The king of the Cherkizovsky market has lost everything and has come to accusations of murder. Telman Ismailov: what is the former owner of Cherkizon famous for? What are Ismailov's children currently doing?

Ekaterina was the civil wife of the youngest son of the owner of the Cherkizovsky market, Telman Ismailov. The woman thinks she was main love in his life. She told the 360 ​​TV channel about her story.

Three days ago I came to the house where we lived with the children and Sarkhan. There is a huge red banner on the gate: “For Sale”. I dialed the indicated phone number, I ask: how can you sell a house with people registered there? This is my house. They hung up the phone.

According to Ekaterina, Ismailov is the love of her life. They met at the age of 18 at the ballet, and two months later they began to live together. He courted beautifully, gave flowers, rolled around Moscow at night.

In Lesnoy Gorodok, a three-story Greek-style mansion stood out from the rest of the houses. Nearby are two more buildings - one for guests, the other for servants. The children of Ruslan and David are registered in this property, and it is registered to Ekaterina Romanova. The woman showed pictures taken in the apartment. Curtains for 200 thousand dollars, custom-made by Italian designers. Antique French furniture, marble columns with a gilded sheen.

We created our comfort. We thought we would live in this house for a long time. And, of course, when I left here with the children, I did not think that forever. Now I want to return to this house again. This is my house. I tried to contact Sarkhan, but the old phone is not available. There is no contact with his friends. During these four years that we have not been together, he has never called and asked if everything is fine with the children? Where do they live?

Sarkhan introduced me to his father Telman Ismailov in a restaurant in France. All his family knew me, his friends. His mother did not love me very much, because she did not want him to connect his life with a Russian girl. Sarkhan and I had not just love, but also good friendly relations. Even when he was forced to marry a girl of their nation, on the day of the wedding he told me: "You will always be with me."

However, four years later, the whole fairy tale ended. My father started having problems with business, the Cherkizovsky market was closed. The man almost killed Catherine.

Once he almost strangled me in the car, and was saved by passers-by.

Later, the house became expensive to maintain. In this regard, Sarkhan offered to move to an apartment for a while.

We took the most basic. After all, in a few months they were supposed to return to this house. I remember sitting with the children in the car. And the guards took out our things. Then I went up to the apartment. And the car with the children took off. I realized that he decided to leave me and take the children.

The father brought a nanny to the children, who spoke Russian poorly.

My father and my brother, - says Romanova's 13-year-old daughter Lana, - settled in some apartment with an incomprehensible woman-nanny who even spoke Russian poorly. She turned on cartoons for us so that we would not interfere with her. During this time, my father came to us only twice, the first time he said we were moving to live and study in Turkey. The second time he wanted to take his brother to a restaurant, but the boy began to act up, and his father beat him. And four months later he called and said: "I'm returning you to your mother."

So rented apartment the family moved out because there was nothing to pay. She was offered to live at the temple in a small room, since there was nowhere to go, she agreed. The deceived woman began to work in a church canteen with a salary of 15 thousand rubles. Living with servants, nannies and governesses, she did not know how to do anything. At first, everyone in the temple laughed at her.

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 satisfy 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 according to data). Who exactly and why launched an attack on the capital's largest market 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 Turkish coast, while the whole country chipped in for the construction of facilities for the Sochi Olympics. By the way, their total cost, including donations from Russian businessmen, according to official figures, 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 they came control services and the work of the market ceased 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 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 thousand to KBF AST. square meters. 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 possible consequences campaigns against him. Ismailov moved to Turkey and took up the registration of citizenship of this country.

The family of businessman Telman Ismailov left the founders of AST-International Invaeronment, one of the largest distributors of alcohol in Russia. The company was one of the few assets that did not go to Ismailov's creditors.

Telman Ismailov (Photo: Said Tsarnaev / RIA Novosti)

The family of the former owner of the Cherkizovsky market and the founder of the AST group, Telman Ismailov, left the founders of the company AST-International Invaeronment, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. According to the register, changes in the structure of the owners of the LLC of the same name took place on June 30, 2017. Up to this point, the owners of the company were five people: the sons of Telman Ismailov Alekper and Sarkhan (they owned 27.5% of the shares of LLC), nephew Zaur Murdanov (25%), CEO of the company Leonid Rafailov and one of the co-founders of the company Simandu Simanduev (10% each). ).

After the changes, the owners of the distribution business on an equal footing are now Rafailov and Simanduev. At the time of publication, they and other representatives of AST-International Investment did not respond to a request about the reasons for the change in the composition of the founders and the terms of the transaction.

