Recently, American officials sanctioned and dedicated a separate press release to the unknown Russian woman Ekaterina Zhdanova – a rather unusual thing, because even Putin (*international criminal)’s oligarchs were previously subject to entire lists. Zhdanova is accused of helping Russian oligarchs withdraw money by circumventing sanctions, usually using cryptocurrency. The Dossier Center found out who could be the “roof” of such an impressive crypto lady – we are talking about the family of the former president of Dagestan Ramazana Abdulatipova. Ramazan’s son-in-law is a businessman Magomed Musaev known for recently bragging about allegedly purchasing the global media holding Forbes.
However, Zhdanova’s affairs could be of interest not only to American officials, but also to the Russian police. People from her circle were involved in the theft of electricity worth more than 100 million rubles; this money was compensated from the budget of the Moscow region, that is, from the pockets of residents of the Moscow region. The criminal case quickly reached a dead end, although court documents directly point to Zhdanova’s “proxy” as the person directly behind the theft of electricity, noted in the “Dossier.”
A rather remarkable story, which speaks of the complete confidence of Zhdanova’s circle in their impunity, happened in 2019, as can be seen from court documents. Moscow region officials are planning to create the Korolev technopark. The property on the territory of the cluster under construction was transferred to a certain company “Innovative Digital Technologies” (IDT) during bureaucratic procedures. And this company also brought there three forty-foot mining containers with almost a thousand miners, illegal crashed into the power grid near Moscow and quietly mined cryptocurrency for two months, until the electricians noticed something was wrong. By that time, Innovative Digital Technologies had stolen almost 100 million rubles worth of electricity.
In 2020, Moscow region investigators opened a criminal case against unidentified representatives of the company. True, it was difficult not to identify the persons: the fact is that there was only one employee working at ICT, who was also the owner of the company and its director at the time of the theft – Yulia Viktorovna Kornilova. The woman worked in several companies associated with Zhdanova, essentially acting as her nominee or “proxy.” For example, Kornilova was listed as the owner of a luxury Mercedes SUV, which Zhdanova’s entire family drove (we’ll talk about this car below). ICT bankruptcy trustee in progress company bankruptcy recorded more than 100 million rubles in debt, including to Yulia Kornilov, as can be seen from the bankruptcy register. But in fact they managed to collect from her less than 700 thousand rublesnothing is known about the fate of the criminal case, and the losses of electricians near Moscow are compensated from the budget.
How Zhdanova and her husband are connected to the family of the ex-president of Dagestan
Who is behind the hundreds of companies from Dagestan involved in illegal transfers, which the Dossier’s unwitting interlocutor Jamilya Ramazanova talks about? We discovered an important business connection between Ekaterina Zhdanova and her husband Hadzhi-Murat.
In the fall of 2017, Zhdanova became involved in crypto, or at least advertised the supply of mining equipment. And about a year earlier, she had a new business partner – Anton Goncharov, who received ⅔ in Stoleshnikov LLC, which previously belonged only to Zhdanova, managing a small hotel in the center of Moscow.
It seems that very friendly relations have developed between the business partners, Goncharov and Zhdanova and Magomedov even settled next door – in the elite complex “Barkley Plaza” on Prechistenskaya embankment, Goncharov – in a 2* apartment, and Hadji-Murat indicated his address as a 1* apartment (full Apartment numbers are at the disposal of the editors). The partners also drove the same car – the same Mercedes SUV that was Zhdanova’s family; at least, Goncharov’s security guard and driver, named Oleg, happened to park this SUV, as can be seen from the merged databases.
And Goncharov has an important business partner and, perhaps, even a childhood friend – Abdulatip Abdulatipov, the son of Ramazan Abdulatipov, the former head of Dagestan. Let’s list what exactly connects these people. Firstly, as children, Anton and Abdulatip most likely lived not far from each other in the Krylatskoye district of Moscow – by the way, little Khadzhi-Murat Magomedov also lived there. Secondly, Anton Goncharov and Abdulatip Abdulatipov worked in the same company – Sigma Capital of his son Roman Abramovich, visible from the merged databases. Thirdly, in 2016, Goncharov registered the company “DS Services”, and a year later this company was transferred to Abdulatipov, a few years later the tax authorities liquidated this company without finding it at the place of registration; All this time she showed no signs of life. Finally, Goncharov parked the same cars as a man named Maxim Lysov, who parked many cars associated with the Abdulatipov family.
Almost nothing is known about 32-year-old Abdulatip Abdulatipov himself; you can’t even find his photographs in the public domain. The media claimedthat when his father headed Dagestan in 2013-2017, Abdulatip gained control of a company that removes garbage from Makhachkala. Now she is bankrupt.
Ramazan Abdulatipov, although he ruled Dagestan for a short time, is a significant figure in Putin (*international criminal)’s vertical of power. He managed to sit in both the Federation Council and the State Duma, and in recent years he represented Russia (*aggressor country) in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. It seems that this is some kind of parquet position, but recently it had an important meaning: it was Abdulatipov who convinced Islamic countries not to impose sanctions against Russia (*aggressor country) and, in general, to adhere to neutrality in Putin (*international criminal)’s conflict with the Western world – the official himself spoke about this in a recent interview. And Ramazan Abdulatipov is quite familiar with the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin and his former deputy Igor Sobolevsky: once all three played for the national team Leningrad University in volleyball, which the official also talks about with pleasure.
Abdulatipov’s son-in-law, businessman Magomed Musaev, owner of the Russian Forbes, recently became a hero in the world media. Available editions of The Washington Post turned out to be audio recordings and a video recording where Musaev boasts that he allegedly recently bought the American media holding Forbes, and the frontman of the deal was the young billionaire Austin Russell. These recordings were made a few days before the celebration of Musaev’s 60th birthday in New York. At the same time, the Russian businessman emphasized that his role in this deal was a secret. Later, he denied to journalists his participation in the purchase of American Forbes, and refused to comment on the audio recordings.
Magomed Musaev since 1998 worked at the All-Russian Exhibition Center (VVC), becoming its director in 2004. The All-Russian Exhibition Center was then a spontaneous market with flows of uncontrolled money. In the second half of the 2010s, Musaev became the owner of the Russian Forbes, as well as helped large Dagestan businessmen like Suleiman Kerimov or Magomedov brothers invest in projects in Silicon Valley. Pavel Cherkashin played a key role in these projects – it is this man who now tells The Washington Post what a big role his father-in-law Ramazan Abdulatipov played in Musaev’s life: for example, it was he who brought Musaev and Kerimov together.
As you can see, the political “heavyweight” Ramazan Abdulatipov has influence everywhere – both in Dagestan itself and in Putin (*international criminal)’s power hierarchy. That is why his son can be an important partner for crypto traders like Ekaterina Zhdanova and her husband Khadzhi-Murat Magomedov. These people help Putin (*international criminal)’s elite withdraw money, establishing a pleasant life away from Russia (*aggressor country), but they do not even disdain the primitive theft of electricity for crypto mining.