In conclusion, Vladimir Markin “guaranteed” that the case would be brought to an end and sent to court...

FROM THE EDITOR: From the “clarification” of the Investigative Committee, it is not clear whether the people mentioned in the publication “Moscow-Yurt” are at large or not. And this was the main question

Dear Vladimir Ivanovich!

In your “clarification” you deliberately avoid answering the most important questions:

1) Even if the victim was convicted several times, did the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs have the right to take him hostage and rape him with a billiard cue? By the way, in one place in the “Explanation...” you write that “their (the accused’s) nationality does not matter for the investigation,” and in another you clarify that the victim’s surname is, by the way, Georgian. Does this mean that the situation in Russia is obviously worse for people with a Georgian surname?

2) We cannot remember that persons accused of kidnapping, extortion and torture, especially law enforcement officers (that is, people with weapons), were released on their own recognizance. Have similar cases happened before?

4) Vladimir Ivanovich, don’t you know why former investigator Chingis Berikov can’t find a job now and is sitting without work?

5) Since Mr. Kadyrov denied that the persons mentioned in the publication are his security guards (despite the fact that at the time of their arrest they had travel certificates with an order to protect the President of the Chechen Republic and members of his family), how do you answer the question: Where does an ordinary police officer of the Chechen Republic get such huge sums of money (see photo)? Shouldn't this be a subject of interest on the part of the Investigative Committee?

6) Are you in Once again They promised that you would bring the case to court. But we've heard this before. Zelimkhan Israilov (“Demon”) shot a bus driver in Moscow in 2009. They promised that the perpetrators would receive the punishment they deserve. But the case was soon closed. When should you trust officials?

7) Was Nabi M., a resident of the village of Meshchersky, interrogated, in whose house he was holding a hostage and mocking him?

8) Please clarify whether the people mentioned in the publication are now free - or not? If not, where are they located?

9) Where is the famous thief of expensive foreign cars Valery Kh. (Valera Osetin), and who is threatening his neighbors?

10) Just in case, We publish photographs of five arrested and released, handed over to us by “fictitious”, as you believe, FSB officers. Otherwise, it suddenly turns out that no one detained anyone, and there was no criminal case.

	Muskhadzhi Musulaev, detective of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Urus-Martan district of the Chechen Republic (APS SK 653K and ).
	Dzhambulat Makhmatmurziev, detective of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Shchelkovsky district of the Chechen Republic, (APS SV 380 and travel certificate for the protection of the President of the Chechen Republic and his family members).
	Ibrahim-Bek Tagirov, former employee of the Organized Organized Crime Control Department of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate.
	Yunus Rasukhadzhiev, junior sergeant of the regiment of the UVO Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya (GSh-18 pistol No. 090676L)
	Khozh-Akhmed Israilov, detective of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Nozhai-Yurtovsky district of the Chechen Republic (he had a Stechkin pistol (APS) LV 991 and travel certificate for the protection of the President of the Chechen Republic and his family members),

On March 25, it became known that one of the departments of the FSB central apparatus, almost in its entirety, refused to go to work. The security forces are unhappy that the investigation released from arrest several Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs officers accused of kidnapping.

Behind the case of several natives North Caucasus, who are called “the personal security of the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov,” are being monitored by the Rosbalt agency and Novaya Gazeta. Both publications refer mainly to anonymous sources in the intelligence services. Officials hardly comment on the situation.

“Kadyrov’s guards”, arrested and released junior sergeant Yunus Rasukhadzhiev (far left). Photo: Novaya Gazeta

In 2011, “Kadyrov’s security” had a conflict with a member of a gang of foreign car thieves, a native of Georgia, who appears under the pseudonym Grigory. This gang, according to the FSB, is headed by a native of South Ossetia named Valera Osetin. The group steals Lexuses and Porsches in Moscow and drives them to the leader’s homeland, as well as to Chechnya, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria. According to Novaya's sources, in the summer of 2012 alone, the group stole 12 cars.

