 According to some sources, Umarov's father, Khamad Umarov, was kidnapped back on May 5, 2008, by the Kadyrovite employees of the Oil Regiment ("Neftepolk") headed by Chechnya's First Deputy Prime Minister Adam Delimkhanov.In April 2007 Umarov declared his 74-year-old father was murdered in captivity.His sister Natalia Khumaidova was also abducted in Urus-Martan in August 2005 by "unidentified armed men"; she was released days later after local residents protested for her return.