"Kazansky" recalled the draconian past. "Sevastopol" left the strict regime Assassination of the dragon: version of the victim
In Tatarstan, a verdict was passed in the high-profile case of the Sevastopolsky group, which committed numerous murders, the leader of which the investigation considers the former sports director of the Rubin football club Rustem Saymanova. He and the other defendants were acquitted of the most serious charge of banditry due to the statute of limitations. Therefore, the court appointed Saymanov only six years in a penal colony, although the prosecutor's office asked for 13 years of strict imprisonment for him. The remaining defendants also received minimum sentences, and some were even released from punishment.Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan completed a two-day verdict in a criminal case against 14 defendants who, according to investigators, were part of the Sevastopol gang, created in Moscow from several Kazan organized crime groups. Moscow businessman Radika Yusupova the court found guilty of one attempt, and the former sports director of the Kazan FC "Rubin" Rustem Saymanov and others - under Art. 102 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR ("Murder"). Saimanov was considered by the investigation to be the leader of the "Sevastopol", and others - members of the gang. But the day before yesterday, the court (at the request of the prosecutor's office) decided to stop their criminal prosecution under Art. 77 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (“Banditism”) “due to the expiration of the statute of limitations”, and for the same reason he dropped the charges of attempted crimes from some defendants. As a result, the three alleged "Sevastopol" were completely released from criminal prosecution and released, and 11 remaining defendants listened to their verdict yesterday.
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In 1994, he declared war on the founder of the Kazan organized criminal group "Zhilka" Khaidar Zakirov (Haider), who wanted to take control of all Kazan criminals, and Uzky - to force him to pay him a percentage of the profits. According to investigators, Uzky was actively supported by people from various Kazan groups - Rustem Saimanov (Saiman), Zufar Utyaganov (Iron) and Vladimir Moiseev (Moses) (the last two were wanted, but now detained), as well as Radik Yusupov (Dragon). The "authority" was personally acquainted with them from the end of the 80s - he had common interests related to business. After the declaration of war, at the direction of Uzky, several "Zhilkovskys" were killed. In February 1995, the "authority" died of a heart attack. Then, according to the investigation, leadership in the gang (and, according to operational data, part of Uzky's business) passed to Saymanov, Utyaganov and Moiseev. As for Radik Yusupov, contrary to the opinion of the operatives that he began to manage the "Sevastopol", the investigation concluded that he was only a member of the gang - he was engaged in business, replenishing its "common fund". The new leaders offered a truce to Hyder, who refused, saying he intended to destroy them. As a result, according to investigators, they bought a batch of firearms, and they themselves began to shoot members of Zhilka and those who supported them. At the same time, the gang members took refuge with their families in the Sevastopol Hotel - they lived on the highest floors so that a sniper would not get them, and also created their own private security company (according to operational data, former intelligence officers worked in it), which guarded the building.
On October 19, 1996, local "authoritative" businessman Mikhail Zarakhovich (Zakhar) was shot dead by "Sevastopol" in Kazan in the elevator of his house on Adoratsky Street. He was in the oil business, owned several commercial firms, and supported Haider. And on August 26, 1996, in St. Petersburg, Haider himself, as well as two of his bodyguards, were shot dead from a sniper rifle, a CZ-527 carbine and a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
The Sevastopol gang has been in development since 1999. Detentions and arrests of gang members began in May 2008. Then there were arrested Rustem Saimanov and Radik Yusupov. Saimanov by that time (since 2006) worked as the sports director of FC Rubin and managed to organize the most high-profile acquisitions for the club on the transfer market.
[Chempionat.Ru, 08/17/2010, "The ex-director of Rubin was sentenced to six years in prison": Note that it was with the participation of Saymanov that Rubin signed contracts with Sergei Semak, Sergei Rebrov, Alexei Rebko, Savo Milosevic, Gekdeniz Karadeniz . - Inset K.ru]
The court appointed Rustem Saymanov six years in a penal colony. At the same time, the court took into account the fact that Saymanov "did a lot for the Rubin football club" as mitigating circumstances. It should be noted that earlier a pre-trial agreement was concluded with him, according to which he pleaded guilty, avoiding a long punishment.
Radik Yusupov, who was found guilty of involvement in the attempt on the "Zhilkovsky" authority of Artur Yakupov (Akula, is now serving a sentence for participation in the organized crime group) in April 1996, received four years in prison, but was immediately released from punishment "due to the expiration of the term prescription."
Another defendant, Farit Khabipov, who, according to investigators, being a police officer in the 90s, helped "Sevastopol" to commit crimes, received a five-year suspended sentence, but was also released from punishment for similar reasons. The rest of the defendants received from suspended sentences up to 9.5 years in a general regime colony.
Senior assistant prosecutor of Tatarstan Ravil Vakhitov told Kommersant that the decision to appeal the verdict would be made only after a detailed study of the court's decision and court records. At the debate, the state prosecution asked for 13 years for Rustem Saimanov, 12 years for Radik Yusupov, and long terms for the rest, all of them in a strict regime colony.
A former member of the organized criminal group "Nizy" - one of those that kept Kazan in fear in the 90s, gave a public lecture in Moscow. Robert Garaev, now a DJ, spoke about what made children and teenagers join gangs, engage in racketeering and fight against rival gangs wall to wall. With the collapse of the USSR, Garayev and his peers fell into a bloody whirlpool, from which few managed to escape. The correspondent attended the performance of the ex-fighter "Nizov" and listened to his stories about the bloody annals of Kazan in the 90s, which were included in a book that has not yet been published.
The mystery of the "Kazan phenomenon"
Robert Garaev's lecture was held in a small underground bar in the center of Moscow. A small hall, a couple of sofas, a few armchairs - the bar staff had to bring additional benches for the audience, which turned out to be quite a lot. There were also Moscow youth in torn jeans and with glasses of beer, and an older audience - Garaev's friends, natives of Tatarstan, who caught the so-called "Kazan phenomenon".
The lecture began with watching a documentary film of the same name. Actually, the “phenomenon” itself is that in the 80s and 90s Kazan, like other cities in the region, was divided between several groups that controlled certain areas. Among them were very serious, which included adults, but there were also youth, the backbone of which were teenagers and even children, starting with elementary school students. Every street, every neighborhood had its owners.
Street fighters positioned themselves either as athletes or as people with "correct concepts". In their environment, it was strictly forbidden to drink, smoke and use drugs, they trained a lot and obeyed their older comrades in everything. There was a strict hierarchy in the groups: "husks" or "shells" (schoolchildren from 9 to 13 years old), then - "super" (teenagers 14-16 years old), who were considered the combat core of the team, went on raids on enemy territories and took away money at the "chushpans" (those who were not part of the groupings).
