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Russian organized crime has a rather large stronghold in the city of Atlanta where members are distinguished by their tattoos. Russian organized crime was reported to have a stronger grip in the French Riviera region and Spain in 2010; [6] and Russia was branded as a virtual "mafia state" according to the WikiLeaks cables. [44]
The Solntsevskaya gang was founded in the late 1980s by Sergei Mikhailov, a former waiter who had served a prison term for fraud.Based in the Solntsevo District of Moscow, the gang recruited local unemployed, aggressive young men as foot soldiers and also made use of thief in law Dzhemal Khachidze to enhance their reputation amongst established criminals.
In 2020, the murder rate in Russia was 4.7 per 100,000 people, according to Rosstat (the Russian Federal State Statistics Service). [2] According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the homicide rate was 7.3 in 2020 compared to 10.9 in 2016, a significant decrease over the previous 20 years (in 2000, the homicide rate was 28.1), and only slightly higher than the United ...
The Kushchyovskaya massacre, carried out on 4 November 2010, was the murder of 12 people including four children in the village of Kushchyovskaya, Krasnodar Krai of southern Russia. The ethnic Tatar [ 3 ] family of wealthy local farmer Server Ametov was targeted and stabbed to death, together with visiting friends and a bystander. [ 4 ]
One of top leaders of organized crime in Russia. [11] Kamal Huseynov: Azerbaijani: Kamal Tovuzsky Leader of powerful Azeri organized crime family in Moscow. [12] Arif Askerov: Azerbaijani: Arif Leader of powerful Gardabani organized crime society in Moscow, it is consisted of ethnic Azeris from Georgia. [13] Mukhtarov Hikmet: Azerbaijani
The founder of a pro-Russian militia group in eastern Ukraine, described by authorities in Kyiv as a “criminal mastermind”, has died following a bombing in central Moscow, according to Russian ...
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.
An east Ukrainian crime boss and separatist wanted by Kyiv was killed with one other person in a blast at a luxury residential complex in Moscow on Monday, Russian media reported.