“Novaya” and “Rosbalt” give many versions about the causes of the conflict. According to one of them, “Kadyrov’s security” offered Ossetian “protection,” but he refused. Negotiations with the “security” were carried out by Grigory, who ultimately suffered the most. According to another version, Grigory stole a Lexus from one of the Chechen security forces, for which he was punished. According to the third version, Grigory was looking for buyers for the Lexus, and “Kadyrov’s security” decided to get the car for free. Finally, the fourth version: after serving his time, Grigory decided to break with the criminal environment. But Ossetin demanded that his subordinate return to the gang and gave him his first task to steal a Lexus. Grigory flatly refused, and Ossetin asked “Kadyrov’s security” to influence him.

One way or another, on August 23, 2011, Grigory met with 10-12 Chechens near the Daria shopping center on Stroginsky Boulevard. The thief was forcibly pushed into the car and taken to the village of Meshchersky, located near the Moscow Ring Road. There he was placed in the basement of the house of an entrepreneur named Nabi, who is called former member gangs. The kidnapped man was handcuffed to an iron table, beaten with a crowbar and raped with a billiard cue. The kidnappers demanded that the man either steal the Lexus, return the stolen Lexus, give away the Lexus he was selling for free, or convince Ossetian to accept the services of the “krysha”. In any case, Grigory did not agree to comply with their demands, and soon the Chechens seemed to have beaten him to death. The man was thrown out on the side of the road in Strogino - where he was discovered by random passers-by.

The wounded man was taken to the hospital, and doctors managed to save his life. In January 2012, Grigory left the hospital and contacted law enforcement agencies. A few days later, the suspects in the kidnapping were detained: Zelimkhan Israilov himself, his relatives or namesakes Adam and Khozh-Akhmed Israilov, Dzhambulat Makhmatmurziev, Ibragim Tagirov, Aslanbek Temirov, Akhmed Dzamikhov, Yunus Rasukhadzhiev, Muslim Kaigarov and Mikhail Rabuev. Representatives of “Kadyrov’s security” - not all, but many of them. The detainees were charged with causing grievous bodily harm, kidnapping and extortion. Some, including Bes, were placed under arrest.

According to Novaya, an influential former employee of the Moscow Organized Crime Control Department, Said Akhmaev, nicknamed Bandyugan, tried to stand up for the defendants in the case. Then some people from Grozny approached the investigators, operatives and FSB officers, offering 3.5 million euros to close the case. The threats were ignored, the bribe was rejected; The case was transferred to the First Directorate for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for Moscow. The investigation began to be personally controlled by the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.

After this, the accused tried to act in the legal direction. Their lawyers stated that on the day of the crime, some of the defendants were at a wedding in Chechnya, and some were at a funeral in Kabardino-Balkaria. Relevant photographs were presented. However, in the end the alibi was not confirmed: it turned out that the photographs were taken a year ago. At the same time, law enforcement agencies received a large number of complaints about “corrupt security officials who fabricated a case against innocent Chechens.” The requests were not taken into account.

No one was impressed by a series of publications by the InterRight agency and the Our Version publication, which tried to protect “peaceful Chechens” from “werewolves in uniform.” The material contained an alternative version of what happened: supposedly the security forces decided to take away the business from the wife of the defendant in the Dzamikhov case, Liliya Bastene. The rest of the accused, according to the publication, ended up in the pre-trial detention center virtually by accident, “in company” with Dzamikhov. A journalist from the CrimeRussia publication, who managed to talk with the victim Grigory, claims that the story for Our Version and InterRight was invented from beginning to end by the lawyer of one of the suspects.

It seemed that this time Bes and his subordinates would not be able to avoid criminal liability. However, gradually the situation began to change. At first, Bastrykin stopped controlling the progress of the case. Then the investigator Chingiz Berikov, who was involved in the investigation, was fired. After this, Bes and four other suspects were released on their own recognizance. Finally, in February 2013, the case was transferred from the Main Investigative Directorate for Moscow to the Investigative Directorate for the Central administrative district. After this, the last accused were released from arrest - the investigation did not apply to the court with a petition to extend the arrest.

And on March 25, Novaya published a detailed material based on the story of the FSB officers who were involved in operational support of the case. Journalists do not disclose the names of the employees, but they assure that they themselves do not doubt the identities of their interlocutors. The FSB does not officially comment on this information.

