Malik Mingaevich Saidullaev (
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: Малик Мингаевич Сайдуллаев; born 5 October 1964) is a Russian businessman of Chechen descent.
Biography
Malik Saidullaev was born on October 5, 1964 in
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1981 he graduated from high school. He served in the army and graduated from Grozny State University.
Personal life
Malik Saidullaev is married and has 2 children.
Career
During the
Second Chechen War
Names
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Saidullaev was reported of being instrumental in the early defections of several Chechen commanders to the Russian side. On August 27, 2003 while working as the chairman of the Council of Directors of the Open Society Group of the company Milan he was registered by the electoral committee of the
Chechen Republic
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as a
president
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ial candidate.
Controversies
On September 11 , after Saidullaev - who is known in criminal circles as "the businessman of
FSB" - was defamed by another presidential candidate, the
Lubyanka poet Nikolay Paizullaev, the Supreme Court of the Chechen republic decided to cancel Saidullaev's registration, clearing the way to the president in
Grozny
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The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 328,533 — up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Russian Census, 2002 ce ...
for another pro-Moscow candidate
Akhmad Kadyrov
Akhmat-Khadzhi Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov (23 August 1951 – 9 May 2004) was a Chechen politician and revolutionary who served as Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the First Chechen War. At the outbreak ...
, who notoriously dismissed Saidullaev as 'too weak to rule'. Saidullaev commented at the briefing in Moscow: ''"Under the present circumstances I think the forthcoming elections to be a farce."''
Following Akhmad Kadyrov's murder, Saidullaev again attempted to run for president until it was claimed that he was using a false Chechen passport. Being denied once again, the presidency was captured by
Alu Alkhanov, who was inaugurated amid tight security in October 2004 following the
assassination
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of his predecessor. Saidullaev predicted a fast death for Alkhanov.
On October 26, 2007, Saidullaev was injured by a two gunshot wounds in Moscow's Leninsky Prospekt.
References
External links
Chechen businessman seeks anti-Islamist coalitionBBC News
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New evidence of Chechen massacreBBC News
by
AFPIchkeria in the mirror of the "Vainakh", the "Groznyy worker"by
Chechenpress
1964 births
Chechen businesspeople
Candidates for President of Chechnya
Living people
People of the Chechen wars
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