Nukhayev Khozh-Ahmed Tashtamirovich: biography

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

Biography

Nukhayev Khozh-Ahmed Tashtamirovich was born on November 11, 1954 in a Chechen family belonging to the not very prestigious teipu (clan) Yalkho. The very name literally means "farmhand". The Nukhaev family is from the village of Geldigen, Shalinsky district, who live at the time of the birth of their son in the village of. Kalininsky Kalininsky district of the Kirghiz SSR. Khozh-Ahmed had two sisters. The future politician and criminal authority spent most of his childhood and youth in Grozny (the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), where his family moved in 1957.

After school, Nukhayev entered the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University. His studies quickly ended due to expulsion from the university.

Criminal activity

Law enforcement agencies of Russia began to closely monitor the criminal activities of Nukhayev in 1988, when Chechen groups intensified in Moscow. It was at this time that Khozh-Ahmed, having freed himself from his first confinement, mingled with another criminal authority, Atlangeriev, Movladi Imalievich (nicknamed "Mad"), began to implement their plan to seize territories in the Russian capital.

Nukhayev Khozh-Ahmed with his associates began to impose a "tax on protection" of various criminal elements and cooperatives. To combat other influential groups, such as "Lyuberetskaya", "Baumanskaya", "Balashikhinskaya", "Solntsevskaya", they came up with a single system of small combat detachments, assembled in a single unit for "combat gathering". They accounted for about 15 significant clashes between the factions.

Already in the spring of 1989 Nukhayev Khozh-Ahmed with his loyal people, the number of which reached up to 40 people, firmly established in the cooperative restaurant "Lazania", located in Moscow on the street. Pyatnitskaya 40. It was from this institution that its criminal grouping was called "Lazanskaya". Prior to his arrest on May 13, 1990, Nukhayev directed the actions of his militants. This criminal authority and members of his group were accused of a number of serious crimes.

Previous convictions

Nukhayev Khozh-Ahmed Tashtamirovich, whose biography abounds in various high-profile events, was convicted in the 1980s for robbery and fraud. In March 1991, he and his accomplices received eight years in prison. He had to serve his term in a strict-regime colony in the Khabarovsk Territory. On fictitious documents on November 27, 1991, Nukhayev 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 terminated the criminal case against him.

Life in the Chechen Republic

After the liberation, Nukhayev Khozh-Ahmed settled in Grozny, but often lived in the Gudermes district. Representatives of the Moscow Chechen community constantly visited him. Nukhayev tried to activate the members of the criminal group on the hard methods of "work" in Moscow.

At this time, in addition to violent criminal activities, 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. Sunzhensky, the former House of Officers on Victory Avenue, Grozny's covered market. In early September 1994, Nukhayev Khozh-Ahmed became the founder of the Russian firm Oscar.

Personal contacts

Nukhayev Khozh-Ahmed Tashtamirovich, whose photo is 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 Prosecutor General Ismaev Usman, was friends with former high-ranking Interior Ministry employee Musaev Alavdi. He also densely communicated with the active participant of the Chechen separatist movement Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.

Nukhaev was an ardent supporter of the regime of Dzhokhar Dudaev, so he financed his activities and illegal purchases of weapons. He often appeared in Moscow, where he oversaw the activities of a network of like-minded people engaged in separatist activities. At the same time, he strictly forbade his team members any contacts with representatives of the criminal world. In 1991-1994 years. Nukhayev was a mediator in the negotiations between the representatives of President Boris Yeltsin and Chechen President Dudayev. According to some reports, from 1994 to 1996 he headed the foreign intelligence service of the CRI (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria). At the same time, he carried out the most secret assignments of Dudayev.

In 1995, Nukhaev became acquainted with the Arab extremist and terrorist Abu al-Walid, who came to Chechnya as a resident of Saudi intelligence.

"Turkish period"

During the First Chechen War (1991-1996), Nukhaev organized the supply of arms and money to Chechnya via Azebaryan. He also participated in battles on the side of the separatists. After being injured during the seizure of the presidential palace, Ilham Aliyev, the son of President Azeybardjan Heydar Aliyev, invited him to treatment in his country.

With the onset of the final phase of the fighting in Chechnya, Nukhaev left for Turkey. There he became the organizer of the "shadow cabinet" of the Government. In the summer of 1996, Khozh-Ahmed concluded an agreement with Yandarbiyev and Apti Maraev on joint activities in the sphere of the oil business. During it, these "businessmen" were actively engaged in transferring money for false contracts through various Turkish companies located in the territory of the Russian Federation. Their main capital was placed in banks of 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. Yandarbiyev, he supervised the oil and gas industry of the republic.

Suspicions of murder

Politician Nukhayev Khozh-Ahmed Tashtamirovich, whose photo has not appeared in the press in recent years, became known to the whole world due to suspicion of organizing the murder of 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 were confident that the killing of Khlebnikov was a revenge for Nukhayev for his book "A Conversation with the Barbarian", in which there were many critical remarks about the Chechen politician . It was based on an interview with Khlebnikov, which he took from Nukhayev in 2000.

Search and rumors of death

According to the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation, Khozh-Ahmed Nukhaev is behind many high-profile crimes. Where this person is now, no one knows. Since 2001, he has been declared a federal and international wanted list. Nukhaeva is suspected of armed insurgency, the organization of illegal armed bandit formations and encroachment on the lives of law enforcement officers.

According to one version, Nukhaev has long been dead. In 2005, several reports appeared about his probable death in February 2004. This could happen during the transfer of the armed squad of field commander Ruslan Gelayev through the mountains of Dagestan to Georgia. In favor of this is the absence of new books of Nukhayev's authorship and the cessation of the publication of the sponsored newspapers "Mekh-Khel" and "Ichkeria".