One of the leaders of the Chechen separatists
One of the leaders of the Chechen separatists, in 2006-2007 he was the president of the self-proclaimed republic of Ichkeria. Since October 2007 he called himself "Emir of the Caucasian Emirate". Former "commander of the Western Front" of the army of Aslan Maskhadov. According to media reports, he participated in the abduction of employees of the Chechen prosecutor's office in December 2002, the explosions of the buildings of the FSB of Ingushetia in Magas and the train in Kislovodsk in September 2003, the raid on Ingushetia in June 2004 and the seizure of a school in Beslan in September 2004.
Doku Khamatovich Umarov was born on April 13, 1964 in the village of Kharsenoy, Shatoy region of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, (according to other sources, in Achkhoy-Martan),. Received higher education (specialty "builder"),. According to media reports, he was convicted of negligent homicide in the 1980s. In July 1992, he again came to the attention of law enforcement agencies and the Tyumen Region GUVD was put on the federal wanted list on charges of murder.
Before the events of 1994-1996 (hostilities between separatists and federal forces in Chechnya, called the first Chechen war), Umarov served in the Borz special forces regiment under the leadership of Ruslan Gelayev. At the end of 1994, Umarov commanded a group of militants stationed in the area of the ancestral village of Umarov, took part in hostilities against Russian troops. By 1996, he received the rank of brigadier general of the Ichkeria army - he was the field commander of a large (up to several hundred people) detachment, which was replenished in 2004 by members of the detachment of the murdered Gelayev. Since the end of 1996, together with the field commander Arbi Barayev, according to the press, he was engaged in kidnapping for ransom. According to Novaya Gazeta, at the end of 1996, the Umarov prepared lists of people to be kidnapped for ransom. Most of those on the list were said to be Chechens.
On June 1, 1997, by the decree of the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov, Umarov was appointed secretary of the Security Council of Chechnya. Since November 1997, he simultaneously headed the headquarters for the coordination of the fight against crime. However, already in 1998, Maskhadov removed Umarov from all posts - for his involvement in kidnappings and an attack on employees of the Ichkeria prosecutor's office, and beating up prosecutors. It was then that Umarov tried to deprive Maskhadov of the aura of a fighter for free Ichkeria and publicly promised to shoot him if Maskhadov negotiated with Moscow. At the same time, according to the information agency "Caucasian Knot", Umarov held the post of secretary of the Security Council until he assumed the post of vice-president of the CRI in 2005.
The law enforcement agencies of Chechnya claimed that Umarov was directly involved in the kidnapping in March 1999 of the special representative of the Russian Interior Ministry in Chechnya, General Gennady Shpigun. Shpigun was kidnapped at the Grozny airport. The terrorists almost without hindrance took the general out of the cabin of the aircraft preparing for takeoff and took him away in an unknown direction. For his release, the kidnappers demanded $ 15 million. They searched for the general for a year, but to no avail, then it became known that Shpigun had died.
With the beginning of the second Chechen war, Umarov actively participated in hostilities on the side of the militants. During a breakthrough from Grozny in January 2000, he was seriously wounded in the jaw. According to some reports, Umarov was secretly taken abroad for treatment, according to others, he was treated in a clinic in one of the southern regions of Russia. According to Novaya Gazeta and Gazeta.Ru, at the end of February 2000 Umarov was being treated in one of the hospitals in the city of Nalchik, and then the terrorist was transported to Georgia. The publications claimed that both the treatment and the transportation of the field commander were carried out with the knowledge of a number of heads of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (GUBOP). According to Novaya Gazeta, the top officials from the leadership of the North Caucasian RUBOP (Major General Ruslan Eshugov) and GUBOP (Mikhail Vanechkin), as well as former Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo knew about the whereabouts of the terrorist, but did nothing. For the opportunity to undergo treatment in Nalchik, according to Gazeta.Ru, Umarov gave the GUBOP Bagautdin Temirbulatov, known by the nickname Tractor driver and who committed many murders, and also helped to find the body of Shpigun.
On March 27, 2000, the command of the united group of forces announced the death of Umarov. It was reported that he died in a battle in the Nozhai-Yurt district of Chechnya (similar information was also reported in the media in September 2004 and February 2005, but each time it turned out to be unreliable. The information that Umarov was blocked on April 15, 2005 in Leninsky district of Grozny and destroyed as a result of a special operation),.
Umarov conducted military operations quite successfully, so that in August 2002 Maskhadov appointed him commander of the "Western Front",,.
According to journalists, Umarov participated in organizing a number of high-profile actions of separatists: the seizure of settlements in the Vedensky and Urus-Martanovsky districts (August 2002); the abduction of employees of the Chechen prosecutor's office Nadezhda Pogosova and Alexei Klimov (they were abducted on December 27, 2002 on their way from Grozny to the Mozdok airport. The head of the Chechen administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, said that the abducted persons had been taken prisoner by Umarov. According to him, the bandits demanded a huge ransom for the hostages. Later in the media there were reports that the militants hoped to exchange the hostages for their comrades. In turn, the prosecutor's office of the republic claimed that they did not know about any demands of the abductors. In November 2003, the abducted were released, but there are no details about the special operation to release gave rise to rumors that the hostage prosecutors were exchanged for money or other prisoners); the explosion of the buildings of the FSB of Ingushetia in Magas and the electric train in Kislovodsk (in September 2003, as a result of the explosion of a truck with explosives in the building of the FSB, three people were killed and more than 20 people were injured, water ", seven were killed and more than 50 injured); a raid on Ingushetia (in June 2004, as a result of an attack by militants on Nazran, Karabulak and the village of Sleptsovskaya, 79 people were killed, including 43 law enforcement officers, 105 were injured); the seizure of a school in Beslan (in September 2004, 1127 people were taken hostage by the terrorists, later more than 300 hostages were killed),.