Then came the "young" (17-19 years old) - they had the right to vote in deciding with whom to fight and with whom to put up. And, finally, the highest link is “authority”, he is also “grandfather” or “king”. As a rule, it was a man in his thirties, with a criminal record. It was he who disposed of the common fund - the money that the guys collected for their group.
Gangs of gopniks constantly clashed with each other, their confrontations turned into mass fights with severe beatings and murders. The most massive fight in the history of Kazan groups took place on the ice of Lake Glubokoe in the winter of 1983: about 400 teenagers gathered there. Representatives of the Zhilka and Gryaz groups came together wall to wall, armed with stakes, chains and tire irons. After such fights, many were taken to hospitals with severe injuries and injuries, some of the guys became disabled and even died without regaining consciousness.
On a crooked path
According to statistics, the lion's share - almost half of the youth groups - were vocational school students. Then there were schoolchildren, working youth and the unemployed, of whom there were no more than five percent. All were from different families - poor and wealthy, workers and intellectuals. Robert Garaev was just one of the latter: his mother worked at a research institute, and his father was a cooperator. He himself studied diligently, went to art school, so until a certain time he was not interested in criminal communities.
14-year-old Robert joined the Nizy group because of problems at school, or rather, because of a bully from a parallel class named Iskander, who was a member of the Kettle group. Iskander approached Garayev and said that now he would shake money from him: “Bring three rubles tomorrow, otherwise I’ll beat you!” The amount for the schoolboy turned out to be unbearable: a week for lunch he was given only one ruble twenty kopecks.
It was not customary to hand over the offender to the police - this would lead to a boycott and general contempt. The way out was found by itself: the guys from the parallel class, Max and Dima, suggested that Garaev join the Niza group.
The new situation will radically change everything, - the schoolboy reasoned. - Iskander will immediately cease to be a threat to me. According to street law, the guys from the Nizov will fit in for me if members of other groups have any claims against me ...
After some deliberation, Garayev accepted the proposal of his peers. It was 1989.
Yours among yours
The first collection of "Nizov", which I got to, was surrounded by courtyard romance, - writes Garaev in his memoirs. - In a clearing in the middle of a wasteland overgrown with Canadian maple, a fire was burning, into which we threw potatoes. About ten of my peers were supposed to spend an hour and a half at this place. Most of all, I remember two: Bisprik (from the word "boundless") - a small nimble and adventurous good-natured man, wrapping his legs with lead plates so that there was a "blow", and Kid - our "extreme" (something like a headman among fighters of our age) .
The kid was a blue-eyed blond with plump lips, oblique bangs and in the most fashionable "clothes". His "wide" pants were no less than 35 centimeters wide - the then peep of boyish fashion. He wore an imported sweatshirt, and most importantly, he rambled (communicated) no worse than an adult criminal. According to Garaev, Malysh "was really wild and dangerous."
There were two main dangers for young gopniks: the policemen, who could come and take those who did not have time to escape to the department, and the elders, who came with checks. They checked the number of boys and compliance with the rules. If someone was caught smoking, they were beaten.
Thoughts raged in my young head about what was written in the newspapers and told about the “Kazan phenomenon” on TV, Garayev recalls. - I clearly remember an article that told how two groups fought, with thirty people on each side with installations (metal bars) and metal balls. And in this article there were broken skulls, deaths and police cars. And what I saw that September evening was romance, male friendship and shoulder to shoulder. Looking ahead strongly, I must say that I was cruelly mistaken ...
Life according to concepts
Members of Kazan's teenage organized crime groups lived according to their own concepts, as if in a separate state: they had their own territory, their own street, their own quarter. Boys were considered citizens in it, and they had their own social and economic resource - their own strength. They could use force against "chushpans", members of other groups and businessmen who refused to pay tribute.
There were many concepts, but everyone had to know the basic ones. “If you were called a sucker or a devil, you must fight”; “If you were sent to ..., and you didn’t stand up [delivered at least one blow without warning], then you are kicked out [expelled] with sanctions [with beatings]”; “If they spit at you, you are extinguished, no one has the right to greet you, even“ chushpan ”, but the worst thing is if they lowered you, that is, pissed on you.”
The kid could not hand over his own or others to the police and is obliged to be extremely honest with his group. The word of the kid was considered something like an oath: "the kid said - the kid did."
In case of violation of the rules, the elders could expel the boy from the group. At best - just with beatings, at worst - with beatings and extortion of money.
street laws
According to Garayev, membership in the group was somewhat like a job. In exchange for a new status, the guys were required to attend training camps three times a week and lead a healthy lifestyle. In case of violations, sanctions awaited them - beatings.
It was possible to get it for several reasons, - Garayev recalls. - Most often for cigarettes and alcohol. It was believed that we are a combat brigade of physically strong youth. Even when we wrote the name of our “office” on the walls, we used the abbreviation NSO - “Nizovsky Sports Society”. That is, the ideal member of the group is a non-drinking and non-smoking athlete, which, of course, was not the case in reality.
At the training camp, the elders determined the limit of the minimum number of people present - 15-20 people. If the number of boys was less than expected, messengers were sent to those who were absent and dragged them by hook or by crook. Otherwise - "sanctions".
The execution took place as follows, - says a former member of the Nizov. - The elders lined up in a line, and all of ours had to take turns approaching each of them. Not everyone beat, and therefore in total you received three or four strong blows to the face. An important nuance was that you can not dodge. You had to take those blows with all your might. Sometimes the elders checked: swinging, they stopped the fist in front of your very face.
If you tried to dodge, they kicked [kicked out]. Once, after such an execution, I woke up in the snow, remembering only sparks in my eyes, and then a black screen. There was a huge bruise on half of my face, my lips did not obey, and for the next two days the cigarette constantly fell out of my mouth. When a classmate came up to me the next day to ask why I didn’t come to class, he didn’t recognize me and asked: “Is Robert at home?”
They beat me infrequently - once every two or three months. When the guilty “supers” were beaten by the young, they then came to break away on the younger ones, recalling to them all the passes at the training camp and smoked cigarettes.
Died young
In addition to Malysh, another "extreme" - Kuyan, looked after the newcomers of the Nizov. Both were short and very aggressive. The duties of the "extreme" included communication with the elders and discipline among the boys.