According to the article, one of the security officials said: “You know, on the day when the last of them was released, the whole department got drunk. And in the morning they wrote a certificate-memorandum addressed to the director of the FSB.” According to Novaya’s interlocutor, in response they were informed that someone “from the very top” ordered “not to touch Kadyrov’s entourage until the end of the Olympics in Sochi.” The operatives are not happy with this. They claim that they have put too much effort into this work and are not going to wait a year and a half until the end of the Olympics. “It would be better if we took the bribe that was offered to us,” complained one of the newspaper’s interlocutors. So far, almost the entire department of security forces is refusing to go to work in protest. In the future, they are ready to quit. “Or maybe we should go on a hunger strike and hang a poster in Lubyanka?” - said one of the protesting security forces.

Novaya’s article ends with an appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov and Alexander Bastrykin with a request to comment on the facts presented in it. Kadyrov's press secretary Alvi Karimov, in response to this, has already denied any connection between those accused of kidnapping and the head of the Chechen Republic. Kadyrov's press secretary emphasized that he could not get any comments from the head of the republic, because Kadyrov does not have the habit of starting his morning by reading Novaya Gazeta. Bastrykin also did not make any statements regarding “Kadyrov’s guards”; his press service is also silent for now.

The official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, said that there are no FSB officers who are dissatisfied with the release of four Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs officers from prison. Markin said that they were a figment of the imagination of Novaya Gazeta journalists. He denies all charges, “the case will be taken to court.” Chechen employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were released from prison on their own recognizance.

Based on materials from T. Zverintseva

There are armed Chechen police in Moscow who present themselves as “Kadyrov’s security.”

Novaya Gazeta has learned that a “group of people” suspected of kidnapping have been detained in Moscow. Six of the eleven detainees had ID cards as employees of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, some had expired travel ID cards. They told Moscow operatives that they served in the personal security of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and were carrying out some special mission in the capital.

However, as the publication reports, by order of the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, this event, which was not even included in the incident reports, was classified. And some of the detainees have already been released on their own recognizance.

Among those who were detained by Moscow operatives on March 1 was Zelimkhan Israilov, already known in Moscow, nicknamed “Demon.” According to Novaya Gazeta, he serves as an investigator at the Center for Ensuring the Security of Persons Subject to State Protection of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs. Israilov had his service ID and a Stechkin pistol with him.

According to Novaya Gazeta, Israilov carries out operational management of a certain “metropolitan” department of Kadyrov’s personal security, which numbers approximately 30 people and is based in the apartments of the President Hotel in the center of Moscow. The department is armed with automatic weapons, Stechkin pistols, communications equipment, and vehicles are equipped with special “non-inspection” passes.

Israilov has already appeared in police chronicles. On March 18, 2007, on one of the Moscow streets, he did not share the road with the driver of the “Nine” Kochetkov, born in 1979. As stated in the police report, a fight broke out between Israilov and Kochetkov, who did not give way to each other. As a result, “S. A. Kochetkov fell and hit his head on the curb, receiving an injury from which he died on the spot.” The criminal case was soon closed.

On August 25, 2008, on Novoyasenevsky Prospect, during a showdown with natives of Baku, Israilov received a bullet wound in the chest and was taken to the hospital. The wounded “Demon” was brought to the intensive care unit by Chechen ESD operatives Makhmatmurziev and Musulaev, who were mentioned in the list of detainees.

On January 5, 2009, Israilov himself used his official Stechkin: according to investigators, on Nikulinskaya Street he burst into a bus that cut him off and, in the presence of passengers, shot the driver in the leg, however, the driver Porshnev also did not lose his head - the “Demon” got it from him with a tire iron. When detained, Israilov and his friend, who was sitting in the same car with him, showed the IDs of employees of the internal security department of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs. Both Israilov and Porshnev were taken to the Institute of Emergency Medicine named after. Sklifosovsky. A report of the shelling of a regular bus was registered, a criminal case was opened, which was investigated first by the investigative department for the Nikulinsky district of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, and then by the investigative department of the Moscow Closed Administrative District, which closed it.

