Nikolay Suleimanov

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Nikolay Suleimanov, known more commonly as "Hoza", was allegedly a leader of the Chechen mafia organization Obshina along with Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev.^[1] In 1986 his group controlled car sales business in the Southern Port of Moscow, and by 1988 the Obshina managed to force some of the top mafia organizations out of Moscow and assume the dominant position.

Later on Hoza was used by the Russian secret services in Chechnya, where he was duped by pro-Russia gangster Ruslan Labazanov and took part in a revolt against former Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudaev. When he figured what he was dragged into, Hoza left Chechnya and was reportedly killed doing his 'business' at the 7th Car Service Station in Moscow, where he was shot by a hired killer on orders from the Russian Mafia shortly before the First Chechen War.^[2]

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