Businessman and former parliamentarian Umar Dzhabrailov is said to have committed suicide in Moscow. The 67-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to the head in a luxury residential complex in the center of the Russian capital.
Dzhabrailov was hospitalized overnight, but doctors were unable to save his life. The police have opened a preliminary investigation into his death.
Dzhabrailov, born in the city of Grozny in Chechnya in 1958, according to hotnews.ro. In 2000, he was one of Vladimir Putin’s opponents in the presidential elections.
The businessman had previously attempted suicide in 2020. In August 2017, he fired several shots into the ceiling with a pistol while in a room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow. At that time, Dzhabrailov was found guilty of disturbing public peace and fined 500,000 rubles, and Vladimir Putin expelled him from his party.
Dzhabrailov’s former business partner, American investor Paul Tatum, was shot at a Moscow metro station in November 1996. Shortly before being killed, Tatum had accused Dzhabrailov of blackmailing him to exclude him from a joint hotel project.