Gennady Petrov and Alexander Malyshev. The return of the godfather to retirement. Further activities of the group

The Malyshevskaya organized criminal group was one of the first in Russia to receive its name from the name of the leader, and not according to a geographical basis - the places of the initial formation or birth of the leaders of the group. Alexander Malyshev himself, in his youth, grabbed 2 serious terms for murders - through negligence and deliberate. With such baggage from the past, the failed wrestler could only count on the continuation of his criminal biography. After serving his last term, he took a fancy to the Hay market in Leningrad and began to cheat gullible citizens with a game of thimbles.

In the future, the love of gambling will lead him to the title of "pioneer of the gambling business" of the Northern capital. The market on Sennaya was completely under the control of "", so Malyshev had to be in close contact with the members of this group and obey the rules of the game established by them. Sennaya Square at that time was a favorite place for visiting criminal elements from all over the country. There, the future head of the nominal community met with determined guys from the groups of regional blatoty, who came to look for a place under the sun in a giant metropolis.

People from Severodvinsk, Perm, Kazan, Vorkuta, Ulan-Ude, Voronezh Saransk, people from Chechnya, having met an experienced criminal who knows the situation in the city well, were forced to recognize his supremacy over themselves. At first, Alexander Malyshev proved to be an excellent organizer and diplomat. Having created his own, rather impressive army, for some time he peacefully existed with the leaders of the Tambov organized criminal group. But divorce was inevitable. It happened in 1989 "in Russian", bloody. Both groups gathered in the Devyatkino area and, after a short, useless dialogue, they unanimously took up arms. After the incident, there was a long period of hostility and fierce competition.

In the Malyshevskaya organized crime group, a certain triumvirate in management, uncharacteristic for other criminal formations, was established. Leader Alexander Malyshev took upon himself the solution of all issues by force. "Guys from the street", as he himself called them, intimidated, beaten, kidnapped, tortured, sometimes killed their victims. The headquarters of the community on Krestovsky Island was guarded around the clock by armed guards using automatic weapons. Mobile detachments cruised around the city guarding control points and collecting taxes. At the time of its heyday, the Malyshevskaya organized criminal group was just right to be called a regiment. Its membership reached 2000 people.

Malyshevskaya organized crime group goes into business

The second most important leader in the organization was Gennady Petrov. In the future, he will even displace the founder of the community from the first place. His area of ​​responsibility is contacts with government agencies, law enforcement officers, and businessmen. The Malyshevites quickly learned that a well-functioning business could legitimately generate more revenue than racketeering.

Vladimir Barsukov (Coumarin)

To do this, it is necessary to create greenhouse conditions for it, simultaneously crushing its competitors in a legal way. It was these questions that Petrov dealt with and quite successfully. Having connections in the tax department, he easily liquidated the Nevskaya Melodiya casino, which belonged to the leader of the Tambovskaya gang. The tax authorities slightly changed the terms of the contract between the mayor's office and the owners, after which the gambling establishment soon died down. The third leader of the group, Sergei Kuzmin, served as an expert in economics. The calculator in his head instantly calculated the amount of investment needed and the possible income from the ongoing project, as well as ways to improve efficiency. His word in these matters was final and never questioned.

Alexander Malyshev (right) and Gennady Petrov during their youth in St. Petersburg (1992)

Such a flexible joint policy of the leaders allowed the Malyshevskaya organized crime group to oust numerous competitors for some time and protect itself from the servants of the law. After a memorable divorce case, the leaders of the community were only once briefly arrested on charges of banditry, but they were soon released and continued their work with redoubled energy. Malyshev himself became more respectable and much more cautious, acquired the positions of head of Nelli-Druzhba LLP and the Tatti company, began to pay more attention to laundering criminal money in Cypriot banks and re-injecting them into some St. Petersburg credit institutions. His empire included hotels, restaurants, cafes, saunas, non-ferrous metal buying points. Alexander Malyshev outwardly gradually transformed into a successful businessman.

Association with the Yakuza

The time of the 90s was stormy, revolutionary. The country and customs were changing before our very eyes. In 1991, gambling business was officially allowed in St. Petersburg. Malyshev remembered the size of his income from an ordinary thimble and realized that slot machines and casinos could become his Eldorado and Klondike combined. The Petrodin joint venture was immediately organized, in which 35% of the shares belonged to the Swedish company Dyna AB, and the rest of the Russian company BHM, wholly owned by Gennady Petrov and Sergey Kuzmin.

With their own money, they attracted the Austrian company Novomatic, a recognized world leader in the development of the business of selling slot machines, to develop the project. Not limited to gambling, having received the first profits, the Petrodin joint venture became one of the owners of the large domestic bank Rossiya and the founders of the Association of the White Nights of St. Petersburg festival, the main character of which was the famous showman Vladimir Kisilev, subsequently taught Vladimir Putin to play the piano and introduced the latter to Gerard Depardieu.

It should be noted here that the Swedish Dyna AB was the European branch of the Japanese company Dyna CO Ltd from Osaka. The owner of the Swedish branch of the Asian gambling industry giant was Kinichi Kamiyasu. It is through this person that the Malyshevskaya OPG is the first of the domestic criminal groups to come into contact with the large international criminal structure Yakuza ().

It is worth bearing in mind the difference in the European and Asian mentality. In Japan, members of the Yakuza do not hide their affiliation at all. In the eyes of the Japanese, the members of the organization are part of a patriarchal brotherhood with a strict hierarchy. It operates quite officially and occupies certain niches in the Japanese economy. These areas include gambling, cinemas, entertainment venues. The yakuza have traditionally patronized the national sumo wrestling federation. The reverse side of the activities of samurai bandits is brothels, brothels, the production and distribution of pornography.

Kazinov St. Petersburg

Kinichi Kamiyasu's father was a real Yakuza, and his son is an excellent programmer, under his patronage he found a place for himself in a business controlled by the Japanese mafia. He participated in the creation of the famous program for "one-armed bandits" Cherry Master. Living in Stockholm, close to St. Petersburg, Kinichi Kamiyasu quickly learned from his colleagues that there were huge opportunities for his business in Russia. The first step of the Japanese was a contract for the supply of three hundred slot machines with a cash prize, which were placed at St. Petersburg metro stations and shopping centers. It was then that he received a new, even more profitable offer from the "Malyshevites" - to open a casino in the city.

They turned out to be truly business people who instantly solved all the intricate organizational problems in an environment of complete Russian anarchy. The management company "Neva-Chance" was quickly born, the legal address of which coincided with the address of the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office. At that time, the future President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin worked in this institution, who, by order of Mayor Sobchak, headed a special supervisory committee for city casinos. In May 1992, the first gambling establishment in the city, Neva Casino, was opened with pomp, which subsequently changed its name to Laguna and Admiral Club.

Between the “Malyshevskys” and their partner Kinichi Kamayasu, not just business, but real friendly ties were quickly established. During the days of his stay in St. Petersburg, the Japanese invariably stayed under reliable guard at the headquarters of the group on Krestovsky Island. Friends even armed the foreigner with a revolver just in case. The times were very turbulent. A Japanese businessman witnessed a raid on the Malyshevskaya OPG by a large group of indignant gypsies. The case almost ended in shooting in the very center of the city.

Alexander Malyshev and Gennady Petrov

Gennady Petrov took the official position of the representative of Dyna AB in St. Petersburg. In turn, Kinichi Kamayasu sent letters of recommendation to the Internal Affairs Directorate necessary to release the leaders of the group on bail from arrest. The "Malyshevites" were delighted with the visit to St. Petersburg of the brother of Chief Kinichi from Osaka, Iida Misamichi. This character was a real Yakuza with all the necessary attributes - and a lifestyle. Domestic bandits met him with bread and salt, gave him a tour of the city, spoke in detail about their business and arranged a chic banquet in his honor. The Yakuza were stunned by the group's arsenal and their freedom of action. Probably, if Mayor Sobchak wanted to open legal brothels in St. Petersburg and issue an order to oversee the process to the future president, the Japanese experience and Russian breakthrough ingenuity of the “Malyshevites” would have performed another miracle.

The pressure of the former security forces

But the cloudless time quickly ended. A new generation of competitors, mostly former KGB officers, who remained out of work as a result of staff cuts, raised their heads. Angry at the whole world, the former Chekists made active attempts to seize the building on the Birch Alley of Krestovsky Island. The mid-90s was the time of the decline of the community. They began to gain momentum "Tambov" and in the end they took revenge for past grievances.

All the leaders, after the lawsuit on illegal wearing, left Russia together, and the remaining members scattered around different teams. Kinichi Kamayasu received a lucrative offer from the leader of the Tambovskaya gang, Vladimir Kumarin, and subsequently refocused his business. Alexander Malyshev, Gennady Petrov and Sergey Kuzmin have chosen Spain as their new place of residence.

Gennady Petrov during the "Spanish" arrest

At the new location, Malyshev organized the Hisparus company to cover, but did not abandon it. In the Pyrenees, money laundering, arms trafficking, contract killings, forgery of documents, cobalt and tobacco smuggling are listed behind it. In Spain, he changed his surname to Gonzales, tying the knot with a Hispanic woman. The patience of the Spaniards ran out in 2008, All the Spanish "babies" were arrested overnight. Only Sergei Kuzmin managed to escape. He literally disappeared without a trace, but his wife was under pressure from the investigation on a huge bunch of charges. The investigation has acquired a scandalous international character. Meticulous Spaniards tried to get to the bottom of the ore. Thus, episodes appeared in the case about an incomprehensible regime for them to favor the business of criminal authorities at the time of work in the mayor's office of Vladimir Putin and much more, which served as a reason to declare Russia as a state completely riddled with corruption.

Biography:

Born September 9, 1958 in Leningrad. He arrived in St. Petersburg from places of deprivation of liberty in 1995.

Previously engaged in wrestling, but did not achieve much success. He has many acquaintances among athletes. After two terms of imprisonment in 1977 (premeditated murder) and in 1984 (careless murder) he was a "thimblemaker" at the Hay Market, worked under the cover of the Kumarin group and had the nickname "Baby". He put together his own group in the late 80s, uniting under his leadership the "Tambovites", "Kolesnikovites", "Kemerovo", "Komarovtsy", "Perm", "Kudryashov", "Kazan", "Tarasov", "Severodvinsk" , "Saranians", "Efimovites", "Voronezh", "Azerbaijanis", "Krasnoyarsk", "Chechens", "Dagestanis", "Krasnoseltsev", "Vorkuta" and bandits from Ulan-Ude. Each group consisted of 50 to 250 people. The total number of the group is about 2,000 militants.

He was the manager of Nelli-Druzhba LLP and the founder of the Tatti company, which owns a network of commercial stores.

After a showdown with the Tambovites, he fled to Sweden, from where he spread rumors about his death in a shootout. He returned after the failure of the trials of his colleagues. In October 1992, Malyshev and 18 of his closest connections were arrested during the implementation of the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the case of businessman Dadonov. On August 25, 1993, the closest associates of Malyshev: Kirpichev, Berlin, Petrov were released on bail. The Association of Boxers of St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation of French Boxing, the Tonus cooperative and the administration of the prison where he was kept petitioned for the release of another colleague, Rashid Rakhmatulin. Rashid was released, and the supervising prosecutor V. Osipkin, who opposed this, was soon dismissed from the prosecutor's office.

The trial of Malyshev ended in 1995, he was sentenced for illegal possession and possession of weapons to 2.5 years of general regime, but since he spent 2 years and 11 months in the SIZO, he was released.
Source: Kompromat.Ru, 1996

Alexander Malyshev moved to Spanish Malaga at the very beginning of the 2000s together with Olga Solovieva. In essence, Malyshev fled from Russia. It happened back in the spring of 1998 - after a series of failed assassination attempts on him. In the same year, he managed to obtain Estonian citizenship. When it turned out that during the paperwork, Alexander Ivanovich presented a fake birth certificate, the Estonian authorities imprisoned the newly-made citizen for a whole month. Of course, this was far from Malyshev's first walker - he had previously been under arrest on charges of premeditated murder, banditry and illegal possession of weapons.

After his release, Malyshev hastily left Estonia and took refuge in Spain. Here he appeared already as Alexander Langas Gonzalez, marrying a Hispanic woman and taking her last name.

For the period approximately 2001-2008, according to the Spanish police, the volume of laundered money amounted to more than 10 million euros.

In 2002, Malyshev was detained in Germany on suspicion of forging documents to obtain Estonian citizenship.

At the moment, with Gennady Petrov and Sergey Kuzmin, Malyshev shares the highest place in the hierarchy of the criminal group they created.
Source: Novaya Gazeta No. 50 dated 07/16/2008

Dossier:

In the mid-90s, Alexander Malyshev was seen by journalists like this.

Malyshevskaya OCG is the most numerous, but less organized criminal community. He has mafia connections in the middle management of the city. It includes a large number of criminal elements. Dangerous in physical collision. The main goal is large commercial structures (including banks). One of the methods is to get your people to work in structures and firms of interest, to acquire a controlling stake, to train your own economic personnel in the official educational institutions of the city.

Spheres of influence: Krasnoselsky, Kirovsky and Moskovsky, part of the Central and Kalininsky districts of St. Petersburg.

hotels: "Oktyabrskaya", "Okhtinskaya", "Pribaltiyskaya",

restaurants: "Polyarny", "Universal", "Petrobir"

markets: automotive in the Frunzensky district, on the street. Marshal Kazakov and allegedly took control of the Nekrasovsky market.

Trade in antiques. Gambling business. Particularly controls Nevsky Prospekt.

Malyshev's residence was located in the Pulkovskaya Hotel, there was an office on Berezovaya Alley (Kamenny Ostrov), where he received businessmen and, in particular, met with Oleg Golovin, chairman of the board of Petrovsky Bank. The mediator in the negotiations was a citizen of Cyprus Getelson.

He maintained contacts with Moscow through the leader of the "winged" group Oleg Romanov (killed in autumn 1994). He created a number of bandit firms: calling prostitutes at home, cafes, saunas, buying up non-ferrous metals, etc.

I used Caucasians to work on knocking out debts. He transferred money to financial institutions (banks) of Cyprus, with their help he achieved influence on the largest banks in St. Petersburg. With the money of Malyshev, the Kiselev Music Center was created, the holidays "Vivat St. Petersburg!" and White Nights of Rock 'n' Roll. Organized the underground production of small-caliber revolvers. At the meeting in 1993, he secured the drug trade, leaving the "Azerbaijanis" only the sale of agricultural products.