Last without bankruptcy

AST-international environment was founded as a distribution company in 1992. Four years later, she received her first major contract - for the sale of Dovgan vodka, popular in the mid-1990s, and in 1998, Russian Standard vodka entered her portfolio. Since 2004, Ismailov's company has received contracts for the sale of Moet Hennessy, Bacardi and other well-known alcohol producers. As Leonid Rafailov said in 2009, the company did not suffer from the economic crisis of 2008 and was one of the five largest alcohol distributors in the Russian market. “We didn’t reduce volumes during the crisis,” he told Forbes, “and I didn’t reduce by one staffing". Telman Ismailov himself was the owner of the company until 2013, when he distributed his 40% stake in LLC among his sons and left the founders.

Currently, AST-International is still one of the largest alcohol distributors. The company's revenue in 2016 amounted to 11.723 billion rubles. (in 2015 - 12.043 billion rubles) For comparison, the revenue of its competitor Simple Company LLC (part of group Simple) in 2016 amounted to 9.645 billion rubles, and Luding LLC - 11.555 billion rubles.

AST-International Invaeronment remained the only asset of the Ismailov family, which was not claimed by the businessman's creditors, Vedomosti wrote in the fall of 2015. Rafailov told Forbes that the problems with Ismailov's main assets did not affect the alcohol business. “I don’t feel any pressure and I don’t feel any unfriendly actions,” he told the publication. According to SPARK-Interfax, Sberbank is now listed as the company's creditor, but only goods are used as collateral. Until 2015, SMP Bank was the lender - also secured by alcoholic beverages. In the file of arbitration cases, RBC did not find claims against the company that could be related to claims against Telman Ismailov and his structures. ​

What did Telman Ismailov earn on?

Telman Ismailov started trading in the late 1980s. In 1993, he opened the Cherkizovsky market, which soon became the largest in Moscow. In the mid-1990s, Ismailov's business began to grow rapidly: among other things, his structures opened several textile factories, a taxi company, a printing house, restaurants and cafes in the capital. The AST Group also invested in jewelry and agricultural production. As a result, in 2007, 31 companies directly owned by the parent AST had an annual turnover of about $2 billion. Ismailov himself estimated the value of AST's assets at $3 billion. Construction assets were the most profitable. The entrepreneur himself, until 2015, was a member of Forbes list- then the magazine estimated his fortune at $ 600 million.

Telman Ismailov (Photo: Valery Levitin / Kommersant)

In 2009, the authorities closed the Cherkizovsky market, and the entrepreneur's credit debt began to grow rapidly. To pay off the old ones, I had to take new loans. Among the creditors of Ismailov and his structures were BM-bank (former Bank of Moscow), businessman Vitaly Mashchitsky, structures of the owner of the Mangazeya group Sergey Yanchukov, Deutsche Bank, etc.

In 2014, creditors began to apply to the courts to collect debts: at first, these were Yanchukov's structures, followed by BM Bank, which demanded 17.4 billion rubles. When Ismailov was declared bankrupt, it turned out that almost nothing remained in his direct ownership. Gradually, the Prague restaurant, the Tropicana business center and shopping center AST.

By the end of 2015 total amount claims against the founder of AST exceeded 160 billion rubles, and the largest creditors, in addition to BM-Bank and Mangazeya, were several Cypriot offshore companies, one way or another connected with the Cypriot service group Menwin Management Limited, which managed Ismailov's assets. A Vedomosti source noted that Ismailov himself could be behind the structures claiming the AST assets.

In May 2017, the court began selling Ismailov's assets. According to the federal register of bankruptcy information, the estimated value of the businessman's property in January 2017 was 695 million rubles, and the amount of creditors' claims was 31 billion rubles. In June 2017, it is known that the Craig Valley Plaza shopping center, which Ismailov's structures acquired in 2014, was arrested in Las Vegas. At the same time, the court arrested the Moscow apartments of the entrepreneur.

With the participation of: Philip Aleksenko

On the eve of her 14th birthday, she loves to look at old photos. These are the only photographs that have survived from her past life. Fifth birthday of Ruslana - Telman Ismailov's granddaughter. year 2009. A dress from an Italian designer that costs almost $50,000. Famous people invited to the house Russian artists, holiday photo session. The children's room is full of gifts.

Since childhood, Ruslana bathed in gold and luxury, says her mother and civil wife Sarkhana Ismailova (son of Telman Ismailov - note "360"), Ekaterina Romanova. - The girl had all the best. The cheapest dress in the girl's wardrobe costs at least 10 thousand dollars, the most modern toys, in the courtyard of the house there was a large children's attraction, which was made by Italians on a personal order, worth almost a million.

This is the last birthday that the family celebrated together. In a few months, the common-law wife of the son of "King Cherkizon" will collect the children, a suitcase with autumn children's clothes and leave this chic mansion in the Forest City. She thought it was time. In fact, forever.

We celebrated our daughter's birthday, Romanova recalls. - Sarkhan was very happy. Ruslana - long-awaited child. He loved his daughter very much. Spent a lot of time with her.

