The solution to the murder of Alexander Petrov and the arrest of Ilya Traber (Antikvar) are directly linked to another high-profile case, widely reported on by the VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info. The case of billionaire Ibragim Suleimanov and his "right-hand man," Abakar Darbishev, who was beaten to death during his arrest. As it turns out, Darbishev was close friends with Ilya Traber, and the latter visited Abakar's grave in Dagestan. In turn, former boxer Alisultan Nadirbekov, arrested today for organizing Petrov's murder, was a member of Darbishev's inner circle. Apparently, when Antikvar needed to eliminate Petrov, he turned to Darbishev.
Our project recently spoke 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 to six and a half years in prison. Darbishev killed one person and seriously wounded another. The victims were professional car thieves who attempted to steal his wife's new car.
Abakar Darbishev was serving 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 troubled many, and shortly before his parole, security forces, as usual, found a grenade in the car of the "privileged" prisoner. Ultimately, the court added four more years to his sentence.
After his brutal arrest, Abakar ended up in a prison hospital. From there, he was taken to the special detention center at Ladozhsky Station, a notorious torture chamber. According to Abakar Darbishev's friend, publicity saved him. His wife enlisted the help of 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 in prison.
According to a source in the Cheka-OGPU, security officials regularly visit the 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.
