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| ⚫ | '''Ilya Ilyich Traber''' |
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| ⚫ | '''Ilya Ilyich Traber''' is a ] businessman and antiques dealer. He is said to have close ties to the ] and to be a personal friend of President ].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He was named as one of the leaders of the ], which dominated organized crime in ] in the 1990s. | ||
| == Biography == | |||
| Traber is a native of Omsk and graduated from the Higher Naval School in the city of ] in ]. He served in the ] in the submarine fleet and reached the rank of lieutenant. He was also a member of the ]. In 1980, he left the military and went to ], where he first worked as a bartender in a beer bar and later entered the ] trade, which is why he was later nicknamed “the |
Traber is a native of Omsk and graduated from the Higher Naval School in the city of ] in ]. He served in the ] in the submarine fleet and reached the rank of lieutenant. He was also a member of the ]. In 1980, he left the military and went to ], where he first worked as a bartender in a beer bar and later entered the ] trade, which is why he was later nicknamed “the Antiquary”. After the ], Traber was granted a monopoly on the antiques trade by the city of Saint Petersburg in 1991, which allowed him to achieve great wealth. He established close contacts in local politics and is said to have introduced Putin to ], who later became ].<ref name=":0">{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |date=2024-10-28 |language=en-US |title=Traber |url=https://www.spisok-putina.org/en/personas/traber-2/ |website=Database of Free Russia}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> | ||
| His wealth enabled Traber to establish a number of other businesses and to enter the oil trade. Traber is said to have acted as the “accountant” for the ] during this time, which gained control of the ] through violence and contract killings, with the support of Putin, who was working for Mayor Sobchak. Traber is said to have acted as an intermediary between the mafia and politics. At Putin's request, Traber appointed Putin's protégé ] as port manager. Drugs are said to have been smuggled through the port in the 1990s and 2000s.<ref name=":1">{{ |
His wealth enabled Traber to establish a number of other businesses and to enter the oil trade. Traber is said to have acted as the “accountant” for the ] during this time, which gained control of the ] through violence and contract killings, with the support of Putin, who was working for Mayor Sobchak. Traber is said to have acted as an intermediary between the mafia and politics. At Putin's request, Traber appointed Putin's protégé ] as port manager. Drugs are said to have been smuggled through the port in the 1990s and 2000s.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |language=ru |title=«If I destroy the prosecutor, I'll do good for my country». How Ilya Traber and his sidekicks from the Tambov Gang launder their past |url=https://theins.ru/en/antifake/248374 |website=The Insider}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Putin was responsible for the city's foreign trade during this period and in 1994 granted the Tambov gang a license to supply the city with petroleum products. In 1996, he is said to have received four percent of the profits after he had given control of the oil supply at ] to members of the Tambov gang. As a good friend of Putin, Traber was the only member of the Tambov gang with whom Putin showed himself openly.<ref name=":1" /> Traber was a guest of honor at Putin's birthday parties at least between 2004 and 2016, even after Putin became ] in 1999.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |author=Русская служба The Moscow Times |date=2022-01-17 |language=ru |title=Бизнесмен Трабер заявил, что мог бы войти в первые десятки рейтинга Forbes |url=https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2022/01/17/biznesmen-traber-zayavil-chto-mog-bi-voiti-v-pervie-desyatki-reitinga-forbes-a16667}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> | ||
| He immigrated to Spain in the mid-1990s and also often resided in ] and ]. In Western Europe, he built up a network of hundreds of companies that registered properties and then repeatedly sold them at increasing prices through straw companies controlled by the same individuals. The purpose of these constructs was alleged to be money laundering for the Russian mafia and individuals from Putin's inner circle.<ref name=":0">{{ |
He immigrated to Spain in the mid-1990s and also often resided in ] and ]. In Western Europe, he built up a network of hundreds of companies that registered properties and then repeatedly sold them at increasing prices through straw companies controlled by the same individuals. The purpose of these constructs was alleged to be money laundering for the Russian mafia and individuals from Putin's inner circle.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |date=2024-10-28 |language=en-US |title=Traber |url=https://www.spisok-putina.org/en/personas/traber-2/ |website=Database of Free Russia}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |language=ru |title=«If I destroy the prosecutor, I'll do good for my country». How Ilya Traber and his sidekicks from the Tambov Gang launder their past |url=https://theins.ru/en/antifake/248374 |website=The Insider}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Traber fled back to Russia in 2016 when charges were brought against him and others in Spain for money laundering.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |language=de |title=Mafia-Kontakte eines Ex-Rosneft-Chefs? – DW – 25.08.2017 |website=] |url=https://www.dw.com/de/mafia-kontakte-des-ex-rosneft-chefs-eduard-chudajnatow/a-40244849}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> According to intercepted conversations, Traber had profited from smuggling in the ports of ] and ].<ref name=":0" /> In 2018, however, all persons, including Traber, were acquitted.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |author=Agathe Duparc und Robert Bachmann |language=de-CH |title=Galerie der Oligarchen in der Schweiz |url=https://www.publiceye.ch/de/themen/ukraine/russische-oligarchen-und-die-schweiz/oligarchen-galerie}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> | ||
| In 2019, ], the leader of the Tambov group and a close associate of Traber, was sentenced to 24 years in prison in St. Petersburg for contract killings and organized crime.<ref>{{ |
