Ziya Bazhayev Explained
Ziya 'Ziyaudi' Yusupovich Bazhayev (Russian: Зия Юсупович Бажаев; July 11, 1960 — March 9, 2000) was a prominent Russian businessman of Chechen origin specializing in oil trading. During the 1990s, he was president of Sidanko (Russian: «СИДАНКО»), the Swiss company Lia Oil (Russian: Швейцарская фирма «Лиа Ойл») from 1992 to 1995, the state unitary oil company in war-torn Chechnya, Southern Oil Company (YUNCO) (Russian: Южная нефтяная компания (ЮНКО)) and the oil company Alliance Group (Russian: «Группа Альянс»), which he founded in April 1998. With numerous personnel from Sidanko, Alliance gained control of the Khabarovsk Refinery at Khabarovsk, which previously was owned by Sidanko, and, a year later, gained control of the Kherson Refinery in Ukraine.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He died in Moscow during a crash of a Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft shortly after takeoff on March 9, 2000, together with a Russian journalist, Artyom Borovik.[2]
Bazhayev's death is mentioned in many Nigerian 419 scam e-mails.[6]
Literature
- Musa Geshaev. Famous Chechens. — Moscow: Musaizdat, 2006. — Vol. 4. — pp. 126–159.
Notes and References
- Web site: Справка. Влиятельные криминальные этнические авторитеты и лидеры диаспор Москвы . Help. Influential criminal ethnic authorities and leaders of the Moscow diaspora . ru . ovg.ru . 1999 . 27 October 2023 . 4 March 2000 . https://web.archive.org/web/20000304050233/http://www.ovg.ru/llinks/paxany.html. Alternate archive from Русский форум and another archive as Чеченская диаспора в Москве (Chechen diaspora in Moscow) author Ушкуйник.
- News: Кому мешал Зия Бажаев . Who was hindered by Ziya Bazhaev . ru . . 20 March 2000 . 27 October 2023 . 2 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202181248/http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/11278.html.
- News: Интервью президента ЮНКО. Зия Бажаев: "Меня просто попросили помочь" . Interview with the President of YUNCO. Ziya Bazhaev: “They just asked me to help” . ru . . 26 December 1995 . 27 October 2023.
- News: Учреждена Южная нефтяная компания: Только что учрежденная компания осталась без президента . Southern Oil Company established: The newly founded company was left without a president . ru . . 8 February 1996 . 27 October 2023.
- Web site: ОАО "Хабаровский Нефтеперерабатывающий Завод" . OJSC Khabarovsk Oil Refinery . ru . Alliance Group (www.nk-alliance.ru) . 24 December 2007 . 27 October 2023 . 24 December 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071224053903/http://www.nk-alliance.ru/page.phtml/rus/ref_habarnpz.
- http://www.419baiter.com/_scam_emails/08-08d/scam-email-35236.html Dr. Al-Fuhard Mohammed for one Late Mr. Ziya Bazhayev a Russian