Umar Dzhabrailov, the candidate who ran in the elections that brought Vladimir Putin to power in 2000, commits suicide

Dzhabrailov, 67, was found seriously injured in a hotel in central Moscow and transferred from the emergency room to the hospital, where he died, various official media outlets reported, including TASS.

Police sources claim that the former senator for the Chechen Republic was hospitalized as an unknown patient at 03:00 (Moscow time) with a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Kommersant newspaper.

The days before Dzhabrailov I had recorded several videos for his social networks in which he commented on the latest attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran, where he showed his concern for Russian tourists in the Middle East, particularly the United Arab Emirates.

Dzhabraílov, who was the candidate with the least votes in 2000 (with 0.1% of the votes), He already tried to commit suicide in 2020 by cutting his wrists.

The controversial businessman, who in the first decade of the 2000s regularly rubbed shoulders in public with the national celebrities of the moment, also with Russian politicians and oligarchs, He was expelled from the largest Russian political party, United Russia, after committing several shots against the ceiling at the Four Seasons hotel in 2017, for which he was also fined.

Dzhabraílov He became rich after the fall of the Soviet Unionfirst through a chain of gas stations in the Moscow region, later through the real estate sector, being owner of several hotels and shopping centers, como el Radisson Slavyanskaya.

The businessman was prohibited from entering the United States after one of his American partners, Paul Tatumwas shot to death after reporting death threats made by Dzhabraílov.

Between 2004 and 2009 he represented Chechnya in the Russian Senate and in 2006 he held the position of vice president of the Government of the North Caucasian republic for a year.

He was also close to the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, with whom he performed the Hajj to Saudi Arabia in 2004, although it is speculated that their relations deteriorated due to the candidacy of Dzhabraílov’s brother in the early presidential elections in that Russian region.