The former owner of the Cherkizovsky market, Telman Ismailov, may be involved in 8 murders. His brothers are already defendants in a criminal case. The killers-performers who managed to be detained testify against them. The role of Ismailov himself remains to be seen, but what is already known about his business models is chilling.

Investigators came to the Ismailov brothers after the arrest of this man. In May 2016, Mehman Kerimov was suspected of a double murder on the Novorizhskoye highway in the Moscow region. As Kerimov himself admitted, he killed two businessmen with a pistol.

According to Kerimov, Telman Ismailov's brother, Rafik, was in the car with him. As investigators later established, Rafik Ismailov and the deceased businessmen had known each other for many years. They did business together until the Ismailovs started having problems with law enforcement agencies.

According to preliminary data, the murders for the Ismailovs could be not only a way to remove creditors, but also a whole business model that allowed them to build their empire. Now the media are discussing the involvement of Telman Ismailov himself and his brothers in 8 murders.

“When someone now testifies that he received orders for eight murders, I believe that this is not the final, but the initial page,” says lawyer Alexander Treshchev.

The first murder mentioned was in December 2000. Then they dealt with Andrei Lobanov, the leader of the Koptevskaya organized criminal group, who controlled the wholesale markets in the north of Moscow. They say that the Ismailovs laid eyes on these objects back in the 90s. Satisfying the growing appetites of the Ismailovs became much easier when one of the brothers, Fazil, became deputy prefect of the entire district.

After his resignation, Fazil turned out to be the owner of dozens of trade objects in the Sokol area. But compared to the main business of the family - the Cherkizovsky market - these tents were a trifle. Billions were spinning on Cherkizon. They say that the owners of the market paid a million dollars a month for patronage.

“We can’t go somewhere without official permission from the head. And when you approach him and say: we need to check the point where child prostitution is. Then when they find out that this is Cherkizon, they tell us: you have nothing to do?” - says Evgeny Kharlamov, head of the criminal police of the Moscow police department in 2002-2004.

Ismailov littered with money on his 50th birthday. Invited world stars. He built himself a 7-star hotel "Mardan Palace". As a result, Ismailov was summed up by smuggling. As it turned out, the merchant's fortune was built on the labor of illegal migrants, underground workshops, and illegal supplies of consumer goods. Cherkizon closed. Ismailov fled. Now he is either in Turkey or Israel. Before last days only creditors to whom Ismailov owed billions of rubles were looking for him. Now investigators will most likely be looking for him.

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Most of the market (“Old AST”, “New AST”, “Small AST”) was controlled by the AST group and its subsidiaries. However, the Cherkizovsky market included 12 trading zones controlled by other entrepreneurs, including Ilievsky (CJSC Iliev), controlled by Zarakh Iliev and God Nisanov, Rosklas, Shchebenka, controlled by Nizam Yusubov, New Eurasia , Tradeix, SDL shopping mall, Lilac Fair, Vernissage and Cherkizovsky shopping center. Parts land plots under the market belong Russian government and Moscow authorities. The largest landlord is the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture (RGAFK) .

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Economic importance

Professor, Doctor economic sciences Nikita Krichevsky, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, spoke about the role of the Cherkizovsky market in the Russian economy in 2009:

I would not exaggerate the importance of the Cherkizovsky market as the Russian center of small retail trade. Yes, many resellers bought goods here. But to say that this is almost the only place in a country where you could buy cheap goods in bulk, at least not seriously. Take the Chinese trains that go through Russia. Thousands of resellers come to them at every station and half-station. The same is true for trains from Central Asia. So there is no need to worry about the fate of dealers.

Representatives of the Russian government explain the closure of the market in the summer of 2009 as a measure to protect domestic manufacturers and support for light industry. According to the Minister of Industry of the Russian Federation Viktor Khristenko, which he cited in his report at a government meeting on July 1, 2009, despite approximately $ 2 billion in state investments in technical re-equipment in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the state of light industry enterprises with the mid-1990s is consistently rated as critical. Enterprises lost production volumes, began to resell equipment to Turkey and China, where the boom in light industry was just beginning. At the same time, an opaque and uncivilized shuttle trade market was born, which acquired a semi-criminal character, the budget annually loses about 650 billion rubles of unpaid taxes, and price discrimination from illegal goods "literally strangled" domestic production

« Each point on the Cherkizovsky market meant a stopped shop in Russia”, - calculated the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Stanislav Naumov.

