Former politician and businessman, 67-year-old Umar Dzhabrailov, was buried today in his native village of Novye Atagi in Chechnya. His body was carried on a stretcher, according to Muslim rites. Dozens of people joined the funeral procession.
As a reminder, Umar Dzhabrailov was found dead in a rented apartment in the luxury Vesper Tverskaya complex in Moscow, with a pistol lying nearby. The official version is suicide. According to one theory, reported by Kommersant, citing personal sources, the motives for his suicide may have been problems with business projects, depression, and deteriorating health, as well as the deeply felt escalation in the Middle East. The businessman's accounts were frozen by order of tax authorities. No suicide note was found. The day before the tragedy, Dzhabrailov posted a video on Telegram expressing concern about the situation in the Middle East.
"He sold off all his assets, invested in a number of projects, and the money got stuck everywhere. Many people owed him money and weren't paying it back. He recently invested in something else, and we're talking millions. Dzhabrailov's inner circle turned their backs on him after he became impoverished," said the businessman's lawyer, Alexander Karabanov.
However, the businessman's daughter, Alvina Dzhabrailova, categorically rejected the suicide theory, stating, "My father was murdered." She links the alleged murder to her father's involvement in the Epstein and Trump cases, expressing fears for her own life.
"He was silenced because of his involvement in the Epstein and Trump cases. My father was murdered. Forgive me for sounding crazy, but if I were to 'commit suicide' in the near future, please know that I didn't do it with my own hands." "Yes, I have some problems, but I don't want to die, I want to live," said 32-year-old Alvina.
Umar also has an older daughter, Danata. After his death, she posted a photo with her father and wrote, "See you on the other side, Dad." Both daughters were born and spent most of their lives in Europe.
Umar Dzhabrailov was one of the most famous and wealthiest entrepreneurs in Russia in the mid- and late 1990s and early 2000s. He was the founder and owner of the Plaza Group of Companies, the largest management structure in Moscow's commercial real estate market, which included the Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel, the Rossiya Hotel, the Smolensky Passage and Okhotny Ryad shopping centers, and the Kuntsevo residential complex.
At the same time, he also led an active social life, befriending many Russian and international celebrities from the worlds of fashion, show business, and politics.
In 2000 (the most active phase of the second Russo-Chechen War, during which Vladimir Putin was consolidating his power), Umar Dzhabrailov ran in the Russian presidential election, predictably finishing in last place.
Dzhabrailov himself recently lamented that "no one thanked him for it," recalling that by statistically running for president of the Russian Federation, he had done a favor to the Russian authorities, who were being harshly criticized in the West for mass murder and genocide against civilians in Chechnya. When such accusations were voiced at a PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) meeting in Strasbourg, a representative of the Russian delegation retorted: what kind of genocide can we talk about when a Chechen is running for the highest office in the country?
From 2004 to 2009, Dzhabrailov served as a senator from Chechnya. In recent years, he lost all his business assets and admitted to drug addiction and an attempted suicide. Despite this, many doubt the suicide theory.
One of the deceased's distant relatives, speaking with our correspondent, categorically dismissed this possibility, citing Umar Dzhabrailov's recent Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca, which, he said, rules out suicide, as it is considered a grave sin in Islam.
Incidentally, a week ago, Dzhabrailov himself posted a message about this, writing: "Mecca is a place where you are left alone with everything you've done in your life. There are no positions here. No status. Here, it's just you and the Almighty."
