Overview

• Basmanny District Court ordered Ibragim Suleimanov and co-defendant Mukhhamed Darbishev held until Dec. 2, according to TASS.
• Police suspect Suleimanov in the killings of union leader Gennady Borisov in 1999 and former bankruptcy agency head Georgy Tal in 2004, Kommersant reported.
• The alleged gunman, identified as Abakar Darbishev, reportedly implicated Suleimanov before dying of reported heart failure while in police custody.
• Investigative outlets have linked Suleimanov and his son to Sirena-Travel, whose Leonardo reservation system is used in 80% of ticket sales in Russia.
• He previously served a 10.5-year sentence for fraud and money laundering and was paroled in 2015, as state media describe him as a billionaire without independent valuation.