In 2019, ], the leader of the Tambov group and a close associate of Traber, was sentenced to 24 years in prison in St. Petersburg for contract killings and organized crime.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |language=ru |title=Бывшему лидеру Тамбовской ОПГ, которого приказал посадить Путин, дали 24 года тюрьмы |url=https://theins.ru/news/147888}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> He had already been arrested for the first time in 2007, which was said to have been on Putin's orders. However, Traber remained in the Kremlin's favor even after that and continued to receive state contracts. He owns various assets in northwestern Russia and, according to his own statements, is one of the 40 richest entrepreneurs in Russia.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |author=Русская служба The Moscow Times |date=2022-01-17 |language=ru |title=Бизнесмен Трабер заявил, что мог бы войти в первые десятки рейтинга Forbes |url=https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2022/01/17/biznesmen-traber-zayavil-chto-mog-bi-voiti-v-pervie-desyatki-reitinga-forbes-a16667}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |language=ru |title=«If I destroy the prosecutor, I'll do good for my country». How Ilya Traber and his sidekicks from the Tambov Gang launder their past |url=https://theins.ru/en/antifake/248374 |website=The Insider}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> After the start of the ], Traber founded the organization in Saint Petersburg, which supports the ] in its war effort.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2025-01-06 |author=Uladzimir Zhyhachou |language=de |title="Russischer Walter White" rekrutiert jetzt Häftlinge |url=https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Russischer-Walter-White-rekrutiert-jetzt-Haeftlinge-article24867123.html |website=ntv}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> | ||
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| * Belton, Catherine (2020). ''Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West''. William Collins. ] ]. | |||
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Latest revision as of 01:26, 10 January 2025
Russian criminal (born 1956)
| Ilya Traber | |
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| Born | Ilya Ilyich Traber (1950-09-08) September 8, 1950 (age 74) Omsk, USSR |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman, Gangster, member of Tambov Gang |
Ilya Ilyich Traber is a Russian businessman and antiques dealer. He is said to have close ties to the Russian mafia and to be a personal friend of President Vladimir Putin. He was named as one of the leaders of the Tambov gang, which dominated organized crime in Saint Petersburg in the 1990s.
Biography
Traber is a native of Omsk and graduated from the Higher Naval School in the city of Sevastopol in Crimea. He served in the Soviet armed forces in the submarine fleet and reached the rank of lieutenant. He was also a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1980, he left the military and went to Leningrad, where he first worked as a bartender in a beer bar and later entered the antiques trade, which is why he was later nicknamed “the Antiquary”. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Traber was granted a monopoly on the antiques trade by the city of Saint Petersburg in 1991, which allowed him to achieve great wealth. He established close contacts in local politics and is said to have introduced Putin to Anatoly Sobchak, who later became mayor of Saint Petersburg.
His wealth enabled Traber to establish a number of other businesses and to enter the oil trade. Traber is said to have acted as the “accountant” for the Tambov gang during this time, which gained control of the port of St. Petersburg through violence and contract killings, with the support of Putin, who was working for Mayor Sobchak. Traber is said to have acted as an intermediary between the mafia and politics. At Putin's request, Traber appointed Putin's protégé Alexei Miller as port manager. Drugs are said to have been smuggled through the port in the 1990s and 2000s. Putin was responsible for the city's foreign trade during this period and in 1994 granted the Tambov gang a license to supply the city with petroleum products. In 1996, he is said to have received four percent of the profits after he had given control of the oil supply at Pulkovo Airport to members of the Tambov gang. As a good friend of Putin, Traber was the only member of the Tambov gang with whom Putin showed himself openly. Traber was a guest of honor at Putin's birthday parties at least between 2004 and 2016, even after Putin became prime minister of Russia in 1999.
He immigrated to Spain in the mid-1990s and also often resided in Switzerland and Monaco. In Western Europe, he built up a network of hundreds of companies that registered properties and then repeatedly sold them at increasing prices through straw companies controlled by the same individuals. The purpose of these constructs was alleged to be money laundering for the Russian mafia and individuals from Putin's inner circle. Traber fled back to Russia in 2016 when charges were brought against him and others in Spain for money laundering. According to intercepted conversations, Traber had profited from smuggling in the ports of Primorsk and Vyborg. In 2018, however, all persons, including Traber, were acquitted.
In 2019, Vladimir Kumarin, the leader of the Tambov group and a close associate of Traber, was sentenced to 24 years in prison in St. Petersburg for contract killings and organized crime. He had already been arrested for the first time in 2007, which was said to have been on Putin's orders. However, Traber remained in the Kremlin's favor even after that and continued to receive state contracts. He owns various assets in northwestern Russia and, according to his own statements, is one of the 40 richest entrepreneurs in Russia. After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Traber founded the organization in Saint Petersburg, which supports the Russian army in its war effort.
External links
- Profile of Ilya Traber Database of Free Russia Forum
References
- ^ "Traber". Database of Free Russia. 28 October 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- ^ "«If I destroy the prosecutor, I'll do good for my country». How Ilya Traber and his sidekicks from the Tambov Gang launder their past". The Insider (in Russian). Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- ^ Русская служба The Moscow Times (17 January 2022). "Бизнесмен Трабер заявил, что мог бы войти в первые десятки рейтинга Forbes" (in Russian). Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- "Mafia-Kontakte eines Ex-Rosneft-Chefs? – DW – 25.08.2017". Deutsche Welle (in German). Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- Agathe Duparc und Robert Bachmann. "Galerie der Oligarchen in der Schweiz" (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- "Бывшему лидеру Тамбовской ОПГ, которого приказал посадить Путин, дали 24 года тюрьмы" (in Russian). Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- Uladzimir Zhyhachou. ""Russischer Walter White" rekrutiert jetzt Häftlinge". ntv (in German). Retrieved 6 January 2025.
Further reading
- Belton, Catherine (2020). Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West. William Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-757879-5.