After the arrest of Malshev, Moscow thieves in law tried to get their hands on St. Petersburg crime. Andrey Berzin (Trouble) who spoke against this in March 1993 at the Moscow-Petersburg gangway was killed. In the same year, there were attempts on almost all prominent St. Petersburg bandits.

Despite the fact that Malyshev was in prison for a long time, his authority still remained high. Through his lawyers, he continued to manage cases. Its structure by 1995 consisted of 350-400 fighters.
Source: Kompromat.ru, 1996

On June 13, 2008, Alexander Malyshev was arrested in Spain as part of the high-profile Troika operation. Some time after the high-profile arrests, journalists were able to understand in general terms the essence of the offenses accused of Russian gangsters in Spain. Firstly, a list of detainees was published on June 13, 2008 in different cities of Spain:
- Gennady Petrov;
- Yuri Salikov (Petrov's longtime companion);
- Yulia Ermolenko (Petrov's legal adviser);
- Leonid Khristoforov (Petrov's right hand);
- Alexander Malyshev, aka Alexander Lagnas Gonzalez;
- Svetlana Kuzmina (wife of Sergei Kuzmin, old comrade Petrov);
- Leonid Khazin;
- Olga Solovieva (civil wife of Malyshev);
- Ildar Mustafin (accomplice of Malyshev in the early 90s);
- Juan Antonio Felix (Spanish lawyer);
- Ignacio Pedro (Spanish lawyer);
- Julian Perez (Spanish lawyer);
- Zhanna Gavrilenkova (wife of Viktor Gavrilenkov - Stepanych Jr.);
- Vitaly Izgilov (Moscow thief in law, nicknamed Vitalik the Beast);
- Vadim Romanyuk.

It was in this sequence that their names appeared in the official papers of the Spanish justice. Of those listed, only Zhanna Gavrilenkova and Leonid Khazin were released by the court on bail of 100,000 euros and 6,000 euros, respectively. The remaining thirteen were arrested.

According to journalistic sources, development began several years ago. Since the autumn of 2007, the Spanish police have been actively listening to the mobile phones of the arrested, conducting secret surveillance of them, and recording the arrivals of guests. As part of the international cooperation program, investigators received information from Greece, Germany and Russia.

The press drew attention to the fact that even in the general, descriptive part of the charge, the documents contain accurate data on the past convictions of Petrov, Malyshev, Khristoforov, Kuzmin and Mustafin. Moreover, the Spanish Themis knows which of them and when went through the same criminal cases together and how they met decades ago.

Further, the documents contain information about the hierarchy in the world of the "Russian mafia". According to officials of the Ministry of Justice, after the arrest of Vladimir Kumarin in 2007, Gennady Petrov became the most influential figure. This was due to the huge amount of money he accumulated and his connections with high-profile people from 1996 to 2008. The Spaniards are convinced that Petrov's relationship with Malyshev was not excessively close. Nevertheless, it is Alexander Malyshev who can be called the boss. So, according to one of the reports, “Malyshev depended on Petrov financially, and Petrov on Malyshev - historically. Only Malyshev had the opportunity to order and act by force.

Next to Gennady Petrov, the Spaniards put the figures of Yuri Salikov and Sergei Kuzmin. Yulia Ermolenko is considered to be Petrov's trusted legal adviser. Leonid Khristoforov is also present in the scheme, as a person especially responsible for the security of Petrov's business in Russia.

And in the immediate vicinity of Malyshev, according to the calculations of the Spaniards, is Ildar Mustafin. His area of ​​responsibility is similar to that of Christopher. Alexander Malyshev's personal clerk is called his common-law wife, Olga Solovieva.

Victor Gavrilenkov and his wife Jeanne settled near the Malyshev-Petrov connection. It is thanks to Gavrilenkov that the Spaniards add the brand "Tambov" to the adjective "Malyshevskoe". Indeed, Viktor Gavrilenkov is the brother of Nikolai Gavrilenkov, nicknamed Stepanych, who was killed in St. Petersburg in 1995.

At one time, they peacefully coexisted in the same brigade with Vladimir Kumarin, until nine bullets hit Kumarin in 1994. Kumarin never concealed his certainty that it was the Stepanychis who made the decision to liquidate him. After the assassination attempt, which cost Kumarin his hand, it so happened that Gavrilenkov Sr. was buried in the Kiev-Pechora Lavra, and the younger was shot from machine guns at the Nevsky Palace Hotel in 1996.

Victor Gavrilenkov appeared in St. Petersburg only after the arrest of Vladimir Kumarin - 12 years later.

In connection with the interest in the history of the origin of private property and Russian capital in the provinces of Malaga, Valencia and the Balearic Islands, journalists mentioned Vitaly Izgilov, a Moscow thief in law nicknamed Vitalik the Beast. They did not support the opinion that Izgilov was closely connected with the federal thief in law Shakro-young, who had settled there. They referred to the recordings of Izgilov's telephone conversations legalized in court. According to Spanish law enforcement officers, many films reflect the stereotype of the behavior of Russian gangsters in Spain.

Although the main focus of the charges still concerns tax crimes, nevertheless, all those arrested are charged with two unifying articles of the Spanish Criminal Code - 517th, part 1, 517th, parts 1, 2. They relate to the organization of a criminal community.

The following are accusations under articles: 301 - legalization of proceeds from crime; 390 and 392 - falsification of financial and other documents; 305 - tax crimes against public property; 251 - forged contracts.

An analysis carried out by law enforcement agencies suggests that since the mid-1990s, in Spain, the defendants have created several closed joint-stock companies, which received huge funds from the offshores of Cyprus, Panama and the Virgin Islands. In turn, these ZAOs, through their subsidiaries specializing in real estate transactions, laundered money by buying up land and mansions in Spain. The Spanish side directly names two main structures involved in illegal transactions: Inmobiliara Calvia 2001 and Inmobiliara Balear 2001.

In addition to accusations of non-payment of taxes on tens of millions of euros, the Spaniards consider all real estate transactions of these companies illegal and are confident that they will be able to confiscate assets worth 30 million euros. In the meantime, the assets of the detainees and their accounts have been seized. According to the materials of the criminal cases initiated against our "authoritative" fellow countrymen, there are many Russians who the Spanish royal prosecutor's office could not take by surprise.

The prosecutor's office believes that in addition to Mikhail Rebo, the financial brain of the "Tambov-Malyshevsky" arrested by the German police in Berlin, the following may be involved in fraud:

Sergei Kuzmin (Petrov's partner);
Salikov's wife Marlena Barbara Salikova (Polish by nationality);
Ruslan Tarkovsky (Mustafin's partner);
Suren Zotov (a major businessman from Russia);
the Botishev family (Sergey, wife Nina, daughter Anna), who own five offshore companies in Cyprus;
Tatyana Solovieva (mother of Solovieva) and Irina Usova (sister of Solovieva),
Dordibai Khalimov;
Boris Pevzner.

Also, the court of Spain has frozen 25 million euros received on the accounts of companies controlled by the accused, from banks in Russia, Panama, the Cayman Islands, the USA, Latvia, Switzerland and the UK.

But the core of the accusations are the materials received from the Spanish tax police.

For example, on May 30, 2005, CJSC Internasion, owned by Gennady Petrov, purchased the SASHA yacht for 3.5 million euros, but did not pay VAT. That is, she hid from paying 530 thousand euros. And on June 22, 2005, Gennady Petrov donated seven large land plots in favor of CJSC Inmobiliara and in return received 4,000,000 shares at a price of 1 euro per share. For which he did not pay taxes.

And there are hundreds of such examples.

The Spanish government is convinced that it understands how money from offshores was legalized through a ZAO. After that, they bought real estate in Spain and Germany. It is not yet clear where the money came from offshore. And whose money was it?

Help. Articles of the Criminal Code of Spain imputed to members of the "Tambov-Malyshevsky" community: 515, 517 - creation of illegal (criminal) associations - up to 12 years in prison;
390, 392 - forgery of an official or commercial document - up to three years in prison;
305 - causing damage to the state treasury of Spain - up to six years in prison;
301 - acquisition of property knowingly obtained by criminal means - up to two years in prison;
251 - assignment of false rights to property - up to four years in prison.

It must be taken into account that, in accordance with Spanish law, punishments under certain articles can be summed up when sentencing.

The structure of the underworld

In recent years, the contradictions of the thieves and gangster castes of the underworld of Russia have been increasingly traced, this is especially clearly seen in large cities. Today, thieves in law and bandits are increasingly able to use each other in the dark, temporarily cooperate. But nevertheless, these are two ideologically different systems. The hostility between these systems of the underworld is evidenced by a series of murders on both sides that have taken place since 1990. So in Moscow were killed: Vitya-Kalina, Globus, Hitler, Sylvester, Mikhas, Babon, the Kvantrishvili brothers, Fedya Beshenny, Kolya-Karate, Andzhey, Zvonnik, Andrey Berezin, Klementy, Kuvalda, Lobov. Miraculously, Kostya-Mogila, Misha Khokhol, Broiler, Sergey Vasiliev, Vladimir Kumarin survived.

Thieves in law

This is a purely Russian concept. There is nothing like it in the West.
A thief in law is a professional criminal who keeps the traditions of the underworld. He should not work, serve in the army, have a residence permit and a family, resort to violence without extreme necessity.
The assignment of the title of thief in law takes place at gatherings, usually places of detention, after collecting information about the candidate from colleagues in the craft.
Since the mid-80s, the title of thief in law has become possible to buy. Shopping was done mainly by Caucasians. Such newly-minted thieves are called oranges. This was a very profitable acquisition, because the title of thief in law allows you to be an arbitrator in disputes between criminal gangs, and arbitration is well paid, and guarantees security in places of detention. Often, thieves in law are invited to criminal groups to give them weight, or even to legal structures. Such an orange was the famous Viktor Nikiforov (aka Kalina), a close friend of Joseph Kobzon. Kalina constantly violated the laws of thieves, was engaged in commerce, owned a chain of restaurants in Moscow, opened the Aist restaurant, controlled Mayak Beach in Sochi, shared interests with Malyshev in the Pulkovskaya Hotel, and influenced the policy of the Russian fur company. Perhaps he was killed due to close contacts with the Caucasians (his personal friend was Razik Baghdasaryan, aka Svo).
In St. Petersburg, thieves in law have never had such influence as in Moscow, giving primacy to bandits. In St. Petersburg, by the end of 1995, there were only 11 thieves in law, while in Moscow there were more than 100.
The traditional place for thieves' gangs is Dagomys (Sochi), but they can also be appointed in the city where the problem arose. Skhodnyaks usually take place in restaurants under the guise of weddings or commemorations. In St. Petersburg, the place of thieves' gangways is the Nevsky restaurant (Nevsky pr. 71). The obshchak (thieves' fund for mutual assistance) is common for both capitals. There is information that the all-Russian common fund is located in Moscow. The exact number of thieves in law is not known. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the territory of the former USSR, there are now about 920 thieves in law and the authorities of the underworld. There are more than 300 of them in Russia, but this number is also changing and tending to grow. In the metropolitan area, 106 thieves in law live permanently in an illegal or semi-legal position.
According to experts, the confrontation between thieves in law and bandits will continue for another 3-5 years. During this period between them there will be a final division of spheres of influence.

Bandits

The first stable criminal group in St. Petersburg was the group of Vladimir Feoktistov, formed in the mid-70s, whose right hand was the former inspector of the criminal investigation department Evgeny Tsvetkov (aka Byk). The group did not have a clear organization and strict discipline.
It should be noted that today the adopted son of Tsvetkov - Dubrovsky, together with Feoktistov's relative - Ivan Kaplanyan, are not the last figures in the underworld, they have their own office in the Pulkovskaya hotel. Feoktistov's group robbed dishonest bartenders and prostitutes, and engaged in card fraud.
The second wave of the emergence of organized crime in St. Petersburg was the emergence of criminal groups of Afghans. The former military men were resolute and cruel, often using torture on their victims. They robbed speculators, cooperators, currency traders, prostitutes. Intelligence of the Afghans did not work well, and poor people were often the objects of raids. They rarely used firearms, cultivating the art of hand-to-hand combat.
By 1987, the leading position in the city was taken by the group of Nikolai Sedyuk (aka Kolya-Karate) and his brother named Makenna. There were over 100 people in the gang. Base sports club Ring. Prominent members of the group: Oleg Miftakhutdinov-Miketadze, Goga Gevoryan (aka Maxi Schwarzenegger) Arkady Shalolashvili (actor of the Maly Drama Theater).
The group was supervised by the thief in law Antibiotic (suddenly died immediately after the arrest of Sediuk). Sediuk was paid tribute by the gang of the Vasiliev brothers.
Sedyuk was killed in 1993 on Entuziastov Avenue, although he was supposed to be in the settlement. Athletes (bandits who start with racketeering) do not recognize the authority of thieves and do not make deductions to the common fund. However, the bandits are afraid of thieves due to the fact that in the zones the authority of thieves is still very high. It is known that the leader of the Tambovites, Kumarin, has a negative attitude towards thieves, but another leader of the same group, Mikhail Glushchenko (aka Khokhol), was advised by the thief in law Gorbaty. Today Khokhol is the official assistant to the State Duma deputy from the Zhirinovsky faction - Alexander Filatov. Another assistant to this deputy is Alexander Zhanovich Baskakov, one of the leaders of the Tambov people. The third assistant - Andrey Alekseevich Rybkin - is one of the Rybkin brothers known in gangster circles.

Today, by mutual agreement of the bandit and thieves' authorities, in St. Petersburg the bandit Kudryashov Pavel (aka Kudryash) has been appointed as the overseer, and the bandit Yakovlev Konstantin Kostya-Mogila has been appointed his deputy. And this is despite the fact that such well-known authoritative thieves in law as Dato, Metla, Yakutenok and Vasya Kazansky operate in the city.
Great is the influence in the criminal world of the city of the so-called cop gangs, led by former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These gangs stand apart and defend their right to exist by force, preferring to legalize them in the form of security structures, these include the security companies Grif, Agent.
Under the strong influence of thieves is the Kazan group, which regularly makes contributions to the obshchak. Kazanians were among the first to appreciate the advantage of the thieves' tactics of individual terror over the general gangster showdown. Surveillance methods, industrial espionage and the quiet elimination of competitors are much better mastered by thieves than by bandits, despite the extensive experience of many of them in the police. The low professionalism of the bandits is a constant object of ridicule from the thieves.
According to available information, about 230 organized criminal groups are currently operating in St. Petersburg, uniting at least 3,000 people. Of these, 33 have stable ties with criminal clans from other CIS countries, 19 have direct contacts with far foreign countries. In the 5 largest groups - one and a half thousand people.