The Izvestia newspaper, in particular, reported that in Beslan the "Brigadier General" Umarov was identified by a teenager who managed to escape from the school during its capture. Later it was reported that all the participants in the seizure of the Beslan school were killed - with the exception of one terrorist, Nurpashi Kulaev (he was detained and sentenced on May 26, 2006 by the Supreme Court of North Ossetia to life imprisonment in a special regime colony). Umarov was not among those killed. The Chechen authorities also suspected that Umarov was involved in the terrorist attack in Beslan - news agencies reported that immediately after the attack, fighters from the detachment of the then First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov captured the relatives of Maskhadov and Umarov. At the same time, in the book by Leonid Velikhov "Beslan. Who is to blame?" only one link between Umarov and the terrorists was named: it was asserted that among the participants in the seizure of the school was a certain Abdul-Azim Labazanov, who had once fought in Umarov's detachment. And according to the Segodnya magazine, Umarov was planning a terrorist attack in Beslan.
In March 2004, Umarov declared himself the successor of the murdered Gelayev) and took control of militant detachments in the Achkhoi-Martan, Urus-Martan and Shatoi districts. In August 2004, Umarov was appointed Minister of State Security of Ichkeria,,. At that time, Umarov often met with the leader of the Chechen militants, Shamil Basayev, who, according to Russian media, was an indisputable authority for him.
On April 16, 2005, the FSB carried out an unsuccessful operation to seize Umarov in one of the high-rise buildings in Grozny. In the battle, which lasted all day, four FSB officers were killed, two were wounded. Umarov was not among the six killed militants. At the same time, one militant managed to escape. The media assumed that it was Umarov. Shortly thereafter, Umarov was appointed vice-president of Ichkeria (under President Abdul-Khalim Saydullaev), retaining the post of Minister of State Security (Director of the National Security Service).
On May 5, 2005, officers of the Russian security forces in Chechnya abducted Umarov's 70-year-old father, wife and 6-month-old son. On the night of August 12, 2005, in the south-west of Chechnya, armed men in camouflage uniforms - presumably, officers of law enforcement agencies - abducted Doku Umarov's sister Natalya Khumaidova. According to the separatists, the abducted persons were taken to Ramzan Kadyrov's personal prison in the village of Khosi-Yurt. After that, Umarov accused the Russian authorities of deliberate abductions of the separatists' relatives and threatened to transfer hostilities to the territory of other regions of the country. Novaya Gazeta claimed that Umarov's relatives were arrested by Kadyrov's security service only because the first deputy prime minister of Chechnya wanted to find his father's killers by May 9, the anniversary of his death (Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov died in a terrorist attack on a stadium in Grozny on May 9 2004,).
On June 17, 2006, in connection with the death of Saydulaev, Umarov took up the duties of the president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In August 2006, the RIA Novosti news agency reported that Umarov had surrendered to the authorities of the Republic of Chechnya and was in one of the residences of Ramzan Kadyrov. Earlier, a source in the government of Chechnya told reporters that Kadyrov "worked with Umarov's relatives and through intermediaries on his surrender." Later, news agencies reported that Doku Umarov remained at large, and his brother Akhmad Umarov surrendered to the authorities. Then it turned out that he had not surrendered to anyone, and a year and a half before that he had been taken hostage.
On April 27, 2007, Russian news agencies reported that a group of extremists had been discovered near the village of Shatoi, which, according to Chechnya's security forces, was commanded by Umarov. Three Mi-8 helicopters with servicemen were sent to the place where the group was found. When approaching the battle site, one of the helicopters, according to preliminary data, was shot down. As a result of the disaster, 17 people died - three crew members and 14 servicemen. Later it was reported that the fighting in the area of the helicopter crash ended on April 28, and the helicopter itself crashed due to technical problems, but was not shot down by the militants. Rumors about Umarov's death were not confirmed in the press.
On August 13, 2007, as a result of the explosion of railway tracks in the Novgorod region, the Nevsky Express Moscow - St. Petersburg branded train derailed, resulting in 60 injuries. One of the considered versions of the organization of the terrorist act was associated with the so-called Chechen trace, in particular, shortly after the explosion, the Riyadus Salihiin group, associated with the Chechen separatists, claimed responsibility for it. In October 2007, in Ingushetia, neighboring Chechnya, Salanbek Dzakhkiev and Maksharip Khidriev, suspected of involvement in the train bombing, were detained. At the trial of their case, which began in late June 2009, a representative of the prosecution stated that the act of terrorism was carried out by a terrorist group operating under the control of Umarov.
