Thief in law Alexander Moiseev - Masya
Not only business, but also criminal structures are showing interest in industrial regions. In one of its publications last year, Kommersant talked about the situation in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Now Kommersant correspondent OLGA ZAKOPAYLO is interested in the Irkutsk region. Along with the struggle for control of its industrial enterprises, local bandits have been sharing power among themselves since the late 1980s.
My first acquaintance with Siberia took place when I arrived in Bratsk. Morning. No frost, no snowdrifts - in vain I was carrying size 43 high fur boots (I couldn’t find any others). From the porch of the airport I see the taiga - tall thin pines, spreading spruce trees and frail birch trees clogged with them. The Siberians flying with me immediately said: “This is not the taiga - this is what’s left of it.”
The taxi driver immediately began a story about Bratsk. The fact that the city is only 40 years old, its inhabitants are about 350 thousand, that the most large enterprises here - the Bratsk aluminum plant and timber industry complex, that the local administration does not want to develop business and, of course, that life is bad. Interrupting the talkative driver, I explain that I came to write about the deceased local thief in law Alexander Moiseev (Masa) and his killer Sergei Popov (Pop).
The taxi driver turned out to be an informed person and began a “criminal excursion.” “Here, on the outskirts, we have an area called Padun. Andreychik and Pop were holding him. I once worked with Pop at the timber processing complex.
Jap made the right decision by placing Masya watching
He felled wood and was a foreman. A strong man with immeasurable strength. They respected him. Then, however, he got hooked, got involved with all sorts of people, but was able to give up drugs. - We approach a tiny house, almost with one window. - This is where Pop lived. - Let's move on. - But at this place Masya was blown up, someone erected a monument to him.
At first it was made of marble chips. Now made of pink granite. - We stopped at a stone. - Looks like it's on it before photo was there, but disappeared somewhere. And Bratsk has never seen such a funeral as Masya’s. There were people, cars! But in general, we have a bad town ... "
After living in the city for several days and listening to different stories, I understood why the driver found such a definition. Bratsk, like most similar Siberian cities, arose on the site of prisons, and today there are many zones and prisons around it. So most locals know their criminal heroes firsthand. Suffice it to say that two hundred kilometers from Bratsk, in the prison of the city of Tulun, he served his deadline in his homeland, the most influential thief in Russia, Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik). This is where the modern criminal history of the region begins.
The prison in Tulun for especially dangerous repeat offenders and those for whom the death penalty was commuted to pardon is notable not only for the fact that Yaponchik was imprisoned there. Its former boss, Ostapenko, let prisoners go for walks at night in the early 90s. In freedom, they went about their usual activities, feeling completely safe: if something happened, they had an alibi - imprisonment. Ostapenko probably managed to convince the judges that he couldn’t decide otherwise economic problems old prison, and he was given a suspended sentence (for five years).
Thief in law Maho - Ilya Simoniya
By the time Masya became a leader, many Russian authorities had long been working for Georgian thieves. Vladimir Andreenkov (Andreychik) and his right hand Sergey Popov (Pop) collaborated with the Pata and Maho clan. They even donated money to their common fund. Masya decided that “if there is no person, there is no problem,” and ordered Andreychik to be removed. They shot at him, but unsuccessfully.
A few months later, on the evening of June 10, 1991, the Zhiguli car in which Masya and his driver-bodyguard, a certain Matsak, were traveling, was blown up not far from the traffic police post on the Padunskaya highway. The remains of Masya, Matsak and parts of the car were scattered more than 100 m. The explosion occurred right in front of the policemen driving in a patrol car. Masya’s murder was one of the first in a series of contract killings of Russian thieves in law and authorities.
To see off Masya and his bodyguard on their final journey, they gathered in Bratsk thieves in law from all over Russia. The city had never seen such a pompous funeral before. Many cars flocked to the cemetery. According to rough estimates, at least 200 people gathered. Masya and Matsak are lying next to each other, behind the same fence. On the monument to Masya there is an inscription: “Sleep well, brother. As a keepsake from the lads." There are wreaths around: “Sachet from Raspisny and Vikhogorskaya punks”, “From the tramps of UK-25”.
The grave of thief in law Alexander Moiseev - Masi
The day after the explosion, law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case. The proceedings in the case were suspended for more than a year, but they continued to collect operational information. As a result, the operatives learned that they had removed Yaponchik’s protege by order of the Pata clan. An anti-tank mine was used for the explosion, almost for the first time in Russia using a remote-controlled explosive device.
The police drew attention to a certain electronics technician from Bratsk, who was serving a sentence for making explosive devices. He testified that his customers included Pop and Andreychik.
The picture of Masya’s murder gradually began to emerge. After an unsuccessful attempt on Andreychik’s life, Georgian thieves in law recommended that the only way to salvation was to forestall Masya. Andreychik's people began to prepare for the operation. In one of military units bought an anti-tank mine. An electronics engineer was ordered to use an explosive device.