Criticism

The official print organ of the Government of the Russian Federation "Rossiyskaya" newspaper called the Cherkizovsky market " black hole”, where laws do not apply, where there are many illegal guest workers, where contraband goods are traded, the head of the Moscow consumer market and services department, Vladimir Malyshkov, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta that Rospotrebnadzor has repeatedly issued instructions to eliminate violations of sanitary and trade standards detected there, most of which were not fulfilled, Malyshkov also claimed that, according to his estimate, at least 40 percent of the trade turnover there, as, indeed, in any Moscow market, according to the situation in 2009, was illegal.

closure

According to data for 2009, they tried to close the Cherkizovsky market three times since 2001, but the market continued to work, while the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, which decided to clear the territory occupied by trade, was ignored for a long time. The closure of the entire territory of the market was also complicated by the fact that of the 72 hectares occupied by the Cherkizovsky market, only 20 percent of the territory falls on Moscow, the rest of the land is federal, owned by the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism. A criminal case was also initiated against the former rector of the Russian state university physical education, sports and tourism, suspected of abuse of power when renting land plot for the Cherkizovsky market, the case was initiated under Part 3 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of power). According to the investigation, the state suffered damage in the amount of 77.6 million rubles.

“In the near future we will ensure that this disgrace in the center of Moscow is finished once and for all. This viper must be closed, and we will bring this matter to an end in the near future.

Alexander Bastrykin also noted that an operational headquarters had been created to deal with the situation on the Cherkizovsky market, which included representatives of law enforcement agencies. According to RosBusinessConsulting on June 30, 2009, the then mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, said the following:

After the market closed in June 2009, Chinese citizens, who made up a significant part of the merchants, moved to other Moscow markets - the Moskva shopping center in Lyublino, Sadovod on the Moscow Ring Road and Luzhniki (which subsequently moved to the territory of the Moscow Bearing plant on Dubrovka ) .

The life of the Cherkizovsky market did not end after the closing. In 2013, an underground city was found on its territory, in which there was a tailoring factory, living quarters, a cafe and a chicken coop. They were liquidated.

International resonance

According to the deputy executive director Union of Entrepreneurs of Kyrgyzstan Adyl Sadykov, almost 40% of light industry products produced in the republic were sold on the Cherkizovsky market:

Successor markets

As of December 2009, instead of the closed market, several new ones are being built, located both in Moscow and in the Moscow region. The construction of new markets is accompanied by protests from the local population, dissatisfied with the future neighborhood. Journalists even came up with a new term " Cherkizonophobia”, meaning by it the well-founded fear of Muscovites of the appearance under their windows of giant markets where guest workers and Chinese will trade.

Balashikha

One of the "successors" of the Cherkizovsky market is organized on the territory of Balashikha, next to the Stroyka station of the Gorky direction of the Moscow railway. The relationship of the closed "Cherkizon" and the new market is not hidden and is emphasized even in the title - "Lilac Balashikha"(the old Cherkizovsky market was located on Sirenevy Boulevard). Rumors about the transfer of the market to the territory of a city near Moscow spread immediately after its closure (in June), however, the administration of Balashikha and the Moscow Region stubbornly denied the construction of a successor market. Despite protests local residents, construction, which was proceeding at a record pace, was completed. The market is functioning successfully.

At the next meeting of the anti-terrorist commission of Balashikha CEO"Balashikha Vodokanal" Igor Vasilyev noted that the Gorky water conduit on the site from the largest water intake unit in the region No. 11 (built in 1984; with 3 tanks with a total capacity of 40 thousand cubic meters) of the Western communal zone to a gas station located on The 17th kilometer of the federal highway M-7 Volga can be destroyed at any moment. The reason for the destruction can be the arrangement by the management of the Siren Balashikha shopping complex and the company MBM Center Limited in the security zone of the water conduit (20 meters) for road passages and parking lots, including heavy vehicles. Before the start of construction, the Star Max company did not agree with the water utility on the projects of water supply, sewerage, storm sewerage and landscaping of the territory of the new shopping complex. Also, the water workers were not presented with the sanitary and epidemiological conclusion of Rospotrebnadzor on the permission to build a market in the immediate vicinity of the water intake. According to experts, the Lilac Balashikha market has become a potential focus of a man-made disaster for the city.