On October 12, 2007, information appeared in the press that Umarov was in charge of the abduction of Uruskhan Zyazikov, the uncle of the President of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov. Uruskhan Zyazikov was abducted from the mosque in March 2007. Several tens of millions of dollars were demanded for his release. According to the information agency RIA Novosti, the abductors hid the hostage on the territory of Ingushetia and Chechnya, and the special services knew exactly where. However, the military option of release was unsafe for the hostage's life, and it was decided to negotiate. As a result, according to the official version, the hostage was released without paying a ransom. The source of the Interfax news agency said that the kidnappers were simply tired of holding the elderly man hostage and they released him for the sake of the holiday (Eid al-Adha began on October 12 - the holiday of the end of fasting in the holy month of Ramadan). On the evening of October 11, the abductors brought the hostage to one of the police posts. On the fact of the abduction, a criminal case was initiated under Part 2 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("kidnapping"), which provided for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 20 years.
In October 2007, Umarov announced the creation of the "Caucasian Emirate" (the author of the concept of which was named Movladi Udugova). Umarov proclaimed himself the Emir of the Muslims of the Caucasus, while declaring jihad to Great Britain, the United States and Israel. This caused a split among the Chechen separatists,,. In November 2007, due to the fact that Doku Umarov had "withdrawn from his duties as president," members of the Ichkeria parliament, who were in European countries, elected a new head of government, who became Akhmed Zakayev.
In late November - early December 2007, as a result of explosions in buses in the North Caucasus, 24 people died, and Umarov was suspected of involvement in the terrorist attacks. However, in January 2008, the head of the Chechen parliament, Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov, said that Umarov was unable to control any terrorist groups.
In the spring of 2008, two more criminal cases were opened against Umarov, connected with inciting ethnic hatred on the Internet, and with banditry. In early July 2008, it was reported that Umarov was blockaded by special forces in one of the Chechen villages, but this story was not continued. In November of the same year, it was reported that Umarov was allegedly hiding on the border of Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
In June 2009, the Chechen authorities announced the completion of the first stage of a special operation against militants, in which officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya and Ingushetia took part. At the same time, State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov, who heads the operation, announced that Umarov was seriously wounded during a battle near the Ingush village of Dattykh, but they failed to capture him. A few days later, however, there were reports that Umarov still died during a special operation, although Chechen officials refused to announce this until the death of the militant was legally confirmed. In the same month, a high-ranking source in the Russian special services reported that the identity of the separatists who died during a special operation in the Sunzhensky region of Ingushetia had been identified - Umarov was not among them.
On October 30, 2009, an order was issued by the Chairman of the Chechen Parliament Abdurakhmanov "On the dissolution of telephone" parliaments "and" governments ", as well as the" Caucasian Emirate "and other structures, associations and groups of Chechens created outside the Chechen Republic, or on behalf of the Chechen people and not corresponding to the Constitution of the Chechen Republic ", in accordance with which, in particular," the "Caucasian emirate" of Dokku Umarov, located in hole No. 35 in an unknown mountain-wooded square No. 17, was dissolved ",,.
In early December 2009, a statement was posted on the separatists' website kavkazcenter.com on behalf of Umarov (the emir of Dokka Abu Usman). According to him, Umarov claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack that had been carried out several days earlier, as a result of which the Nevsky Express train was blown up. The media reporting this emphasized that the posted statement did not provide any details of the terrorist attack, and this was not typical of the statements of the militants who actually participated in such actions. The Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation did not comment on Umarov's statement, while representatives of the Chechen Interior Ministry were inclined to consider all the latest statements made on behalf of the militant about the alleged terrorist attacks on the territory of the country, including his statement about his involvement in the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. , which took place in August 2009, as an attempt to "remind me of myself once again."
On February 7, 2010, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation officially banned the organization "Imarat Kavkaz" ("Caucasian Emirate") headed by Umarov, recognizing it as terrorist and threatening the territorial integrity of Russia.
At the end of March 2010, two explosions that took place in the Moscow metro received a wide response, as a result of which 40 people died and more than 90 people were injured. On March 31, 2010, two days after the terrorist attacks, a video message from Umarov appeared, in which he took responsibility for them and stated that they were a response to one of the operations of Russian law enforcement agencies in the North Caucasus.
In June of the same year, on the eve of a meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States, the United States Department of State added Umarov's name to the list of international terrorists. According to analysts, the inclusion of the name of the leader of the Chechen separatists in the list of terrorists should have made it difficult to provide any, including financial, assistance to Umarov.
At the end of July 2010, the media, referring to the website of the Caucasian separatists, reported that Umarov, for health reasons, resigned as "Emir of the Caucasian Emirate." Umarov allegedly appointed a certain Aslambek Vadalov as his successor. However, a few days later, after Ramzan Kadyrov called on the heads of the republic’s Interior Ministry units to intensify special operations to find the militant, Reuters reported that Umarov had changed his mind about resigning from the powers of “emir”. At the same time, "in connection with the violation of official discipline, expressed in the publication without approval of video material for internal use, not intended for public disclosure," one of the separatist ideologists Movladi Udugov was removed from the post of "director of the information and analytical service of the Caucasus Emirate".
