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Grouping under the leadership of Gennady Petrov. Honored guests of Alexander Malyshev - Yakuza. Novaya Gazeta: "Connected with the Past"

Biography:

Born September 9, 1958 in Leningrad. He arrived in St. Petersburg from places of deprivation of liberty in 1995.

Previously engaged in wrestling, but did not achieve much success. He has many acquaintances among athletes. After serving two terms in 1977 (premeditated murder) and in 1984 (negligent murder), he was a "thimblemaker" at the Hay Market, worked under the guise of the Kumarin group and had the nickname "Baby". He put together his own group in the late 80s, uniting under his leadership the "Tambovites", "Kolesnikovites", "Kemerovo", "Komarovtsy", "Perm", "Kudryashov", "Kazan", "Tarasov", "Severodvinsk" , "Saranians", "Efimovites", "Voronezh", "Azerbaijanis", "Krasnoyarsk", "Chechens", "Dagestanis", "Krasnoseltsev", "Vorkuta" and bandits from Ulan-Ude. Each group consisted of 50 to 250 people. The total number of the group is about 2,000 militants.

He was the manager of Nelli-Druzhba LLP and the founder of the Tatti company, which owns a network of commercial stores.

After a showdown with the Tambovites, he fled to Sweden, from where he spread rumors about his death in a shootout. He returned after the failure of the trials of his colleagues. In October 1992, Malyshev and 18 of his closest connections were arrested during the implementation of the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the case of businessman Dadonov. On August 25, 1993, the closest associates of Malyshev: Kirpichev, Berlin, Petrov were released on bail. For the release of another colleague - Rashid Rakhmatulin, the Association of Boxers of St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation of French Boxing, the Tonus cooperative and the administration of the prison where he was kept petitioned. Rashid was released, and the supervising prosecutor V. Osipkin, who opposed this, was soon dismissed from the prosecutor's office.

The trial of Malyshev ended in 1995, he was convicted for illegal possession and possession of weapons by 2.5 years. general regime, but since he spent 2 years and 11 months in the "SIZO", he was released.
Source: Kompromat.Ru, 1996

Alexander Malyshev moved to Spanish Malaga at the very beginning of the 2000s together with Olga Solovieva. In essence, Malyshev fled from Russia. It happened back in the spring of 1998 - after a series of failed assassination attempts on him. In the same year, he managed to obtain Estonian citizenship. When it turned out that during the paperwork, Alexander Ivanovich presented a fake birth certificate, the Estonian authorities imprisoned the newly-made citizen for a whole month. Of course, this was far from Malyshev's first walker - he had previously been under arrest on charges of premeditated murder, banditry and illegal possession of weapons.

After his release, Malyshev hastily left Estonia and took refuge in Spain. Here he appeared already as Alexander Langas Gonzalez, marrying a Hispanic woman and taking her last name.

For the period approximately 2001-2008, according to the Spanish police, the volume of laundered money amounted to more than 10 million euros.

In 2002, Malyshev was detained in Germany on suspicion of forging documents to obtain Estonian citizenship.

At the moment, with Gennady Petrov and Sergey Kuzmin, Malyshev shares the highest place in the hierarchy of the criminal group they created.
Source: Novaya Gazeta No. 50 dated 07/16/2008

Dossier:

In the mid-90s, Alexander Malyshev was seen by journalists like this.

Malyshevskaya OCG is the most numerous, but less organized criminal community. He has mafia connections in the middle management of the city. It includes a large number of criminal elements. Dangerous in physical collision. The main goal is large commercial structures (including banks). One of the methods is to put your people to work in structures and firms of interest, to acquire a controlling stake, to train your economic personnel in official educational institutions cities.

Spheres of influence: Krasnoselsky, Kirovsky and Moskovsky, part of the Central and Kalininsky districts of St. Petersburg.

hotels: "Oktyabrskaya", "Okhtinskaya", "Pribaltiyskaya",

restaurants: "Polyarny", "Universal", "Petrobir"

markets: automotive in the Frunzensky district, on the street. Marshal Kazakov and allegedly took control of the Nekrasovsky market.

Trade in antiques. Gambling business. Particularly controls Nevsky Prospekt.