When it was ready, Masya was invited to visit Pop (despite the conflict, Masya bought drugs from him, and they shot up together). When Masya was once again going to visit the Tulun prison, Andreichik and Pop asked him to give the lads a box of chocolates. One of the members of Andreychik’s group, Konstantin Gladuntsev, said that a few hours before the explosion, Masya drove up to Pop’s house, from where they took him a box of chocolates and put him in a Zhiguli. There was supposedly a bomb there.
In August 1992, Popov and Gladuntsev were arrested (the latter for possession of weapons; he was a witness in the case of Masya’s murder). Andreychik is still on the wanted list. According to operatives, Popov, who had no previous convictions, said that he would take all the blame upon himself and only on this condition would he testify. For investigation, the case was transferred to the Irkutsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, and Sergei Popov was transferred to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 of Irkutsk.
Irkutsk The merchant town is filled with once festive gingerbread, but now time-worn two-story mansions; wooden barracks with carved shutters and platbands are nestled next to them, next to them are Khrushchev and high-rise buildings. I rent a room at the Angara Hotel. “Do you want the phone or the shower?” “Is it possible with both?” - I answer the question with a question. “If only with a neighbor.” I agree.
The local bartender has a tattoo on his arm that says “freedom.” He behaves politely and very proudly. “Yes, we had a lot of people staying here. Pata and his wife Nino lived in a room on the fourth floor for a long time. Good man. I didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, though I did a lot of drugs.” “And didn’t swear?” - I insert a word. “I don’t know, I haven’t heard. He treated everyone at the hotel with respect.
He enjoyed great authority. A lot of lads came to him. It happened that they would squat under his door and wait for him to come out to them or allow him to enter. Nino gave birth to Maria here. And she herself kept walking around in such outfits - in sables.” “What did Pata do for a living? Did he keep your hotel?” “I paid for the room like everyone else. And Pata’s brother, a businessman, fed the family. He once brought tea here. One carriage was lost, but he gave up on it. Then Pata bought an apartment here. Three-room apartment. True, on the first floor. There he was killed. They shot me right through the window. June 10, 1994 - as I remember now. Nino left for Georgia. Maho, his friend, is in Sochi. The killer was not found - no one needed it.” The barman wiped away a tear. Pata was killed exactly 3 years after Masya’s death.
Murder in the prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region thief in law Masi was investigated by a 33-year-old special investigator important matters Sergey Kalinin. He knew how to solve murders. His superiors even nicknamed him Fartov. He received awards “for disclosure” more often than others. In November 1993, Kalinin completed the investigation and handed over the case to the Irkutsk Regional Court.
On the night of December 3-4, investigator Kalinin was killed. He was returning from a visit with his girlfriend, a judge. Both were very tipsy. Four people approached Kalinin, allegedly to shoot him a cigarette. Then the investigator shouted to his companion: “Run.” She still managed to see how Kalinin was hit on the head with a nail puller from behind, and he fell. At home, the woman claims, she fell on the bed and immediately fell asleep from shock. Only in the morning I went to the scene of the incident, found Kalinin’s body and called the police. The victim lost his service ID and service pistol.
The Irkutsk City Prosecutor's Office took over the investigation of the case. The killers were found - they turned out to be two minors and two repeat offenders - 42-year-old Anatoly Arkhipov and 35-year-old Stanislav Savelyev. They spent more than twenty years in prison, but never rose above the “sixes”. The criminals burned the ID and sold the gun to an unknown person for 15 thousand rubles.
The version of a contract killing was not confirmed. All of Kalinin's colleagues are convinced that the murder was not planned. Today the case is under further investigation and will be sent to court again in the next few days.
Sergei Popov, the main accused in Masya’s murder, was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Irkutsk. for a long time I was sitting in a “submarine” - a remote solitary confinement cell. Then Pop wanted to see people, and he was transferred to a general cell. Pop lived well there - his cellmates shared his commitment to Georgian criminal groups. But once a week the riot police gave the prisoners so-called prophylaxis. They kicked them out of their cells, lined them up against the wall and beat them. Once Pop, standing against the wall, yelled at the prisoners: “Be silent - let them beat you.” Then Pop, the only one of all, was passed by rubber batons.
In the fall of 1993, Popov began to complain to his lawyer Mikhail Stepanov that the operatives were threatening that he would not live to see the trial if he did not tell everything. Popov began writing to the Irkutsk Regional Court and the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia. There was no reaction. Then, according to the lawyer, Pop was transferred to cellmates from rival gangs. According to Stepanov, this was done on purpose so that the prisoners would remove Pop or so that his murder could be blamed on them. Stepanov is sure that the investigation had no evidence against Popov, and the case will fall apart in court. Master of sports in judo Sergei Popov told the lawyer that if anything happened to him, he would “take two people with him.”