On August 10, a number of field commanders, including Vadalov, announced their withdrawal from subordination to Umarov. As a result, according to some experts, Umarov's "emirate" was virtually left without a Chechen wing. A little more than a month later, Umarov announced the demotion of the field commanders who had broken away from the "emirate" and the need to give them to the Sharia court. Meanwhile, in October 2010, these commanders themselves announced Khusein Gakayev as their new leader, to whom Akhmed Zakayev, who was in Great Britain, had sworn allegiance. The disagreements between the field commanders were overcome in July 2011, when Gakaev and Vadalov again swore allegiance to Umarov.
On January 24, 2011, a terrorist attack took place at the Moscow Domodedovo airport: the explosion killed 37 people. Umarov again claimed responsibility for the attack.
In March 2011, Umarov was included in the special consolidated list of the UN Security Council Committee on sanctions against Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and related individuals and organizations. Thus, UN member states were to impose sanctions on Umarov, which included freezing his financial assets, banning him from traveling and providing him with any assistance.
In October 2011, Umarov was arrested in absentia on charges of involvement in the terrorist attack at Domodedovo.
In early February 2012, the Kavkaz Center website circulated a statement by Umarov, in which he urged his supporters not to launch terrorist attacks on the civilian population of Russia. He explained this decision by the fact that in Russia after the elections to the State Duma in December 2012, mass protest rallies began, and "the population does not support Putin's policies,"
At the beginning of 2012, Ilya Pyanzin and Adam Osmayev were detained in Ukraine, who admitted that, on the orders of Umarov, they should have made an attempt on Putin's life in Moscow. In this regard, in April 2012, the FSB issued a decree on the involvement of Umarov as a defendant in the case of the preparation of the assassination attempt.
Umarov belongs to the Mulkoy teip. He is married (to the daughter of the field commander Daud Akhmadov, a close associate of Dzhokhar Dudayev), he has six children. He was awarded the highest orders of Ichkeria - "Koman Siy" (Honor of the Nation) and "Koman Turpal" (Hero of the Nation), as well as a personalized weapon from Dudayev. By the early 2000s, Umarov was considered one of the most influential field commanders after Basayev. His detachments and small groups (totaling about 250-300 people) operated in the high-mountainous Shatoisky, Itum-Kalinsky and a number of foothill regions of Chechnya, as well as in Grozny.
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One of the most famous terrorists, the so-called "Emir of the Caucasus Emirate" Doku Umarov neutralized. in the North Caucasus confirmed Director of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov.
Triple confirmation
According to ITAR-TASS, on April 8 at a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee, Bortnikov said that in the first quarter of 2014, “as a result of operational and combat work, the activities of the leader of the terrorist organization“ Imarat Kavkaz ”Umarov were neutralized.
Details of the elimination of the terrorist, also known as Abu Usman, Bortnikov did not bring.
It should be noted that the death of Umarov has been periodically reported since 2000, but this information was subsequently refuted.
However, this time, apparently, it is true. , on the eve of the Sochi Olympics, who threatened to commit a series of terrorist attacks during the Games, said head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov who reported it on January 16, 2014. However, representatives of the FSB did this. At the same time, a video appeared on the Internet, in which an unknown representative of the gangster underground reported the death of his leader. March 18, without giving any details, about the death of Doku Umarov. Terrorist announced as Umarov's successor at the post of "Emir of the Caucasus Emirate" Ali Abu Muhammad he is Aliaskhab Kebekov.
And, finally, Bortnikov's statement finally confirmed the information that Doku Umarov is no longer alive.
The terrorist started out as a simple criminal
Doku Khamatovich Umarov was born on April 13, 1964 in the village of Kharsenoy, Shatoy District, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. After graduating from high school and the Grozny Oil Institute, Umarov worked as a builder in various regions of the country.
Umarov's problems with the law began in the 1980s, when he was convicted of negligent murder. Having freed himself, Umarov went into commerce in the Tyumen region, until, together with an accomplice, he raided the house of a citizen with whom he had previously had a conflict. As a result of the attack, two people were killed, one was wounded, and Umarov stole valuables from the apartment.
In the bandit underground, influential field commanders openly called Umarov a "racketeer", referring to his biography in the period before the First Chechen War.
The war in Chechnya came in handy for Umarov. The criminal wanted in Russia joined the ranks of the paramilitary formations Dzhokhara Dudaeva where he made a successful career. Marrying the daughter of a field commander helped Umarov break into the bandit "top" Daud Akhmadova, close to Dzhokhar Dudaev. Family ties allowed Umarov to rise to the rank of "Brigadier General of Ichkeria" by 1996.
Bloody career
In the period between the two Chechen wars, Umarov had conflicts with his former comrades-in-arms. Many separatists were not happy with the "business" of Umarov, who, together with another leader of the bandit underground Arbi Baraev put on the stream of kidnapping for ransom.
As a result, Umarov, who held the post of secretary of the National Security Council of Ichkeria, was removed from his post. Aslan Maskhadov... Even this prominent separatist was tired of Umarov's “lawlessness”.
Since the beginning of the Second Chechen War, Doku Umarov again led one of the bandit formations.
There are a lot of bloody pages in his biography - in addition to regular abductions of people, Umarov became the organizer of the explosions of the building of the FSB Directorate of Ingushetia and the train in Kislovodsk in September 2003, was one of the organizers of the militants' raid on Ingushetia on June 22, 2004 and the head of the attack on Grozny on August 21, 2004 ...