Kotelniki

About the construction of new trading places in the city of Kotelniki near Moscow, the press wrote more than once, without touching upon such serious problems as crime, the deterioration of the sanitary and epidemiological situation, and catastrophic social consequences, which are waiting for residents of Kotelniki, Lyubertsy and Zhulebino. The construction of a new wholesale market was approved by Boris Gromov, who is the governor of the Moscow Region for the third time, despite massive protests from residents and clear violations of the law by the developer. It was previously planned to build facilities on the site of the future market social sphere: schools, kindergartens, medical institutions and sports complex. Instead of socially significant facilities, StroyInvestGarant LLC is rapidly building a huge wholesale market. It is planned to implement a project involving the construction of more than 9000 outlets for foreign wholesalers, threatening the environmental, transport, criminal and social security of residents of the surrounding areas. All this is done without public discussion and taking into account the needs of the inhabitants of the surrounding areas. [ ]

"Hermitage" Abramtsevo

As of December 2009, the existing construction market at 103 km of the Moscow Ring Road is expanding by 4,000 new retail outlets.

In April 2009, Novaya Gazeta journalist Natalya Chernova spoke about the origin of the slang term, which is often used in relation to the Cherkizovsky market by both residents of Moscow and the media:

see also

• "Cherkizon. Disposable people "- a TV series about the life of the Cherkizovsky market (2010)

Notes

1. [email protected]: Demolition of Cherkizovsky market will cost Moscow billions
2. Cherkizon. Investigation Arkady Mamontov // Vesti. Ru
3. Republic Cherkizon // Newspaper. Ru

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia - a major Moscow businessman, the former owner of the famous Cherkizon (Cherkizovsky market). He was accused of organizing a double murder and arms trafficking. Ismailov's story is unique: once he was one of the most powerful people in the capital, but soon after the market closed in 2009, his star began to fade - and now he faces life imprisonment. I remembered how Ismailov's career developed, and tried to figure out where and when the businessman turned the wrong way.

Disgraced Cherkizon

The inhabitants of the east of the capital have always disliked the Cherkizovsky clothing market that arose in the early 1990s, comparing it with the famous Khitrovka. However, the market successfully existed until 2009, thanks in part to its social function: low-income citizens could easily dress up there for modest money. In addition, the market has become a wholesale base for small businesses throughout European Russia from Murmansk to Derbent. Cherkizon was a unique phenomenon for its time - a kind of state with its own unwritten laws, around which a whole infrastructure has grown, designed to meet the various needs of visitors and workers. The authorities repeatedly tried to drive out the merchants or at least to ennoble the territory of the huge market, but they did not achieve success in this matter soon.

In 2009, a massive campaign against Cherkizon was launched in the media. The TV spots talked about abuses in the market, and the appearance of some dangerous goods was directly associated with the name of the main shareholder of the market - Telman Ismailov (a fortune of 0.6 billion dollars according to data). Who exactly and why launched an attack on largest market capital is still unknown. However, it was Cherkizon who had in mind the then Prime Minister, calling for the fight against smuggling. “Smuggling is a separate issue, and the struggle seems to be underway, but there are few results. In one of the markets there are goods worth more than two billion dollars, so far they have not been destroyed and there are no owners (...) The result of the struggle should be imprisonment. Where are the landings?” Putin said at a meeting of the government presidium on June 1, 2009.

According to one version, Ismailov incurred the wrath of high-ranking officials by the fact that in the same 2009 he opened the seven-star Mardan Palace hotel in Antalya, Turkey, which became the most expensive in the Mediterranean: its cost was 1.4-1.6 billion dollars. Especially for the beach of this hotel, special sand was brought from Egypt, which does not burn your feet in the heat; gold leaf and natural crystal were used to decorate the interiors, and wines were offered to guests at a price of four thousand dollars per bottle. The presentation of the hotel was attended by world celebrities, the ceremony was led by an actress.

The Russian authorities could be outraged that all this luxury was created on the profits from smuggling and other crimes of Cherkizon (according to some reports, in 2009 he brought the owners one million dollars a day). But Ismailov's special cynicism was that the businessman invested one and a half billion dollars (45 billion rubles) in the Turkish coast, while the whole country was chipping in for the construction of facilities for the Sochi Olympics. By the way, their total cost, including donations Russian businessmen, according to official data, amounted to 214 billion rubles.

Following the media to attack the security forces on the market. June 7, 2009 (SKP) announced an investigation in connection with the discovery of goods dangerous for consumption at the Cherkizovsky market. It was noted that a group of unidentified persons brought and placed in the warehouses of Cherkizon more than six thousand containers with clothes, shoes and other goods without warehouse and shipping documents.