The structure of the criminal community

The criminal community is the level at which organized crime can infiltrate the legitimate part of society. Syndicate gang leaders share information and contacts in order to be able to make strategic decisions. Therefore, in communities there are: intelligence, information processing and agents working directly at the highest level.
At the gang level, each leader has his own intelligence and security to ensure his personal safety, but they can also be involved in special operations. The lowest level from which there is an overview of the organization as a whole is the leader of the link, a person who can have from five to ten fighters (team) under his command. There are 2-5 brigades in a link, a group - 2-5 links, a grouping - 2-4 groups, a community - 5 or more groups.

An approximate scheme of the activities of an organized criminal group

Each gangster structure is interested in constantly increasing its income, for which it is looking for ways to expand its sphere of influence. For this, the so-called. punches, the meaning of which is to get a new company. Simplified punching looks like this: the bandits enter the newly opened enterprise and politely ask the owner who he pays and who guards him. If the latter does not pay anyone, those who came will guard him, and, naturally, he will pay them. Penetrations can be with and without collision. Hitting is a way of psychological and sometimes physical pressure on a businessman, mainly to stimulate his sincerity and demoralization. In some cases, when the enterprise is already under some gang, punching ends with shooters - meetings of representatives of various gangs. Most arrows are peaceful and fleeting, but there are also conflict ones. Such an arrow can end in a disassembly - a power conflict or become the beginning of a protracted war. The roof is the provision of the most favored nation treatment, when the bandits control deliveries, contracts, compliance with obligations by counterparties, break through loans, sometimes provide them themselves, find customers, etc. Naturally, such roofs make up to 50-70% of the company's monthly profit.
Gang protectorate - the most common form of pressure on the company. The supervising gang leaves several of its people in the office of the company, for a fee, acting watchmen and telephone numbers for communication. In this case, the bandits do not protect the interests of the company and its employees. The cost of the protectorate is 20-40% of the firm's income.

Some aspects of the criminal situation in St. Petersburg

The operational situation in St. Petersburg and the region is characterized as extremely difficult. In the total number of crimes, the share of attacks on the property rights of citizens and organizations has increased. The number of premeditated murders has increased, including with the use of technical means and explosives. For 8 months of this year, 61,862 crimes were registered in St. Petersburg.
The most dangerous in terms of crime are the districts of the central part of the city - Central, Admiralteisky and Petrogradsky. Following them: Moskovsky, Kalinniki and Nevsky districts.
In all these areas, the crime rate is significantly higher than the citywide. In Vyborgsky, Vasileostrovsky and Kirovsky districts, the level of criminal danger is close to the citywide.
The level of crime is somewhat lower in Krasnoselsky, Primorsky, Krasnogvardeisky and Frunzensky districts.
Without a doubt, these statistics can be considered with a certain degree of conventionality, but without a doubt, the lion's share of all crimes should be attributed to clarifying the relationship between various criminal groups, as well as the result of their criminal activities.
Today in St. Petersburg there are no clearly defined boundaries between the spheres of influence of various organized criminal groups, as well as more or less stable geographical boundaries. On the same street there may be shops and offices that pay tribute to different gangs, including conflicting ones. Nevertheless, the most significant in terms of numbers, organization and influence on the criminogenic situation can be identified five main groups: Malyshevskaya, Tambovskaya, Kazanskaya, Chechenskaya and Azerbaijanskaya, followed by thieves and other independent groups (Vorkuta, Kemerovo, Saratov,
Rostovskaya, Taras Group, Fox Group, Vitalik Lysyi Group, Sasha Yefim Group, Leningrad Region Group, Killer Group, Azera Group, Ilyin Group, thieves' groups of Dato, Metla, Kudryash (see Appendix 5).

1. Malyshevskaya OPG

The most numerous, but less organized criminal community. He has mafia connections in the middle management of the city. It includes a large number of criminal elements.
Dangerous in physical collision. The main goal is large commercial structures (including banks). One of the methods is to get your people to work in structures and firms of interest, to acquire a controlling stake, to train your own economic personnel in the official educational institutions of the city.
Spheres of influence: Krasnoselsky, Kirovsky and Moskovsky, part of the Central and Kalininsky regions.
Hotels: Oktyabrskaya, Okhtinskaya, Pribaltiyskaya.
Restaurants: Polyarny, Universal Petrobir.
Markets: automotive in the Frunzensky district, on the street. Marshal Kazakov and allegedly takes control of the Nekrasovsky market.
Trade in antiques. Gambling business. Particularly controls Nevsky Prospekt.

Management:
Malyshev Alexander Ivanovich, born in 1958.
Previously engaged in wrestling, but did not achieve much success. He has many acquaintances among athletes. After two terms of imprisonment in 1997 (premeditated murder) and in 1984 (careless murder) he was a thimble-handler at the Hay Market, worked under the guise of the Kumarin group and had the nickname Malysh. Contrary to rumors, he was never a thief in law. He put together his own group in the late 80s, uniting Tambov, Kolesnikov, Kemerovo, Komarov, Perm, Kudryashov, Kazan, Taras, Severodvinsk, Saransk, Efimov, Voronezh, Azerbaijanis, Krasnoyarsk, Chechens, Dagestanis, Krasnoseltsevs under his leadership , Vorkuta and bandits from Ulan-Ude. In each group there was
50 to 250 people. The total number of the group is about 2,000 militants.
Malyshev's residence was located in the Pulkovskaya Hotel, there was an office on Berezovaya Alley (Kamenny Ostrov), where he received businessmen and, in particular, met with the chairman of the board of the bank, Petrovsky O.V. Golovin. The mediator in the negotiations was a citizen of Cyprus Getelson.
He maintained contacts with Moscow through the leader of the Krylatskaya group Oleg Romanov (killed in the fall of 1994). He created a number of bandit firms: calling prostitutes at home, cafes, saunas, buying up non-ferrous metals, etc. He is the manager of Nelli-Druzhba LLP and the founder of the Tatti company, which owns a network of commercial stores. I used Caucasians to work on knocking out debts. He transferred money to financial institutions (banks) of Cyprus, with their help he achieved influence on the largest banks in St. Petersburg. With Malyshev's money, the Kiselev Musical Center was created, Vivat St. Petersburg holidays were held! and White Nights of Rock and Roll. Organized the underground production of small-caliber revolvers. In 1993, he secured the drug trade for himself, leaving the Azerbaijanis only the sale of agricultural products.
After a showdown with the Tambovites, he fled to Sweden, from where he spread rumors about his death in a shootout. He returned after the failure of the trials of his colleagues. In October 1992, Malyshev and 18 of his closest connections were arrested during the implementation of the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and in the case of businessman Dadonov. On August 25, 1993, Malyshev's closest associates were released on bail: Kirpichev, Berlin, Petrov. For the release of another colleague - Rashid Rakhmatulin, the Association of Boxers of St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation of French Boxing, the Tonus cooperative and the administration of the prison where he was kept petitioned. Rashid was released, and the supervising prosecutor V. Osipkin, who opposed this, was soon dismissed from the prosecutor's office.
After the arrest of Malyshev, Moscow thieves in law tried to get their hands on St. Petersburg crime. Presented in March 1993
against this, Andrey Berzin (Trouble) was killed on the Moscow-Petersburg gangway. In the same year, there were attempts on almost all prominent St. Petersburg bandits.
The trial of Malyshev ended in 1995, he was sentenced for illegal possession and possession of weapons to 2.5 years of general regime, but since he spent 2 years and 11 months in a pre-trial detention center, he was released.
Despite the fact that Malyshev was in prison for a long time, his authority still remained high. Through his lawyers, he continued to manage cases. Its structure by 1995 consisted of 350-400 fighters.

Berlin Andrew born 1953
Businessman, mathematician, was a student - correspondence student and Komsomol activist. He started out in business making fake branded jeans. In 1974, he was charged with burglary. Played out schizophrenia, spent more than 13 years in a psychiatric hospital, where he studied Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Finnish, and Swedish. In the late 80s. entered the computer business. Arrested in 1992 in the case of businessman Dadonov. On August 25, 1993, he was released due to insufficient evidence. In early February 1994, he was kidnapped and beaten by a rival gang. Released by police. Now the president of KF Inex-Limited.

The leadership of the Malyshev group, in addition to those mentioned, includes:
Belobzhevsky Sergey.
Kirpichev Vladislav.
Petrov Gennady.
Severtsev.

The leaders of the criminal groups included in the Malyshev group are:
Ledovskikh Valery.
The group works on gas stations and gasoline transportation. It has its own surveillance unit.

Miskarev Sergey(Broiler 1)
The group was recruited by him in the colony-settlement, controls the Oktyabrskaya hotel, pogroms were staged in the markets by Lunev's closest assistant, Sergey Musin. The group consists of about 50 people. Controls the Krasnoselsky district. Musin has access to the deputy. early 8th police department named Tofig.

Zharikov Stanislav(Stas Fried).
The group is engaged in receiving money from call girls; controls the Kirovsky district.

Trinity
The group carries out outdoor surveillance and radio interception.

Pankratov
The group controls the Okhtinskaya hotel.

Komarov Yuri (Komar)
Former cook, boxer, who became in the zone, where he got for beating with authority. He built a new restaurant Gloria, invested in sports complexes, allegedly according to rumors, refuses to deal with drugs and has a very bad attitude towards making money from prostitution. The group controls Zelenogorsk, Sestroretsk, camping, recreation centers, foreign tourism. Almost always was in Zelenogorsk or Komarovo.
He had connections with major police authorities in the city of Zelenogorsk, the son of one of them worked for him.
According to unverified information, representatives of the Transcaucasian criminal structures killed several of Komar's bodyguards in the summer of 1995, he himself disappeared and, according to rumors, is hiding either in Germany or in Thailand.
Until recently, Komarov managed to keep in his possessions the newcomers from Tambov, Kazan, and others. But after the death of the arbitrator of the community, Bondarenko Svinar, control in this area passes to the Chechens.

Ghaplanyan
Controlling the drug business.

Sasha Matros
Controls trucking, has a surveillance service.

Shark
The group controls the Avtovo district.

Bug
The group controls the Krasnoye Selo area.

2. Tambov organized crime group

The second largest and most organized gangster group in St. Petersburg, has about 300-400 fighters. It has a service of external surveillance and radiotelephone control. Maintains contacts with security firms Tornado and COM-CON. According to some reports, he has an agent network among the employees of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.
The grouping is disciplined, has a common fund, where all persons related to it must contribute a share, and at a strictly defined time. It is characterized by a constant struggle for spheres of influence, an example of which is a public showdown for the right to primacy in the city with the Malyshevites in 1989 in Devyatkino, when the conflicting parties used weapons against each other, including automatic weapons. After that, 72 Tambovites were brought to justice, but the group managed to avoid much damage due to the abundance of informers in the police environment. The arrested Tambov residents were charged with arbitrariness, robbery and hooliganism. Before the final session of the court, the prosecutor was severely wounded as a result of the assassination attempt. The trial was led by Judge A. Parfyonov (now a lawyer), who immediately after the trial had a tasteful rest in the fashionable Zhemchuzhina Hotel (Sochi).
In 1993, there was a wave of bloody showdowns involving Tambov residents. The CEO of the holding company, Adele, fired a machine gun at the bandits right in the office of his company. There is evidence that the Tambovites secretly used bandits from Chechnya to their advantage. Cafe Petrogradskaya on Bolshoy pr., Cosmos on Svetlanovsky pr., pubs on Nauki avenue and Grazhdansky avenue, Karelia and Koelga hotels are gathering places for the Tambov group. Some members of the community go to the Afghan Veto sports club.
With the help of Adele, the Tambovites created their own bank, LADABANK. According to some reports, they control Konversbank, JSCB Rossiya, JSCB Tetrapolis, the St. Petersburg branch of Neftegazstroybank. Maintain contact with Moscow through a Chechen nicknamed Musa on the central bank (return and giving loans). The grouping bought out the Rechnaya hotel and the Kazbek restaurant in Kupchino.
The authorities of the group are: Chelyuskin, Slon, Bob, Kanatush, Bryansky, Andrey Sazonov, the Stepanov brothers.
The main goal is control over the fuel and financial business of the city. Methods - mass raids on legal businessmen. Sphere of influence: Frunzensky, Moscow, Petrogradsky. Most of the Vasileostrovsky and part of the Vyborsky districts, as well as:
- gas stations of the city and region, international road transport;
- hotels: Moscow, Karelia, Sputnik;
- Vitebsk railway station;
- Restaurants: Northern Lights, Palanga, Nevsky Melodies, Ocean;
- cafe: Swabian house, Schlosburg, Evening;
- casino Panda;
- all commercial stalls along Nauki Ave., in the area of ​​​​the metro station Muzhestva Square, Akademicheskaya.

