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Mogilevich was born in 1946 to a Jewish family in Kyiv's Podil neighborhood. [18] He graduated in economics from the University of Lviv. [19]His first significant fortune derived from scamming fellow Soviet Jews (mainly Ukrainian and Russian) eager to emigrate, including to Israel, the country where Mogilevich himself briefly lived in 1990.
Some sources indicate that notorious criminal boss Semion Mogilevich (associated with Dmytro Firtash) also owned shares in the company. [ 184 ] [ 185 ] When Tymoshenko resumed her prime minister duties in 2007, she initiated direct relations between Ukraine and Russia with regard to gas trading.
According to FBI reports, the crime boss Semion Mogilevich had alliances with the Camorra, in particular with Salvatore DeFalco, a lower-echelon member of the Giuliano clan. Mogilevich and DeFalco would have held meetings in Prague in 1993. [23] [24] Semion Mogilevich's net worth is estimated to be 10 billion dollars. [25]
Standing 5 feet 6 inches and pushing the scales at close to 300 pounds, the 69-year-old Ukrainian-born Mogilevich not only, according to the FBI, has his fingers in the usual pots — contract ...
Jewish Russian crime bosses such as Semion Mogilevich acquired Israeli citizenship and laundered money through Israel. The Russian mafia saw Israel as an ideal place to launder money, as Israel's banking system was designed to encourage aliyah, the immigration of Jews, and the accompanying capital.
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William Sessions was the American attorney of Semion Mogilevich, the "boss of bosses" of the Russian mafia, and a member of the FBI Most Wanted Fugitives list, with close ties to Vladimir Putin. [20] [21] [22]
In 2006, an ally of Tymoshenko stated in the Rada that Firtash's Switzerland registered RosUkrEnergo, which has been the dominant natural gas supplier to Ukraine since 2003 after it replaced the Hungarian registered Eural Trans Gas which had replaced Itera in December 2002, has Semion Mogilevich, who has many Russian mafia associates, as a ...