The current story of the detention of Chechen police officers began back in August last year, when some people tried to impose their “protection protection” on a well-known Moscow car thief. He sent his man to the meeting, who disappeared and was later found bleeding on the Moscow ring road. It turned out that he was severely beaten and tortured with a billiard cue. The suspects in this crime were identified using telephone billing and with the support of special forces of the capital's police department on March 1. was detained in the Vremena Goda shopping center on Kutuzovsky Avenue in Moscow.

In this regard, the editors of Novaya Gazeta sent official inquiries to the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin. Journalists are interested in whether the persons mentioned are really members of Kadyrov’s security guard, and on what basis the criminal case against Israilov, opened in connection with the shelling of a regular bus in Moscow on January 5, 2009, was closed.

The daring attempt on the life of the head of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, became possible only thanks to the betrayal of someone from his inner circle. This version is put forward by many experts. [...] On May 9, in Grozny, next to the president of the republic, his main bodyguard, his son Ramzan, who headed the security service of the head of the republic, was not there. At the time of the explosion he was in Moscow.

Song about peace

[...] Akhmat Kadyrov, Chairman of the State Council of Chechnya Hussein Isaev, Commander of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus General Valery Baranov, Military Commandant of the Republic Grigory Fomenko and Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya General Ali Alkhanov sat on the newly renovated VIP stand. Behind them stood one of the heads of Kadyrov's security and a tall security guard. And then - ministers and government officials. The stand itself was surrounded by a triple ring of security guards. Holiday, dedicated to the Day Victory began with a parade of units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. [...] After the parade, Akhmat Kadyrov and other officials made a speech. Then the festive concert began. [...] An explosion occurred: at that moment the clock showed 10.32. Immediately after this, several security jeeps literally burst onto the stadium field. Security officers clustered around the podium. Riot police commander Ruslan Alkhanov was the first to come to Kadyrov’s aid. With the help of security guards who arrived, he extracted the seriously wounded president from the rubble and carried him into the car. Kadyrov's suit was torn, his whole head was covered in blood. General Baranov was thrown from the podium to the ground by the blast wave - he lay with his leg torn off. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Alkhanov, independently emerged from the destroyed podium. He was slightly wounded in the head by a shrapnel. Having shaken off the dust and dirt, he began to direct the actions of his subordinates.

It seemed that Kadyrov's security service officers were initially seized by panic. For some reason they opened fire indiscriminately over the heads of the spectators running away in horror.

Not knowing what to do, the police and security guards began to grab everyone who came to hand (all those detained after the explosion on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist attack were released after verification) and for some reason beat up the stadium guard. After a few minutes the situation returned to normal. [...]

"From the terrorists' point of view, this is a brilliant operation"

According to preliminary data from the investigation, an improvised explosive device based on a 122-mm artillery shell went off in a room under the stands. When examining the scene of the tragedy, another landmine was found (according to the timer found, it should have gone off 20 minutes after the first explosion), and already on the podium - filled with plastid plastic bottle. The landmines were planted in concrete slab guest stand of the stadium. [...] There is no definite version yet about who exactly is behind the assassination attempt on Kadyrov. A variety of possibilities are being considered, sometimes quite fantastic. In particular, Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen government Aslan Magomadov said that Boris Berezovsky could be involved in the terrorist attack. [...] At the same time, some observers believe that the President of Chechnya was betrayed by one of his security officers. In particular, this version was expressed to GAZETTE by State Duma deputy and member of the Security Committee Gennady Gudkov. According to him, it is very likely that the militants managed to introduce their people into the inner circle of the head of Chechnya. “From the point of view of terrorists, this is a brilliantly executed operation and a failure of our special services!” [...]

Heir

Ramzan Kadyrov was born on October 5, 1976 in the village of Tsentoroy. Graduated high school in Tsentoroi. Master of Sports in Boxing. In 2000, he headed the security service of his father, Akhmat Kadyrov. On May 10, 2004, he was appointed first deputy prime minister of Chechnya.