Management:
Kumarin Vladimir Sergeevich(aka Kum), born in 1956, native of the Machkan district, Tambov region.
He came to Leningrad with a work book of a collective farmer, studied at the Institute of Refrigeration Industry, which he did not graduate from. He led an exceptionally sober lifestyle: he did not drink, did not smoke. Physically developed, went in for sports, with a small stature, lying down squeezed a barbell of 110 kilograms.
He created a grouping in 1988, completed it according to the principle of fellowship. Being by nature a tough, intelligent, sociable person, he achieved discipline in the group, which no gangster formation in the city could boast of. Customers at Koelga's restaurant stood up when he entered the hall. After a showdown in Devyatkino, he was arrested and charged with extortion. Comfortable conditions were created for him in Kresty, and on May 26, 1992, he was sent to a labor camp in Obukhovo. In August 1992, with the support of the head of the camp, P. Gumelev, he was transferred to chemistry. He returned to St. Petersburg in early 1993.
In 1994, he was repeatedly singled out at the Conti casino, where he arrived in a luxurious Mercedes. This Mercedes was literally riddled with a Kalashnikov assault rifle on June 1, 1994. In the car were: Kumarin, his bodyguard from the security company Kobra Viktor Golman and the driver. The driver and bodyguard were killed, Kumarin was taken to the hospital on the street. Kostuszko with numerous wounds in the stomach, head and chest. The militants of the group immediately blocked the hospital, fearing a new attempt on their leader. During the deblockade of the hospital, RUOP officers arrested 60 Tambov residents. Coumarin was in a coma for a month, but survived, his arm was amputated. After being discharged from the hospital, Kumarin went to Düsseldorf for treatment, and then to Switzerland.
Kumarin's residence is located in the Pulkovskaya Hotel (Pobeda Street, 1), where he can gather up to 300 militants in a short time.
Gavrilenkov Nikolai Stepanovich (aka Stepanych), born in 1949 The man is extremely careful and smart, he tried to constantly be in the shadows and not advertise his celebrity. Previously, he worked as a bartender at the Sovetskaya Hotel, retained some positions there. At one time, he helped Kumarin to take a leading position in the group. In 1994, at the All-Russian Skhodnyak, he received a monopoly on the racket of the Chukhons (Russian-Finnish joint ventures). On June 30, 1996, at about 11 o'clock, near house 189 on Moskovsky Prospekt, two unidentified men on motorcycles shot Nikolai Gavrilenkov and his brother Viktor with machine guns. Stepanych's guard was wounded in the thigh and did not have time to help his client. Several shots to the head turned out to be fatal for Nikolai Gavrilenkov, Viktor remained alive.
The police officers who arrived at the scene found a business card from the deceased, from which it followed that he was an assistant to the general director of JSC OGGO. His brother introduced himself as the commercial director of this enterprise. At the same time, Sergey Orlov, General Director of the OGGO, in no way connected this incident with the activities of his company.

Ledovskikh Valery, a native Tambovian, Kumarin's deputy for the operational part.
Differs in extraordinary cruelty. Supervised the Moscow Hotel. Currently arrested on charges of banditry, premeditated murder, extortion and illegal possession of weapons. Tambov residents Klimenko A.E., Cherkasov Igor A., ​​Voinov S.A. are under the same criminal case with him. and Lisitsa K.I.

Glushenko Mikhail Ivanovich(aka Khokhol), born in 1957
He is an official assistant to the deputy of the State Duma Alexander Filatov (certificate of assistant deputy 3344). Miraculously escaped death after an assassination attempt on him in 1993. Has a base in the hotel Karelia.

Brave Mikhail Yurievich, born in 1961
On October 5, 1995, at about 10:30 am near the house 87 on the Bolshoy Prospekt Brave, he was fired from automatic weapons by unidentified persons driving by in a BMW-520 car. Brave was wounded in the left thigh and groin, and a nearby guard was killed. Three more guards were not injured, but without waiting for the police, they fled the scene.
Citizens who soon arrived at the scene of the incident (in a Mercedes-600 car) presented their certificates of OMON officers, but having stumbled upon the operatives, they quickly retreated. Brave was hospitalized, the hospital was heavily guarded by persons who were not police officers.
Previously, Brava was repeatedly suspected of extortion, embezzlement and murder.

Group leaders include: Andrey Rybkin, and the Vasiliev brothers (Sergei and Victor). The brothers also lead an independent group. Has a base in the Sano cooperative. According to some reports, they want to unite with the Tambov people and crush the whole city together with them, supposedly negotiations were held about this, but what their results are unknown.
Golubev (aka Kanysh) deals with financial and commercial issues in the group.

Yakovlev Konstantin(aka Grave), born in 1956
Leader of one of the most mobile community groups. It consists of people whom he himself selects. He got his nickname while working as a gravedigger at the Southern Cemetery. It is believed that the cemetery mafia is behind him. In the underworld, he is considered a very serious person, with whom you should not quarrel over trifles.
He opened several restaurants near Vyborg and Zelenogorsk. He tried to take over the Vyborg highway, which was held by Komarov, constantly negotiated with him on this topic. He has great finances, solves extensive commercial issues, tried to create his own bank. He has extensive connections in the USA, Germany. In the summer of 1993, his office, located on Varshavskaya st. raid was made. Several people were injured and died. Yakovlev managed to lock himself in the room and escape.
His deputy is Vladimir Kulibaba.

Alekseev Nikolai Alexandrovich(aka Long, Kolya Little), born in 1964 Perm group leader. The number of staff is about 20 people. This is a bold, mobile group. The Victoria cafe on Kamenoostrovsky Prospekt is considered the base. Alekseev owns the Alisa fur factory.

Group Alexandra Tkachenko(aka Tkach) - controls the Frunzensky district (Kupchino), where it shares the auto parts market with Vorkuta residents.

Group Losya, aka Alexander K.(no other data available).
Elk, while serving his sentence in places of deprivation of liberty, met Kumarin and, with his blessing, created his own group, the backbone of which was made up of friends from the zone. There were three links in his group, the functions of which were clearly delineated. The head of one was responsible for intelligence, the other for communications, the third for the acquisition of weapons. The group specialized in extorting money from stall holders. Since 1994, it has expanded its activities up to murder and robbery, including contract killings. Members of the group lived in an illegal position. On February 6, 1995, Los and members of his gang were arrested, a criminal case is being investigated under Art. 77 of the Criminal Code of Russia (banditry).

Group Alexandra Efimova- has an office on the street. Konyushennaya, 13, surveillance and radio interception service, controls the Evening cafe.

Group Sasha Petrova- controls the city of Vyborg, has a surveillance and radio interception service.

Group Viti Muromsky- supervises sales outlets.

Group Alexey Abramov- maintains contact with Moscow, controls the Sazhkl restaurant and the Sputnik hotel.

Group Golchina- controls the Planetarium, which is also a place of pastime for Tambov residents.

The former director of the Planetarium, Vagan Ayvazyan, who was killed several years ago in the entrance of his house, told shortly before his death that he was assassinated by members of the Tambov group Bob (Belyaev) and Larichiv. After that, Vagan met with them, but could not agree and receive guarantees of his safety. Then Ayvazyan turned to Alexander Snitkov from the Protection Association, who had previously worked in the riot police, for protection. The Tambovites had constant conflicts with the Protection. Several Tambov brigadiers were beaten, after which the Tambov ones had a shootout with the Protection right at the Planetarium. We talked about the victims of the Defense.
After this disassembly, Bob and Vladimir Kolesnik (aka the Wheel) had a conversation with Vagan, but they did not come to a common opinion and the Protection did not leave the Planetarium. Then the Tambov people took two cars from Ayvazyan, and Bob began to drive one of them, a Mercedes-300.
Aivazyan instructed Zashchita, Snitkov and Minakov to carry out a couple of actions against Bob and Khokhl, but this did not happen during his lifetime. Although in 1993 an attempt was made on Khokhl and he was wounded. Whether this was a response from the Defense is unknown.

3. Kazan organized crime group.

The group was formed from the youth gangs of Naberezhnye Chelny and other cities of Tatarstan, which were characterized by tour trips to both capitals. In terms of its weight in St. Petersburg, it closely supports the Tambovites.
The backbone of Kazanians are Tatars. The grouping is a collection of semi-autonomous clans (4 wings), whose leaders are conditionally subordinate to Kazan, receiving support from there with money, weapons, and people. The members of the group are not fond of the cult of power like the Tambovites, they do not go in for sports, use drugs and alcohol, but despite this, they consider themselves devout Muslims and love to swear on the Koran. For failure to comply with the orders of the elders, cruel punishment follows.
To carry out death sentences in the ranks of Kazan there is a brigade of mentally abnormal scumbags who, in case of exposure, are not threatened with criminal liability.
Kazan citizens are strictly guided by thieves in law, carefully making deductions to the common fund. They commit a lot of ordinary crimes, which are developed by local Kazanians, and performed by guest performers from Tatarstan. Often the objects of robberies and pogroms are businessmen who are under the protection of Kazan citizens themselves. Crimes are rarely disclosed due to the fact that the group has an extensive network of informers in the police. In 1992, the group staged a pogrom with shooting at the Torzhkovsky market.
Since the second half of 1993, Kazanians have been fighting with Tambovites for control over energy trade. As a result, Kazan leaders Noil Iskhakov and Albert died in 1994. After a successful assassination attempt on Kumarin, Kazan took away some of the objects from him, in particular the Nevsky Palace Hotel. The RUOP group dealt a strong blow, arresting their leaders: Artur Kzhizhevich, Martin, Phantom, Afonya, Zozulya, Karp, Dobryak and Pozdnyak. According to some reports, Kazanians tried to create their own bank in St. Petersburg, actively searched for founders, and approached JSCB Rossiya. In March 1994, they showed interest in the building of the Northern Trade Bank, located on the 2nd line of V.O. The base of the group is the Shlotburg restaurant, the Sadko cafe, which is not far from Sputnik. The management office is located at 1, Kim Ave. The purpose of the grouping: control over the automotive market, control over commercial structures (joint stock companies, joint ventures, small businesses and financial institutions of the city (banks, exchange offices).
Methods: forceful pressure on businessmen, entrepreneurs and bankers. Spheres of influence: they control Vasileostrovsky, Vyborgsky, Kalininsky, Krasnogvardeysky and Primorsky districts, the Priozersky direction, control the business from prostitution.

Management
Marat Abdrakhmanov(aka Martin).
Leading the group since the 80s. Currently arrested and charged with banditry. He and five other citizens of Kazan are charged with organizing a criminal group, extortion and illegal possession of a large number of firearms (pump-action and hunting rifles, pistols TT, PM and other brands, ammunition.

Artur Kzhizhevich, (aka Petrozavodsky, Arthur, Dingo).
Born in Grozny in a wealthy family. He studied at the music school for gifted children. Komsomol activist at the district level. Successfully engaged in freestyle wrestling. Studied at university. In 1988 he was convicted of extortion (the victim is one of his father's friends). The father was offered to pay a bribe for the release of his son, but he refused to do so.
After being beaten by the police, Artur suffers from a chronic kidney disease. Very religious (Muslim), prudent, restrained. He is a member of the council of elders of the influential Japar clan. A good shooter, has the skills of a bodyguard. He maintains contacts with the Malyshev group, as well as with the group of graduates of the Military Institute of Physical Culture. Arthur's residence is the Snowdrift restaurant. Controls trade in the area of ​​​​Grazhdanka and the Commandant airfield. On Vasilyevsky Island, the SPI Fiji controls the Northern Lights bar. His first assistant is Alexander Krupitsin (aka Kolobok), whose brother works at Liteiny. Kzhizhevich's group is considered the most restless of Kazan. There are many drug addicts in it, owns a large number of weapons, replenished mainly by persons of Tatar nationality. The group has a connection with one of the employees of the 5th police department (Ligovsky, 145).

Vladimir Kolesnikov. Controls the Kalininsky and Vyborgsky districts of the city, has great connections among the boxers. Its seat is the Ring Sports Club. His first assistant is Salavat - a former boxer, an Uzbek by nationality, a determined, daring person, but without intelligence.

Leader of the Third Wing Nail Khamatov(aka Nail, Ryzhiy) controlled commercial structures on Vasilyevsky Island, was shot dead at his own house. Instead, a new person was sent from Kazan.
Perhaps he is Dyakov Vladimir Ivanovich, born in 1959, has bank accounts in New York, is exploring the possibility of monopolizing the oil industry in the region.

Meshcherov Ravil Mubinovich, Big Ravil (aka One-eyed), a former law enforcement officer has a base in the Akhtamar cafe on Glory Avenue.

According to the authority of Gorbaty, Yuri Shutov's group was part of Kazan. At present, Shutov and eight members of the group have been arrested, they are charged with five articles of the Russian Criminal Code, including extortion by an organized group, illegal possession of ammunition, malicious hooliganism, and an attack on the former head of the GTRK Channel 5, Viktor Yugin.

4. Chechen organized crime group

The first Chechen mafia groups appeared in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the early 80s. They immediately tried to take control of all areas of business.
The group is characterized by a rigid hierarchy, subordination to the elders. The Council of Elders runs a network of semi-autonomous clans. In Moscow, congresses of Chechens were held at the Ukraine Hotel and the Kashtan restaurant. In police circles, undercover work among the Chechens is considered impossible, and torture is used without hesitation against those suspected of playing a double game.
The Chechen counterintelligence has its own offices and mailboxes, headed by a certain Akhmed. Moscow Chechens are divided into three main groups:
1. Central - the head of Lecha Islamov. Controls about 300 firms, male and female prostitution in central hotels, markets.
2. Ostankinsky - the head of Mahmud the Great. Controls the sale of furniture, products, computers, delivery to Grozny.
3. Yuzhnoportovy - head Nikolai Suleimenov (aka Khoza). Controls the aviation business. The main enemy of the Chechens in Moscow is the winged group.
Petersburg Chechens are inferior in number to Moscow, but they are one of the strongest in the city. The structure of the community in St. Petersburg is similar to that in Moscow. At the head of the grouping is a council of elders, to which clan commands are subordinate. There can be only two or three Chechens in the teams, and the rest of any nationality, but, belonging to the community, are obliged to obey its laws. All visiting Chechens, before doing anything in the city, turn to the council of elders.
The Chechen group is considered the most mobile in St. Petersburg.
Members of the so-called batalhaji clan are of particular danger. There are 100 people in the Chechen group. She has a lot of support from Chechnya and Moscow, both in people and in money and weapons.
The base enterprise of the Rome grouping. The leaders of the detachments declare that they do not want complete domination in the city, they call for a peaceful division of spheres of influence. Some St. Petersburg Chechens in their affairs have managed to rise even to the level of commercial structures created under the auspices of the mayor's office.
The gathering place of the Chechen group is the cafe Ritsa.
One of the members of the group, a certain Maer, has connections with criminal groups in Lithuania (Vilnius), from where drugs and weapons are substituted. Mayer owns a store in St. Petersburg.
Chechens maintain good relations with Feoktistov, one of the authorities of the underworld.
According to some reports, AKB Credit-Petersburg is under the control of the Chechen group of Moscow and, in particular, the group of Omarov Khalid Oprel, who often comes to St. Petersburg and dictates his terms to the bank's management.
The purpose of the group is to take control of all areas of business, catering, hotels, boarding houses
Methods - power pressure, the use of counterfeit money and securities. Spheres of influence: Krasnogvardeysky, Vyborgsky, Kalininsky and Nevsky districts, commercial structures of the city, motor transport, Korchma restaurant are controlled.

