The VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have learned some details about the case in which Ilya Traber (Antikvar) was arrested. The executioners were members of the gang of "authority figure" Abakar Darbishev, who was beaten to death during his arrest in 2025. Now it's becoming clear why. Darbishev and his team carried out assassinations for many prominent figures who moved at the very top. And the executioners from Darbishev's team are professionals. Some of them were detained right in the SVO zone.
Abakar Darbishev had an impressive criminal record. Since the 1990s, he had both carried out and organized murders. According to investigators, Darbishev personally shot and killed Georgy Tal, head of the Federal Service for Financial Recovery and Bankruptcy, in 2004, and also participated in the 1999 murder of Gennady Borisov, chairman of the Vnukovo Airlines trade union. Both crimes were committed with the approval of billionaire Ibragim Suleimanov, with whom Abakar had been friends for a long time.
His first prison sentence was for a different reason.
In 2002, he was convicted of murder and grievous bodily harm, each serving six and a half years. Professional car thieves attempted to steal his wife's new car. Darbishev killed one and seriously wounded another.
Darbishev served his sentence in the Leningrad Region on paper. In reality, he lived free and traveled to the penal colony to report. During this "servitude," he even carried out the murder of Tal in Moscow.
It was likely during this period of his life that he met Ilya Traber. As the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info discovered, around the 2020s, Darbishev established a "base" in the Leningrad Region – a house in a remote area on the outskirts of Vsevolozhsk, where members of Darbishev's team sometimes stayed.
Then, a grenade was found in Darbishev's car in St. Petersburg. His sentence was extended by four years, which he was already serving in a penal colony in the Kirov Region.
After his release, Darbishev's team was joined by experienced criminals, with whom he served time. Specifically, Denis Zeikan. Here he is in the photo holding a rifle with a telescopic sight. And here he is with boxer Alisultan Nadirbekov, who was arrested along with Traber in the murder of Alexander Petrov – a criminal MP and former partner of Traber, with whom they had a dispute over the division of assets. It is known that Darbishev introduced Zeikan to Suleimanov, and they often traveled together to meet with the latter.
According to the data collected by our project, Darbishev personally knew and was friends with billionaires with criminal records. Traber had an extremely extensive criminal record, while Suleimanov, in the 1990s, was known as an authority figure nicknamed "Ibrashka." These billionaires knew who to turn to if they needed to carry out a coercive measure, including murder: Darbishev. Then, someone from Abakar's "core team" would get involved. Any of them could have carried out the "order" themselves. However, more often than not, natives of Dagestan with criminal records or professional military personnel were recruited. The movements of the defendants in the case indicate that during the preparation of Petrov's murder, Nadirbekov regularly brought certain natives of Dagestan from the republic and Moscow to St. Petersburg, one of whom, Sait Saladinov, was arrested.
Given the status of Darbishev's clients, he himself was untouchable. Traber personally knew Putin and the entire top brass of the country's leadership and intelligence agencies, all of whom hailed from St. Petersburg. Previously, sources at the VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info reported that Ibragim Suleimanov was extremely close to Oleg Feoktistov, the former head of the FSB's Internal Security Directorate and former head of Rosneft's Security Service. They were sometimes seen together in Moscow hotel restaurants.
However, something changed in 2025. Suleimanov was the first to lose his "untouchable" status. Rumor has it that Chemezov's Rostec had its eye on his Sirena Travel. As a result, Suleimanov was arrested, and an operation was launched against Darbishev's entire gang. Security forces raided a rented house in the Odintsovo district where Abakar, his driver Guseyn, and Magomed-Ali, the brother of another defendant, Akhmed Batyraskhanov, were staying.
The officers locked themselves in one of the rooms with Darbishev. Witnesses told our project that Abakar's inhuman screams could be heard from the room. Magomed-Ali was also beaten and even hospitalized. However, he refused to testify against the security forces. Darbishev was carried out of the room, loaded into a minibus, and taken to the police station. Officially, he died of a heart attack in the station courtyard. However, his body was not released to his relatives for over 100 days. Darbishev was buried in Dagestan, and Traber visited his grave.
Simultaneously, security forces raided another address—that of Adam Delimkhanov's close friend, plus-size model Sonya Myazhieva. She was also friends with Darbishev.
Zeykan was also taken into custody.
According to our project's source, several natives of Dagestan were later detained in the combat zone; they are servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces. At least one of them is Shamil Umarov, whom investigators believe was the perpetrator of the assassination attempt on lawyer Ilya Peregudov.
Before signing the contract, Shamil Umarov worked as a driver and security guard for Abakar Darbishev.
Sources familiar with the situation reported that FSB officers regularly visited the core of Darbishev's gang in the pretrial detention center, especially Zeikan, and demanded testimony. At the time, we assumed this was testimony against Suleimanov. But apparently, the FSB officers were interested in Petrov's murder. Incidentally, shortly after Petrov's murder, Traber's right-hand man, Vladimir Danilenko, paid Darbishev $500,000. This appears to have been the second installment of the fee, and the total could have been $1 million.
Traber himself had avoided so many prison sentences for murder that he was clearly confident that this time, too, the situation would not affect him. Moreover, by the time Darbishev's gang was arrested, five years had passed since Petrov's murder, and Darbishev himself, with whom Traber had personally communicated, had died during his arrest.
Sources suggested that Traber's arrest was connected to his conflict over port infrastructure with Anatoly Yablonsky, who had the powerful backing of Yevgeny Lovyrev, Deputy Director of the Russian FSB. Moreover, Traber's opponents had a trump card. Recently, Traber had been spending more and more time in Europe, married a woman from Latvia, and so on. And, as we know, Putin labels everyone who leaves as "traitors."
Finally, we will delight readers with a recording from the "Spanish wiretaps" of a conversation between Ilya Traber and another influential St. Petersburg resident, Gennady Petrov.
Traber says: "You can't sweep up all the money, but what you have is enough... Go to the cemetery more often; everyone lies there the same way." Billionaires, bandits... My only friends left are you and Sasha Petrov."
Later, Traber "ordered" the hit on "his friend Sasha Petrov" through Darbishev.