Malyshev's residence was located in the Pulkovskaya Hotel, there was an office on Berezovaya Alley (Kamenny Ostrov), where he received businessmen and, in particular, met with Oleg Golovin, chairman of the board of Petrovsky Bank. The mediator in the negotiations was a citizen of Cyprus Getelson.

He maintained contacts with Moscow through the leader of the "winged" group Oleg Romanov (killed in autumn 1994). He created a number of bandit firms: calling prostitutes at home, cafes, saunas, buying up non-ferrous metals, etc.

I used Caucasians to work on knocking out debts. He transferred money to financial institutions (banks) of Cyprus, with their help he achieved influence on the largest banks in St. Petersburg. With the money of Malyshev, the Kiselev Music Center was created, the holidays "Vivat St. Petersburg!" and White Nights of Rock 'n' Roll. Organized the underground production of small-caliber revolvers. At the meeting in 1993, he secured the drug trade, leaving the "Azerbaijanis" only the sale of agricultural products.

After the arrest of Malshev, Moscow thieves in law tried to get their hands on St. Petersburg crime. Andrey Berzin (Trouble) who spoke against this in March 1993 at the Moscow-Petersburg gangway was killed. In the same year, there were attempts on almost all prominent St. Petersburg bandits.

Despite the fact that Malyshev was in prison for a long time, his authority still remained high. Through his lawyers, he continued to manage cases. Its structure by 1995 consisted of 350-400 fighters.
Source: Kompromat.ru, 1996

On June 13, 2008, Alexander Malyshev was arrested in Spain as part of the high-profile Troika operation. Some time after the high-profile arrests, journalists were able to understand in general terms the essence of the offenses accused of Russian gangsters in Spain. Firstly, a list of detainees was published on 13 June 2008 in different cities Spain:
- Gennady Petrov;
- Yuri Salikov (Petrov's longtime companion);
- Yulia Ermolenko (Petrov's legal adviser);
- Leonid Khristoforov (Petrov's right hand);
- Alexander Malyshev, aka Alexander Lagnas Gonzalez;
- Svetlana Kuzmina (wife of Sergei Kuzmin, old comrade Petrov);
- Leonid Khazin;
- Olga Solovieva (civil wife of Malyshev);
- Ildar Mustafin (accomplice of Malyshev in the early 90s);
- Juan Antonio Felix (Spanish lawyer);
- Ignacio Pedro (Spanish lawyer);
- Julian Perez (Spanish lawyer);
- Zhanna Gavrilenkova (wife of Viktor Gavrilenkov - Stepanych Jr.);
- Vitaly Izgilov (Moscow thief in law, nicknamed Vitalik the Beast);
- Vadim Romanyuk.

It was in this sequence that their names appeared in the official papers of the Spanish justice. Of those listed, only Zhanna Gavrilenkova and Leonid Khazin were released by the court on bail of 100,000 euros and 6,000 euros, respectively. The remaining thirteen were arrested.

According to journalistic sources, development began several years ago. Since the autumn of 2007, the Spanish police have been actively listening Cell phones arrested, conducted covert surveillance of them, recorded the arrivals of guests. Within the framework of the program international cooperation investigators received information from Greece, Germany and Russia.

The press drew attention to the fact that even in the general, descriptive part of the charge, the documents contain accurate data on the past convictions of Petrov, Malyshev, Khristoforov, Kuzmin and Mustafin. Moreover, the Spanish Themis knows which of them and when went through the same criminal cases together and how they met decades ago.

Further, the documents contain information about the hierarchy in the world of the "Russian mafia". According to officials of the Ministry of Justice, after the arrest of Vladimir Kumarin in 2007, Gennady Petrov became the most influential figure. This was due to the huge amount of money he accumulated and his connections with high-profile people from 1996 to 2008. The Spaniards are convinced that Petrov's relationship with Malyshev was not excessively close. Nevertheless, it is Alexander Malyshev who can be called the boss. So, according to one of the reports, “Malyshev depended on Petrov financially, and Petrov on Malyshev - historically. Only Malyshev had the opportunity to order and act by force.

Next to Gennady Petrov, the Spaniards put the figures of Yuri Salikov and Sergei Kuzmin. Yulia Ermolenko is considered to be Petrov's trusted legal adviser. Leonid Khristoforov is also present in the scheme, as a person especially responsible for the security of Petrov's business in Russia.