Management
Ruslan Balaev- owns the techniques of Judo, physically very strong, allegedly previously was in Sobchak's personal guard.
Jafar and Mustafa are the leaders of the militants, their office is located in Kupchino, they are characterized as very tough people, they do not make any concessions. The leaders of criminal groups of Chechens are: Ilyas, Pasha, Bek Kuraev brothers, Ahmed, Musa, Ramadan, Marat, Andrey. According to some reports, Artur Kzhizhevich was also one of the leaders of the Chechens, he was a member of the council of elders of the influential Japar clan.

5. Azerbaijani organized crime group (Black)

The Azerbaijani group is numerous and well-armed. Together with Armenians, Georgians, Ossetians, Kabardino-Balkarians, Gypsies and some Chechens (blacks), he controls almost all the collective farm markets and vegetable markets of the city, pays off before the district police.
Within the Azerbaijani clan, a group of Talysh is singled out, organizing the delivery to St. Petersburg and the sale of unrefined heroin. The base of the Talysh is the Nekrasovsky market. Place of collection - hotel Pribaltiyskaya, or Gavan. Group members are mutually supportive.
The goal is to control the drug business and market trade.
Methods - power pressure.
Spheres of influence: they control almost the entire right bank (Krasnogvardeisky, Nevsky districts), all city markets, cooperative stalls on Piskarevka and Bolshaya Porokhovskaya Street; hotels: Russia, Soviet; restaurants: Admiral, Oreshek.

Management
The leaders of the group are: Dram, Naiev-wrestler, Tagir, Red-Kumyk. The authorities include: Nazim, Nurek, Katran, Garik, Alim, Huseynov, Eldar, many of them live in the dormitory of the Mining Institute near the Priboy cinema.
Alim- senior of one of the groups, controls the markets: Kirovsky, Ligovo, Prospekt Veteranov metro station. His fellow countryman serves in the police station in Ligovo, who covers him.
Huseynov- the head of one of the groups. Base - restaurant Oreshek in the Cheerful village. Controls the sale of drugs on the Nekrasov market.
Katran- lives in a hostel near the Primorskaya metro station, where respectable people sometimes gather.
Garik- often happens abroad. He brings things from there, equipment that his people steal in Greece, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
One of the storage places for stolen goods is the Stary Dom cafe near the Proletarskaya metro station.
The group of Misha Azagyan (aka Rezany, Knife) is considered one of the well-known black gangs in St. Petersburg. Its number is small, has a mixed national composition, but mainly consists of persons of Dagestan and Armenian nationality. In the underworld of the city, the group is known and reckoned with. A distinctive feature of the gang is its infinity and good armament. The main activity is the distribution of drugs. The gang includes such authorities as: David Sukhumsky or Terteryan and Hovik-Azaryan.
Rezanogo's residence is the Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, in addition, he has his own interests in the Harbor Hotel. His right hand in the gang is Kvanch Babaev.
Nail's group. The meeting place is the casino of the Pribaltiyskaya hotel, a cafe on Kima Avenue, 1. One of the leaders is Eldar of Moscow. In addition to other types of criminal activity, the group performs the security functions of Rosenbaum.
Group of Kirov Tatars. Included in the group of blacks, but works autonomously, tries not to recognize anyone. Operates mainly on Vasilyevsky Island.
The groups of thieves include the groups of Dato, Metla, Yakutenok, Curly.
Among the self-oriented groups operating in St. Petersburg and the region, the following should be mentioned:
Kolesnikova- supervises dating services.
Azeri- supervises food markets.
Ilyin- control the hotel Vyborskaya.
Vorkuta- have a certain influence in the city due to their large number. The interests of the gang extend mainly to the Central and Vasileostrovsky districts. It owes its name to the Vorkuta brothers. It has four leaders, the most famous of them is Timur, who is called Don Timur on Vasilyevsky Island. Gang fighters live mainly in student dormitories on Izmailovsky pr. Kemerovo group - controls the seaport.
Saratov group- consists of 15 people. Leader - Alik - Tatar. The gang is formed from sportsmen from Saratov. They dress to identify each other in leather jackets and slacks. In the autumn of 1992, the clothes were supplemented with white sports caps. 3-4 people go to work. They work for hire, extorting money from commercial stalls. To reach out to rich clients, they used prostitutes as bait, sometimes they went out to foreigners.
Rostov group- leader - Kirill Bogdanov, arrested in the spring
1995 in the case of an attack on a collection vehicle. January 1995
years, the group carried out a disassembly between employees of the firms Berkut and MC were found near the village. Kamenka, Leningrad region
In the Moscow region, a group of Gena Rostovsky is known, which controls a number of commercial structures in the region. One of his foremen is the former criminal Sasha Kudryashov (aka Shvonder), who is joined by a team of graduates of the Military Institute of Physical Education. Shvonder was given at the mercy of a part of the Finland Station.
Taras grouping- leader Tarasov Sergey Mikhailovich. His office is located on St. Podrezova, 14, cooperative Builder. The authorities of the gang include Maxim Sirnyagin (aka Max) and Brake. The size of the group previously reached 250 people, at present it is much less. They are engaged in the protection of joint ventures, commercial enterprises, they control a car service station on Energetikov Avenue, about 15 restaurants and cafes. Persons from former athletes, mostly visitors, are selected for the group.
Fox Group- leader Fokichev Nikolay. Engaged in car theft from abroad. The last cars drove through Kingisepp. Works under cover of OMON.
Group of Vitalik Lysy- characterized by high mobility, cruelty and discipline. The backbone of the gang are former wrestlers. After infusing a group of young fighters, the gang embarked on the path of kicking Caucasians out of their territory. The group strictly prohibits the use of alcoholic beverages and drugs. Previously, Lysy controlled the Olgino motel, but after a split in the gang, he left Olgino, gaining interest in Pushkin, Pavlovsk, and the airport on the Kalinin market.
Vasya Tementsev's group controls commercial structures in the Petrogradsky district. The gang consists of former boxers. Tyumentsev manages to engage in such a legal business as trading in computers.
Sasha Yefim's group- The leader is a former police officer. Gathering place in the cafe Evening in the Krasnogvardeisky district.
There are strong criminal gangs in Sosnovy Bor, Vyborg, Vsevolzhsk (leader Nikitin). At the end of 1994, a criminal group was detained in Vsevolzhsk, which for a long time was engaged in the manufacture of false documents.
Grouping of killers- is engaged in the execution of contract killings. It has a branched structure divided into fives. Leaders: Albertino and Dmitriev (aka Basmach). Allegedly, with the participation of members of the group in 1993, a series of murders and attempted murders were committed, including on criminal authorities: Kostya Mogila. Artur Kzhizhevich, Kumarin and others. There is information that in 1995 a certain Dispatcher appeared in St. Petersburg, by calling which you can order a murder.

Leader of the Malyshevskaya OCG

Was born: in 1958 in Leningrad

Education: the average

Summary: He walked the classic path of a gangster. At first, newspapers wrote about him in connection with the crimes committed and court sentences, and now - in connection with his return to his homeland as a pensioner.

Biography:

He was born in a communal apartment on the corner of Ligovka and Obvodny Canal. Parents were from Pskov peasants. In the atmosphere of the most Spanish place in Leningrad, Malyshev learned to defend his "ten kopecks."

In 1971, his father, a correct Soviet artisan, received a three-room apartment in a nine-story block building on Pionerstroya Street in the Krasnoselsky District. And there, among the district petushniks, his son is at ease. Endowed with strength by nature, he is engaged in freestyle wrestling, slowly becoming a leader.

In August 1975, he entered the Leningrad Mechanical and Instrument-Making College with a degree in metal cutting. But in the fall, he gets involved in an unequal fight with the neighbors on Mechnikov Avenue, kills, for which he receives six and a half years in prison.

In 1979 he was released to a settlement, he joined the Komsomol and left ahead of schedule. After his release, he worked as a barmaid at the Yantar pub in Pushkin, and in the spring of 1983 he became a cloakroom attendant at the Riga bar in his own Krasnoselsky district. Then it was called the prestigious word "bouncer". In a similar position, but in the bar "Tallinn", a guy from Tambov, expelled from LITMO, Vladimir Kumarin, works in those days.

Six months later, Malyshev is again condemned. He sometimes laughs at himself: "I sit all my life for a fist." The second time he clashed in a cafe on Veteranov Avenue because of a girl, after which the victim hit his head on the tile and died. This time three years in prison.

When both came out, the era of Gorbachev and the cooperative movement was already in bloom. Masters of Soviet sports imposed tribute on the emerging bourgeoisie. The word "racket" flashed. When Leningrad was renamed Petersburg in 1991, Malyshev's name was already a brand. And the world of organized crime was divided into thousands of those who swore allegiance to him and into "Tambov". Whatever was going on in the world of power entrepreneurship was associated with him, even if he was not in the know.

In 1992, 17 strong guys are arrested. And the godfather Malyshev is charged with organizing an armed gang.

Dossier:

In February 2010, the Spanish National Court of Justice announced the release on bail of three Russians suspected of money laundering, financial fraud, tax evasion and organizing a criminal community. The amount of the pledge is 1.4 million euros. Of these, exactly 500 thousand should be contributed by Alexander Malyshev, who is also Alejandro Lagnas Gonzalez, who is also the founder of the so-called Malyshev group, which at one time controlled almost half of St. Petersburg.

Our compatriots went to jail in a southern country on Friday, June 13, 2008, after the Spanish police, together with attached units of the National Guard, carried out a full-scale military operation. According to official figures, more than 400 people took part in it, who hunted for a group of people of Russian origin in the resorts of Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, Alicante and Marbella. 15 people were taken into custody in Spain and one (by the forces of the special squad of the investigative unit of the Spanish prosecutor's office) in Berlin. The European media then wrote about the triumphant completion of the operation, which lasted several years, code-named "Troika", the main goal of which was "the Russian mafia in Europe."

I can say that in addition to the General Prosecutor's Office of Spain, the work was carried out by employees of five more departments of the police, the customs service and the Central Bank, - Jose Carrau, one of the lead investigators in the case, told Ogonyok at the time. - We have a large number of financial documents, several hundred hours of telephone conversations are recorded. A total of 25 arrest warrants have been issued. Some of the suspects are still hiding abroad, including in Russia.

The detainees were charged under seven articles of the Spanish Criminal Code at once: 515, 517 - the creation of a criminal group; 390, 392 - falsification of official and commercial documents; 305 - causing damage to the state treasury; 301, 251 - acquisition of property obtained by criminal means and misappropriation of rights to another's property. In total, such a set "pulls" for 40 years in prison.

With the light hand of prosecutor Baltazar Garson, famous after the "Pinochet case", the Spanish press began to call the detainees Hermanos de Tambov - "brothers from Tambov." The same name was later included in the official indictment. Although for any Petersburger to call the group of Alexander Malyshev "Tambov" - it's like admitting that Moscow is better than St. Petersburg. Or confuse Sredneokhtinsky Prospekt with Liteiny. Because, unlike the "come in large numbers", it was the "Malyshevsky" who were the root of the St. Petersburg group.

True, for the sake of justice, it must be admitted that with the leader of the Tambovskaya gang, Vladimir Kumarin (who is currently on trial in Moscow), Malyshev was not just familiar: in the mid-80s, the future defendant in a high-profile Spanish criminal case bore the nickname Malysh and hunted by playing thimbles at the Leningrad Hay Market, which was partially protected by Kumarin. They became irreconcilable enemies later, after a criminal showdown, in which two hundred people took part.

The question of why suddenly in 2008 the Spanish "Troika" ran into a criminal element of Russian origin remains unanswered. Let's try to analyze several versions.

Version one: greetings from home.

In his native St. Petersburg, after leaving abroad for permanent residence, Alexander Malyshev appeared only once - in the fall of 2007. The visit happened after his main enemy, the leader of the Tambovites, Vladimir Kumarin, was arrested. According to experts, this single visit by Malyshev was enough to make "serious people" worried: the redistribution of property in the Northern capital was completed a long time ago, and no one wanted a new round inevitable if Malysh returned. According to rumors, the Ministry of Internal Affairs received a corresponding order, and a voluminous dossier on the Malyshevskys was promptly handed over to the Spanish colleagues.

Perhaps these are just rumors, but in the indictment, signed by the investigator of the fifth department of the National Court of Justice, Balthazar Garzon, all the previous convictions and sins of both Malyshev and Petrov are scrupulously listed. Up to the exact date and time of the crimes and a description of how and where the accused met. It's hard to believe that the Spanish police have been following their "career" since 1977...

Version two: uncivilized business.

According to the official position of the Spanish investigation, the Troika operation began back in 2006 with an inspection of the activities of numerous commercial enterprises established by Alexander Malyshev and Gennady Petrov. The Spaniards believe that the defendants created several closed joint-stock companies, to whose accounts huge sums were transferred from banks located in offshore zones in Cyprus, the Virgin Islands and Panama. The money was spent on real estate transactions, so, according to the police, when buying up plots and houses in Spain, Malyshev and Petrov simply laundered criminal capital. The investigation believes that at least two structures created by business partners were involved in illegal transactions: Inmobiliara Calvia 2001 and Inmobiliara Balear 2001. The prosecution considers all real estate transactions illegal and hopes to confiscate assets worth 30 million euros. Another 25 million transferred to the accounts of these companies from banks in Panama, the United States, Switzerland, Latvia and Russia, has been frozen by court order.

The materials of the Spanish tax authorities also appear at the heart of the accusation. There are several hundred such episodes in the indictment. On May 30, 2005, for example, Internasion, owned by Gennady Petrov, bought the Sasha yacht, paying 3.5 million euros for it. VAT on this purchase was never paid, so 530,000 euros were hidden from the Spanish authorities. In June of the same year, Malyshev and Petrov transferred seven land plots to Inmobiliara, receiving 4 million shares at a price of 1 euro each. No taxes were paid on this transaction.

True, while describing in detail the schemes for conducting financial fraud, the Spanish investigators could not answer one question: it is known from which offshore accounts the money came, and it is already clear how these funds were legalized. But where did the money come from in these offshore accounts?

Version three: big ear.