On the morning of January 29, 1994, a few days before the start of the trial, prison officers found Pop dead. According to the results of the medical examination, he died from blunt trauma to the abdomen. Popov’s wife told the lawyer that all her husband’s bones seemed to be ground up. Three fellow inmates were charged with Pop's murder. One of them, a homeless man, allegedly beat Pop to death with a stick. He was transferred to solitary confinement, where he allegedly hanged himself. The main accused in Popov’s murder was 24-year-old Angarsk resident Brosovsky, who had already committed two murders. One of these days his case will be sent to the Angarsk City Court. True, now Pop’s killers can place all the blame on the dead homeless man.
The operatives who developed the case of Masya’s murder claim that if Popov had lived to see the trial, the case would not have fallen apart. According to their version, Pop paid for speaking badly about one of the thieves in law, with whose supporters he was sitting in the same cell.
The Irkutsk Regional Court, by its decision, immediately terminated the criminal case against Popov in connection with his death. Popov's lawyer Mikhail Stepanov appealed this decision to the Supreme Court of Russia and is seeking a trial in which he plans to achieve the posthumous rehabilitation of Pop - the termination of the criminal case for lack of corpus delicti. Supreme Court The lawyer’s complaint was satisfied, and the other day the visiting panel of the Irkutsk Regional Court in Bratsk began hearing the case of Masya’s murder. Only Masya’s widow and mother came to the trial. They want Popov to be found guilty. Then the victims will be able to recover money from Popov’s wife for the car destroyed by the explosion.
After the death of her husband, Popov’s wife moved from Bratsk to another city and was not present at the trial. If the court finds Pop innocent, she will be able to recover about 50 million rubles from the state for illegally keeping her husband in prison. So in court, both will essentially fight for material benefits.
Thieves in law Alexander Moiseev (Masya) and Vladimir Tyurin - Tyurik
Masi's power after his death passed to his two henchmen. They did not have much strength, and they were quickly removed by supporters of Georgian groups. Then Masi’s closest friend, Vladimir Tyurin (Tyurik), took power into his own hands. He was sharply different from the local gang - he didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, and graduated from school with a gold medal. True, the medalist ended up in a colony for rape at the age of 16. Then he was imprisoned several times for unintentional bodily harm, hooliganism and other crimes (in total he was accused under five articles of the Criminal Code).
Tyurik was one of the first in Bratsk to buy a VCR. For showing porn films at home, he collected 5 rubles from the gang. For this he was imprisoned once again and received the unloved nickname Projectionist. Then Tyurik took up bodybuilding and opened a gym, and then the only casino in Bratsk, which still has almost no visitors.
Tyurik's authority grew rapidly. This greatly worried the Georgian clans. In the spring of 1993, several authorities, including Yakovenko, Udartsev, Lysenko, attempted to assassinate Tyurik. A grenade was thrown through the window of his car. It bounced off and exploded, practically without even damaging the car. Wanting to find out whose handiwork this was, Tyurik appointed a meeting at the Chaika swimming pool. His ill-wishers prepared more thoroughly for this day.
Thief in law Ded Hasan was one of the guarantors for Tyurik
They decided to blow up Tyurik after the meeting. The road near the pool was blocked with a log and mined. A clearing was cut out nearby, where an ambush was placed. Conducted wiring remote control. They sent out a “police patrol” of gangs in disguise. He was supposed to radio the ambush when Tyurik’s car would appear. However, after the meeting, Tyurik got into someone else’s car. The "patrol", not finding him, gave the signal to clear the road.
With the rise of Tyurik, Yaponchik's position in the Irkutsk region became even stronger. Ivankov and his supporters gained control over the largest enterprises by buying their shares through dummies. In particular, the police say that one of the aluminum plants in the region belongs to Yaponchik, although, naturally, the name Ivankov is not in the register of shareholders.
In 1994, Tyurik moved to Moscow. I bought a house in Spain. In June 1994, Tyurik was crowned in Moscow. His guarantors were Yaponchik, Shakro and Khasan. Friends say about Tyurik: “His head is working. It might become cooler than Jap.” In the capital, Tyurik plunged headlong into business, laundering criminal money. According to law enforcement agencies, he has established solid connections. However, Tyurik does not forget about the lads. Yesterday, employees of the Moscow RUOP detained a resident of Bratsk, Igor Abanin (Besheny), in the capital. In Moscow, Besheny had important matters: Tyurik had to crown him.
At the beginning of last year, the Georgian thieves clan practically lost its influence in the region. But this did not reduce the number of crimes. In 1995, about 65 thousand were committed here, this is 6.9% more than in 1994. Perhaps because it is more difficult to control the region from Moscow or New York than from Tulun or Bratsk. How the market for funeral services works
Famous crime boss Vladimir Tyurin. law" is connected with the arrest of the "boss of all bosses" Zakharia Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy) in August 2016. Initially, it was assumed that he would not stay in the pre-trial detention center, having great influence and connections, but now, according to Rosbalt, the situation has changed.
