Contract Killing Syndicate: How "Antique" Traber Cleared Out the Business Fields with the Help of Pocket Gunmen from the Defeated Suleimanov and Darbishev Organized Crime Group

The investigation into the murder of Alexander Petrov and the arrest of Ilya Traber (Antique Dealer) is closely linked to another well-known story that has received widespread press coverage.

The case of billionaire Ibragim Suleimanov and his right-hand man, Abakar Darbishev, who was beaten to death during his arrest. It turns out Darbishev was close friends with Ilya Traber, who visited Abakar’s grave in Dagestan. Meanwhile, former boxer Alisultan Nadirbekov, arrested today for organizing Petrov’s murder, was part of Darbishev’s inner circle. Apparently, when Antikvar needed to eliminate Petrov, he turned to Darbishev.  

At one time, our project managed to talk with a close friend of Abakar Darbishev, who died in a police car,

According to the source, Abakar Darbishev had an impressive criminal record. In 2002, he was convicted of murder and grievous bodily harm, each serving six and a half years in prison. Darbishev killed one person and seriously wounded another. The victims were professional car thieves and had attempted to steal his wife’s new car.

Abakar Darbishev served his sentence in the Leningrad Region on paper. In reality, he lived within the city limits and traveled to the penal colony to report. This unsettled many, and shortly before his parole, security forces, as usual, found a grenade in the car of a "privileged" prisoner. Ultimately, the court added another four years to his sentence.

After a brutal arrest, Abakar ended up in a prison hospital. From there, he was taken to a special detention center at Ladozhsky Station, known for its torture chambers. According to Abakar’s friend Darbishev, publicity saved him. His wife enlisted her classmate, journalist Pavel Sheremet.

From there, Darbishev was sent to the Kirov region, where he met another man arrested in the Suleimanov case, Denis Zeikan. Here he is in the photo with Alisultan Nadirbekov. At the time, his passport name was Vasily Gubal.

After his release, Zeikan (pictured with a rifle) became responsible for Darbishev’s various security operations. Nadirbekov was also involved. Zeikan is in custody in the Suleimanov case and could well have spoken up in prison. 

According to the source, security forces regularly visit defendants in the detention center for informal conversations and offers to testify.

Among the arrested Dagestanis: the nephew of Abakar Darbishev, who died in a police car (according to the testimony of other detainees, he was especially close to Ibragim Suleimanov) - Mukhhamed Darbishev (pictured), Akhmed Batyraskhanov, and the perpetrator of several assassination attempts, Shamil Umarov.