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Former leader of the Kazan mafia in Moscow. [2] Sergey Tsapok Russian: Krasnodar-based gang leader, responsible for the Kushchevskaya massacre [3] Tariel Oniani: Georgian: Taro: Georgian crime boss, thief in law. Jaba Ioseliani: Georgian: Former thief-in-law and leader of the Mkhedrioni militia Merab Bakhia: Georgian: Bakha-Bakha
The Chechen mafia is one of the largest ethnic organized crime groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia groups. The Georgian mafia is regarded as one of the biggest, powerful and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the biggest number of thieves in law in all former USSR countries.
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.
The term Russian Mafia, 'mafiya' or mob is a blanket (and somewhat inaccurate) term for the various organized crime groups that emerged in this period from the 15 former republics of the USSR and unlike their Italian counterparts does not mean members are necessarily of Russian ethnicity or uphold any ancient criminal traditions, although this ...
Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov (Russian: Вячесла́в Кири́ллович Иванько́в; 2 January 1940 – 9 October 2009) was a Russian mafia boss and thief in law who was believed to have connections with Russian state intelligence organizations and their organized crime partners. [1]
James "Big Jim" Colosimo (1878–1920), assassinated; Salvatore "Toto" D'Aquila (1878–1928), assassinated; Sebastiano DiGaetano (1862–?), disappeared in 1912 ...
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.
The gang's leader was Sergey Timofeev, nicknamed "Sylvester" after Sylvester Stallone for his muscular build. Todorov established contacts with other prominent underworld figures such as Vyacheslav Ivankov and Sergei Mikhailov. In 1989 the gang merged with the Solntsevskaya bratva to combat the growing threat of Chechen mafia gangs.