“By and large, of the possible contenders in Russia for the position of thief in law No. 1, only representatives of the Slavic clan remain. Preliminary negotiations were conducted with crime bosses Alexey Petrov (Petrik) and Oleg Shishkanov (Shishkan). The first categorically refused, the second, most likely, will not take on the leading roles, unless as a consultant to the new “thief No. 1”. Petrik and Shishkan made a reservation that they would not object if their colleague Vladimir Tyurin became the “boss of all bosses” ( Tyurik). The latter did not refuse a possible ascension to the throne,” Rosbalt writes, citing his sources, explaining that the redistribution is expected to be peaceful and will take place without bloodshed.
Agency sources also report that thief in law Yuri Pichugin (Pichuga) may join the “coalition leadership” of the Russian criminal world. former member clan of Aslan Usoyan (Ded Hasan), killed during criminal wars in 2013.
REFERENCE (based on Wikipedia):
- Vladimir Tyurin (Tyurik, Tyurya, Batya, Projectionist) is a Russian crime boss, thief in law, one of the leaders of the “brotherly” organized crime group and the so-called “Russian mafia” in Spain. He was “crowned” on the recommendation of thief in law Yaponchik (the other two votes were given by the no less authoritative Khasan and Shakro Molodoy), and was part of the entourage of thief in law Ded Khasan. He had significant influence in the criminal world of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk region and Spain.
- On November 1, 1974, he was convicted by the Irkutsk Regional Court of complicity in gang rape. On June 11, 1980, Vladimir Tyurin was convicted by the Bratsk City Court of complicity in burglary and malicious hooliganism. On October 28, 1985, the Bratsk City Court sentenced him to four years and six months in prison for engaging in prohibited fishing and involving minors in criminal activities (using a rare VCR in those days, he showed porn films in his apartment for money). Tyurin served his term in one of the colonies of the Irkutsk region, was released in 1989, and in 1991 he went to live with his wife in Kazakhstan, where after the collapse of the USSR he received citizenship, but soon returned to Russia.
- On June 10, 1991, brotherly thief in law Alexander Moiseev (Masya), appointed by Yaponchik as the “supervisor” for the Irkutsk region, was blown up in his car. Soon, Masi’s brigade was headed by his closest friend Tyurik, who was assassinated in the spring of 1993 (a grenade thrown at the window of his car bounced off and exploded without causing any harm to the authority figure). After the “coronation” in 1993 (according to other sources, Tyurik was “crowned” in 1994), he increasingly began to appear in Moscow, visiting Siberia and St. Petersburg on short visits.
- In the 1990s, Tyurik headed the so-called “brotherly” organized crime group, controlled the Bratsk aluminum plant, the only casino in Bratsk and a number of other enterprises in the region, channels for the export of metals and timber from Siberia through St. Petersburg to the Baltic states and Western Europe, and “protected “many entrepreneurs, actively participated in criminal disputes and “aluminum wars.”
- In 1998, Tyurin, fearing for his life, moved to Spain, where he settled in the municipality of Orihuela next to thieves in law Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro-young), Vakhtang Kardava and Jamal Khachidze. On March 15, 1999, the investigative department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk Region opened a criminal case against Tyurin for forgery and use of foreign passports in other people's names, but for unknown reasons the case was closed.
- In 2009, Tyurin was detained in Mongolia following a tip from Interpol, however, when the Spaniards arrived there to extradite the authority, they found his brother in prison.
- On November 2, 2010, Tyurin was detained by MUR operatives and FSB officers in a Moscow restaurant. The Spanish authorities, at whose request the detention was carried out, accused him of creating criminal community and laundering criminal money that was invested in real estate in seaside resorts. The court arrested Tyurin, who, as it turned out, was a citizen of Kazakhstan, and allegedly received Russian citizenship illegally (the thief in law was placed in the Butyrsky detention center, from where he regularly called Ded Khasan and other authorities). On October 20, 2011, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow transferred Tyurin to house arrest.
- In February 2012, Tyurin’s lawyers were able to prove his Russian citizenship, since until February 6, 1992, he was permanently residing in Russia (although he was registered in Almaty). On this basis, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office refused to extradite Tyurin to the Spanish authorities, and since Tyurin was not involved in criminal cases in Russia and there were no complaints against him, he was released from house arrest and received a new Russian passport.
It is noteworthy that Wikipedia and other information sources recent years cite “operational data” (obviously from law enforcement agencies) that “recently Tyurin has moved away from criminal activities and engaged in legal business.”
Teleinform news agency writes about this.