The appearance of the Kid was deceptive: the blue-eyed blond with the face of an angel was an unbalanced psychopath, whose anger was life-threatening, Garayev recalls. - He was a favorite of the elders and a thunderstorm not only for the “chushpans”, but also for his boys. As soon as he appeared in a fashionable, in his opinion, outfit at the training camp, the Kid was right there with the phrase: “Let me bring it in.” This phrase of his meant one thing: you will not see this thing again. Kuyang was also stylish in his own way. Unlike the talkative and sociable Kid, he was laconic and strict.
"Extreme" along with ordinary boys participated in wars with other groups. And they beat them on an equal footing with everyone else - in doorways, at the entrances of houses. The dismembered body of Kuyan was found near Lake Kaban after working with some distant "office". And Malysh died of cardiac arrest after being hit by one of his own during the “exchange of blows” game, popular among the boys. Each of them was no more than 20 years old.
boy wars
The policy of the groups was such that no one forced the boys to commit criminal activity. And yet, having joined one gang or another, they could enjoy privileges - that is, collect tribute from district businessmen, shake money from schoolchildren, or take away their fashionable clothes. If some "chushpan" went out into the street in a new tracksuit, there was a high probability that he would return home without him. Sometimes the boys robbed the dachas, mostly took food from the refrigerator: many grew up in poor families where there was nothing to eat.
The factions' foreign policy was fairly simple. Most often they fought with their closest neighbors - simply because there was nothing to do. “Absolutely useless alliances” were concluded with the distant ones.
The habitat of the Kazan teenager, regardless of belonging to the group, was very limited, Garaev recalls. - It was dangerous to travel to the other end of the city - Novotatar and [members of large organized crime groups "Novotatarskaya" and "Khadi Taktash" raged in the center], there were authorities in the quarters, and alone you could run into trouble. But the main enemies of the "Nizov" were the neighboring "Dirt": their territory was much larger than ours - accordingly, there were more combat units living there, and they were brutal and furious.
The conflict, as a rule, began because of a fight between the elders or the penetration of the boys into foreign territory. After that, a "shooter" was appointed, and if the guys did not agree on it, war was declared. During the war, the factions had two duties: to patrol their territory for enemies and to raid.
One dramatic moment comes to mind when during the “war” “super” came to our training camp and announced that we would now run to the “Gryaz” because they were preparing a raid on us,” recalls Garaev. - We were led to a high-rise building on Serov Street, beyond which was our border, and we were handed out weapons. These were metal rebars stolen at a construction site and metal balls. From one strong blow with such a montage, the skull was broken through the head. My first thought was: "Well, that's it, we ****** [end]."
And so we stood in position - and the agonizing wait began. Horror was read on the faces of all the fifteen-year-old fighters. It was followed by a ringing silence. Somehow, there was none of the bravado that usually accompanies an upcoming fight. Everyone, even the elders who looked at us with sympathy, understood the senselessness of the upcoming bloodshed. In this suspended state, we stood there for 40 minutes, listening to extraneous sounds. The running crowd was not heard, and at some point the sentinels returned and reported that the "Gryazevsky" had left. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and went home...
Renegades
To combat teenage groups in the region, OKOD, an operational Komsomol detachment, worked. In fact, the same grouping, only under the guise of the local police, working in collusion with employees. According to Garaev, it was either "thrown out" from other brigades, or "applicants" with an inappropriate, sometimes dramatic biography.
Somehow, a boy joined [joined] us, who in a short time became his own for everyone, - the narrator recalls. - Sociable, who knew everyone on a short foot and, moreover, a dashing hooligan. Somewhere in a month or two he was sent away with severe beatings and lowered. The kid boasted how he broke his ***** [face] from a running start, from his feet. It turned out that in deep childhood, when the guy was seven years old, some pedophile abused him. And the fact that he kept it from the boys was a serious offense. The fact that the boy was then a child and could not answer the pedophile was not taken into account. The road to such guys was only in the despised by us OKOD.
Ordinary schoolchildren, who were offended by yard gopniks, also went to the “Kodovets”. Having joined the group, they fought the offenders together with the police. They went to round-ups during the training camp, caught the boys and took them to the department.
At the police station, they behaved arrogantly and in a businesslike way, one of their elders somehow locked me in the toilet and beat me on the kidneys with a brick stuffed in a felt boot, ”recalls Garaev. - To my indignation, he replied that he could get away with it, since his "design" does not leave bruises and generally no marks on the body of the victim. OKOD was a cunning invention of the then clumsy police, it could have become a panacea in the fight against the "Kazan phenomenon", but could not solve the problem. Our groupings were taken by weight and quantity.
To a new life
Robert left the "Nizov" in 1991, having spent two years in them. Over time, being in the organization ceased to seem interesting to him - and he began to skip training camps. They took the usual measure for that time - they “repulsed” him. They tried to lower him, but the guy fought back, spitting at the offender. The grouping was over.
In order to live in peace, the young man had to move to his father in another area. He was educated as a historian at Kazan University, and moved to Moscow in the 2000s. Now he is a famous DJ, musician, guide of the Jewish Museum and the Tolerance Center.
The fate of other members of the Kazan organized crime groups developed differently. Some of the guys were killed, some became disabled, and some are serving sentences in colonies. Some of yesterday's street bandits, according to Garayev, have become respected people in the region - officials, deputies and businessmen.
In the Supreme Court of Tatarstan, hearings began on a criminal case against 14 members of the Sevastopol gang, accused of banditry, murders committed under aggravated circumstances against two or more persons, in a way dangerous to the lives of many people, by prior agreement by a group of persons ( article 77, paragraphs "d", "h", "n" article 102 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR).
Recall that on May 7, 2008 in Kazan, employees of the Organized Crime Control Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan, in cooperation with investigators from the Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan, detained a well-known Moscow businessman, a native of Kazan, 42-year-old Radik Yusupov. The next day, he was charged with organizing 3 murders against 4 people committed in 1996.
From history: “Radik Yusupov received his nickname for pathological cruelty and bestial vitality. The head of the Dragon, of course, is one, but, according to people who know Radik closely, it is worth three. Outwardly, he has nothing to do with the prevailing stereotype of gangster authority. He looks like a successful businessman, except that he limps heavily when walking - a consequence of the injury. He is capable of grand gestures: he pardoned the killer who attempted on him, who was allegedly pushed into this by numerous debts, but he figured out and severely punished the customer. Radik began simply and unpretentiously. After serving time in the zone, Radik joins the Kazan gang "Teapots", which was then part of the "Zhilka" group. But there was a clash of interests, and the future Dragon declares Hyder to be his natural enemy. And living next to such an enemy is dangerous, and Radik moves to the capital. He understands that from now on his life is a struggle for this very life. And the dragon fights. With the help of compromising evidence, he knocks down his competitors with their foreheads and steps on their corpses.