Further "career growth" Umarov was associated with the methodical elimination of the leaders of the terrorists, carried out by the FSB. As a result, in June 2006, Doku Umarov was declared the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
Following Sashko
In 2007, Umarov "reformatted" the structure, announcing the creation of the "Caucasus Emirate", urging his supporters to fight not only against Russia, but also against other countries. This decision caused a split in the militant camp and reduced the degree of Umarov's influence.
In the last years of his activity, Doku Umarov took responsibility for almost all major terrorist attacks that took place on the territory of Russia and took dozens of human lives, in particular, in 2009, in March 2010, in January 2011.
Umarov's terrorist "merits" were also recognized at the international level - in 2010 he was included by the United States in the list of international terrorists, and in March 2011, Abu Usman was included in the list of terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda.
Doku Umarov has a lot in common with Sashko Bilym- They began their terrorist activities during the First Chechen War, and at the same time successfully combined the "ideological" struggle with the criminal business based on racketeering and kidnapping.
The neutralization of these two odious persons, of course, did not rid the world of the terrorist danger, but it definitely made it a little better and brighter.
As it became known to Rosbalt, law enforcement agencies have closed the criminal case against militant leader Doku Umarov, who was accused of the 1992 murder of two people in the Tyumen region. This is due to the fact that the statute of limitations has expired. Umarov continues to be wanted for banditry and organizing a criminal community, but the special services doubt that they will ever be able to detain him alive. The field commander has not communicated with his comrades-in-arms for almost two months. Operatives believe that he either died after poisoning with poisons, or is dying.Doku Umarov began his criminal career as an ordinary criminal. In the 1980s, he was convicted of negligent murder, having freed himself, a graduate of the Grozny Oil Institute got a job as a civil engineer in the Tyumen region. Soon he took the position of commercial director of the Tyumen-Agda F-4 firm.
According to law enforcement agencies, in July 1992, Umarov and the head of the department of this company, Mussa Ataev (Mosol), had a conflict with two young people who lived in the village of Patrushevo. As a result, the Chechens came there to sort things out and tried to break into the house of one of the offenders. The young man's father, Alexander Subbotin, blocked their way. Umarov and Ataev were the first to shoot him with a pistol, then it was the turn of those who were in the premises of Tamara Subbotina and a friend of the family, Oleg Krivykh. Taking valuable things from the rooms, the criminals fled. Of the three, only Alexander Subbotin survived. The identity of the attackers was quickly established.
On July 13, 1992, Umarov and Ataev were charged in absentia under Art. 102 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (murder), they were put on the federal wanted list. However, by that time, the attackers had managed to hide in Chechnya, and it was not possible to detain them.
A law enforcement source told Rosbalt that the investigation of this criminal case was recently terminated, and Umarov was removed from the wanted list on charges of killing two people. “In 2007, the 15-year statute of limitations for criminal proceedings expired, several more years were spent on settling all technical formalities, as a result the case was closed,” the agency's interlocutor said.
Doku Umarov, however, continues to be on the wanted list, but not as a murderer. In 2008, they began to search for him under Articles 282 (incitement to hatred or enmity), 208 (organization of an illegal armed group), 209 (banditry) and 210 (organization of a criminal community) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Almost immediately after fleeing from the Tyumen region, Doku Umarov joined the Borz regiment, which was led by field commander Ruslan Gelayev. He also married the daughter of Dzhokhar Dudaev's closest associate Daud Akhmadov. After the death of the latter, Umarov led his detachment. He took an active part in the first and second Chechen wars, took responsibility for many terrorist attacks. After the leader of the militants, Abdul-Halim Saidulaev, was killed in 2006, the vacant seat was taken by Doku Umarov. For law enforcement agencies, he remained inaccessible all these years.
Recently, the special services managed to communicate with a young man who had been held captive by Umarov for almost six months. The young man was kidnapped in Chechnya, for his release the field commander demanded a ransom of $ 10 million from his parents. Umarov did not part with such a valuable hostage - he took him everywhere with him.
According to the young man, the field commander was never accompanied by a large detachment of militants. With him there were always only three of his most loyal fighters, sometimes the number of guards increased to six. Despite the fact that law enforcement agencies more than once announced clashes with the "Umarov detachment", the prisoner said that while he was next to the field commander, he did not participate in any skirmishes, observing extreme caution.
In particular, Umarov practically did not spend a single day in the same place. Usually he got up at five in the morning and, together with the hostage and the guards, began to move to some new place, which he left the next day. Sometimes the militants left to meet with the food vendors, but more often they tried to eat animals and fish caught in the forests. The young man was held captive by the bandits until the fall, and then he was released.
According to the agency's interlocutor in the Russian special services, since the end of October 2010, Doku Umarov stopped communicating with his associates, and the operatives received information that he was either dying or died, never fully recovering from the poisoning.
As Rosbalt has already reported, in November 2009 the special services managed to mix a strong poison into the products intended for Doku Umarov. Soon there was information that Umarov and his entourage took the poison, they are so bad that they will die from day to day. Having established the approximate place where the "sick" could be (Achkhoy-Martanovsky district), the federal forces launched a missile attack on it, after which they began to comb the forest. The bodies of the militants were found there, but Umarov was not among them. It turned out that the field commander survived the poisoning, but came to himself until February 2010. "There is information that due to the poison, Umarov developed several serious diseases," our source said earlier.
