Businessman Osman Kadiev became the owner of the Makhachkala football club Anzhi, which had belonged to Suleiman Kerimov since 2011. This is reported on the club's website.

According to the press release, Kerimov's structures "guaranteed the settlement of all debts" of the club and all its existing obligations.

The new owner Osman Kadiev took control of the club and expressed his readiness to develop it and the potential of football players from Dagestan, which could not be fully revealed in previous formats of Anzhi. The task that Osman Kadiev sees when acquiring the club is to raise the level of Dagestan football.
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Osman Kadiev is the former president of the Dynamo football club (Makhachkala). In 2005, he was mentioned in connection with the beating of several Kuban players in the tribune room of the Makhachkala stadium during a break in the match - it was reported that the players were beaten by “strongly built guys” who were brought there by Kadiev.
Osman Kadiev was also called a person close to thief in law Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik), who died in 2009. It was reported that in 2000, Kadiev was wanted by the FBI.
On December 27, Anji announced plans to sell leading players due to “a number of objective reasons, including financial ones.”
After the purchase of Anzhi by Suleiman Kerimov in 2011, a number of famous Russian footballers joined the club, as well as several world football stars, including Roberto Carlos and Samuel Eto'o. In the summer of 2013, Kerimov announced a reduction in the club's funding, after which the leading players left the team.

Anzhi Makhachkala has a new owner