Adam Osmaev is an emigrant from Russia, in 2012 he was accused of trying to attempt President Vladimir Putin. In addition, he was suspected of trying to attack in Moscow in 2007 - 10 years ago, the FSB reported that she managed to prevent the explosion of a car on May 9. In the same 2012, Ukraine refused Russia to extradite Osmaev. In 2014, he headed the volunteer battalion named after Ichkeria President Johar Dudaev. The battalion fought in the Donbass with separatists on the side of Ukrainian pro -government forces.
The attempt on Adam Osmayev was made on June 1 in his own car. Together with his wife Amina Okueva Osmaev met with a man who introduced himself as a journalist of the French newspaper Le Monde named Alex Werner. During the conversation (it was carried out in Osmaev’s car), Werner took out a gun and began to shoot at Osmayev. Okueva opened fire and wounded Killer. The police found his passport in the name of a citizen of Ukraine Alexander Dakar. The Ukrainian publication "Strana.ua" reported that Odessa Alexander Dakar died in 2001, while the passport was issued in February 2016. The National Police of Ukraine is now finding out how the shooter received these documents.
Osmaev’s wife has already recognized the person who shot her husband. She stated that the attacker is a Russian citizen and a native of Chechnya Arthur Denisultanov, who later took the surname Kurmakaev and famous under the nickname Dingo.
The prosecutor's office of Kievannounced that the detainee was suspected of attempting murder, he was facing up to 15 years in prison. On June 2, a day after the assassination, the head of the National Police of Ukraine Sergei Knyazev said that the killer has already testified. Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov Zoryan Shkiryak said on June 5 Medusa that the investigation "has not yet disclosed details."
The attacker is criminal authority known in St. Petersburg. The Rupres publication writes that for the first time Arthur Denisultanov was convicted in 1990 by the authorities of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic for extortion. Having had a time for two years, he left for St. Petersburg, in 1998 he was accused of kidnapping the driver of the director of the Kolpinsky food plant; Denisultanov escaped to Kharkov, from where he was later returned to St. Petersburg.
According to Fontanka, in 2000 Denisultanov should have been judged for "abduction of a person, extortion, repeated use of various false documents, as well as attempted the life of an employee of the police." Having drove Denisultanov for several months amnestied instead of a ransom from Chechen captivity of a Russian soldier. In 2001, he married a sister of businessman Kiyam Kurmakaev and took her last name.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Kurmakaev regularly fell into criminal chronicles. He was accused , for example, of fraud, but never began to be detained. Journalist Alexander Nevzorov posted a video on Yetube - a fragment of his 600 seconds program. The plot told about the theft of seven cars from different regions of St. Petersburg. Kurmakaev in the plot was called the “representative of the group of St. Petersburg Chechens Arthur”; According to the host, he came to the program himself. Kurmakaev urged to return the stolen cars to prevent "extreme measures".
Kurmakaev was suspected of threats by Umar Israilov , who was killed in 2009 in Vienna. In 2008, Kurmakaev was detained in Austria, where he said that Ramzan Kadyrov had a “list of enemies”, which should be destroyed, including Israilov; After deportation to Russia, Kurmakaev abandoned his testimony. The Ukrainian publications called Kurmakaev “personal killer Kadyrov”, he himself in an interview with Novaya Gazeta said that he was not familiar with Kadyrov personally.
In 2010, Kurmakaev was detained already in St. Petersburg; The woman with whom he was in close relations accused him of embezzlement of 7.5 million rubles, Kurmakaev was sentenced to eight years in prison. How he after that hit the territory of Ukraine is unknown.
The wife of Adam Osmayev Amina Okueva said that they met with Kurmakaev four times. In an interview with Censor.NU, she stated that Kurmakaev got in touch with her on May 23. During the interview, the Kurmakaev presented to the French journalist recorded the video and asked “provocative questions”. “[He tried] to bring us to harsh criticism of Ukraine. The following phrases came from him: “They will merge you in Ukraine anyway”, “You are here like a bargaining coin”, “As soon as relations between Ukraine and Russia, the first to be given out, are Adam”. He said that he was said in Interpol, ”Okueva said.
The main version of the investigation is a political custom murder. Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ivan Varchenko said that the "clear anti -Putin and anti -Russian position of Osmaev" could lead to the attempt. He also called Kurmakaev "an important witness for the crimes of the Kremlin against Ukraine." Amina Okueva accuses the Russian special services of a crime: "Kadyrovsky amateurs are so on their teeth." On her Facebook, she posted a video where Ramzan Kadyrov allegedly calls Osmaev his personal enemy. Now she and Osmaev are under enhanced security.
Juliana Skibitskaya , Kiev