On May 8, 2008, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan granted the investigator's petition to order Yusupov as a preventive measure in the form of detention.
In addition to Yusupov, 46-year-old Rustem Saimanov, the sports director of the Rubin football club, was also arrested, who was later charged with creating and leading a stable armed group (gang). Subsequently, 12 more members of this gang were also detained. Of the 14 defendants brought to criminal responsibility, only 9 people were taken into custody. In relation to 5, a preventive measure was chosen in the form of a written undertaking not to leave, since 4 of them are not charged with Art. 77 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (banditry) and they participated in only one episode of criminal activity, and the fifth himself appeared in law enforcement agencies and confessed.
In addition, the materials of the criminal case against the leaders of the gang, 45-year-old Vladimir Moiseyev and 50-year-old Zufar Utyaganov, who were put on the international wanted list with charges of banditry, were allocated to a separate proceeding.
According to investigators, in June 1992, between the leader of the organized group "Sloboda" and at the same time one of the leaders of the organized group "Boriskovo" Lenar Rechapov, on the one hand, and the leaders of the groups "Boriskovo" and "Novotatarskie", on the other, a conflict arose on the basis of distribution illegally obtained profits, which grew into a hidden confrontation and struggle for the redistribution of spheres of influence and sources of income, including the exercise of criminal control over the activities of the Kazan Distillery.
According to the investigation, in July-August 1992, Rechapov, in order to forcefully resolve this conflict, as well as physically eliminate the leaders and members of the opposing groups, armed the organized group "Sevastopol" led by him with firearms, thereby creating a gang of the same name, since Rechapov's place of residence at that time was the Moscow hotel "Sevastopol". The gang later included leaders and members of the organized criminal groups "Nizy", "Gryaz", "Sloboda", "56th quarter", "Ilfatey's brigade", "Teapots".
From history: “The Kazan organized group in Moscow was formed in 1989. By 1992, the group consisted of about 100 militants (according to other sources - 300, and, if necessary, "ordered" militants from Kazan. (Bandits of the times of capitalism ..., p. 94 p. 185). Most of the members of the group are Tatars, but there are Russians , Ukrainians, Chuvashs and Mordvins... This is one of the features of Kazan, it is not necessary to be an ethnic Tatar in their composition.
Since 1992, the Kazan group began to suffer huge losses during internal conflicts. In October 1992, Leonid Dvornikov (Frenchman), the Kazan authority, whose group controlled the Old Arbat area, was killed. At one time, it was he who "led" the Kazan people to Moscow. One of the leaders until 1993 was Sasha Tatarin (Fam), who returned to Kazan due to failure during a showdown with the Lublin group, with which Kazan had a "territorial" conflict.
In 1993, the group was shaken by internal conflicts - two authorities broke away from the organized criminal group - Radik Akhmetshin (Hitler) and Yuri Kuznetsov (Boss). Akhmetshin was killed, and Kuznetsov was seriously wounded at the end of March 1993. Such events are called "sanitary" - when some bandits kill others.
In 1993-1994, Kazan citizens continued to suffer losses all over the Russian Federation, both at the hands of competitors and law enforcement agencies. In April 1993, Valery Dlukach (Globus), one of the thieves in law, who patronized the citizens of Kazan, was killed. After him, the Kazan thief in law Rinat Iglamov took under his patronage, but on May 25, 1993 he was killed in Kazan. On August 6, 1993, one of the leaders of the organized crime group Fedor Ishin (Mad) was killed. On October 15, 1993, the RUOP arrested eighteen members of the Tukaev Kazan group in Moscow. On January 23, 1996, the leader of the Kazan PG "Hadi Taktash" Dmitry Vorontsov (Raven) was killed. The PG "Nizy" also suffered, which was in conflict with the PG "Kinoplenka". In March 1996, Kazan lost three members of their organized criminal group during a showdown when they tried to claim the Petrovsko-Razumovsky market, controlled by the Koptev and Kurgan groups. Somewhat earlier, the Kazan authority Alexander Gibadullin, who had interests in this market, was killed. On April 5, 1996, the leader of the Boriskovskaya PG, thief in law Vadim Pomirantsev (Pamir), was killed, along with him, the authority of Ildar Gataullin died. In 1995, the former leader of the Boriskovskaya PG, Linar Richapov, was killed in Moscow. In August 1996, one of the most influential Kazan authorities from Zhilploshchadka, Khaidar, was killed in St. Petersburg. His death split the PG - authoritative members of the PG began to claim the place of leader, for example, Oleg Trubachev (Pipe), who was killed in October 1996. In response, another Kuvald authority was killed. Other PGs were also drawn into the conflict - the founder of the 39th Quarter PG, Mikhail Zakharovich, was killed. In total, in 1996, twelve criminal leaders of Kazan citizens were killed in Moscow alone.
Starting from September-October 1994, Rechapov declared a criminal war on the union of Zhilka groups, deciding on the physical destruction of the leaders and members of this union. At the same time, all the heads of the structural divisions of the criminal union of the Sevastopol gangs formed organized groups of murderers from among persons close to themselves.
One of the leaders of the union of criminal gangs "Sevastopol" Saymanov, united around himself the most active, close to him part of the organized group "Niza", armed it with firearms, creating a stable armed group (gang) "Saiman's brigade", named after the nickname of the gang leader - Saymanov and became a structural subdivision of the union of groups "Sevastopol".
The first murder committed by the members of the gang was the murder of the leader of the Novotatarskie organized crime group, Ildus Sibgatullin, nicknamed "Sipok", his murder, on the instructions of Rechapov, was committed by Utyaganov. In the early morning of August 5, 1992, the victim was shot dead on the threshold of his own house on Kamil Yakub Street in Kazan.
In 1994, a conflict occurred between the head of the Zhilka group, Khaidar Zakirov, and the head of the Sevastopol gang, Lenar Rechapov. In this regard, all subsequent efforts of Rechapov were aimed at the physical destruction of Zakirov and the members of the Zhilka group opposing them.
After the death of Rechapov on February 11, 1995, the Sevastopolsky gang was headed by Saymanov, Utyaganov and Moiseev, who continued to physically eliminate the leaders and active members of the opposing groups, including the Zhilka group.
Subsequently, gang members committed a significant number of attacks and murders.
On October 21, 1994, members of the gang, acting under the leadership of Saymanov and Utyaganov, in the form of police officers, threatening with firearms, abducted Mavrin and Shirshov, members of the Zhilka alliance of groups in Kazan, on Belomorskaya Street in Kazan. Having received after the torture information about the activities of the Zhilka union of groups and the place of residence of its leaders and participants, Mavrin and Shirshov were killed, after which their corpses were buried on an island in the waters of the Volga River.