The high-profile trial of a fraternal criminal community has come to an end
On September 25, 2007, the Supreme Court of Russia upheld the conviction in the Skripnik gang case, handed down by the Irkutsk Regional Court at the end of December 2006. According to this verdict, the leader of the group, Mikhail Skripnik, was sentenced to 23 years in a maximum security colony; the rest of the gang received from 15 years to life imprisonment.
Let us recall that at the end of 2003, after a series of daring crimes, operatives of the criminal investigation department of the Main Department of Internal Affairs and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in the Irkutsk region detained almost all members of the fraternal and Angarsk groups of more than 20 people. The progress of the investigation was under the control of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office. In the spring of 2005, the brothers' first case was brought to court. The seven defendants were charged with creating an organized criminal community and an armed stable group - a gang, as well as numerous murders, extortion, robberies and robberies. The case materials amounted to 63 volumes. There were 22 victims and more than 100 witnesses in the criminal case.
According to investigators, Mikhail Skripnik exercised general management of the four-level structure he created. It included those closest to him who were directly involved in planning, preparing crimes and recruiting personnel, as well as privileged members and ordinary bandits. All of them had permanent residence in Bratsk, and in regional center lived illegally in rented apartments. At their disposal were several cars, firearms (AKM assault rifles, revolvers, shotguns) with ammunition, radios, night vision devices, police uniforms, and handcuffs. All this was confiscated during the arrest.
One of the most resonant crimes of the group is the murder of eight people in the center of Irkutsk. Let us recall that on the evening of December 14, 2002, near the eastern stand of the Trud stadium, two machine gunners shot at a Toyota Mark II and a VAZ-2108. Among the dead was the former governor of the city of Irkutsk, Pavel Kiselev, nicknamed Kisel.
Another unusual episode is the extortion of one and a half million dollars from a major Siberian businessman Svetlov. He refused to pay and soon disappeared. Svetlov's dismembered body was discovered in the taiga.
And after an attempt on the life of an Angarsk businessman, the leader of another group, in the Solnechny microdistrict, where his bodyguard was shot, detectives took the first suspects and began to unravel the whole tangle of crimes.
The panel of the Irkutsk Regional Court, chaired by Vyacheslav Popravko, did not see clear signs of a criminal organization in the case, thereby rejecting the charges under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. However, the creation and management of a gang, organization and participation in contract killings, etc., led to significant periods of isolation from society. Based on the totality of crimes, the leader of the gang, Mikhail Skripnik, was sentenced to 23 years in prison in a maximum security colony; the perpetrator Mikhail Zakharov received a life sentence. Other gang members received from 7 to 21 years in prison. At the same time, the lawyers of the convicted (Skripnik was defended by Zhirinovsky’s lawyer, and State Duma deputy Kuryanovich defended the rights of another defendant) filed cassation appeals to a higher authority. Nine months later, the Supreme Court of Russia, having examined the case materials, left the verdict unchanged, thereby confirming the correctness of the prosecution and finally putting an end to the high-profile case of the fraternal group.
Today, many know him as a major philanthropist and successful businessman who has interests in banking, energy and heavy industry. And a quarter of a century ago, this man, called “Tyurik” in certain circles, led one of the largest organized crime groups in Siberia. Moreover, in the criminal environment, Vladimir Tyurin was in the first positions, since he was part of the inner circle of the famous authority Ded Hassan. The Bratsk organized crime group, like most criminal structures, appeared in the era of Vladimir Tyurin, who turned it into a powerful and influential organization.
Excursion into history
The fraternal organized crime group was finally formed in the era of the emergence of cooperation. Its members made a living by imposing tribute on novice businessmen, eliminating unwanted competitors on orders, and supervising the drug trade. However, they had competitors in the form of Caucasian groups, so a showdown over spheres of influence was bound to occur sooner or later.
And they happened in the summer of 1991. The reason for them was the elimination of the leader of the “brotherly gang” nicknamed “Masya”, who died as a result of the explosion of an anti-tank grenade. After this, the wards of the murdered authority, under the leadership of another person, decided to put an end to the Caucasians in the region once and for all. They declared war on the “newcomers,” and after some time there was not a single gang of Caucasians left in the city. The fraternal organized crime group needed a reliable leader who could deal with serious matters in the interests of the criminal structure and take steps to increase its authority among thieves in law. And one was soon found. Vladimir Tyurin became the successor of the murdered Masya.
Representative of a new formation of thieves
If we carefully analyze First stage Tyurik’s biography (date and place of birth November 25, 1958, city of Bratsk), then we can come to the conclusion that in the future gang leader, two principles seemed to coexist. On the one hand, he was an obedient and versatile teenager who graduated from school with a gold medal. In his youth, Vladimir Tyurin was fond of chess and showed interest in bodybuilding. Having received a matriculation certificate, the young man entered the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Faculty of Economics.