According to the source, after these events, Umarov stopped eating food supplied by suppliers from large villages. "Recently, his guards unexpectedly appeared in small settlements in the mountains, and they themselves took away food there, most often smoked, jerky meat", - said the interlocutor of "Rosbalt". According to him, the special services have been receiving information all this year that the state of health of Doku Umarov is constantly deteriorating. “However, even if he died, the closest associates will hide this fact for some time,” the agency's source believes. - Umarov could have deliberately launched information about his death in order to sit quietly in the winter. At this time of the year, it is extremely difficult to move unnoticed, and every well-equipped and hidden dugout becomes "worth its weight in gold" for the militants.
Dossier
Original of this material© "Kommersant", 19.08.2010
Umarov Doku Khamatovich
Leader of the Chechen separatists.Graduated from the Grozny Oil Institute with a degree in Civil Engineer.
He worked in different regions of Russia.
In the 1980s. was convicted of negligent murder.
On July 13, 1992, the prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region charged Umarov with the July 1992 murder of two people in the village of Patrushevo.
He served in the Borz regiment under the leadership of Ruslan Gelayev.
He took part in hostilities against Russian troops in the First Chechen War, in 1994 he led one of the militant detachments.
In 1996, he became a brigadier general of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI), was involved in kidnapping people in order to obtain a ransom for them.
In June 1997, he was the secretary of the National Security Council in the government of the President of the CRI.
In November 1997 - head of the headquarters for the coordination of the fight against crime.
In 1998, by decree of Maskhadov, he was removed from all posts for an attack on employees of the CRI prosecutor's office and involvement in kidnapping.
In August 2002 he was appointed by Maskhadov as the commander of the "Western Front", in August 2004 - the director of the "National Security Service" of the CRI.
In August 2002, he took part in the seizure of settlements in the Vedensky and Urus-Martanovsky districts, and in September 2003 he was involved in the explosions of the buildings of the FSB of Ingushetia in Magas and the electric train in Kislovodsk.
In March 2004, he declared himself the successor of the murdered Ruslan Gelayev and took control of militant detachments in the Achkhoi-Martanovsky, Urus-Martanovsky and Shatoysky districts, participated in the abduction of employees of the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic Alexei Klimov and Nadezhda Pogosova, was involved in the explosions of the building of the FSB Administration and Ingush electric trains in Kislovodsk.
On June 22, 2004, he was one of the organizers of the militants' raid on Ingushetia, on August 21, 2004 - the head of the attack on Grozny.
On June 2, 2005, by the decision of the head of the CRI, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, he was appointed vice-president of the CRI, retaining the post of director of the "National Security Service".
In October 2007, he announced the creation of the "Caucasian Emirate" and called on his supporters to fight not only against Russia, but also against other countries.
In August 2010, the militants of the Caucasus Emirate made a statement about the withdrawal from the subordination of Amir Doku Umarov. According to experts, the reason was the unbalanced behavior of Umarov, who at first announced his resignation, and later again wanted to return to his post.
He was awarded the highest orders of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria "Honor of the Nation" and "Hero of the Nation", as well as a personalized weapon from Dzhokhar Dudayev. Original of this material
© "Kommersant", 03.08.2010
What terrorist attacks is Doku Umarov involved in?
Doku Umarov, 46, became a brigadier general during the first Chechen war. Then he organized his own detachment and took up kidnapping. According to some reports, Umarov took part in the kidnapping in March 1999 of the special representative of the Russian Interior Ministry in Chechnya, Gennady Shpigun, whom the militants killed without receiving a ransom of $ 15 million.In August 2002, Umarov was appointed commander of the militants' "Western Front" and began to be mentioned in the media as the organizer of many major terrorist attacks. In particular, in 2003 - the explosion of an electric train in Kislovodsk on September 3 (6 people were killed and 39 people were injured) and the explosion of the FSB headquarters for Ingushetia in Magas on September 15 (3 people were killed, 32 were injured). In 2004, he was suspected of participating in a raid in Ingushetia (June 22, more than 100 people were killed), an attack on Grozny (August 21, more than 40 were killed) and a seizure of a school in Beslan (September 1-3, 334 people were killed).
Since the proclamation of the Caucasus Emirate in October 2007, the militants began to call all their actions carried out on his order. For example, in June 2009, the Riyadus Salihiin battalion of martyrs subordinate to Umarov took responsibility for the assassination attempt on the President of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. The same group confessed to a series of suicide attacks in the North Caucasus in the spring and autumn of 2009. In August 2009, Umarov attributed to himself the organization of the disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. After the bombing of the Nevsky Express in August 2007 (60 people were injured), the prosecutor's office declared him the customer of the terrorist attack, and in November 2009 he called himself the organizer of the second train explosion (28 dead). After the terrorist attack in the Moscow metro on March 29, 2010 (40 dead) Umarov also said that he had given an order to organize this action.
The last president of Ichkeria, the leader of the Chechen militants and the headache of the Russian special services, Doku Umarov, seems to have finally been killed. A special operation to defeat his gang was carried out on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya since mid-May. However, no one has officially confirmed the liquidation of Umarov, which gives rise to doubts about the success of the operation. Moreover, Umarov had already been killed five times before.