October 24, 1995 in apartment number 27 on the street. The road of the village of Malye Klyki, Vysokogorsky district of the republic, the gang members committed the murder of Khakimullin, mistaking him for Avtandil Yanakov.
On March 31, 1996, gang members, dressed in uniforms of employees of the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after a long preparation, attacked Yakupov and Iodaeva, a member of the Zhilka group, in the house No. 6 on Minskaya Street in the city of Kazan. However, the plan was not carried through to the end, since Yakupov put up armed resistance, during which one of the attackers was killed.
On August 26, 1996, in St. Petersburg, after a long preparation, Khaidar Zakirov, the leader of the Zhilka group, and two of his bodyguards were killed with shots from an SVD sniper rifle, a CZ 527 carbine and a Kalashnikov design.
In addition, the "Sevastopol" also eliminated the merchants, who, in their opinion, carried out the economic support of the "Zhilka" supporters. Thus, on September 4, 1996, at the entrance of house No. 37 along Vosstaniya Street, a member of the Boriskovo group, businessman Kamil Safiullin, was murdered.
On October 19, 1996, in the house number 39 and along the street of the Adorat city of Kazan, Zarakhovich was killed with 7 shots from a Makarov pistol.
In the arsenal of the gang there were several Kalashnikov-designed assault rifles, CZ-527 carbines, Agram-2000 submachine guns, a Scorpion submachine gun, a Makarov-designed pistol, a TOZ-8m rifle, a large number of cartridges of various calibers , F-1 grenade, several UZRGM fuses, magazines for APS pistols, K-6-92 Volk submachine guns, Kalashnikov-designed assault rifles, devices for silent and flameless firing, a significant amount of ammunition. In addition, the use of at least 10 more firearms in the commission of crimes was established - pistols designed by Makarov, Stechkin, PSM, submachine guns "Agram-2000".
In total, according to the materials of the investigation, the gang members accounted for 13 episodes of murders against 20 persons, 3 attempted murders committed from 1992 to 1996, kidnappings, numerous facts of illegal acquisition, storage, transfer, transportation and carrying of firearms and ammunition . At the same time, during the investigation, the criminal prosecution against the gang members on the facts of kidnapping and illegal acquisition, storage, transfer, transportation and carrying of firearms and ammunition was terminated due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal liability.
The case of the Sevastopol gang members has been sent to the Supreme Court of Tatarstan. 14 people are charged with banditry and 20 murders. "ViD" offers readers the history of a criminal group.
Nugget from Boriskovo
The Sevastopol gang was organized by the leader of the Boriskovo OPF, Linar Rechapov, nicknamed Uzkiy. Rechapov was an outstanding figure. Perhaps not a single representative Tatarstan organized crime among the people has not been composed so many legends. What is worth only the story of how, at the end of his life, allegedly, Uzky became so mad from money and power that he accepted the "brotherhood" while lying in a jacuzzi or sitting on a throne made to order.
A native of Tyumen, by the way, a graduate of KISI, Linar Rechapov, indeed, was one of the founders of the Boriskovo OPF. He had no previous convictions, although he was prosecuted.
From the late 80s, he was engaged in the manufacture of falsified vodka, receiving alcohol at the Kazan Distillery, where at that time his brother worked in the supply department. It was on the basis of the sale of vodka that he met with his future team. In Soviet times, taxi drivers were the most reliable channel for selling counterfeit alcohol. One of the taxi companies was located in the Moscow region on the territory of the "Teapots" grouping. It was here that Rechapov met the former member of the Svetlaya organized crime group Zufar Utyaganov (Iron), the "teapot" Vladimir Moiseev (Moses) and the "nizovsky" Rustem Saimanov (Saimanchik).
Later, Radik Yusupov, nicknamed Dragon, joined them as a "young" then unknown former member of the "Teapots" organized crime group. In the late 80s, he received a term for rape and served his sentence "on the red", that is, he collaborated with the camp administration. As a result, "dummies" "rejected" him. Moreover, the initiator was none other than the guardian of the "thieves" traditions, the leader of "Zhilka" Khaidar Zakirov (Haider). He turned to the leader of the Dummies, Cheese, and advised him to get rid of the Dragon as soon as possible in order to avoid shame ...
The first of the murders imputed to "Sevastopol" is also connected with the vodka business. We are talking about the struggle for control over the Kazan distillery, unfolding between the "Boriskov". In 1992, one after another, several prominent "Boriskovites" were liquidated, and for the company and the leader of the "Novo-Tatar" Sipok, who supported Rechapov's opponents. According to investigators, he was shot dead by a member of Rechapov's gang, Zufar Utyaganov.
A little later, Rechapov completely left the Boriskovo OPF and even moved to the Admiralteyskaya Sloboda, where he acquired a rather modest house even for those times. Formally, Rechapov completely moved away from crime, although he had huge connections among Kazan authorities (he had even "cooler" acquaintances in power structures).
It should be noted that the "Sevastopol" were not formed according to criminal principles. In fact, it was a group of merchants and their employees: drivers, administrators of entertainment establishments and security guards. It was then that they became killers.
In 1992, Rechapov began to expand his business and moved to Moscow with his team. But he was still not allowed to work in peace.
"Common affairs"
By this time, Haider's "Zhilkovsky" authority had been released from places of detention. He quickly united the disparate Zhilki factions. And he began to claim leadership in the criminal environment of Kazan. Unlike Rechapov, Hyder strictly followed the "thieves" line, being the embodiment of "pure" crime. In 1991, Hyder raised the issue of creating a city-wide "common fund". He organized several "skhodnyaks", which were attended by representatives of most of the Kazan groups. In Haider's vision, a "common fund" with a monthly turnover of 100,000 rubles was to be based on Zhilka, and he would lead it. It was assumed that each grouping would allocate a representative who, together with Haider, would solve "common" cases twice a month. About 300 people attended one of the last "skhodnyaks" about the "common fund", there were "thieves in law" Buska, Tomaz Tbilissky and even the famous Pasha Tsirul.
Far from all groups supported Haider's initiative. And the "Boriskovites" even offered their "thief in law" Iglam for the role of the custodian of the common fund. The visiting thieves supported them, deciding that Hyder would be Iglam's assistant. But "Zhilkovsky" refused and said that he would collect the "common fund" in his half of the city himself.