It seemed that he had every chance to make a brilliant career in his chosen profession. But, as it turned out, the young man had criminal tendencies. At the age of 15, he was found guilty of gang rape. In 1980, Tyurin was convicted of his participation in a burglary. At the age of 30, he went to prison for involving minors in illegal activities. So Vladimir Tyurin (Bratskaya organized crime group) knew firsthand about the “world of thieves”.
At the head of the gang
In 1993, Tyurik became a crowned thief. The initiator of this ceremony was Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik) himself. The latter decided that the Bratsk organized crime group would find a new leader in the person of Vladimir Tyurin. The leader was supposed to destroy all those responsible for Masi’s murder, expel Georgian authorities from the region and “take over” most of the business of the Irkutsk region. And Tyurin (Bratskaya organized crime group) fully justified the hopes placed on him. He dealt with the offenders and began to expand his sphere of influence on the business of the Irkutsk region. They steadily received a percentage from local entrepreneurs and gradually covered all the large oil and timber industry enterprises in the region.
The “Brotherly” organized crime group, which consisted mainly of ambitious young people from 16 to 30 years old, gradually acquired connections in the government structures of the region. Cases of non-prosecution of persons who were Tyurik's wards were resolved through bribery. Naturally, after some time, the fraternal organized crime group turned into a powerful and influential structure, contributing substantial money to the thieves’ “common fund”. Tyurik's authority also grew significantly.
The geography of the criminal activities of the group headed by Tyurin began to extend beyond the borders of its native region. Bandits began to carry out business in the Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk territories and Primorye. But Tyurin (brotherly organized crime group) showed special interest in the St. Petersburg market. However, at first he had no idea that his competitor would be jealous of his unexpected and early success.
A series of unsuccessful attempts
The authority figure Igor Lysenko, nicknamed “Basel,” initially did not like the fact that some Tyurik was crowned a thief for no reason whatsoever. He was perplexed why an ordinary “huckster” was awarded such a high title in the criminal world. Lysenko also did not want large industrial enterprises The Irkutsk region was controlled by Tyurik. He chose to solve the problem radically...
Attempt No. 1
The very next day after the coronation, Basel sent two “thugs” to Vladimir’s apartment, who were supposed to eliminate the leader of the “brotherly gang.”
But the killers simply “missed” the victim: having entered the entrance of the house, they, out of elementary negligence, let past the passing leader of the “Bratskaya” organized crime group, who, having gone down the stairs, calmly went out into the street. As a result, the attempt at elimination failed.
Attempt No. 2
After this, the annoyed Basel personally gave the performers a revolver and ordered them to finish the job. He promised to give a substantial reward to anyone who did this. The victim's house was under surveillance. The scheme of the second attempt was simple: when Tyurin got into the car, the killer, disguised as a law enforcement officer, would approach the vehicle on a motorcycle and shoot at Tyurik. But this time, the head of the Bratskaya organized crime group was not injured: with his sixth sense, he suspected something was wrong and, when he heard the roar of an approaching motorcycle, he sharply stepped on the gas...
Attempt No. 3
After some time, Basel's thugs made another attempt to eliminate him. This time the killers intended to deal with the victim in his own apartment. At the same time, the performers agreed that if Tyurin was not in the apartment, then they would wait for his appearance at all costs. When they approached the house, they saw that Vladimir’s car was parked in the yard. The thugs feared that the head of the fraternal organized crime group might not be alone in the apartment. One of the killers hid in the entrance, and the other hurried to the telephone booth to call for help. But suddenly Tyurin came out of his home, accompanied by a lady, and in a matter of seconds the couple found themselves in the car.
The killer explained later that he was simply late with the shot. Then the killer decided to throw a grenade, but again he failed. The projectile "ricocheted" from vehicle, flying to the side. Only the killer himself was injured, and Tyurik and his companion remained unharmed, since they were able to drive away from the scene of the incident in the blink of an eye. safe distance. One way or another, during interrogation by an investigator, the head of the fraternal organized crime group, Vladimir Tyurin, refused to consider himself a victim and stated that he had no complaints against anyone.
Attempt No. 4
But there was a fourth attempt to eliminate the leader of an authoritative gang. It became known to those around Basel that a gathering of criminal authorities was planned in one of the city’s swimming pools, at which Vladimir Tyurin would also be present.
Igor Lysenko ordered the foreman to plant an explosive device directly next to the route along which the path to the pool lay. The killers were supposed to lie in wait for Tyurik’s car and, when he crossed the controlled section of the road, pull the trigger. But this time there was a misfire. The leader of the “brotherly groups” again trusted his intuition: he chose to go to the meeting by a different road, and returned back in a different car. Basel made no more attempts on the life of the crowned thief, and Tyurik himself, for his own safety, began to travel with guards.
Initially, he could not even imagine who wanted him dead so badly. And the investigator himself revealed this secret to him.