It all started with a terrorist attack that took place near the building of the Chechen Interior Ministry on May 15. A suicide bomber detonated a bomb, killing four people, two of whom were police officers. Later it turned out that the exploded terrorist was a certain Beslan Chabiev from Doku Umarov's gang, and it was reported that he was not just an ordinary bandit, but especially close to "militant number one." This gave reason to assume that Umarov returned to Chechnya and is again ready to actively resist the authorities.
The President of the Republic Ramzan Kadyrov was beside himself with this news. On the same day, he announced that the amnesty he loved so much would no longer be applied to the militants, and they could forget about calls to return home. "Nobody is going to have any more ceremony with them," Kadyrov said.
It didn't take long. Over the next few days, on the territory of Chechnya, where quite recently the second Chechen war was officially declared, as well as in Ingushetia, a large-scale special operation was launched to destroy the militants. It is quite unusual that at the same time Kadyrov turned to the president of the neighboring republic, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, for help - earlier he preferred to catch the militants on his own. Moreover, for the leaders of the North Caucasian republics any movement of servicemen from other regions on their territory is an extremely painful topic.
However, Yevkurov not only did not refuse Kadyrov, but also personally headed the Ingush part of the special operation. And already on May 17, news came from Ingushetia that Doku Umarov's gang had been blocked on the border with Chechnya. 70, 50 or 25 fighters were reported - each source had their own data. The bandits managed to be divided into two parts - one went to the Chechen forests, and the other remained in the mountains of Ingushetia. The pressure from the security forces grew - the militants were rounded up, deprived of food and medicine.
On June 4, State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov, Kadyrov's closest associate who oversaw the special operation from the Chechen side, announced that Umarov was wounded. Delimkhanov told Kommersant that the leader of the militants was wounded during a battle near the Ingush village of Dattykh, but they failed to capture him. "Four guards dragged him into the UAZ, and they themselves remained to cover the departure of the car. Until they dealt with them, they managed to take Umarov away," the deputy said.
However, the militants did not manage to go far - four days later, an unnamed source in the Russian security forces told Interfax that the leader of the militants, Doku Umarov, had been killed. Where and when - it was not reported, which gave rise to doubt the veracity of this information. Ramzan Kadyrov and Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who are in control of the situation, did not draw hasty conclusions and said that reports of the liquidation of Umarov should be carefully checked.
I must say that the story of Umarov's death turned out to be rather complicated. The reports of news agencies emphasize that Umarov was precisely destroyed, and did not die from his wounds. According to Moskovsky Komsomolets, the operation to liquidate Umarov took place on Friday, June 5. At the same time, it follows from the words of Yunus-Bek Yevkurov that he could have been killed earlier - in May. As the head of the republic told Interfax, it was then in the area of the Ingush village of Nizhniy Alkun that a militants' car, in which there were three people, was blown up. All of them died, and their bodies were so burned that the examination has so far established the identity of only one - it turned out to be Umarov's guard, a certain Azeri mercenary. It is not known who the remaining two were, but Yevkurov indirectly confirmed that one of them could have been Umarov.
Meanwhile, the separatists' information sites categorically refute the information about the death of their leader. A report posted on the Kavkaz Center website on June 9 says that "Amir Dokka Abu Usman is alive and well, he is not wounded and continues to lead the forces of the Mujahideen. None of his personal security personnel were also killed or wounded."
For obvious reasons, such statements should be treated with a fair amount of caution. Moreover, some media outlets have already begun to report on the date of the official announcement of the liquidation of Umarov. So, according to Kommersant, the body of the leader of the militants was taken by the Russian military, who, after the examination, will tell about its results, and this will be done no less than the Day of Russia - June 12. True, it is unlikely that such a gift for the holiday will greatly affect the Russians - the Chechen separatists today no longer excite the public so much.
The same Kommersant quotes the so-called Prime Minister of Ichkeria, Akhmed Zakayev, who said that, most likely, his closest associate, a veteran of both Chechen wars, Supyan Abdullayev, would become Umarov's successor. However, according to Zakayev, he is unlikely to get real power into his own hands and will be subordinate to the main ideologues of the Chechen Wahhabis - Isa Umarov and Movladi Udugov.
Indeed, whoever takes the place of the murdered leader of the militants, it will be hard for him to outshine Umarov, who after Shamil Basayev became "the main terrorist in Russia." Over the years of the Chechen resistance, such a series of corpses remained behind him that it would be enough for several terrorists.
Umarov began his first Chechen campaign under the command of Ruslan Gelayev, then received a detachment of militants under his leadership and by 1996 rose to the rank of "Brigadier General of the Ichkeria Army." At the same time, he participated in the abduction of people, one of which in 1999 was the special representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Chechnya, Gennady Shpigun, who was soon killed.
Between the two wars, Umarov had a conflict with Ichkerian President Aslan Maskhadov, who accused him of unnecessary abductions, in response to which Umarov threatened Maskhadov with execution if he negotiated with Moscow.
I urge Doku Umarov to kneel down and, with tears in my eyes, ask the people for forgiveness. Your fellow terrorists fled to the West, and I advise you to do the same if you do not have the courage to kneel before the people.