Unlike Haider, who was oriented towards the "thieves" world, Rechapov was primarily a businessman, moreover, with a completely legal source of income. And, of course, he did not want to participate in any "common fund". So, when Zakirov demanded that he start handing over money, Rechapov flatly refused, noting that he was no longer interested in crime, and if he had to "warm up the boys in the zone", he would do it without Haider. Both he and the other were very ambitious and quick-tempered people, so they quarreled to the nines. For Haider, who had huge financial and human resources, the refusal of the "huckster" Rechapov seemed incredible impudence. And punishing him was a matter of principle for Haider.
Meanwhile, after a quarrel with Haider, Rechapova was supported by part of the "Boriskov", "Sloboda", "Gryazev", Chelny "twenty-nine" and a number of other groups. By the way, by this time Rechapov's group was already called "Sevastopol". Rechapov bought two floors of the Sevastopol hotel complex in Moscow (and later the entire hotel, which consisted of four 16-storey buildings), opened a nightclub, a casino and restaurants in it. Kazan bought the 10th and 11th floors of "Sevastopol", based on the fact that the nearest buildings are a maximum of 9 floors in height and, thus, not a single sniper will reach them. The complex was constantly under video surveillance and guarded by the private security company. It was here that the "Sevastopol" people moved with their families. At the same time, they did not leave the Kazan business either: shops, restaurants, wholesale deliveries of products, and so on.
In order to finally figure out who is the boss in Kazan, in 1994, in the Yalchik sanatorium (Mari El), Haider gathered the authorities of the allied groups and agreed to create a coalition that would take Kazan into its own hands. The coalition with Zhilka included the Severny, Karavayevo, Standard, Kettle, and Moscow Brigade groups - a total of 18 groups. Moreover, in the matter of creating an organized crime group, Haider proved himself to be a real democrat, appointing as deputies not the "Zhilkovsky", but the leaders of the "Melnitsa" and "Standard" groups. At the same time, Hyder proceeded from the principle "whoever is not with us is against us": the "Sevastopol" and the groups that supported them were declared the main enemies of "Zhilka".
They did not delay the liquidation of those who disagreed. Haider was one of the first to liquidate the leaders of the Sotsgorod grouping, which was located "in the rear" of Zhilka and did not support its policy.
Then in In Tatarstan, a Decree "On Combating Organized Crime" was introduced, which allowed detaining members of criminal gangs for 30 days. In this regard, Haider, with some people, left for St. Petersburg, where he enjoyed great prestige among the local criminals and the police. From there, he began to lead the war with the "Sevastopol".
The first "Zhilkovskaya" tried to eliminate Radik Yusupov. Together with his family, he constantly lived in Sevastopol, only occasionally coming to Kazan to visit his parents. On one of these visits, he was attacked. It is curious that the Dragon had no idea that "Zhilka" declared war on "Sevastopol" - they simply did not have time to warn him.
On the evening of September 20, 1994, leaving the car on Volgogradskaya Street, together with his wife and three-year-old son in his arms, Yusupov went to his parents' house. At that moment, "Zhilkov's" killers jumped out of the ambush and opened fire on him from two TTs. The man threw the child into the nearest bushes (he was found only a day later) and, diverting the attention of the killers, ran. "Zhilkovsky" rushed after him, but did not catch up. Having received eight gunshot wounds, Yusupov barely survived and ended up with a limp.
"Sevastopol" had no choice but to start urgently buying weapons. And since they did not have their own militants, employees of "Sevastopol" firms had to retrain as killers.
The first of the actions established by the investigation against Zhilka was carried out by the Sevastopolskys on October 21, 1994, eliminating the killers Andrey Mavrin and Konstantin Shirshov (according to law enforcement agencies, in January 1994 they shot the leader of the Kuba OPF, Yuri Yakovlev, who refused to cooperate with Haider) . On that day, the "Zhilkovskys" went from their native village to the city center to buy plane tickets to fly to St. Petersburg. However, on Belomorskaya Street, their BMW was stopped by four "Sevastopol" police officers dressed in uniform and taken to a house in Admiralteiskaya Sloboda. The men were tortured for a long time, knocking out the addresses of Zhilka's safe houses. Having found out that Haider had fled to St. Petersburg, both were shot dead, and the corpses were buried on an island on the Volga opposite the Admiralteyskaya Sloboda.
Besieged "Sevastopol"
Linar Rechapov died in Moscow in February 1995. Rumors immediately spread around Kazan that he was poisoned either by "Zhilkovsky", or by his own. In fact, the authority of Rechapov died of heart failure. And it was not caused by poison, but by bad heredity, his own brother also died from the same disease.
Believing that the conflict was over with Rechapov's death, the "Sevastopol" called Haider and offered a truce. At that time, the authority, which still did not doubt the victory, promised that until five "Sevastopol" people were killed for each of his people, he would not even begin to talk about this topic. And only a year later, talking with the "Sevastopol" truce, a "thief in law" named Cross, the leader of the agonized "Zhilka" in a doomed voice remarked that he was uncomfortable in front of his comrades and he should at least even the score ("Zhilkovsky" Haider explained success " Sevastopol" in the war because they allegedly used mercenaries).
Haider's answer was far from the only unpleasant event for the "Sevastopol". After Rechapov's death, the groups that supported the "Sevastopol" groups accepted neutrality, leaving Uzky's team all alone.
According to investigators, Rechapov's place was taken by Saymanchik, Utyug and Moses. It was they who led the fighting against Zhilka. The dragon, having become disabled after the assassination attempt, could not fight and was engaged exclusively in business and was responsible for the "common fund". Therefore, he was constantly in public and, as a result, according to law enforcement officials, he became a kind of "brand" of the "Sevastopol", and he was considered the leader of the gang. This suited the real leaders of the “Sevastopol” very much, since it gave more chances for survival (apparently, such a conspiracy misled not only the bandits, but also the police, who considered Yusupov to be Rechapov’s successor).
The second year of the existence of the "Zhilkovo" coalition was marked by the mass shooting of the leaders of the groups - Haider's opponents (however, many authorities were killed on "domestic" issues, so now you can't figure out who was liquidated for what).
Naturally, they also did not remain in debt. So, in addition to the “Sevastopol” ones, several more criminal groups fought offline with the “living site”. For example, the "Gryazevskiye", who, by the way, supplied the "Sevastopol" weapons, created a brigade of killers for the war with Haider. It was organized by one of the leaders of the "Mud" Eduard Garipov (Edyunya) and a graduate of the law faculty of KSU, the former deputy head of the CID of the Soviet District Department of Internal Affairs for the search for criminals, and later the authority of the "Teapots" OCG Alexei Repin, nicknamed Petrovich. They shot off sources of financial support for Zhilka. So, in January 1996, they shot and killed the director of the Usad distillery Vladislav Baranov, who at one time worked as the deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the Kazan Internal Affairs Directorate and participated in the liquidation of the Tyap-lyap organized criminal group in the late 70s. In the spring of the same year, Yakov Galyametdinov, director of the research and development enterprise Tatpak, a close friend of Haider, was shot dead.