But in this mountain of gifts, she will find only one doll - this is a gift from her grandfather, one of the richest people in Russia, the owner of Cherkizon Telman Ismailov.

The doll from my grandfather was the most expensive, - recalls Ruslana, granddaughter of Telman Ismailov. - Not for the price, of course. I lost this toy in numerous moves and I am very sorry. I have always dreamed of meeting my grandfather. We were born on the same day - October 26th.

The famous grandfather himself celebrates his birthday on the coast of Antalya in the famous Mardan Palace Hotel. The most expensive hotel in Europe. More than 10,000 square meters of gold leaf were used to decorate the interior. The balustrade posts are made of natural crystal. Special sand was specially brought from Egypt, which does not burn the feet in the heat.

The retinue of the oligarch is entertained by Russian pop stars. The guests are mostly foreign businessmen. Gastronomic delights are served from golden dishes!

He saw his granddaughter only as a little one - he constantly gave her gifts. Ruslana herself always really wanted to meet her grandfather. It seems to me that they are very similar, - adds Ekaterina Romanova.

After the demolition of the Cherkizovsky market, the empire of the once richest businessman shuddered and became mired in huge debts. Telman Ismailov and his family moved to Turkey.

Sarkhan always worked with his father. He is like a real oriental man, did not show that there were problems in business. I noticed it myself, - Ekaterina Romanova admits. - He became quick-tempered, irritable. He often raised his hand to me. But I don't hold a grudge against him. I also had character.

The famous grandfather himself knew about the "illegal" family of his son. He was acquainted with his common-law wife and the mother of his grandchildren.

With Telman Mardanovich I had good relationship. Sarkhan and I have been together since childhood, - says Ekaterina Romanova. - But his wife did not accept me. She wanted Sarkhan to marry a girl of their nationality.

For several months, Sarkhan Ismailov, together with his civil family lived with his parents.

Ruslana was not even a year old, Romanova recalls. - For several months we lived in the house of Telman Mardanovich. In fact, in adulthood, they never saw their grandfather.

When I was 10 years old, my grandfather's driver brought me a birthday present - an expensive watch with diamonds, - continues the granddaughter of Telman Ismailov. - Even when we had no money at all, I did not want them to be sold. This is memory.

After Sarkhan Ismailov, Catherine was forced to take eldest daughter from paid elite school. Now 13-year-old Ruslana goes to an ordinary general education rural school. The family lives in a small room at the temple.

I remember that dad wanted to take us away from mom and send us to live and study in Turkey. We are with younger brother really didn't want to go. We wanted to stay with my mother, - recalls Ruslana Romanova. - I'm even glad that now we live here at the temple. I'm calm here. The only thing I dream about is to meet my grandfather.

How will the meeting between the granddaughter and the famous grandfather go? And how did the son of the famous owner of Cherkizon react to the recognition of his civil wife and daughter? Read the next article "360".

— President of the AST group of companies

"News"

The grandchildren of the oligarch Telman Ismailov live in poverty

For eight years, the life of Ekaterina Romanova was like a fairy tale. She was called one of richest women Russia. Now the civil wife of the heir to the empire, Telman Ismailov, was left with nothing. Ismailov's grandchildren, according to Romanova, live in poverty.

The fate of a swindler: In pursuit of Telman Ismailov

Children of Azerbaijani billionaires included in the list of the richest heirs of Russia

Sarkhan (28 years old) and Alekper (29 years old) Ismailovs are the children of the president of the AST group of companies Telman Ismailov, originally from Azerbaijan.
link: http://www.vesti.az/news/ 152301

Police conduct searches in the office of the security company of oligarch Ismailov

Previously, information that Sarkhan Ismailov, a student at the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, was in a foreign car with a flasher was presented only as an assumption. Now it's set for sure. In addition, the name of one of the guards who participated in the attack on the Muscovite has been established. The former owner of Cherkizon himself is currently, according to the investigation, outside of Russia.
link: http://kompromati.ru/2010/12/03

“Many people will earn on the Chechen customs hole”

A visible confirmation of the investment was the decision to appoint Sarkhan Ismailov as vice president of the Chechen football club Terek. “His (Ismailov - Gazeta.Ru) concept of the development of the club seemed interesting to us. I am sure that Sarkhan Ismailov will be able to solve many problems,” Kadyrov said.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_28845.htm

Blog brought to the search

Yesterday in Moscow, a search was conducted in the private security company "AST Shield", owned by former owner Cherkizovsky market to Telman Ismailov. The search was carried out as part of a criminal investigation into the attack of security guards on the car of businessman Alexei Smirnov, who did not give way to them. According to investigators, the guards cleared the way for the car in which he was younger son Telman Ismailova Sarkhan. The AST group of companies call this version absurd.
link: http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1551953/print

