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Russian mafia ‘is using scheme meant for UK farmers to launder £60bn of dirty money’By David Wooding, Sunday Political EditorRUSSIAN mobsters have used a business scheme for British farmers to launder...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of the Age-Old Kremlin-Vor Alliance (Op-ed)
From Stalin to Putin, the Kremlin's mutually beneficial ties to Russian gangsters go way back.The current geopolitical tussle between Russia and the West has impoverished our debate. Too often, it...
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Inconvenient doc
St. Petersburg police are seeking the whereabouts in the United States of Dozhd TV news channel editor Roman Badanin in connection with a film linking a Russian businessman suspected of mafia...
View ArticleNotorious Russian mobster says he just wants to go home
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNEW YORK (AP) — New York's most notorious living Russian mobster just wants to go back to the motherland.Once flush from heroin trafficking, tax fraud schemes and other criminal...
View ArticleThe long arm of the Russian super mafia
Legalised crime has been established in Russia for over a century. But the kickbacks for Putin’s cronies are on the scale of billionsMark Galeotti’s study of Russian organised crime, the product of...
View ArticleBattle for crime lord title
Eduard Asatryan (Edik Osetrina)Shishkan to become crime lord No. 1 after Shakro Molodoy’s convictionOsetrina to create influential clan from among his former enemies"Boss of all bosses" of Russian...
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Russian crime lord Shakro Molodoy's case is full of legal knots
Moscow's deputy prosecutor Vladimir Vedernikov addressed to the Presidium of the Moscow City Court asking to declare an arrest of thief in law Zakhar Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy) illegal. Two of his...
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Businesswoman of Ukrainian and Russian origin stabbed to death in Montenegro
Police of the resort city of Kotor, Montenegro, are investigating the murder of a Ukrainian and Russian citizen Anastasiya Lashmanova, whose fortune exceeded a hundred million euros.According to...
View ArticlePop singer Grigory Leps denied entry to Israel over mafia ties
Grigory Leps The Israel authorities do not officially comment on the reason for the denial of the singer’s entry. A Knesset deputy from the repatriate party, Yuliya Malinovskaya, sent a request to the...
View ArticleThieves-in-glamour. ‘Authoritative’ criminals change old rules
The thieves’ world became much more glamorous in the recent decades in the times of change. The Soviet ideas of bright future and freedom slogans of the 1990s have ultimately transformed into trivial...
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Summer of 1985,
Summer of 1985, Vladimir Babushkin (Vasya Brilliant (Vasya Diamond)), one of the most distinguished figures in the criminal world of the 20th century, died in Bely Lebed (White Swan) maximum security...
View ArticleAward-Winning Coral Springs Author Publishes Latest Novel
By: Sharon Aron BaronAward-winning author and Coral Springs resident Richard Wickliffe has just published a new novel inspired by real crimes involving Miami Russian mafia – with a bit of literary...
View ArticleTop Russian Investigator Jailed in Explosive Mafia Bribe Case
Alexander Lamonov (Sergei Kiselyov / Moskva News Agency)A top crime-fighting official in Moscow has been sentenced to five years in jail for accepting a bribe from one of Russia’s most notorious mafia...
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Sunday Night claims links between Australian banks and Russian criminals
LINKS between the major Aussie banks and Russian mobsters involved with money laundering — and murder — have been revealed.Matt Doran and Stephen Ricenews.com.auJULY 30, 2018 ON A cool evening in...
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Russian sisters who killed 'mafia boss' dad are accused of making up story...
Mikhail Khachaturyan, 57, was attacked by his daughters Kristina, 19, Angelina, 18 and Three Russian sisters charged with the murder of their 'mafia boss' dad have been accused of making up a story...
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The FSB detained seven people in Moscow on suspicion of extortion.
The FSB detained seven people in Moscow on suspicion of extortion. Among them was Yury Yesin, going by nickname Samosval, who was named in the case of ‘Russian mafia’ in Italy in the 1990s.In the...
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