The end is in the next issue.
A trial has started in Kazan in one of the most high-profile and high-profile criminal cases of the last twenty years, which can only be compared with the cases of the Zhilka and Hadi Taktash organized crime groups. His defendants, among other 14 people, were the reputable Moscow businessman Radik Yusupov and the former sports director of FC Rubin Rustem Saimanov. In total, the alleged participants and leaders of the Sevastopol gangs were charged with the murders of 20 people, kidnappings, arms trafficking, and banditry.
Mass raids on Sevastopolskie became known after 43-year-old Radik Yusupov was detained in the Kazan restaurant Parus in May 2008. Local media, telling about this fact, used the ambiguous phrase "a well-known Moscow businessman with certain connections in the country's power structures." The Tatarstan security officials immediately reported that one of the leaders of the Sevastopol gang "Dragon" was detained in Kazan. At the moment of detention, Yusupov persistently tried to get through to someone, presented an identity card of an employee of the Garda private security company. His nickname, according to the law enforcement agencies of the capital, a businessman, a former member of the Kazan organized crime group "Teapots", received back in the 80s "for pathological cruelty."
It so happened that Dragon's visit to Kazan coincided with the detention of his son on suspicion of kidnapping. The dragon was immediately taken into custody, charged with organizing several murders 12 years ago. Following Yusupov, on a similar charge, the sports director of the Rubin football club, Rustem Saymanov, was also brought to the pre-trial detention center. The club's management then did not comment on this incident in any way, the press service stated that "Rustem Saimanov did not give the impression of a person connected with crime."
Live bait fishing
Ravil, the son of Radik Yusupov, was detained about three weeks before the Dragon's visit to Kazan. The basis was the suspicion of his involvement in the kidnapping of the 28-year-old son of a Nizhnekamsk businessman. Say, several friends persuaded Ravil to kidnap a young man for ransom.
The police said that Yusupov Jr. went "on business" for the sake of curiosity. After all, those 50 thousand rubles that he was offered for participation were not such a significant amount for a 16-year-old correspondence student of the law faculty of KSU. It is curious that as soon as the handcuffs clicked on the wrists of the Dragon, his son was immediately released from custody, limited to a written undertaking not to leave, and the case itself took some kind of half-joking turn. The court acquitted three participants in the crime on charges of robbery and theft, finding them guilty only of illegal entry into a home, kidnapping and extortion. They were given a six and a half year suspended sentence. Ravil Yusupov received three years probation and a fine of five thousand rubles.
According to official data, the Sevastopol gangs began to be closely involved only after they pressed the former members of the Nizy organized crime group. According to the version of the investigation, one of the former Nizovskys told about the murders committed at the very height of the war with Zhilka, in which Yusupov and Saymanov were involved. The members and leaders of this group, together with people from the organized crime group Gryaz, Sloboda, the Ilfateya Brigade (part of the Kinoplenka OCG), the 56th Quarter, and the Teapots, according to investigators, created an alliance of groups in Kazan, opposing one of the most influential in Russia organized criminal group "Zhilka", led by Khaidar Zakirov (Haider). This was an adequate response to Hyder's proposal to create a common fund for all groups in Kazan. One can only guess what fabulous sums in this case would fall into the hands of the beholder. And Haider put forward his candidacy for this "position".
Vodka brings together
As follows from the indictment, “in June 1992, a conflict arose between the leader of the organized group “Sloboda” and at the same time one of the leaders of the organized group “Boriskovo” Lenar Rechapov (Uzky) on the one hand and the leaders of the groups “Boriskovo” and “Novotatarskie” on the other. on the basis of the distribution of illegally obtained profits, which grew into a hidden confrontation and struggle for the redistribution of spheres of influence and sources of income. Basically, all claims concerned the distribution of profits of the Kazan distillery. According to the investigation, precisely then, “in July-August 1992, Rechapov, in order to forcefully resolve this conflict, as well as physically eliminate the leaders and members of the opposing groups, armed the Sevastopol organized group led by him with firearms, thereby creating a gang of the same name ". Uzky had already settled in Moscow by that time and lived in the Sevastopol hotel complex. Hence, as is commonly believed, the group got its name. Also, the inhabitants of "Sevastopol" were called in Moscow "Kazan" or "dragons".
It is worth noting that by that time Uzky was a prominent figure in Kazan. Since the 80s, he has been in the vodka business, making a solid profit. It was thanks to the "liquor and vodka business" that he met Zufar Utyaganov (organized criminal group "Svetlaya"), Rustem Saimanov (organized criminal group "Nizy"), Vladimir Moiseev, and later Radik Yusupov (organized criminal group "Teapots"). By the way, Rechapov himself, who had authority in the criminal world, has never been imprisoned, although he was prosecuted. Despite this, he did not blindly follow criminal or thieving traditions, he was only interested in business. Although the language will not turn to call his activity “clean”.
According to the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan, the first murder committed by members of the gang was the liquidation of the leader of the Kazan organized crime group "Novotatar" Ildus Sibgatullin, nicknamed Sipok. According to the investigation, Utyaganov committed this crime at the direction of Rechapov. The “Novo-Tatar” authority supported the wrong people, and in the early morning of August 5, 1992, he was shot dead on the threshold of his own house in Kazan.
Two years later, Haider gathers the leaders of almost two dozen organized crime groups at the Yalchik Mari recreation center in order to dot the i's on the issue of the city under his control. Of course, there was also talk about the “huckster Uzky”, who did not want to recognize the common fund organized by Haider. After the death of Rechapov on February 11, 1995 (according to the official version, the authority died of heart failure), as the investigation believes, Rustem Saymanov, Vladimir Moiseev and Zufar Utyaganov took over the leadership of the Sevastopolsky. They also lived in one of the four buildings of "Sevastopol" with their families. Law enforcement officials believe that these were forced security measures, since Hyder ordered the destruction of the leaders of the warring organized crime groups along with their families. The leaders of the organized crime group lived on the 10th and 11th floors, which was safe in terms of an aimed sniper shot, since all the buildings nearby were no higher than the ninth floor. Plus round the clock security inside the hotel.
