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We also recall that current Special State Prosecutor Vladimir Novovic was the investigating judge in that case,” For the Future of Montenegro said.
Special State Prosecutor Vladimir Novovic did not comment on the accusations.
Ismailov was arrested in Montenegro’s capital, Podgorica, on October 1, 2021, but his lawyer Milos Vuksanovic said that on September 8 he had applied to the Montenegrin Interior Ministry for political asylum, and should not be extradited until a decision is made.
Montenegrin authorities have not explained why they then gave political asylum to Ismalov; media reported that he was offered protection due to the known existence of persecution in Russia based on political opinion.
In February, Russia’s Foreign Ministry did not allow a then Montenegrin Interior Ministry official, Zoran Miljanic, to enter the country in a dispute over Montenegro’s decision to give asylum to Ismailov.
On October 24, 2021, Russia’s Tass news agency reported that the head of the Russian Security Committee, Alexander Bastrokin, had ordered an investigation into why Montenegro had refused to extradite Ismailov.
The Russian arrest warrant, from 2017, charges Ismailov with involvement in a double homicide.
He could face life imprisonment if convicted. The extradition issue will only be resolved after checking this fact," she added.
That said, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation sent a request to Montenegro for the extradition of tycoon Telman Ismailov charged with murder in Russia, its press service told TASS earlier today.
Montenegro Holds Azerbaijan-Born Tycoon Wanted by Russia
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Eyewitnesses at the party said they saw $100 bills being released from the ceiling to shower over the guests, including Hollywood stars and Russian elites.
Vijesti reported that one of Ismailov’s guests at the party was then-Montenegrin prime minister, and today the president of the state, Milo Dukanovic.
With reporting by AFP, Vijesti, and Current Time
The pro-Serbian For the Future of Montenegro bloc on Wednesday called on the Special State Prosecution Office to investigate potential corruption in the 2021 decision to grant political asylum to Azerbaijan-born billionaire Telman Ismailov.
On October 22, 2021, Montenegro gave political asylum to the billionaire, who is on a Russian-issued international arrest warrant for allegedly ordering contract murders.
“We expect the prosecution to launch an investigation and determine whether someone in Montenegrin judiciary or other parts of the decision-making system took 5 million dollars and enabled Ismail’s political asylum.
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has designated The Moscow Times as an "undesirable" organization, criminalizing our work and putting our staff at risk of prosecution. The case is reportedly connected with the 2016 murder of the businessman Vladimir Savkin and the founder of Lublino-Motors auto-service center, Yury Brylev.
The tycoon’s brother, Rafik Ismailov, and another suspect, Mekhman Kerimov, are also accused of being involved in the double homicide.
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Russian Tycoon Telman Ismailov Seeks Asylum In Montenegro After Arrest On Moscow Warrant
Telman Ismailov
An Azerbaijan-born Russian billionaire wanted by Moscow for allegedly ordering contract murders has been detained in Montenegro.
Local media in Montenegro reported on October 2 that Telman Ismailov is seeking asylum in the Balkan country, a day after he was arrested in Podgorica on an international arrest warrant issued by Russia.
Newspaper Vijesti reported that the political asylum request could complicate Ismailov’s extradition to Russia from Montenegro, where his son Alekper Ismailov owns a casino in the coastal town of Budva.
Ismailov is accused in Russia of financing the 2016 murder of two businessmen in the Moscow region, as well as of the abduction of a singer in 2004.
The tycoon has long been the target of President Vladimir Putin, who was reportedly critical of Ismailov’s flashy and extravagant lifestyle.
Ismailov — once one of the best-connected businessmen in the Russian — built the massive outdoor Cherkizovsky market in Moscow only to have it closed in 2009 for "sanitary and safety violations" and conducting illegal activities.
At the time, Russia’s investigative committee accused the market of operating as a "state within a state," with its own laws and security.
Critics say the closure of Cherkizovsky market may have been part of a struggle for valuable Moscow real estate.
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Kerimov has already pleaded guilty.
TASS, October 15. Furthermore, he is not pleading guilty to any crime, Ismailov’s attorney Marina Rusakova told TASS.
"He is not involved in any crime and is not pleading guilty to any of these alleged activities, because the criminal cases against him are based on testimony from one of the witnesses [in the criminal case against his brother Rafik] Kerimov and papers from the case on Avraam Russo’s kidnapping, which are not legitimate," the lawyer said.
The extradition request sent by the Prosecutor General’s Office to Montenegro was put together a long while ago, Rusakova noted.
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The market’s closure came weeks after Putin berated Ismailov for holding a lavish inauguration party at his massive 5-star Mardan Place hotel in Turkey at a time Russians were suffering following the 1998 financial crisis in the country.
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