According to the UPC, in 58 containers they found children's clothes and shoes that did not meet sanitary and epidemiological standards - they were to be destroyed. The investigation opened a criminal case under Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Production, storage, transportation or sale of goods that do not meet safety requirements”). At the end of June 2009, Cherkizon was closed. High-ranking officials found unsanitary conditions, smuggling and brothels on the territory of the market, then control services came and the work of the market stopped forever.

On the Turkish coast

Shortly after Cherkizon was finished, on August 6, 2009, UPC investigators with operatives and special forces soldiers went to the famous Praga restaurant on the Arbat. Like Cherkizon, it belonged to the AST group of companies headed by President Telman Ismailov. The security forces, in the best traditions of the "mask show", effectively conducted a search in "Prague" with the seizure of documents.

Officially, the investigative actions took place as part of the investigation of a criminal case initiated against, the former rector of the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism (RGUFKSiT). He was accused of abuse of office: Matytsin allegedly leased a piece of university land with an area of ​​about 665,000 square meters to KBF AST. This site was used by Cherkizon for trade, but the land was in federal ownership, which means that the ex-rector had no right to lease it.

However, AST's lawyers then stated that the case of university lands was only a pretext for searches, and investigators seized documents related to Telman Ismailov's business. In particular, the lawyer said that investigators had already seized documents related to land lease during searches in Prague in 2007, which means that in 2009 they, apparently, were looking for something else. As a result, late in the evening of August 6, the investigators took away several dozen boxes of papers and computer system units from Prague.

Surrounded by Telman Ismailov, both the closure of Cherkizon and the searches in Prague were then associated with part of a large campaign against the entrepreneur.

“Telman Mardanovich still hopes that his troubles were organized by one of his competitors and in the end, even with some losses, the situation will be resolved. But for those who are closely familiar with what is happening around his business, it is already clear that the orders come from the very top, ”a close acquaintance of Ismailov told the media.

Already at that time, the owner of Cherkizon took steps to minimize the possible consequences of a campaign against him. Ismailov moved to Turkey and took up the registration of citizenship of this country.

Moscow, 8 November. Devaluation as a synonym for problems. What is it, experienced a well-known businessman Telman Ismailov. The Russian-Azerbaijani tycoon built a hotel in Turkey six years ago for almost $1.5 billion. And recently he was taken away for debts, returning the amount ten times less. The same trouble with other assets of Ismailov. Once there was $5 billion, and now it's $600 million. And those soon may have to be paid back. The brilliance and poverty of the former owner of the famous Cherkizovsky market - in the report of the correspondent of "MIR 24" Roman Nikiforov.

Ismailov named his Turkish hotel in honor of his father - Mardan Palace. Opened it with pomp in 2009. The hotel is not even five, but seven stars. It took 2.5 tons of gold to finish. Around marble, rock crystal. On the beach, sand specially brought from Egypt. The average cost of a room is $18,000 per day. Rest and perform here is prestigious. Shakira, Mariah Carey, Monica Bellucci come to visit the businessman. And here are the shots of this summer - the Russian ballerina and socialite Anastasia Volochkova demonstrates stretching on the balcony of the hotel. And then a message came this week: Mardan Palace went under the hammer. A Turkish bank - Ismailov's creditor - bought the building for $128 million. Although the entrepreneur invested ten times more in it: $1.4 billion.

Ismailov grew up in Baku. His father was engaged in trade: the family is still in Soviet time opened a commercial store, which was then the only one in the city. “See those road signs? There was a shop of Telman Ismailov's father. I remember that this store sold the best fabrics. It has always been crowded here. The store was demolished a couple of years ago. A “Winter Park” was built on the spot,” says photographer Eldar Aliyev.

Only people with great connections who knew how to negotiate had such privileges. The Baku neighbor of the Ismailovs, composer Eldar Mansurov recalls: Telman inherited a commercial vein from his father, and at the age of 16 he became the director of the family store. Telman's charm and ability to conduct business came in handy in Moscow, where he moved in the late 70s. During perestroika, the future tycoon met the future mayor, and then the chairman of the commission of the Moscow City Executive Committee on cooperative activities, Yuri Luzhkov. A video from 2006 speaks eloquently about their relationship. Ismailov celebrates his 50th birthday, and Luzhkov congratulates. “The most important holiday of the year has finally come to us. Telman, you are our friend. You are our friend forever. Telman, you and I go through life. And we rejoice and enjoy this friendship with you and your family. Live always, ”Luzhkov said then.

