The owner of the oil port in Ust-Luga and the owner of many other businesses, Ilya Traber, also known as Antikvar, was detained on June 17 in St. Petersburg. The search was carried out by FSB officers, and a case about his involvement in the murder of deputy Alexander Petrov was opened in the capital’s Investigative Committee. Together with Traber, his partner Vladimir Danilenko was detained. In connection with the same case, searches were carried out in St. Petersburg at the home of Gennady Petrov (he shares the same name with Alexander). Among Traber’s partners, journalists named Nikolai Shamalov, whose son Kirill was married to Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova. The acquaintance of Traber and Putin goes back to the 1990s, when the current president served as vice-mayor of St. Petersburg and supervised the entrepreneur from the city administration. Meduza found out from Dossier Center journalist Denis Korotkov, who worked in St. Petersburg for many years, what you need to know about Traber and why his detention is an extraordinary event.