Denouement
Suddenly, the foreman of Basel, who was directly hunting Vladimir Tyurin, disappeared from the city. Igor Lysenko also left the boundaries of Bratsk. As it turned out later, the person who ordered the crime fled to St. Petersburg, where, after a criminal showdown, he ended up in a medical facility because he was wounded by a firearm. Some time later, Basel was killed in the same Northern capital. Moreover, the direct perpetrators of the crime, who were members of Igor Lysenko’s group, appeared in court shortly before the murder of their leader. It is noteworthy that they all tried to convince the representative of Themis that they had no idea of attempting the life of an authoritative thief in law.
The leader of the fraternal organized crime group, Vladimir Tyurin, was absent from the trial, but from written sources available to the court, it emerged that he had no claims against the victims. At the same time, there were rumors in criminal circles that it was Yaponchik’s protege who made sure that Basel’s charges ended up in the dock.
New Horizons
After the Bratskaya organized crime group became the main “controller” of all business in the Irkutsk region, Tyurik began to think about conquering St. Petersburg and Moscow. Initially, in the Northern capital, they “protected” small businessmen, avoiding showdowns with large criminal communities. But after some time, participating in constant civil strife, the St. Petersburg gangs seriously weakened, and the “brotherly” gangs decided to take advantage of the situation. The “Siberians” began to engage in larger matters.
Tyurik established a channel for transporting Irkutsk aluminum and timber through the city on the Neva to the Baltic countries. Soon, the "Brotherly" organized crime group, photos of whose members appeared on the media in the late 90s in connection with the arrest of the gang, decided to wedge themselves into the pharmaceutical and fuel business. Tyurik spared no expense in bribing high-ranking officials and representatives of security agencies. Soon the leader of the “brotherly groups” became an influential figure in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Vladimir Tyurin turned into a major entrepreneur and decided to get out of the shadow business.
Abroad
In the second half of the 90s, the crowned thief in law, in order to protect himself from potential arrests, decides to leave his homeland and, together with his first wife and son, moves to live in Benedorm (Spain). But, while abroad, he continues to maintain connections with the criminal world. In particular, he is in close contact with the authority Zakariy Kalashov, who is known in certain circles as “Shakro the Young.”
In 2003, Tyurik was present at a large gathering of thieves, which was organized in Spain. It was there that the authorities decided to create a corporation that would launder and legalize cash obtained by criminal means in Russia. Initially, things were going well for the thieves, as they say, but then law enforcement agencies in Spain suspected something was wrong. The large-scale Operation Wasp thundered like thunder from a clear sky. Financial accounts, luxury villas were arrested, debt receipts were seized... And this time fortune favors Vladimir Tyurin. Before the Spanish police began to carry out operational investigative measures, the head of the Bratskaya organized crime group left for Russia.
Extradition did not take place
The kingdom's detectives announce him in international search and demand that the thief in law be extradited to Spain. But here, too, Tyurik was lucky. The authority’s lawyers went to the court of the city of Bratsk to prove: their client is Russian citizen. As proof, they presented an identity document issued by the Republic of Kazakhstan. The court made a decision to prevent the extradition of the leader of the “brotherly groups”, automatically extending Tyurin’s term of imprisonment. However, further proceedings did not clarify the fate of the bandit leader. The judges continued to increase the terms of his arrest until the thief suffered a health-threatening attack of hypertension in his cell. After this, he was assigned an alternative preventive measure - house arrest.
In the winter of 2012, lawyers achieved through the court that Vladimir Tyurin was officially recognized as a citizen of Russia, so the ban on his extradition to a foreign state came into force. And in his homeland he was not involved in criminal cases, so he was not threatened with any prison.
Actor Sergei Bezrukov did not miss the opportunity to pose next to the lads
Brotherly octopus's tentacle pinched
Recently, the St. Petersburg criminal investigation department detained a group of killers who are accused of committing contract killings of many famous businessmen of the city and influential crime bosses in the region. As the preliminary investigation showed, the brigade of hired killers acted on behalf of one of the largest and most dangerous criminal communities in Russia - the “brotherly” one. Another big criminal redistribution in the country was being prepared.
Fight "laurels"
The Siberian city of Bratsk appeared on the criminal map of Russia in the early 90s of the last century. When the war began there between the Georgian thieves in law (“lavrushniks”) and their opponents. The leader of the “brotherly” group, Masya, died in it - he and his accomplice were blown up in the “six” on a radio-controlled mine.
Masi's heir was his comrade-in-arms Tyurik. In 1993, he was crowned on the initiative of Yaponchik. At the “coronation” he was given a specific task - to avenge Masya’s death, physically destroy the “Laurels” and spread his influence throughout Irkutsk region. Tyurik coped with this task brilliantly. Over the course of several years, he put together a powerful criminal community with a strict hierarchy, strict adherence to the rules of secrecy and iron discipline. Clearing the way to undivided power, Tyurik, with the help of his lads, destroyed almost all the Georgian thieves in law and the Slavic “authorities” who supported them in the region.