In 1989, Ismailov opened the AST company, which quickly turned into a huge concern. Restaurants, shopping malls, construction, Passenger Transportation, security companies. But the main source of income was the largest in Eastern Europe the wholesale market - Cherkizovsky, which was popularly nicknamed in the French way - "Cherkizon". 100 thousand merchants, more than half of them Chinese. Cheap consumer goods for every taste, food. Huge shadow trade, according to some estimates - up to 40% of the total. Information about the wrong side of "Cherkizon" was periodically heard in the media, but the security forces did not dare to touch Ismailov for a long time.

The turning point in the fate of the businessman was the opening of that very hotel in Turkey - in the midst of the global financial crisis. The investment of huge funds earned in Russia in a foreign economy. Defiant luxury - the delivery of a centner of black caviar on a private jet, dancing in the rain of hundred-dollar bills. Many regarded it as a feast during the plague. Even the then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drew attention to the source of Ismailov's well-being. At a meeting in the government, where they discussed the fight against smuggling. “And the struggle seems to be underway, but there are no results. The result in this case - landing in jail. Where are the landings? Look, one of the markets still has goods worth $ 2 billion. The goods have not yet been destroyed. And there are no owners,” Putin said at the time.

Ismailov, however, was not imprisoned after that, but the fate of Cherkizon was decided. Soon the market was closed for numerous violations of sanitary standards. Today, only a fragment of a solid metal fence with the logo of the AST group of companies reminds of the former greatness of Cherkizon. The market began with a wasteland, and turned into a wasteland. On a vast territory that can accommodate two and a half hundred football fields, now there are only landfills and new construction sites. True, they are no longer connected with Ismailov's business.

After the market closed, the businessman's empire began to crumble like a house of cards. The AST group took out loans, but there was nothing to repay. Both Turkish and Russian banks demand to return the debts. For example, the Bank of Moscow, which is part of the VTB group. "With the penny, with the accrued interest, total amount Ismailov's debt to the Bank of Moscow is now about $ 300 million, ”said Vadim Sukhoverkhov, head of the VTB press service.

Most of real estate Ismailova is on bail. For example, big shopping center in Izmailovo recently lost its name. The administration could not explain where the three once happy letters had gone from the facade. The famous restaurant "Prague" on the Arbat is another capital asset of Ismailov. In front of the entrance, the businessman placed both the already familiar AST logo and his scorpion emblem. Although the place is historical. Back in 1872, a cheap tavern opened here. And after the first reconstruction at the beginning of the 20th century, the institution became expensive and prestigious. It is even mentioned in the novel "12 chairs". Ostap Bender called him the best place in Moscow, and Ippolit Matveitch took Lisa here and spent all the money.

The restaurant is now closed. It hasn't been sold yet, but market price falls rapidly. Once upon a time, they asked for $450 million for the building, now - $150 million. Although experts believe that this amount is too high. “He had everything, but he believed that banks should continue to lend to him. Or restructure, or extend, or lend further. Or declare holidays so that he does not pay interest. But all of his assets were bought with the huge flow of money that Cherkizon gave. As soon as the administrative resource disappeared, the whole great history of the great entrepreneur began to be blown away, ”said Alexander Treshchev, member of the Central Council of the Russian Bar Association, lawyer, Doctor of Law.

But on small homeland only good things are said about the businessman. The Babaev family bought their house in the 60s from Telman's father. The entrepreneur himself came here often: a memorable place after all. “Behind the gates of the house I see that Telman himself is standing. I was even surprised. What are you doing there, I tell him. And he told me that he was born here. Since then, we have developed friendly relations. Even when he was on his way to the Geokchay region, he stayed with us. Together they sat down at the richly laid tables. They ate, drank and always talked on good themes”, said Vidadi Babayev, a resident of the Geokchay district. Today the owner wants to sell the house. Posted an ad: that's just the buyer can not be found. There are no offers from Telman either. Apparently, the amount of $45,000 today is too much for him.

Telman Mardanovich Ismailov is a Russian businessman of Azerbaijani origin who also has Turkish citizenship. He was the owner of the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow and is the founder of the well-known AST group.

Telman Ismailov began his biography in 1956 in the city of Baku and became the tenth of twelve children in the family. His father was an Azerbaijani by origin, and his mother, in addition, also had Jewish roots. Mardan Ismailov was engaged in trade, and he worked hard and with amazing diligence, which is why he constantly needed helpers. Already at the age of 14, Telman began not only to help, but to work fully with his father, and soon became the director of the first and only commercial store in Baku at that time.