The Spanish newspaper ABC, which received access to the documents of the National Court of Justice, claims that financial fraud is just the tip of the iceberg. “Throughout the investigation, the police had access to thousands of telephone conversations of the accused - at first there were seven of them, but then there were more. From 230 records, the hair stands on end, the sources say, because these conversations testify to the enormous power of the arrested leaders, their connections in Russia and former republics of the USSR, a whole range of crimes: murders, arms trafficking, drugs, extortion, bribery, illegal transactions, cobalt and tobacco smuggling, contract attacks, threats ... All these operations were managed from Spain, where the mafia leaders moved in 1996 to conspiracies".

This version seems to be the most entertaining. Admittedly, the passage about "leading global mafia operations" is hard to take seriously after the thimbles and shootouts over the stolen leather jacket. But no one takes this seriously - after all, it is not so much about the defendants in the case, but about the business in which they were assigned a certain role. What is this business, who else was involved in it, how the income from it was distributed - these are the key questions that not only the Spanish investigative machine seemed to be trying to find answers to.

The fact that the connections of the “Malyshevskys” are of interest to the investigation in the first place was first reported by the same Spanish newspaper ABC. In her opinion, "the data revealed during the investigation, which lasted two years, indicate that the thieves in law, arrested as part of the Troika operation, had the opportunity to bribe the highest echelons of Russian power, and shamelessly used this opportunity." The newspaper believes that Malyshev and Petrov carried out delicate assignments of high-ranking Russian officials, receiving lucrative contracts in return.

The newspaper did not explain the degree of delicacy of these instructions, but quite transparent hints appeared in other media - among other things, they are talking about the illegal arms trade, which allegedly involved not so much the former St. Petersburg authorities as their "contacts". The partner in these operations seemed to be the legendary "black merchant" Monzir al-Kassar (his villa in Spanish Marbella is located just a couple of kilometers from Malyshev's villa). Al-Kassar has been widely known among "arms businessmen" since the middle of 79th. He supplied "goods" to Algeria, Libya, Syria, Iran, Bosnia and Croatia, and among his clients were the Palestine Liberation Organization, Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.

Allegedly, it was this master of the shadow market who became an intermediary in the new business of the "Malyshevsky": they ensured the purchase of weapons and equipment at Russian military factories, and al-Kassar sent the cargo to its destination. It is said that it was thanks to the efforts of the founders of this "joint venture" that Hezbollah militants were able to use Metis-M and Kornet anti-tank missile systems in battles with the Israeli army in southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006. The name of another participant in the "concession" is also mentioned: Viktor Bout, who was arrested in Thailand last year and is still in a Thai prison at the American request, allegedly provided transportation of especially valuable cargo to Iran and Syria.

According to sources familiar with this conspiratorial version, the well-established scheme of mutually beneficial shadow business was destroyed by none other than ... fugitive FSB lieutenant colonel Alexander Litvinenko, who passed information to Spanish law enforcement agencies about Russian crime bosses who had moved to Europe. Incidentally, this information is also confirmed by the influential Spanish newspaper El Pais, which reported that the fugitive Chekist consulted law enforcement agencies in Spain 6 months before the polonium poisoning.

In particular, he conveyed to the Spanish prosecutors information that kingpin Zakhary Kalashov (better known as Shakro-young) is negotiating the supply of Russian weapons with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. And it seems that it was after this tip that the police car (which is important - not only Spanish) began to consistently grind the links of the criminal chain.

First, during a special operation of the Spanish police in Dubai on May 7, 2006, Shakro-young was arrested (now he is kept under strict guard in solitary confinement in the city of Suera in the Spanish province of Zaragoza). In June 2007, al-Kassar was arrested. In March 2008, Viktor Bout was taken in Thailand. Arrest warrants for both, already in the United States, were issued by the same prosecutor - Michael Garcia. It is worth noting an amusing detail: the composition of the operational groups working on these cases almost completely coincided.

In June 2008, the turn of the "Malyshevsky" came. Incidentally, the day after Operation Troika ended, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba said that the detainees were "leaders of international organized crime" and were accused of "illegal arms trafficking." It is characteristic that subsequently none of the Spanish officials repeated this accusation again - did the minister inadvertently let it slip?

Meanwhile, a few days after the arrest of Malysh and his entire company, al-Kassar was transported from Spain to the United States, where in February last year he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. And if this branch in the investigation of covert weapons operations can be considered completed, the rest of the plots in this story are still with an open ending: it is still not clear how Bout's fate will turn out, and it is not at all clear why Malyshev and his companions were released on bail.

The Spanish press started talking about the fact that such a noisy business was falling apart before our eyes and that Balthazar Garzon was in a hurry to announce his victory over the "Russian mafia". Garson himself, however, does not answer these accusations. In early March, he is going to come ... to Moscow. According to him, in the criminal case of "Russian authorities" there is not enough answer to the key question: what role did the high-ranking Russian officials with whom they contacted play in the dark affairs of Alexander Malyshev and his accomplices? The Spaniards have a list of "contacts", the content of the conversations is known. Garzon sincerely hopes that he will be helped in Russia...

Source: Magazine "Ogonyok" No. 5 of 02/08/2010

In 2012, the National Court of Spain put on the international wanted list a Russian businessman with Greek citizenship, Gennady Petrov, his wife and his friend Leonid Khristoforov, whom the Spanish authorities suspect of involvement in money laundering and membership in the Tambov criminal community. Now Gennady Petrov, according to media reports, may be in St. Petersburg. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region is not yet ready to confirm or deny the information about the search for Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov.

In the summer of 2008, Spanish law enforcement agencies conducted a large-scale operation "Troika", during which the authoritative businessman Alexander Malyshev and people from his close circle, including businessman Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov, were detained. This operation, which was led by Judge Baltasar Garzon, was presented by the Spanish authorities as the liquidation of members of the Tambov criminal community. Natives of Russia were suspected of involvement in money laundering, forgery of documents and tax evasion. This operation began with an inspection of the activities of Gennady Petrov's enterprises, through which, according to the Spanish police, money was laundered.

In 2010, Leonid Khristoforov and Gennady Petrov were released on bail of €300,000 and €600,000 respectively. The following year, the Spanish authorities gave Gennady Petrov permission to visit Russia to meet his mother. After this visit, the businessman returned. In April of this year, Gennady Petrov and his wife, as well as Leonid Khristoforov, received permission to go to Russia for treatment. However, they did not return. According to the St. Petersburg online newspaper, Petrov and Khristoforov notified the Spanish authorities of their poor health, confirming their words with medical documents.

Three months later, the national court of Spain, according to the Spanish ACB, issued an international warrant for the search and arrest of Gennady Petrov, his wife and Leonid Khristoforov.

In the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Kommersant was told that a number of information requests from law enforcement agencies of Spain were in the local branch of Interpol. However, the St. Petersburg police are not yet ready to say that it is Leonid Khristoforov or Gennady Petrov who are wanted. The security forces explain this by the fact that, as practice shows, persons on the international wanted list often change their personal data. Therefore, it is possible that Leonid Khristoforov or Gennady Petrov may appear in the inquiries of the Spanish authorities, but under different names.

In Russia, Gennady Petrov became widely known only after the Troika operation, when the European media began to write about the Russian mafia. Leonid Khristoforov became famous back in the early 2000s during the trial of the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova. He testified against the group of Yuri Kolchin, convicted by the city court of St. Petersburg for the technical organization of the crime. Leonid Khristoforov told how he sold one of the members of Yuri Kolchin's group the Agram submachine gun, from which Galina Starovoitova was killed.

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Malyshev organized crime group- a large organized crime group operating in St. Petersburg from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.

Grouping creation

The founder of the group was a former wrestler Alexander Malyshev. He had previously been convicted twice for premeditated murder and negligent homicide. After his release, he “worked” as a thimblemaker at the Sennoy market in Leningrad under the guise of the Tambov organized criminal group. In the late 1980s, Malyshev created his own group, uniting Tambov, Kolesnikov, Kemerovo, Komarov, Perm, Kudryashov, Kazan, Taras, Severodvinsk, Saransk, Efimov, Voronezh, Azeris, Krasnoyarsk, Chechens, Dagestanis, Krasnoseltsev, Vorkuta and bandits from Ulan-Ude. Each of these groups consisted of 50 to 250 people. The total number of the group was about 2000 people.

Initially, the Malyshevskaya organized criminal group adjoined the Tambov criminal group. But in 1989, the "Tambovskaya" and "Malyshevskaya" staged one of the first criminal showdowns in Devyatkino. Members of both groups used firearms against each other. After that, the Malyshevskaya and Tambov organized criminal groups became opponents.

Group activities in the early 1990s

After a "showdown" with the Tambov bandits, Malyshev and another active member of the organized crime group and one of its future leaders, Gennady Petrov, were arrested on suspicion of banditry. But Petrov did not get into the first wave of arrests and the first of all the accused was released from prison. Later, Petrov moved to live in Spain, but often came to St. Petersburg and Moscow. And 72 members of the Tambov organized crime group were prosecuted.

Almost immediately after his release, Malyshev fled to Sweden, from where he spread rumors about his death in a shootout. The leader of the "Malyshevsky" returned to Russia after the court acquitted or handed down very lenient sentences, and released all the arrested "Tambov" from custody.

The peak of OCG activity occurred in 1991-1992. At that time, the leader of the organized crime group was often called the "emperor of gangster Petersburg."

In October 1992, Malyshev and 18 of his closest accomplices were arrested during the implementation of the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and in the case of businessman Dadonov. On August 25, 1993, Malyshev's closest associates were released on bail: Kirpichev, Berlin and Gennady Petrov. For the release of another colleague - Rashid Rakhmatulin - the Association of Boxers of St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation of French Boxing, the Tonus cooperative and the administration of the prison where he was kept petitioned. Rakhmatulin was released, and the supervising prosecutor Osipkin, who opposed this, was soon dismissed from the prosecutor's office.

After the arrest of Malyshev, Moscow thieves in law tried to put St. Petersburg crime under their control. Andrey Berzin ("Trouble"), who spoke out against this at the Moscow-St. Petersburg "gathering" in March 1993, was killed. In the same year, attempts were made on almost all prominent St. Petersburg bandits.

At the “gathering” in 1993, the Malyshev organized criminal group secured the right to trade in drugs, thereby ousting Azerbaijani bandits from this area.

The trial of Malyshev ended in 1995, he was sentenced for illegal possession and possession of weapons to 2.5 years of general regime, but since he spent 2 years and 11 months in jail, Malyshev was released. Despite the fact that Malyshev was in prison for a long time, his authority in the underworld of St. Petersburg still remained high. Through his lawyers, he continued to manage cases. Malyshev's group by 1995 consisted of 350-400 people.

Group structure

The Malyshevskaya OPG consisted of small brigades:

• Yuri Komarov's group controlled the cities of Zelenogorsk, Sestroretsk, camping, recreation centers, foreign tourism. Komarov had connections with the Zelenogorsk police leadership. For some time, Komarov's group managed to keep Tambov, Kazan and other bandits on their territory under their control. But after the death of the "arbitrator of the bandits" Bondarenko, control in this area passed to the Chechen bandits.
• Sergey Miskarev's group was created by him in a colony-settlement and consisted of about 50 people. Controlled the Krasnoselsky district and the Oktyabrskaya hotel.
• Valery Ledovsky's group controlled gas stations and gasoline transportation and had its own surveillance unit.
• Ghaplanyan's group controlled the drug business.
• The "Sasha Matros" group controlled trucking, had a surveillance service
• The Sharks group controlled the Avtovo area.
• The Zhuk group controlled the Krasnoye Selo area.
• Stanislav Zharikov's group controlled the Kirovsky district and was engaged in pimping.
• Pankratov's group controlled the Okhtinskaya hotel.
• Troitsky's group carried out surveillance and radio interception.

Further activities of the group

One of the methods of activity of the organized criminal group was the placement of their people to work in structures and firms of interest, the acquisition of a controlling stake, the training of their economic personnel in the official educational institutions of the city. The group controlled hotels and restaurants, antiques and gambling.

A number of firms were created by the Malyshevskaya organized criminal group - cafes, saunas, buying up non-ferrous metals and others. The ringleader of the organized criminal group served as the manager of Nelli-Druzhba LLP and was the founder of the Tatti company, which owns a network of commercial stores. Malyshev maintained ties with Moscow through the leader of the Krylatskaya group, Oleg Romanov. To knock out debts, Malyshev used Caucasian bandits.

The group's money was transferred to the financial institutions of the banks of Cyprus, with their help Malyshev achieved influence on the largest banks in St. Petersburg. With the money of Malyshev, the Kiselev Music Center was created, the holidays “Vivat St. Petersburg!” and White Nights of Rock 'n' Roll. The organized crime group also organized an underground production of small-caliber revolvers.

In the mid-1990s, the Malyshevskaya organized crime group was replaced by the Tambov group. Some of the "Malyshevsky" leaders were killed, some, including Petrov and Malyshev, fled abroad.

Arrests in Spain

In May 1997, the organized crime unit of the Commissariat of the Spanish city of Marbella, through the Spanish Embassy in Russia, asked for assistance. In Spain, they investigated the laundering of significant money invested in real estate, and reached out to Russian citizens, who in January 1997 created the company Isparus (Hisparus). Then the investigation drew attention, in particular, to Gennady Petrov and Sergei Kuzmin. The Spanish police officers were interested in persons who had already come to the attention of the department for combating organized crime in Russia. They appeared in operational information, where they were called members of the organized crime group. In addition, according to the Spanish indictment, their names were known to US and EU law enforcement agencies.

On June 12-13, 2008, 20 Russians were detained in Spain - Leonid Khristoforov, Alexander Malyshev-Gonzalez, Gennady Petrov, Yuri Salikov, Yulia Smolenko, Vitaly Izgilov and others - they were all accused of money laundering, arms trafficking, contract killings, extortion, supply of drugs, forgery of documents, smuggling of cobalt and tobacco. In 1998-1999, Petrov and Kuzmin were co-owners of Rossiya Bank, they each owned 2.2% of the bank's shares, and they were represented at shareholders' meetings by Andrey Shumkov, who was a member of its board of directors in 1998-2000. 14.2% of the shares of the Bank of Russia in 1998-1999 belonged to the St. Petersburg firms Ergen, Forward Limited and Fuel Investment Company (TIK), which were associated with Shumkov. Ergen was owned by Shumkov and Kuzmin, and TIK was co-owned by BHM and Financial Company Petroleum affiliated with Kuzmin and Petrov.