Despite the fact that no one talked about it openly, the war with Zhilka was pretty boring. And therefore, after the death of Uzky, the groups that supported him took up neutrality, stepping back from the struggle. So the companions who accepted Uzkoy's affairs, including Saymanov, Utyaganov and Moiseev, had to arm themselves urgently. By the way, this was largely facilitated by the assassination attempt on the Dragon himself, whom the killer with a TT pistol guarded at house number 4 along Volgogradskaya Street in Kazan. Then Radik Yusupov survived only by a miracle, having received eight gunshot wounds and a limp for life.
Whoever comes to us with TT will die from Agram
At a press conference recently held in the Tatarstan Investigation Department, Artem Krivonosov, Deputy Head for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan, told reporters that the Sevastopol gangs were distinguished by thoroughness in preparing crimes. In the group of killers they always had at least six people. Before the action, wiretapping, video surveillance, and surveillance were mandatory. The most modern weapons were used. The same barrel was not used twice. Always worked with gloves. Therefore, as a rule, there were no punctures.
But, as you know, absolutely perfect things do not exist. An exception to the rule was an unsuccessful assassination attempt in St. Petersburg in 1995. Then Haider, together with his bodyguards, was shot at the entrance of his house No. 128 on Engels Avenue. According to the investigation, Saimanov and Barinov fired about 100 bullets from machine guns according to their authority. The bodyguards died on the spot, Hyder himself, despite the negligible chances of surviving, survived. Three hours later, a grenade launcher flew into the ward where Hyder was taken. But the authority was transferred to another ward a few minutes before.
According to the prosecution, the "Sevastopol" corrected their mistake on August 26, 1996. Two snipers and a submachine gunner shot dead the leader of one of Russia's most violent criminal communities, along with two of his bodyguards, as he was leaving a grocery store. Preparations for the raid were carried out in the most thorough manner, the fire was so dense that the bodyguards, who tried to shoot right through the windows of the Volvo, could not do anything.
According to investigators, the Sevastopolskys were armed with several Kalashnikov assault rifles, Czech CZ-527 carbines, Agram-2000 submachine guns, a Scorpion submachine gun, a Makarov pistol, a TOZ-8m rifle, and an F-1 grenade , stores for APS pistols, Volk submachine guns, silencers and flame arresters, a significant amount of ammunition. In addition, the use of at least 10 more firearms in the commission of crimes was established.
By the way, the investigators voiced, if not a striking, then certainly a curious conclusion - the role of the Dragon in the history of the "Sevastopol" is significantly exaggerated, at a press conference there was even a phrase that "he is rather a brand." Like, all the hype around an almost honest businessman from Moscow was again blown up by journalists. What the investigators could not say about Saimanov, Utyaganov and Moiseev. With regard to the latter two, the case has been separated into a separate proceeding.
The location of Zufar Utyaganov is known to the Tatarstan security forces. He was searched for in France, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Serbia, and was detained in Montenegro. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan, in October 2009, through Interpol channels, the police of Montenegro received information that in the city of Kotor, on suspicion of forging a document, a citizen was detained who introduced himself as Alikas Katkevich, born in 1955, a native of the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda and who presented a passport of a citizen of Lithuania . It was registered in the city of Dubai (UAE). In court, the detainee agreed with the charge of forging a document and presented another one, this time supposedly a genuine passport of a Russian citizen in the name of Ruslan Vorganov. However, even before the trial, the Montenegrin police received information that in fact Alikas Katkevich is a Russian citizen, whose name is unknown, but he is wanted by Russian law enforcement agencies for committing a particularly serious crime. Soon, the experts managed to establish a match between the fingerprints on the fingerprint card of Alikas Katkevich and Zufar Utyaganov, who is on the international wanted list. With the help of an automated search system for identifying a person, the similarity of the photo image of Katkevich and the wanted Utyaganov was also established.
And money has nothing to do with it
Once again, the investigators surprised the journalists with a message that the financial side of the case was not studied during the investigation into the activities of the “Kazan” ones. That is, on what funds the alleged leaders of the organized criminal group existed, where they got the start-up capital and where they got the money for business development, mainly restaurant, hotel and gambling, is not officially known.
Meanwhile, immediately after the arrests of Saymanov and Yusupov, information began to appear in the local press about the latter's cooperation with large development and oil companies of the republic. In particular, with the well-known operator of commercial and residential real estate in Tatarstan "Suvar-Kazan". The company is known for such projects as the largest shopping and entertainment complexes "City Center", "XL", "Riviera" and "Suvar Plaza". By the way, a few days after the arrest of Yusupov and Saimanov, law enforcement agencies of the republic spread information about the mysterious disappearance of the president of Suvar-Kazan, Boris Chub. It was reported that he left on his boat for fishing and did not return. Two weeks later, according to the investigation department of the republic, his body was found in Kama.
The 75-volume criminal case was under investigation for more than two and a half years. More than a thousand witnesses were interrogated in the case and more than 200 forensic examinations were conducted. In the dock - in addition to Saimanov and Yusupov - Airat Khannanov, Alexander Kurgin, Maxim Panaioti, Dmitry Mironov, Nikolai Mikhailov, Farid Fakhrutdinov, Alexander Zenyuk, Marat Ganeev, Rustam Yamaltdinov, Farit Khabipov, Zufar Garaev and Andrey Barinov. Nine of them are being held in custody, the rest are under subscription, because, as reported by the republican prosecutor's office, they are not charged with the article "Banditism" and they participated in only one episode of criminal activity. Ten defendants fully admitted their guilt, Saimanov and Yusupov - partially. By the way, another difference between the "Sevastopol" and other Tatarstan organized crime groups was found out in the fact that they immediately refused both the jury trial and the judicial panel of three judges.
Meanwhile, during the investigation, the criminal prosecution against the gang members for some facts of kidnapping and illegal trafficking in weapons and ammunition was terminated due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal liability.
The indictment began on Monday. Many of the arrested appeared at the procession during the parade - in shirts and jackets, but almost all of them tried to hide their faces. One of the defendants appeared in a medical mask, many hid their eyes under the visors of baseball caps. But the Dragon himself did not try to hide from the photo and television cameras. Before the announcement of the charges, Andrey Barinov, who was kept separately from his "brothers in arms," asked the judge to "put him in jail along with everyone else." But the judge dismissed the request. “Now we are all in the same room. And you are even more comfortable there alone, ”he concluded.
in general, there is an opinion that this whole process is of such a repentant-cleansing character. They will give not even ten, but a couple of years to the main defendants. After all, according to many articles of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, the deadlines have come out. because they have already answered all of them.
