Akhat (Alexander) Khafizovich (Sergeevich) Bragin ( uk, Ахать (Олександр) Хафізович (Сергійович) Брагін, russian: Ахать (Александр) Хафизович (Сергеевич) Брагин, tt-Cyrl, Әхәт (Александр) Хафиз улы Брагин, translit=Äkät (Alexandr) Khafiz uly Bragin; 1953 — 15 October 1995) was a

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businessman of

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descent. He was a mafia figure of the

Donetsk Oblast The Donetsk Oblast ( ukr, Донецька область, Donetska oblast, ), also referred to as Donechchyna ( ukr, Донеччина, links=no), is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 mill ...

and later the president of the football club

Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк , short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, the club was f ...

until his death.

Biography

Akhat Hafizovich Bragin was born in 1953 in the Kuibyshevskyi Raion of

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: Names of European cities in different languages (C–D), cities' alternat ...

city,

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. Before he became the president of

, he was also a

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at a local market in Oktyabrsky Raion.

Education

Donetsk Soviet Trade Institute (today Donetsk National University of Economy and Trade), dropped out.

Convictions

* 24 November 1971 – convicted (the Criminal Code of Ukraine) by the Kuibyshev District Court of Donetsk to a conditional year of imprisonment with correctional term of 2 years without confiscation of property

Personal life

Bragin had a wife and two children.

Assassination and attempts

An attempt to kill Bragin took place on 19 March 1994 at Pisky (Bragin's hometown).

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is a rural settlement of

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, just to the west from the

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. A group of bandits from the Ryabin-Kushnir gang (run by Yevhen Kushnir and Anatoliy Ryabi) opened fire on Bragin's

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while Bragin was visiting his birds. Bragin survived the attempt. Bragin died in a bomb attack on Sunday 15 October 1995 at the Shakhtar Stadium in Donetsk. After this event,

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became president and chairman of Shaktar Donetsk. The reason for Akhat's murder was his business dealings. Known in the criminal underworld as 'Alik the Greek', his organization got into conflicts with several others. The investigation into his death made little progress until the confession of a rival gangster, which led to the arrest and imprisonment of former policeman Vyacheslav Synenko.Kyiv Post - Akhat Bragin
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