On May 12, 2000, Ramzan Kadyrov survived his first assassination attempt - an explosive device went off next to Ramzan’s jeep on the Caucasus federal highway on the eastern outskirts of Grozny. Kadyrov Jr. received a slight concussion. Akhmat Kadyrov accused Aslan Maskhadov of organizing the assassination attempt. On January 16, 2001, terrorists planted a bomb in a drainage under the Caucasus federal highway on the Ramzan route in the vicinity of Gudermes. Kadyrov Jr. and his escort escaped with bruises. On September 30, 2002, unknown persons fired at Ramzan’s car in the village of Novogroznensky, Gudermes district of Chechnya. One of the subordinates was wounded. On July 27, 2003, in the village of Tsotsan-Yurt, Kurchaloevsky district, a suicide bomber was prevented from blowing up Ramzan by his guards. A suicide bomber and a local resident were killed. On the night of May 1, 2004, a separatist detachment attacked the Kadyrovs’ ancestral village of Tsentoroy. According to Kadyrov Jr.’s subordinates, the attackers’ goal was to kidnap or kill Ramzan. The militants' attack was repulsed.

Recently, he has been negotiating with field commanders and militants about their defection to the side of the federal authorities. On July 17, 2003, Ramzan Kadyrov stated that he managed to convince 40 militants from among Aslan Maskhadov’s personal guard to voluntarily lay down their arms. In addition, he claimed that he entered into negotiations with separatists from the detachment of Ruslan Gelayev, 170 of whose fighters expressed their readiness to lay down their arms and “rebuild a peaceful life.” On March 22, 2003, Ramzan Kadyrov announced that he had managed to negotiate the voluntary surrender of 46 armed militants who had laid down their arms under personal guarantees from his father. Most of the militants who agreed to stop armed resistance were enrolled in Akhmat Kadyrov’s security service.

On November 30, 2003, Ramzan Kadyrov announced that a group of Chechen businessmen had offered a $5 million reward for reliable information about the whereabouts of Shamil Basayev, and promised to catch the terrorist by the New Year. In March 2004, Ramzan Kadyrov announced that he was negotiating through intermediaries with Aslan Maskhadov about the possibility of the latter’s voluntary surrender. Then Kadyrov Jr. claimed that the negotiations were disrupted by Russian troops by shooting Maskhadov’s emissaries, through whose mediation contact was maintained with the president of Ichkeria.

Akhmat Khadzhi Kadyrov

Born on August 23, 1951 in Karaganda, Kazakh SSR. The vast majority of Chechens and Ingush were deported here during Stalin's deportation. The Kadyrov family returned to their homeland in 1957. In 1968, Akhmat graduated from school and combine operator courses, worked for two years at the Novogroznensky rice-growing state farm and for another ten years at construction organizations in the Non-Black Earth Region and Siberia. In 1980, Kadyrov entered the Mir Arab madrasah in Bukhara, and later completed a course at the Islamic University in Tashkent. From 1986 to 1988 he was deputy imam at the Gudermes Cathedral Mosque. In 1989, Kadyrov founded the first Islamic Institute in the North Caucasus in the village of Kurchaloy. He remained its rector for a year, and in 1990-1991 he studied at the Sharia faculty of the Amman Islamic University in Jordan. During the first Chechen campaign (1994-1996), Kadyrov fought on the side of the militants, being one of the closest associates of Dzhokhar Dudayev. In 1995 he was elected Supreme Mufti of Chechnya. It was Kadyrov who declared jihad (holy war) on Russia. Kadyrov began to split with Maskhadov and other separatist leaders in 1998, when, on his initiative, the Congress of Muslims of the North Caucasus was held in Grozny. Its participants condemned Wahhabism and accused not only Russia, but also Maskhadov of “indirect support” of the Wahhabis. After the invasion of Dagestan by Basayev's and Khattab's detachments in August 1999, Kadyrov announced that he would take up arms against the separatists along with his supporters. As a result, on October 10, 1999, Maskhadov declared him “an enemy of the Chechen people, subject to destruction.” On June 11, 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Kadyrov as temporary head of the administration of the Chechen Republic. Six months later, he became the permanent head of the administration, and on October 5, 2003, the president of Chechnya. [...]