Amir Gallyamov, co-owner of Coffeemania and former senator, has hastily departed Russia.
This move follows the opening of a criminal case against him, some details of which remain classified. Authorities may soon place him on an international wanted list.
Notably, this is Gallyamov’s second involvement in legal proceedings; in 2025, he served as a witness in another investigation and was questioned multiple times.
The Gallyamov family preferred spending time in the UAE but also calmly visited European countries. In the latter, they were assisted by the family of German citizen Aleksandr Brabakh, a trusted associate of Alisher Usmanov. The Gallyamovs and the Brabakhs are friends and share joint business projects.
Amir Gallyamov is described as closely connected with the criminal world, special services, and representatives of power, including so-called “Kremlin killers.” Before his death, British intelligence informant Aleksandr Perepelichny named Gallyamov as the possible заказчик of an attempt on his life. Perepelichny had fled Russia and became an informant for European intelligence services in the “Magnitsky case.”
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He died in 2012 during a morning run near his home in a London suburb. Police initially reported a heart attack, but two years later it was established that the poison Gelsemium elegans was present in his stomach, whose symptoms resemble arrhythmia.
Before his death, Perepelichny had spoken via Skype with Russian operatives who had questions for him related to the investigation of Valid Lurakhmaev (Validol), the leader of a убийцы-for-hire group that eliminated people worldwide. During a search, investigators found a dossier on Perepelichny with photos from a family archive.
Perepelichny told operatives he had been involved in transferring funds out of Russia, including through his company Financial Bridge with accounts at Deutsche Bank. The main user of this laundering channel, he said, was his wife’s relative—then-senator Amir Gallyamov—who moved both his own funds and those of new clients abroad. At one point, Gallyamov believed Perepelichny had misappropriated $10 million from the withdrawn funds.
He threatened his relative, and Perepelichny was convinced that Gallyamov had ordered Validol to target him—especially since the photos found with the killer were from the senator’s archive. Operatives reportedly had little doubt about this version. Sources say that in the 1990s Gallyamov was closely connected with the Izmailovo criminal group, which left behind a long trail of killings. Around the same time, he became associated with another influential figure, senator Aleksandr Shishkin (“Sasha Kemerovskiy”). During land seizures near the Pirogovskoye Reservoir, many people allegedly died prematurely.
Today, Shishkin reportedly owns an entire residence on the Pirogovskoye Reservoir with water access and a private pier. It is also noted that Amir Gallyamov is close to another figure from the 1990s—the former leader of the “Sevastopolskie” organized crime group, Radik Yusupov, nicknamed “Dragon.” The Sevastopol group historically maintained close ties with the Izmailovo group, and Dragon is now said to participate in numerous large business schemes.