In 1973, Ismailov entered the Baku Institute of National Economy, but after compulsory military service he transferred to a similar educational institution - the Moscow Institute of National Economy named after Georgy Plekhanov. According to the distribution, the young man works as an economist at the Ministry of Trade, and later as an expert at Vostokintorg. Then he met with, who at that time worked as the chairman of the commission of the Moscow City Executive Committee. And 20 years later, already being the mayor of Moscow, Luzhkov will personally congratulate Ismailov on his anniversary with the words: Telman! You are our brother! We go with you through life!.

When the enterprise was put into operation, businessman Telman Ismailov asked Turkey to give him a second citizenship, and this request was granted.

However, in November 2015, the public became aware that the ownership of the Mardan Palace hotel was transferred to the Turkish bank Halkbank through an auction sale, as the Russian entrepreneur had a lot of debts to Turkish companies. Today Telman Ismailov is not among the the richest people countries. In 2015, he was officially declared bankrupt by the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, and now his sons are the shareholders of the AST group he founded.

In March 2016, the court decision on the bankruptcy of the businessman was canceled. But already in August of the same year, the court again resumed the procedure for declaring the ex-owner of Cherkizon bankrupt. In January 2017, the amount of his debts reached 31 billion rubles. In February Court of Arbitration included in the register of creditors' claims another 8.9 billion rubles. In March 2017, he decided to start selling his property by auction.

Personal life

In the personal life of Telman Ismailov, everything is stable. He has been married for a long time and raised two sons, Sarkhan and Alekper, who succeeded him in business. Some of the entrepreneur's numerous brothers are also known to the public. For example, Fazil Ismailov several years ago acted as prefect of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow. And recently another brother, Rafik Ismailov, became notorious. He is suspected of organizing the murder of two businessmen - the founder of Lublino Motors Yuri Brilev and the owner of the network shopping malls Vladimir Savkin.

Soon, Telman was also accused of this crime. The Basmanny Court of Moscow authorized the arrest in absentia of the businessman, since at that time he left Russia.

Telman Ismailov is a very generous person. All his entourage is accustomed to receiving gifts. Also, the man did not deprive his star guests of such attention. For example, he gave a singer a villa in Turkey, an actress a diamond necklace, a TV presenter and psychologist Ilham Mirzayev a golden Koran, and a platinum watch for the singer. In addition, among Ismailov's acquaintances there are such celebrities as, and others.

More than once they became guests at his birthday party. It was rumored that he provided his plane more than once, while she was still the wife of the President of the Russian Federation. But this at least looks illogical. In one of the interviews, he said that he was familiar with, and their children became friends and even visit each other.

The main hobby of an entrepreneur from Azerbaijan is collecting wrist watch, which in his collection there are over two thousand pairs. Telman also tried twice to become a co-founder of a football club. In 2010, he became vice-president of the Terek team from Grozny, but took up the club only three years later, organizing a friendly match with the Israeli Beitar from Jerusalem, during which two advantageous transitions of the players were issued. At the same time, Telman was going to acquire the Israeli team as property, but the fans thwarted this deal, after which the businessman lost interest in football.

Telman Ismailov now

All last news about Telman Ismailov are connected with the criminal case and the "sale" of his property.

In May 2018, the shopping center on Izmailovsky Highway, which also belonged to the AST holding, went under the hammer.

Also this year, Mehman Kerimov, a defendant in Ismailov’s criminal case, was sentenced to 13 years in prison. At the moment, according to the investigation, Telman is the organizer of this crime, while Kerimov was the perpetrator. The former owner of Cherkizon has been put on the international wanted list. And where he is today is unknown.

But the seven-star hotel "Mardan Palace" will soon work again. Despite the fact that there was constant news in the media that the hotel was being plundered, the general manager of the hotel said that they are negotiating with travel agencies, discussing the prospects for the 2018 summer season. He also noted that 200 people continue to work in the state. And the main event of the upcoming season will be an Indian wedding with a budget of $10-15 million.

Condition assessment

In 2006 Cherkizovsky market was largest center small wholesale trade in financial turnover. Telman Ismailov himself in 2007 was 76 on the Forbes list. His fortune totaled $260 million.

In 2015, he was included in the list of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes with a fortune of $600 million.