Raul Yusupov

Raul Yusupov ( Georgian რაულ უსუფოვი / Raul Usupowi; Azerbaijani Raul Yusupov; * 1980 ; † February 3, 2005 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian ministerial employee of Azerbaijani descent. He was implicated in the death of the Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Schwania and died in the same place and at the same time.

Life

Yusupov grew up in the village of Karajala in the Kwemo Kartli region and belonged to the Azerbaijani ethnic group in Georgia. In the Georgian media, he was initially referred to as the deputy governor of the Kwemo Kartli region. After the governor there declared that he did not know anything about an existing or a designated vice-vice-president, it was said that he had been a minor employee in the Georgian State Chancellery, the administrative authority of the Prime Minister.

Yusupov was an active member of the Schwania United Democrats party , which later became part of the National Movement - Democrats party. In autumn 2003 he organized the election campaign of the United Democrats in the Kwemo Kartli region on behalf of the future prime minister .

According to the Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili , Schwania and Yusupov were friends. The night they died, they met in an apartment in Tbilisi at 53A Saburtalo Street. Early in the morning of February 3, Prime Minister's bodyguards found Yusupov dead in the apartment kitchen, while Schwania was sitting dead on an armchair in the living room. Both succumbed to gas poisoning from carbon monoxide . According to the Georgian law enforcement authorities, Yusupov was the tenant of the three-room apartment. His center of life in Tbilisi was another apartment in the suburb of Warketeli.

Yusupov was married and had a daughter.

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• Discussion of the role Yusupovs (English)