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I was completely shocked by how much torment was in the voice of this woman! .. And, as it turned out, it shocked not only me, the answer stunned her strange husband too, but only in a different way. I felt next to me a wild whirlwind of alien energy that literally tore everything around. Books, flowers, a tea cup - everything that lay on the table flew down with a crash. The neighbor turned pale as a sheet and hurriedly began to push me out. But such “effects” as throwing cups have not frightened me for a very long time. Therefore, I gently pushed the poor shaking woman aside and firmly said:
“If you don’t stop scaring your wife so vilely, I’m leaving, and look for someone else for the same number of years ...
But the man paid no attention to me. Apparently, all these long years, he was only waiting for someone to find someone who could help him "get" his poor wife and his ten-year-old "sacrifice" would not be in vain. And now, when it finally really happened - he completely lost control of himself ...
- Milya, Milenka, I wanted to say for so long ... come with me, dear ... let's go. I alone can't... I can't live without you for so many years... come with me.
He muttered incoherently, repeating the same words all the time. And then it just dawned on me that this man really wanted !!! He asked his living beautiful wife to leave with him in a place, which meant simply to die ... Then I could no longer stand it.
- Listen to you! Yes, you're just crazy! I mentally screamed. “I won’t say those mean words to her!” Get out where you should have been for a long time! .. This is just your place.
I was just throwing up with indignation! .. Can this really happen ?!. I did not yet know what I would do, but I knew one thing for sure - I would not give him this woman for anything in the world.
He was furious that I didn't repeat what he said to her. He yelled at me, yelled at her, cursed with words that I had never heard before ... He cried, if it is possible to call it crying ... And I realized that now he could really become dangerous, but I still didn’t understand how this can happen. Everything in the house was moving wildly, window panes were shattered. Mile stood in a stupor in horror, unable to utter a word. She was very scared, because, unlike me, she did not see anything that happened in that “other” reality that was closed to her, but only saw inanimate objects “dancing” in front of her in some kind of crazy dance. ... and slowly went crazy ...
It’s very funny in books to read about mysterious poltergeists, other realities and admire heroes who always “defeat dragons” ... In reality, there is nothing “funny” in this, except for quiet horror that you don’t know what to do with it, and that because of your helplessness, a good person may die right now...
I suddenly saw how Mila began to sink to the floor and became pale as death. I became terribly scared. I suddenly felt like who I really was then - just a little girl who, through her stupidity, got into something terrible and now does not know how to get out of it all.
“Well, no, no,” I thought, “you won’t get it! ..
And with all her might, she energetically hit this insignificant entity, putting all her indignation into this blow... A strange howl was heard... and everything disappeared. There was no more crazy movement of objects in the room, no more fear... and no more of that strange half-witted man who almost sent his innocent wife to the next world... There was dead silence in the house. Only sometimes some broken things tinkled. Mile sat on the floor with her eyes closed and showed no signs of life. But for some reason I was sure that everything would be fine with her. I walked over to her and stroked her cheek.
“Aunt Milya, it’s all over already,” I whispered softly, trying not to frighten. “He will never come again.
She opened her eyes and cast her weary gaze around her ruined room in disbelief.
- What was it, honey? she whispered.
- It was your husband, Vlad, but he will never come again.
Then it seemed to burst through her ... I had never heard such a heartbreaking cry before! .. It seemed that this poor woman wanted to cry out everything that had accumulated in her life over these long and, as I later found out, very terrible years. But, as they say, no matter what the despair or resentment, you can not cry endlessly. Something overflows in the soul, as if tears wash away all bitterness and pain, and the soul, like a flower, slowly begins to return to life. So Mila, little by little, began to come to life. Surprise appeared in his eyes, gradually replaced by timid joy.
“How do you know he won’t come, little one?” – as if wanting to get confirmation, she asked.
Nobody called me a baby for a long time, and especially at that moment it sounded a little strange, because I was exactly that “baby” who had just, one might say, accidentally saved her life ... But naturally, I was not going to be offended. Yes, and there was no strength, not only to offend, but even just ... to transfer to the sofa. Apparently, everything to the last was "spent" on that single blow, which now I could not repeat for anything.
My neighbor and I sat together for quite a long time, and she finally told me how her husband had been tormenting her all this time (for ten years!!!). True, she was not completely sure then that it was he, but now her doubts were dispelled, and she knew for sure that she was right. Dying, Vlad told her that he would not calm down until he took her with him. That's what I've been trying for so many years...
I couldn’t understand how a person could be so cruel and still dare to call such horror love?! But I was, as my neighbor said, just a little girl who still could not fully believe that sometimes a person can be terrible, even in such a sublime feeling as love ...

One of the most shocking cases in my very long “practice” of contacts with the essences of the dead happened when I once calmly walked home from school on a warm autumn evening ... Usually I always returned much later, since I went to the second shift, and the lessons at we were finished somewhere around seven o'clock in the evening, but that day there were no last two lessons and we were allowed to go home earlier than usual.
The weather was extremely pleasant, I did not want to rush anywhere, and before going home, I decided to take a little walk.
The air smelled of the bittersweet scent of the last autumn flowers. A playful light breeze rustled in the fallen leaves, quietly whispering something bashfully to the bare trees blushing in the reflections of the sunset. Peace and silence breathed soft twilight ...
I really loved this time of day, it attracted me with its mystery and fragility of something that had not happened and at the same time had not even begun ... When today had not yet gone into the past, and the night had not yet come into its own ... Something "no one's" and magical, something, as it were, hung in the "between times", something elusive... I adored this short period of time and always felt very special in it.
But on that day, something “special” happened, but certainly not something special that I would like to see or experience again ...
I calmly walked to the crossroads, thinking deeply about something, when suddenly I was sharply pulled out of my “dreams” by a wild screech of brakes and screams of frightened people.
Directly in front of me, a small white passenger car somehow managed to hit a cement pillar and with all its might hit a huge oncoming car right in the forehead ...
In a matter of moments, the essences of a little boy and a girl “jumped out” from a crumpled white car, looking around in confusion, until they finally stared stunned at their own physical bodies, mutilated by a strong blow ...

In the early 1990s, Petersburg groups were an analogue of dashing bands of robbers operating in a certain territory. These gangs were content with extortions from controlled merchants, and there was enough space under the sun for everyone.

Today, groups are more like principalities: with their own military detachments that ensure order in the possessions, a certain formed “code of laws” - a kind of “gangster truth” and a subject population paying tribute - from a simple stall holder to a banker.
Organized crime is interested not only in small and medium-sized private businesses, but also in large enterprises and even entire industries, including those that are formally controlled by the state.

The relationship of the gangster world with law enforcement agencies has also changed significantly. Businessmen are looking for patronage and protection from raids or unscrupulous partners not only from criminal gangs, but also from people from law enforcement agencies. "Cop" or committee "roofs" have become a powerful factor in the shadow life of Russian business. It is not uncommon for people with secret service certificates to come to gangster "shooters" - not at all to "suppress illegal activities", but to solve business problems between "their own" and "foreign" merchants.

At the same time, criminal gangs are willing to create their own legal security structures - this allows them to legally engage in the protection of controlled companies and openly use firearms.
An example of this approach to business can be called "Delta-22". This private security company controlled several facilities in the northern districts of the city, in particular a large market. The "guards" knocked out debts, kidnapped and killed debtors and competitors from the ranks of the "Chechens" - sometimes they created such chaos that other bandits could envy them. According to some reports, Delta-22 was a legalized part of the combat structure of the Tambovites. Another new factor in the life of organized crime in St. Petersburg was the active penetration of various groups into other regions of the North-West of Russia (Pskov, Novgorod regions and Karelia). And Moscow bandits, for example, the “Solntsevo” group, are showing close interest in St. Petersburg itself.

In 1992, the “Malyshev empire” was considered the most influential in the city on the Neva, and Alexander Malyshev enjoyed authority in criminal circles not only in St. Petersburg, but throughout Russia. At various times, about 20 large and smaller groups operated under the banner of the "empire" with varying degrees of independence. Subsequently, some of them created their own "empires", which are still active today.

Vladimir Kumarin, who has already lost his right arm

Alexander Ivanovich Malyshev was born in 1958, was engaged in wrestling as a child, graduated from a vocational school. In 1977 he was tried for premeditated murder, in 1984 - for "careless" murder. Then he worked as a doorman, a security guard in a restaurant, was a co-operator, commercial director of a music center, a member of the board of JSC. At an early stage of his criminal past, Malyshev "twisted thimbles" at the Hay Market ("foreman" during this period he had Vladimir Kumarin), had the nickname Malysh.

In the late 80s, Malyshev created one of the most powerful St. Petersburg groups, but already in 1989, Malyshev left for Sweden, fleeing from the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. In 1991, he returned for some time to St. Petersburg.

Now Malyshev lives in Spain, where he has large real estate.

The influence of the “Malyshevites” during their heyday extended to the Krasnoselsky, Kirovsky, Moskovsky, part of the Central and Kalininsky regions. Serious objects in other parts of the city were also under control: hotels, car markets, restaurants, gambling establishments.
Alexander Malyshev was one of the first St. Petersburg "authorities" who began to invest in business. Agencies of intimate services, non-ferrous metal buying points, saunas, factories for the production of small-caliber revolvers were created. At one time, the “Malyshevites” crushed the drug dealers under themselves, ousting the “Azerbaijanis” from this sphere.

Malyshev was listed in some commercial structures either as a manager or as a founder. However, during his arrest in October 1992, Alexander Ivanovich declared that he was de unemployed, but lived on the money given to him by kind people. According to some experts, it was Malyshev who was the first to introduce his people into the structures of interest, buy up controlling stakes through nominees and train his own economists in the educational institutions of St. Petersburg.

The arrest of Alexander Ivanovich and two dozen of his closest associates in the fall of 1992 caused a commotion in criminal St. Petersburg. Law enforcement agencies trumpeted their victory. And the underworld was preparing for big changes...

Moscow immediately tried to take advantage of the situation, who had long been trying to subdue the underworld of the second capital. In 1993, a wave of assassination attempts on the leaders of St. Petersburg groups swept through the city. And they arranged a division, trying in the absence of the owner to grab a fatter piece from the “Malyshev empire”. However, the decline of the “Malyshevites” came later. The victory of the police was, to put it mildly, incomplete. First, in the summer of 1993, the closest accomplices of Alexander Ivanovich were released from prison on bail or bail: Berlin, Kirpichev, Petrov and Rakhmatulin.

More about Berlin. This businessman (a mathematician by education), while still a part-time student and Komsomol activist, began his ascent into the world of big business by making fake branded jeans. In 1974, he was charged with burglary. An attempt to play schizophrenia led to the fact that Berlin spent 13 years in a mental hospital, where he studied Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Swedish. In the late 80s, having gone free, he went into the computer business. In 1992, along with the rest of the noble “Malyshevites”, he was arrested. August 25, 1993 was released due to lack of evidence. In February 1994, he was kidnapped by a rival gang. The militia rescued the economic adviser of the "empire" from captivity. Without waiting for the trial, Berlin fled to Germany, where he ended up in the famous Moabit prison for a number of economic frauds on German territory.

They tried repeatedly to release Malyshev before the trial, including with the help of deputies of the State Duma, in particular Alexander Nevzorov. The noisy process ended in poof: the charge of banditry was dropped, many of the defendants were acquitted. Malyshev himself received a sentence for illegally carrying a ladies' revolver.
He was credited with a preliminary detention, and he left the courtroom to freedom.
And yet the main thing was done: the figure of Malyshev was taken out of the brackets of the active life of urban criminal gangs. During his imprisonment, a herniated intervertebral disc was discovered in him, one leg began to dry out. Shortly after his release, he went abroad to improve his health. According to some reports, today he is in Spain, where he has real estate. But no one has yet been able to fully manage their own "business", constantly being several thousand kilometers away from it. Malyshev did not succeed either.

After the departure of Malyshev, the struggle for the redistribution of spheres of influence flared up with renewed vigor.
In 1995, due to his own stupidity and dashing, a well-known Criminal authority nicknamed Maradona, whom Malyshev sent to control Pskov. In December 1995, Stas Fried died in Kresty. The official version is a drug overdose.
In the spring of 1996, Oleg Romanov was killed in Moscow (according to some sources, one of the leaders of the capital's "winged" group), who was accused in the "Malyshevsky" case.

In June 1996, Vyacheslav Kirpichev was shot dead in the bar of the Joy nightclub. In March 1997, another "devyatka" veteran, the Elephant, became a victim. According to competent sources, after Malyshev left for Spain, the Elephant could not cope with the youth, whom he himself selected for the Krasnoselsk brigade. It was with the growing influence of the young that his fears about his share, which the representatives of the younger generation would begin to “cut”, were connected.

The position of the “Malyshevites” was also seriously affected by the death of Svinar, who was considered the “arbitrator and minister of foreign affairs” of the “Malyshev empire”. The deceased acted as a link between various groups. Possessing diplomatic talents, Svinar was able to resolve conflicts peacefully, without leading to large-scale showdowns. He lived in Roshchina, where he had several houses. He died in 1995 from cirrhosis of the liver. While he was in the hospital, people came to him and there to "solve problems" - 50-60 people a day.
After the death of the Pig, Komaru had to make a lot of room. This former chef has become a serious "authority" in the zone. His group controlled many objects in the resort area of ​​St. Petersburg: cafes, restaurants, campsites, recreation centers, foreign tourism. Komar invested in sports complexes and restaurant business.

He built a dacha for himself - a mini-castle in the "new Russian" style - not so far from the dacha choirs of the St. Petersburg ex-mayor. According to rumors, Komar refused to deal with drugs and had a very bad attitude towards prostitution. For a long time, Komaru and his people managed to keep outsiders in their possessions: “Tambovites”, “Kazanians” and representatives of other criminal groups. Shortly before the death of Svinar, several assassination attempts were organized on Komar by bandits from Caucasian structures. Then several of his bodyguards died, but the "authority" survived. True, he chose to hide from Russia and is now in Thailand.

Today, according to some reports, the control of the “Malyshevites” over the resort area has changed to “Chechen”. According to others - to "Kazan".
Broiler is one of the few authoritative figures of the "Malyshev empire" who survived, despite seven assassination attempts organized against him. For some time Broiler's group was based in a sports club in Vsevolozhsk. Then his "office" consisted of 80-100 active "fighters".

