Obama Targets Russian Mob Boss
The U.S. government has publicly added 12 Russian officials to a list of human right violators but he head of the Russian Investigative Committee may be on a still secret part of that list.The State...
View ArticleRussian crime boss arrested in Spain on murder charges
MOSCOW, May 22 (RAPSI) – A leader of a Russian organized crime group suspected of over 20 murders has been arrested in Spain, Kommersant newspaper writes.In the late 1990s, Dmitry Zavyalov and two of...
View ArticleJapanese firms importing illegal Russian timber
TOKYO, June 11, 2014 /Nassau News Live/ — Significant quantities of illegal timber products from the forests of Siberia and the Russian Far East are flowing into Japan, according to a new report by the...
View ArticleRussian Diplomat Loses Defamation Claims
By JEFF D. GORMAN (CN) - Investigative journalists who wrote about off-shore money laundering did not defame a former Russian diplomat and his company, a Maryland appeals court ruled. At issue...
View ArticleAlleged Russian organized crime boss arrested in Thailand
BANGKOK, June 25 (RAPSI) – Alexander Matusov, aka Basmach, the alleged leader of the Shchyolkovo organized crime gang, has been arrested in Thailand at the request of Interpol’s National Central Bureau...
View ArticleRussian Organized Crime Member Sentenced for “Cold Blooded Murder”
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BORIS LISYANKSY was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for his role in hiring a hitman to kill two...
View ArticleMoldova: Criminal Underground Feeds Ukrainian Civil War With Russian Weapons
By Mihai MunteanuCHISINAU, Moldova - One of the most powerful criminal groups in Moldova offered a reporter from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Russian army weapons...
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Russian Hackers Steal From U.S. Banks
By Inigo Monzon Russian hackers reportedly carried out a cyber attack on JPMorgan Chase and other banking institutions based in the U.S. on Wednesday, according to Tech News World.Despite the report,...
View ArticleRussia Scaling Back Help on Fighting Mafia, Germany Says
By Patrick Donahue Russian authorities have shown “significant” restraint in cooperation with investigations into organized crime in Germany since the outbreak of the crisis in Ukraine, Germany’s top...
View ArticleReputed Russian Mobster Boasts Of Putin Wristwatch Honor
By Carl SchreckSeptember 30, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly denounced the chaos, criminality, and gangster capitalism that beset his country in the so-called "wild 1990s"...
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Moscow Lawyer In High Profile Organized Crime Case Killed
A lawyer, who represented an alleged victim of the notorious Orekhovo criminal group in Moscow, has been assassinated. Police in the Russian capital say that Vitaly Moiseyev and his wife were found...
View ArticleMurder mystery: Who shot penny-stock promoters?
Kathleen Hopkins Solve this case Do you have information about the double murders? Contact the FBI at (212) 384-1000 or the Monmouth County Crimestoppers hotline at 1-800-671-4400. Crimestoppers is...
View ArticleMoscow police official brands ethnic gangs main problem
Ethnic gangs are the biggest organized crime problem in Moscow and Russia as a whole, according to chief of the Moscow police's criminal investigative division Maj. Gen. Igor Zinoviev."Most crimes are...
View ArticleHow the Invasion of Ukraine Is Shaking Up the Global Crime Scene
By Mark Galeotti As Putin's "little green men" were taking Crimea back in March, I was speaking with both cops and gangsters in Moscow who saw this as a great business opportunity—a chance for Russian...
View ArticleRussian Gangs Of New York
By Carl SchreckWhen journalist Alexandre Grant began covering crime some 25 years ago, gangsters and roughnecks who'd decamped from the teetering Soviet Union roamed New York City's Russian-speaking...
View ArticleRussian criminal tattoos: breaking the code
Soviet prisoners had a secret language – tattoos. Will Hodgkinson deciphers the hidden meaning of skulls, cats, grins and swastikas Will HodgkinsonDanzig Baldaev grew up in a Russian children's home,...
View ArticleAfghan drug traffic most serious threat to post-Soviet states — Russian official
MOSCOW, November 27. /TASS/. Afghan drug traffic is the most serious threat to Collective Security Treaty Organization member states, Russian presidential commissioner for international cooperation...
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