Nukhaev Khozh-Akhmed Tashtamirovich: biography

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Nukhaev Khozh-Ahmed is a Chechen politician and odious authority in criminal circles. He was also the leader of an inter-teip (inter-tribal) organization called Nokhchi-Latta-Islam. This Chechen is known not only in Russia, but also far beyond its borders. Many media representatives consider him one of the main ideologists and sponsors of the Chechen war.

Biography

Nukhaev Khozh-Akhmed Tashtamirovich was born on 1954-11-11 in a Chechen family belonging to the not very prestigious teip (genus) Yalkho. The name itself literally means "farm laborer". The Nukhaev family are people from the village of Geldigen, Shalinsky district, living at the time of the birth of their son in the village. Kalininskoe, Kalininsky District, Kirghiz SSR. Khozh-Ahmed had two sisters. The future politician and criminal authority spent most of his childhood and youth in the city of Grozny (Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), where his family moved in 1957

After school, Nukhaev entered theFaculty of Law, Moscow State University. His studies ended quickly due to being expelled from the university.

Criminal activity

Law enforcement agencies of Russia began to closely monitor the criminal activities of Nukhaev in 1988, when Chechen groups became very active in Moscow. It was at this time that Khozh-Ahmed, having been released from his first imprisonment, together with another criminal authority Atlangeriev Movladi Imalievich (nicknamed "Mad") began to implement their plan to seize territories in the capital of the Russian Federation.

Nukhaev Khozh-Ahmed with his accomplices began to impose a "tax for protection" of various criminal elements and cooperatives. To fight other influential groups, such as the "Lyubertsy", "Bauman", "Balashikha", "Solntsevskaya", they came up with a unified system of small combat detachments that gathered into a single unit according to the "combat training". They had about 15 significant clashes between the factions.

Already in the spring of 1989, Nukhaev Khozh-Ahmed with his faithful people, whose number reached 40 people, firmly settled in the cooperative restaurant "Lazania", located in Moscow on the street. Pyatnitskaya d.40. It was from this institution that his criminal gang got the name "Lazan". Until his arrest on May 13, 1990, Nukhaev directed the actions of his militants. This criminal authority and members of his group were charged with a number of serious crimes.

Convictions

Nukhaev Khozh-Akhmed Tashtamirovich,whose biography is replete with various high-profile events, in the 80s he was convicted of robbery and fraud. In March 1991, he and his accomplices received 8 years in prison. He was supposed to serve his term in a strict regime colony located in the Khabarovsk Territory. According to fictitious documents, on 1991-27-11, Nukhaev was extradited to a convoy of police officers of the Chechen Republic for delivery to SIZO-1 in Grozny. Already in December 1991, he was released from custody, and in 1992 the Supreme Court of the RSFSR dropped the criminal case against him.

Life in the Chechen Republic

After his release, Nukhaev Khozh-Akhmed settled in Grozny, but often also lived in the Gudermes region. Representatives of the Moscow Chechen community constantly came to him. Nukhaev tried to intensify the members of the criminal group for harsh methods of "work" in Moscow.

At this time, in addition to violent criminal activity, Khozh-Ahmed was engaged in construction, buying up real estate in Chechnya and repairing it. So, in his property there was a mansion on the street. Sunzhenskaya, the former House of Officers on Pobedy Avenue, Grozny's covered market. In early September 1994 Nukhaev Khozh-Akhmed became the founder of the Russian company Oscar.

Personal contacts

Nukhaev Khozh-Akhmed Tashtamirovich, whose photos are in the article, was familiar with many famous people. So, at one time he enjoyed the full confidence of Dzhokhar Dudayev, with whom he often communicated. He was a member of the offices of such important officials of Chechnya as the Prosecutor General of the Republic Ismaev Usman,was friends with the former high-ranking officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Musaev Alavdi. He was in close contact with Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, an active member of the Chechen separatist movement.

Nukhaev was an ardent supporter of the regime of Dzhokhar Dudayev, therefore he financed his activities and the illegal purchase of weapons. He made frequent appearances in Moscow, where he oversaw the activities of a network of like-minded people involved in separatist activities. At the same time, he strictly forbade the members of his team any contacts with representatives of the criminal world. In 1991-1994 Nukhaev was an intermediary in negotiations between representatives of President B. Yeltsin and Chechen President Dudayev. According to some reports, from 1994 to 1996 he headed the foreign intelligence of the CRI (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria). At the same time, he carried out Dudayev's most secret orders.

In 1995, Nukhaev met the Arab extremist and terrorist Abu al-Walid, who arrived in Chechnya as a resident of Saudi intelligence.

Turkish period

During the First Chechen War (1991-1996) Nukhaev organized the supply of weapons and money to Chechnya through Azeibarjan. He also fought on the side of the separatists. After being wounded during the seizure of the presidential palace, Ilham Aliyev, the son of President Azeibarjan Heydar Aliyev, invited him to his country for treatment.

With the onset of the final phase of hostilities in Chechnya, Nukhaev left for Turkey. There he becamethe organizer of the "shadow cabinet" of the Government. In the summer of 1996, Khozh-Akhmed entered into an agreement with Yandarbiev and Apti Maraev on joint activities in the oil business. During it, these "entrepreneurs" were actively involved in the transfer of money under false contracts through various Turkish companies located in the territory of the Russian Federation. Their main capital was placed in banks in Turkey, Europe and the Middle East. In May 1996, after the death of Dudayev, Nukhaev became the first vice-premier of Chechnya. In the government of Z. Yandarbiev, he oversaw the oil and gas industry of the republic.

Suspicions of murder

Politician Nukhaev Khozh-Akhmed Tashtamirovich, whose photos have hardly appeared in the press in recent years, became known to the whole world in connection with the suspicion of organizing the murder of an American journalist and publicist of Russian origin Paul Khlebnikov. At the time of his death (July 9, 2004), Khlebnikov was the editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine.

Despite the fact that the defendants in this case were acquitted by the jury in May 2006, most people remained convinced that Khlebnikov's murder was Nukhaev's revenge for his book "A Conversation with a Barbarian", in which there were many critical statements addressed to the Chechen politician. It was based on Khlebnikov's interview with Nukhaev in 2000

Wanted and death rumors

According to law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation, Khozh-Akhmed Nukhaev is behind many high-profile crimes. Where this man is now, no one knows. Since 2001he is put on the federal and international wanted list. Nukhaev is suspected of armed rebellion, organization of illegal armed gangs and encroachment on the lives of law enforcement officers.

According to one version, Nukhaev has been dead for a long time. In 2005, several reports appeared at once about his probable death in February 2004. This could have happened during the transition of the armed detachment of field commander Ruslan Gelaev through the mountains of Dagestan to Georgia. This is supported by the absence of new books by Nukhaev and the cessation of publication of the Mekh-Khel and Ichkeria newspapers sponsored by him.