Ziya 'Ziyaudi' Yusupovich Bazhayev (; 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 (), the Swiss company Lia Oil () from 1992 to 1995, the state unitary oil company in war-torn Chechnya, Southern Oil Company (YUNCO) () and the oil company Alliance Group (), 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. from Русский форум and another archive as Чеченская диаспора в Москве (Chechen diaspora in Moscow) author Ушкуйник.
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. Bazhayev's death is mentioned in many Nigerian 419 scam e-mails.Dr. Al-Fuhard Mohammed for one Late Mr. Ziya Bazhayev a Russian 419eater.com
Literature Musa Geshaev. Famous Chechens. — Moscow: Musaizdat, 2006. — Vol. 4. — pp. 126–159.
Notes
References