Sarkhan Ismailov became vice-president of FC Terek

Sarkhan Ismailov, co-owner of the AST group of companies, has been appointed vice president of the Terek football club in Grozny, the team's official website said on Monday.
link: http://www.memo.ru/d/32318. html

Sarkhan Ismailov became Vice-President of Terek

This became known after the meeting of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov with businessmen Telman and Sarkhan Ismailov.
link: http://lifenews.ru/news/13314

AST Telman Ismailov's offices are being searched

Also, according to unofficial data, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov acted as an intermediary in the negotiations between Ismailov and the Russian Prime Minister. As a token of gratitude, Telman Ismailov began to provide a serious financial support Grozny football club"Terek", and the son of Telman Ismailov Sarkhan was appointed vice-president of this club. There were also rumors that AST structures promised to invest a lot of money in Chechnya.
link: http://jtimes.ru/news/russia/ 2069-2012-03-20-14-03-19

The market in Luzhniki was still controlled by the family of Telman Ismailov

However, Telman Ismailov's AST group has not lost control over Luzhniki, according to a source in the Moscow government. In 2003, the spontaneous market shrank in size and moved to a specially built shopping arcade in Novoluzhnetsky passage, also located on the territory of the sports complex. Until recently, this market was run by the sons of Mr. Ismailov Sarkhan and Alekper, says the interlocutor of RBC daily.
link: http://www.rbcdaily.ru/market/ 562949980262153

Eh, they found Sarkhan early...

The security company "AST Shield", owned by the ex-owner of the Cherkizovsky market, Telman Ismailov, was searched. Investigators suspect that the BMW VIP passenger with a flashing light, whose guards attacked the Muscovite on the Moscow Ring Road, is the son of billionaire Sarkhan. In the meantime, another victim of the lynching of the guards of this enterprise showed up.
link: http://www.gazeta.ru/auto/2010/12/03_a_3455577.shtml

The sons of the oligarch Ismailov - Alekper and Sarkhan - staged street races in Geneva

... in Switzerland, the sons of the former owner of the Cherkizovsky market, Telman Ismailov, Alekper and Sarkhan, got into an unpleasant story. The police detained them on suspicion of participating in illegal races through the streets of Geneva, which led to a major accident in which a 70-year-old German pensioner was injured. The direct culprit of the collision faces a year in prison, while the sons of the oligarch are still witnesses in the case.
link: http://austria.gfvg.com/azbb. php?1259139844

Football as a remedy for landings

It is worth noting that in February 2010, Telman Ismailov's son, Sarkhan, was appointed vice president of Terek, and Ismailov Sr. became the general sponsor of the Grozny team. The president of the club at that time was Kadyrov Jr. Now neither Ramzan Kadyrov nor Sarkhan Ismailov are on the list of Terek's management. However, business relations between the Chechen Republic and Telman Ismailov do not stop, and the latest agreements on the revival of the Mountain Jewish community in Chechnya are a logical continuation of the once initiated cooperation.
link: http://www.bigcaucasus.com/events/world/28-01-2013/82241-terek_beytar-0/

Meadow of Cherkizon

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, LLC KFB-AST belongs to Telman Ismailov, his sons Alekper and Sarkhan, nephew Zaur Mardanov and is the parent company of the business empire of the Ismailov family. Yesterday, the telephones of KFB-AST and lawyer Pavel Astakhov, representing the interests of the Ismailov family, were not answered. Jones Lang LaSalle (consulted AST on the project for the reconstruction of Voentorg, a former asset of Mr. Ismailov) reported that company representatives had not been in contact for a long time. Telman Ismailov's acquaintances claim that the businessman and his family now live in Turkey.
link: http://www.rospres.com/government/4973/

AST says that Ismailov does not have a flasher. The media insists otherwise.

Earlier, members of the Blue Buckets society had already suggested that the son of Telman Ismailov Sarkhan was in the car with a flashing light. In addition, the name of one of the guards who participated in the attack on the Muscovite has been established. The former owner of Cherkizon himself is currently, according to the investigation, outside of Russia.
link: http://www.newsmsk.com/article/03Dec2010/ismailov_bez_migalki.html

Ismailov denied information about searches

The AST group of companies is owned in equal shares by Ismailov himself, his two sons, Sarkhan and Aleksper, and his nephew, Zaur Murdanov. AST includes 31 companies, the scope of the group is from the hotel business to the production of jewelry and passenger transportation.
link: http://www.utro.ru/articles/2012/03/20/1035639.shtml

A crime boss was driving in Ismailov's escort car, which staged the incident on the Moscow Ring Road

Earlier, searches were conducted in the private security company AST Shield, which is part of the AST group owned by Ismailov. The documentation confiscated at the private security company showed that the son of Telman Ismailov Sarkhan was in the BMW with a flashing light.
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