Ramzan Kadyrov, 2007
In the second Chechen campaign, Doku Umarov was already one of the key figures in the leadership of the separatists and actively participated in hostilities. In 2000, in Grozny, he even suffered a severe jaw injury. Perhaps this is what allowed Kadyrov seven years later to say that "Umarov is seriously ill, he does not have a single tooth in his mouth, and his legs rot from hypothermia." However, despite the injury, Umarov remained in the ranks, regularly participating in the abductions of the security forces and organizing bloody terrorist attacks.
Doku Umarov is suspected of involvement in the June 2004 raid on Ingushetia and the attack on Grozny in August of the same year. It seems that he was even seen in Beslan in September 2004, when a whole school was under the control of the militants. Moreover, there were rumors that Umarov did not abandon his favorite kidnapping and in 2007 organized the abduction of the uncle of the President of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov, who was then released by the militants without paying a ransom.
Umarov managed to make a good political career. In 2005, the President of Ichkeria, Abdul-Halim Saydullaev, appointed him vice-president, but a year later Umarov took the place of Saydullayev himself, who was killed in Argun. Umarov became the last president of Ichkeria, having started a government reform that his former comrades-in-arms did not like. In 2007, he announced the creation of the "Caucasian Emirate" and appointed himself emir of the Muslims of the Caucasus, which angered exiled Akhmed Zakayev, who, along with members of the Ichkeria parliament, abolished Umarov's office and accused him of inaction.
All these years in the media every now and then there were messages about the liquidation of Doku Umarov. In particular, in March 2000, the command of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus reported on its destruction in battle, but then it turned out that this was premature information. Then these rumors appeared four more times - and each time it turned out that Umarov had managed to leave. In addition, the media regularly circulated news about the wounding of the leader of the militants, then about his voluntary surrender to the authorities. None of these messages have received official confirmation. Just as the final liquidation of Doku Umarov has not yet been confirmed.
Caucasian terrorist number 1 Doku Umarov was killed as a result of a carefully planned special operation. However, it took more than one year to track down and eliminate the last president of the unrecognized republic of Ichkeria and the first emir of the "Caucasus Emirate" terrorist organization.
The details of the special operation were told to the NTV program "New Russian Sensations" by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and former employees of the Russian special services. Recall that the media reported about Umarov's death a dozen times, but then this information was denied by the special services. In December last year, Kadyrov himself at the Council of the Association for Economic Interaction of the Subjects of the North Caucasus Federal District said that the leader of the gangster underground is dead and does not pose any danger. A month later, on his Instagram page, he said that there was evidence of Doku Umarov's death:
We received a recording of a conversation between the so-called emirs (bandit leaders), in which they announce his death, condole with each other and discuss the candidacy of a new emir.
And only in April, the director of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, confirmed that Doku Umarov had been neutralized, although he did not provide details. Until now, neither the remains nor the burial place of the terrorist have been found.
Umarov was an active participant in both the first and second Chechen wars. He claimed responsibility for the 2009 bombing of the Nevsky Express train, which killed 28 people, and the double terrorist attack in the Moscow metro in March, which killed 40 people. The investigation also considers him the organizer of the terrorist attack at the Domodedovo airport.
He personally participated in the execution of prisoners of war of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Russian soldiers, - said the former head of the FSB unit for combating banditry and terrorism, Alexander Gusak. - He was wanted for murder, was close to the Dudaev family.
According to Kadyrov, the terrorist left the special services for a long time because of his cunning. Umarov did not use the telephone so that they could not track him, as in his time Dzhokhar Dudayev, who could be tracked down in this way by a satellite phone and destroyed. Fearing for his life, he did not take a single letter in his hands, since with the help of a poisoned letter he managed to eliminate Khattab. Umarov did not personally meet the caravans with weapons, because Shamil Basayev was blown up, having mined one of the vehicles with weapons sent to him.
The special services repeatedly attacked the trail of Umarov, several groups worked simultaneously, as a result of special operations, the militants were destroyed, but the main terrorist was not among them.
He was never a warrior, he was vile, about 30 militants were killed once, they thought 100%, and Umarov was there too, it turned out that he was not there, '' Kadyrov said.
During another special operation on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya, about 100 militants were killed, including the Minister of Defense of Ichkeria, Umarov's right hand, but again the terrorist was not among them.
According to Aleksey Filatov, a veteran of the Alpha anti-terrorist group, agents have been infiltrated into Umarov's bandit group more than once, but they have been exposed.
We introduced a man there, but he behaved suspiciously, he was killed, a good, brave guy died, ”Kadyrov said.
Once the militants executed their faithful comrade-in-arms, suspecting him as an agent, which he was not. But one implementation, which went through Turkey, was still successful. The agent went through a tough Umarov filter. His legend was checked very carefully, but nothing was suspected. But the guy had to go through another terrible test to confirm his loyalty - to kill a Russian officer in front of witnesses. But her agent also managed to get through, thanks to the staging of the special forces, who organized the "murder".
In 2012, information appeared that Umarov was in a mountain village on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya; in the fall of 2013, the agent transmitted information about his exact location. According to one version, the terrorist was killed during an airstrike - by missile and artillery fire from ground attack aircraft. According to the other, he was seriously wounded, they managed to take him out of the territory on which the airstrike was carried out, but later he died. After the cleansing, the remains of Umarov were not found. However, experts believe that his body was hidden. Maybe he was buried and the grave was disguised in such a way that it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to find him.