The main criminal business of the “brotherly men” today, according to information from the Irkutsk Organized Crime Control Department, is obtaining cash loans for shell companies, car thefts and returning the car to the owner for ransom, contract killings, organizing and controlling drug trafficking in the region (according to rumors, the community recently lobbied through its people for the opening direct flight Dushanbe - Irkutsk for fast delivery of Afghan heroin).
The next stage was the introduction of bandits into large enterprises in the region. The leaders of the fraternal organized crime group took control of the oil industry and wood processing enterprises (up to 80% of the group’s income comes from trade in timber and timber products). There were some casualties. In the summer of 1993, on the Moscow ring road, unknown persons shot up the car of the general director of the Bratsk forestry industry, E. Yevtushenko. Director of the Zhilkinskaya oil depot in Irkutsk Yu. Sklyanova at the entrance own home the killer was waiting with... a can of sulfuric acid. He died from his burns in the hospital. A dozen more managers of regional enterprises fell victims of contract killings or went missing.
The “Brotherly Ones” also acquired their own people in government structures. They also tried to break into them themselves. By the way, the leader of the “brotherly” killers, Oleg Makovoz, who was detained in St. Petersburg, was a candidate for State Duma deputy and was listed as the head of the North-Western Directorate of the State Construction Committee.
Thanks to great connections in government and the police, almost all criminal cases involving “fraternal” cases fell apart. In 1999, Deputy Bratsk prosecutor A. Sinitsyn said that “there is corruption in the police, and I am ready to fight it.” He inquired into all OPS cases that had been suspended and concluded that their terminations were unlawful. A few days later A. Sinitsyn was killed. But the “brothers” got burned, apparently, because they aimed at the wrong state power, but to criminal.
Don't dig a grave
According to information from the Agency for Investigative Journalism (AZHUR), in May last year, the “authoritative” businessman Konstantin Yakovlev, who is also the “supervisor” of the Northern capital Kostya-Mogila, met with Tyurik in St. Petersburg. The issue of the “fraternal” share in the construction of the dam and the possibility of having their own piece in seaport, which controlled the “authority” - in order to freely export Irkutsk timber and aluminum. Mogila refused the “profitable” offer - and three days later in Moscow he was shot in a car by two machine gunners on a motorcycle. The detained Makovoz killers took this murder and the subsequent executions of several crime bosses in St. Petersburg upon themselves. There, a gang of “brotherly” killers was preparing attempts on the life of the authoritative businessman Vladimir Kumarin, as well as one of the leaders of the St. Petersburg police department. Apparently, Tyurik was preparing a springboard in St. Petersburg for the activities of his community. But the city turned out to be too much for him, and the thief suffered serious losses.
In July last year, one of the leaders of the “brotherly” gang, the crime boss Gamera, was shot dead in Moscow. Then there was the arrest of Makovoz and his group, whose members had already begun to give interesting testimony (more on them later). And recently in Irkutsk, a certain Mikhail Skripnik, known in certain circles as Skripa, was arrested. According to investigators, Skripnik is also one of the leaders of the “brotherly groups”, being responsible for the economic sector in the OPS. At one time, he was repeatedly brought in as the main suspect in cases of murder, extortion, and beating of a police officer. The loudest, perhaps, was the case of extortion of one and a half million dollars from a major Siberian businessman I. Svetlov. He refused to pay and soon disappeared. The case was suspended. And recently, “brotherly” ordinary militants were detained in the city. Thanks to their testimony, Svetlov’s body was discovered in the taiga.
According to investigators, the organizer of the murder of I. Svetlov was Skripnik. Just like the execution last year in the city center in broad daylight of local “authority” Pavel Kiselyov (Kisel), and with him seven other people. Among them was Kisel’s wife and the 15-year-old son of the Irkutsk thief in law Soloma, who was recently killed in Moscow. If Skripnik is proven guilty in court, he faces a considerable prison sentence. They say that then some very profitable types of business may leave the influence of the “brotherly ones.”
During the investigation, two of the detainees hanged themselves in the pre-trial detention center and began testifying, including against Skripnyk. Their lawyers blamed the death of their clients on operatives and investigators from the prosecutor's office, inundating the Prosecutor General's Office, the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control and the Main Directorate of Security Services with complaints. “Their goal is to divert all suspicion from Skripnik, so they are trying to prove that their clients gave all the testimony under pressure from the investigation,” says our source in the Irkutsk prosecutor’s office. Although before his death, one of the deceased defendants wrote a letter in which he asked the management of the pre-trial detention center not to transfer him, at the request of his lawyer, to solitary confinement. The defense insisted, and a few days later the guy was found hanged in solitary confinement.
Whether all of the above events mark the beginning of the end of the powerful criminal community is still unknown. As AZHUR told us, it is possible that law enforcement agencies will soon get to Tyurik, known in the world as a large, influential businessman. If, of course, there is the will for it...
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