At one time, Broiler actively created for himself the image of a businessman - a patron of the arts. He was even listed as the founder of the newspaper "Rhythms of the City". According to some reports, the Oktyabrskaya Hotel is under Broiler's control. From 1995 to 1997, he was in Kresty, where he was imprisoned on suspicion of extortion. During this time, most of his possessions went to the hands of friends from the "Malyshev empire." After Broiler's release, Broiler's demands for the return of "his possessions" were received without enthusiasm. An assassination attempt was organized on him, after which Broiler, wounded by automatic fire, left for treatment in Bulgaria. Now he is back in St. Petersburg.

Today it is hardly possible to say that the “Malyshevskaya” group exists. It has broken into several small but active groups that no longer have the influence that they used to. Akula, the leader of a group that was once part of the "Malyshev empire", is still alive. He patronizes a number of firms and individuals involved in the paper and forestry business in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. He also controls several security structures, including those where former employees of the KGB and other bodies work. His team, according to some reports, controls the Avtov area.

Another fragment of the “empire” is the Musik group, which has about fifty people in its active membership. This group operates in the Krasnoselsky district.
The brigade of the Zhukov brothers, the Petrov group, the people of the Shanaev brothers stood out in special "destinies". It is known about the latter that they took the place of the murdered Kitayets, one of Malyshev's former associates, who until his death held the territory of the Zvezdny market under his control. Little is known about other Malyshev "authorities": Trofim has gone into business and is trying to keep his new image clean; the Timofeev brothers, according to rumors, disappeared from the criminal firmament.

Born September 9, 1958 in Leningrad. He arrived in St. Petersburg from places of deprivation of liberty in 1995.

Previously engaged in wrestling, but did not achieve much success. He has many acquaintances among athletes. After two terms of imprisonment in 1977 (premeditated murder) and in 1984 (careless murder) he was a "thimblemaker" at the Hay Market, worked under the cover of the Kumarin group and had the nickname "Baby". He put together his own group in the late 80s, uniting under his leadership the "Tambovites", "Kolesnikovites", "Kemerovo", "Komarovtsy", "Perm", "Kudryashov", "Kazan", "Tarasov", "Severodvinsk" , "Saranians", "Efimovites", "Voronezh", "Azerbaijanis", "Krasnoyarsk", "Chechens", "Dagestanis", "Krasnoseltsev", "Vorkuta" and bandits from Ulan-Ude. Each group consisted of 50 to 250 people. The total number of the group is about 2,000 militants.

He was the manager of Nelli-Druzhba LLP and the founder of the Tatti company, which owns a network of commercial stores.

After a showdown with the Tambovites, he fled to Sweden, from where he spread rumors about his death in a shootout. He returned after the failure of the trials of his colleagues. In October 1992, Malyshev and 18 of his closest connections were arrested during the implementation of the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the case of businessman Dadonov. On August 25, 1993, the closest associates of Malyshev: Kirpichev, Berlin, Petrov were released on bail. The Association of Boxers of St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation of French Boxing, the Tonus cooperative and the administration of the prison where he was kept petitioned for the release of another colleague, Rashid Rakhmatulin. Rashid was released, and the supervising prosecutor V. Osipkin, who opposed this, was soon dismissed from the prosecutor's office.

The trial of Malyshev ended in 1995, he was sentenced for illegal possession and possession of weapons to 2.5 years of general regime, but since he spent 2 years and 11 months in the SIZO, he was released.

Source: Kompromat.Ru, 1996

Alexander Malyshev moved to Spanish Malaga at the very beginning of the 2000s together with Olga Solovieva. In essence, Malyshev fled from Russia. This happened back in the spring of 1998 - after a series of failed assassination attempts on him. In the same year, he managed to obtain Estonian citizenship. When it turned out that during the paperwork, Alexander Ivanovich presented a fake birth certificate, the Estonian authorities imprisoned the newly-made citizen for a whole month. Of course, this was far from Malyshev's first walker - he had previously been under arrest on charges of premeditated murder, banditry and illegal possession of weapons.

After his release, Malyshev hastily left Estonia and took refuge in Spain. Here he appeared already as Alexander Langas Gonzalez, marrying a Hispanic woman and taking her last name.

For the period approximately 2001-2008, according to the Spanish police, the volume of laundered money amounted to more than 10 million euros.

In 2002, Malyshev was detained in Germany on suspicion of forging documents to obtain Estonian citizenship.

At the moment, with Gennady Petrov and Sergey Kuzmin, Malyshev shares the highest place in the hierarchy of the criminal group they created.

Source: Novaya Gazeta No. 50 dated 07/16/2008

Dossier:

In the mid-90s, Alexander Malyshev was seen by journalists like this.

Malyshevskaya OCG is the most numerous, but less organized criminal community. He has mafia connections in the middle management of the city. It includes a large number of criminal elements. Dangerous in physical collision. The main goal is large commercial structures (including banks). One of the methods is to get your people to work in structures and firms of interest, to acquire a controlling stake, to train your own economic personnel in the official educational institutions of the city.

Spheres of influence: Krasnoselsky, Kirovsky and Moskovsky, part of the Central and Kalininsky districts of St. Petersburg.

hotels: "Oktyabrskaya", "Okhtinskaya", "Pribaltiyskaya",

restaurants: "Polyarny", "Universal", "Petrobir"

markets: automotive in the Frunzensky district, on the street. Marshal Kazakov and allegedly took control of the Nekrasovsky market.

Trade in antiques. Gambling business. Particularly controls Nevsky Prospekt.

Malyshev's residence was located in the Pulkovskaya Hotel, there was an office on Berezovaya Alley (Kamenny Ostrov), where he received businessmen and, in particular, met with Oleg Golovin, chairman of the board of Petrovsky Bank. The mediator in the negotiations was a citizen of Cyprus Getelson.

He maintained contacts with Moscow through the leader of the "winged" group Oleg Romanov (killed in autumn 1994). He created a number of bandit firms: calling prostitutes at home, cafes, saunas, buying up non-ferrous metals, etc.

I used Caucasians to work on knocking out debts. He transferred money to financial institutions (banks) of Cyprus, with their help he achieved influence on the largest banks in St. Petersburg. With the money of Malyshev, the Kiselev Music Center was created, the holidays "Vivat St. Petersburg!" and White Nights of Rock 'n' Roll. Organized the underground production of small-caliber revolvers. At the meeting in 1993, he secured the drug trade, leaving the "Azerbaijanis" only the sale of agricultural products.

After the arrest of Malshev, Moscow thieves in law tried to get their hands on St. Petersburg crime. Andrey Berzin (Trouble) who spoke against this in March 1993 at the Moscow-Petersburg gangway was killed. In the same year, there were attempts on almost all prominent St. Petersburg bandits.

Despite the fact that Malyshev was in prison for a long time, his authority still remained high. Through his lawyers, he continued to manage cases. Its structure by 1995 consisted of 350-400 fighters.

Source: Kompromat.ru, 1996

On June 13, 2008, Alexander Malyshev was arrested in Spain as part of the high-profile Troika operation.
Some time after the high-profile arrests, the journalists were able to understand in general terms the essence of the offenses incriminated against Russian gangsters in Spain.
Firstly, a list of detainees was published on June 13, 2008 in different cities of Spain:

Gennady Petrov;

Yuri Salikov (Petrov's longtime companion);

Yulia Ermolenko (Petrov's legal adviser);

Leonid Khristoforov (Petrov's right hand);

Alexander Malyshev, aka Alexander Lagnas Gonzalez;

Svetlana Kuzmina (wife of Sergei Kuzmin, an old comrade of Petrov);

Leonid Khazin;

Olga Solovieva (civil wife of Malyshev);

Ildar Mustafin (accomplice of Malyshev in the early 90s);

Juan Antonio Felix (Spanish lawyer);

Ignacio Pedro (Spanish lawyer);

Julian Perez (Spanish lawyer);

Zhanna Gavrilenkova (wife of Viktor Gavrilenkov - Stepanych Jr.);

Vitaly Izgilov (Moscow thief in law, nicknamed Vitalik the Beast);

Vadim Romanyuk.

It was in this sequence that their names appeared in the official papers of the Spanish justice. Of those listed, only Zhanna Gavrilenkova and Leonid Khazin were released by the court on bail of 100,000 euros and 6,000 euros, respectively. The remaining thirteen were arrested.

According to journalistic sources, development began several years ago. Since the autumn of 2007, the Spanish police have been actively listening to the mobile phones of the arrested, conducting secret surveillance of them, and recording the arrivals of guests. As part of the international cooperation program, investigators received information from Greece, Germany and Russia.

The press drew attention to the fact that even in the general, descriptive part of the charge, the documents contain accurate data on the past convictions of Petrov, Malyshev, Khristoforov, Kuzmin and Mustafin. Moreover, the Spanish Themis knows which of them and when went through the same criminal cases together and how they met decades ago.

Further, the documents contain information about the hierarchy in the world of the "Russian mafia". According to officials of the Ministry of Justice, after the arrest of Vladimir Kumarin in 2007, Gennady Petrov became the most influential figure. This was due to the huge amount of money he accumulated and his connections with high-profile people from 1996 to 2008. The Spaniards are convinced that Petrov's relationship with Malyshev was not excessively close. Nevertheless, it is Alexander Malyshev who can be called the boss. So, according to one of the reports, “Malyshev depended on Petrov financially, and Petrov on Malyshev - historically. Only Malyshev had the opportunity to order and act by force.

Next to Gennady Petrov, the Spaniards put the figures of Yuri Salikov and Sergei Kuzmin. Yulia Ermolenko is considered to be Petrov's trusted legal adviser. Leonid Khristoforov is also present in the scheme, as a person especially responsible for the security of Petrov's business in Russia.

And in the immediate vicinity of Malyshev, according to the calculations of the Spaniards, is Ildar Mustafin. His area of ​​responsibility is similar to that of Christopher. Alexander Malyshev's personal clerk is called his common-law wife, Olga Solovieva.

Victor Gavrilenkov and his wife Jeanne settled near the Malyshev-Petrov connection. It is thanks to Gavrilenkov that the Spaniards add the brand "Tambov" to the adjective "Malyshevskoe". Indeed, Viktor Gavrilenkov is the brother of Nikolai Gavrilenkov, nicknamed Stepanych, who was killed in St. Petersburg in 1995.

At one time, they peacefully coexisted in the same brigade with Vladimir Kumarin, until nine bullets hit Kumarin in 1994. Kumarin never concealed his certainty that it was the Stepanychis who made the decision to liquidate him. After the assassination attempt, which cost Kumarin his hand, it so happened that Gavrilenkov Sr. was buried in the Kiev-Pechora Lavra, and the younger was shot from machine guns at the Nevsky Palace Hotel in 1996.

Victor Gavrilenkov appeared in St. Petersburg only after the arrest of Vladimir Kumarin - 12 years later.

In connection with the interest in the history of the origin of private property and Russian capital in the provinces of Malaga, Valencia and the Balearic Islands, journalists mentioned Vitaly Izgilov, a Moscow thief in law nicknamed Vitalik the Beast. They did not support the opinion that Izgilov was closely connected with the federal thief in law Shakro-young, who had settled there. They referred to the recordings of Izgilov's telephone conversations legalized in court. According to Spanish law enforcement officers, many films reflect the stereotype of the behavior of Russian gangsters in Spain.

Although the main focus of the charges still concerns tax crimes, nevertheless, all those arrested are charged with two unifying articles of the Spanish Criminal Code - 517th, part 1, 517th, parts 1, 2. They relate to the organization of a criminal community.

The following are accusations under articles: 301 - legalization of proceeds from crime; 390 and 392 - falsification of financial and other documents; 305 - tax crimes against public property; 251 - forged contracts.

An analysis carried out by law enforcement agencies suggests that since the mid-1990s, in Spain, the defendants have created several closed joint-stock companies, which received huge funds from the offshores of Cyprus, Panama and the Virgin Islands. In turn, these ZAOs, through their subsidiaries specializing in real estate transactions, laundered money by buying up land and mansions in Spain. The Spanish side directly names two main structures involved in illegal transactions: Inmobiliara Calvia 2001 and Inmobiliara Balear 2001.

In addition to accusations of non-payment of taxes on tens of millions of euros, the Spaniards consider all real estate transactions of these companies illegal and are confident that they will be able to confiscate assets worth 30 million euros. In the meantime, the assets of the detainees and their accounts have been seized. According to the materials of the criminal cases initiated against our "authoritative" fellow countrymen, there are many Russians who the Spanish royal prosecutor's office could not take by surprise.

The prosecutor's office believes that in addition to Mikhail Rebo, the financial brain of the "Tambov-Malyshevsky" arrested by the German police in Berlin, the following may be involved in fraud:

Sergei Kuzmin (Petrov's partner);

Salikov's wife Marlena Barbara Salikova (Polish by nationality);

Ruslan Tarkovsky (Mustafin's partner);

Suren Zotov (a major businessman from Russia);

The Botishev family (Sergey, wife Nina, daughter Anna), who own five offshore companies in Cyprus;

Tatyana Solovieva (mother of Solovieva) and Irina Usova (sister of Solovieva),

Dordibai Khalimov;

Boris Pevzner.

Also, the court of Spain has frozen 25 million euros received on the accounts of companies controlled by the accused, from banks in Russia, Panama, the Cayman Islands, the USA, Latvia, Switzerland and the UK.

But the core of the accusations are the materials received from the Spanish tax police.

For example, on May 30, 2005, CJSC Internasion, owned by Gennady Petrov, purchased the SASHA yacht for 3.5 million euros, but did not pay VAT. That is, she hid from paying 530 thousand euros. And on June 22, 2005, Gennady Petrov donated seven large land plots in favor of CJSC Inmobiliara and in return received 4,000,000 shares at a price of 1 euro per share. For which he did not pay taxes.

And there are hundreds of such examples.

The Spanish government is convinced that it understands how money from offshores was legalized through a ZAO. After that, they bought real estate in Spain and Germany. It is not yet clear where the money came from offshore. And whose money was it?

Help. Articles of the Criminal Code of Spain imputed to members of the "Tambov-Malyshevsky" community:
515, 517 - creation of illegal (criminal) associations - up to 12 years in prison;

390, 392 - forgery of an official or commercial document - up to three years in prison;

305 - causing damage to the state treasury of Spain - up to six years in prison;

301 - acquisition of property knowingly obtained by criminal means - up to two years in prison;

251 - assignment of false rights to property - up to four years in prison.

It must be taken into account that, in accordance with Spanish law, punishments under certain articles can be summed up when sentencing.