And in the immediate vicinity of Malyshev, according to the calculations of the Spaniards, is Ildar Mustafin. His area of responsibility is similar to that of Christopher. Alexander Malyshev's personal clerk is called his common-law wife, Olga Solovieva.

Victor Gavrilenkov and his wife Jeanne settled near the Malyshev-Petrov connection. It is thanks to Gavrilenkov that the Spaniards add the brand "Tambov" to the adjective "Malyshevskoe". Indeed, Viktor Gavrilenkov is the brother of Nikolai Gavrilenkov, nicknamed Stepanych, who was killed in St. Petersburg in 1995.

At one time, they peacefully coexisted in the same brigade with Vladimir Kumarin, until nine bullets hit Kumarin in 1994. Kumarin never concealed his certainty that it was the Stepanychis who made the decision to liquidate him. After the assassination attempt, which cost Kumarin his hand, it so happened that Gavrilenkov Sr. was buried in the Kiev-Pechora Lavra, and the younger was shot from machine guns at the Nevsky Palace Hotel in 1996.

Victor Gavrilenkov appeared in St. Petersburg only after the arrest of Vladimir Kumarin - 12 years later.

In connection with the interest in the history of the origin of private property and Russian capital in the provinces of Malaga, Valencia and the Balearic Islands, journalists mentioned Vitaly Izgilov, a Moscow thief in law nicknamed Vitalik the Beast. They did not support the opinion that Izgilov was closely connected with the federal thief in law Shakro-young, who had settled there. They referred to the recordings of Izgilov's telephone conversations legalized in court. According to Spanish law enforcement officers, many films reflect the stereotype of the behavior of Russian gangsters in Spain.

Although the main focus of the charges still concerns tax crimes, nevertheless, all those arrested are charged with two unifying articles of the Spanish Criminal Code - 517th, part 1, 517th, parts 1, 2. They relate to the organization of a criminal community.

The following are accusations under articles: 301 - legalization of proceeds from crime; 390 and 392 - falsification of financial and other documents; 305 - tax crimes against public property; 251 - forged contracts.

Analysis carried out law enforcement, allows us to say that since the mid-90s in the territory of Spain, the accused have created several joint-stock companies closed type, which received huge funds from offshore companies in Cyprus, Panama and the Virgin Islands. In turn, these ZAOs, through their subsidiaries specializing in real estate transactions, laundered money by buying up land and mansions in Spain. The Spanish side directly names two main structures involved in illegal transactions: Inmobiliara Calvia 2001 and Inmobiliara Balear 2001.

In addition to accusations of non-payment of taxes on tens of millions of euros, the Spaniards consider all real estate transactions of these companies illegal and are confident that they will be able to confiscate assets worth 30 million euros. In the meantime, the assets of the detainees and their accounts have been seized. According to the materials of the criminal cases initiated against our "authoritative" countrymen, there are many Russians, whom the Spanish royal prosecutor's office could not take by surprise.

The prosecutor's office believes that in addition to Mikhail Rebo, the financial brain of the "Tambov-Malyshevsky" arrested by the German police in Berlin, the following may be involved in fraud:

Sergei Kuzmin (Petrov's partner);
Salikov's wife Marlena Barbara Salikova (Polish by nationality);
Ruslan Tarkovsky (Mustafin's partner);
Suren Zotov (a major businessman from Russia);
the Botishev family (Sergey, wife Nina, daughter Anna), who own five offshore companies in Cyprus;
Tatyana Solovieva (mother of Solovieva) and Irina Usova (sister of Solovieva),
Dordibai Khalimov;
Boris Pevzner.

Also, the court of Spain has frozen 25 million euros received on the accounts of companies controlled by the defendants from banks in Russia, Panama, the Cayman Islands, the USA, Latvia, Switzerland and the UK.

But the core of the accusations are the materials received from the Spanish tax police.

For example, on May 30, 2005, CJSC Internasion, owned by Gennady Petrov, purchased the SASHA yacht for 3.5 million euros, but did not pay VAT. That is, she hid from paying 530 thousand euros. And on June 22, 2005, Gennady Petrov donated seven large land plots in favor of CJSC Inmobiliara and in return received 4,000,000 shares at a price of 1 euro per share. For which he did not pay taxes.

And there are hundreds of such examples.

The Spanish government is convinced that it understands how money from offshores was legalized through a ZAO. After that, they bought real estate in Spain and Germany. It is not yet clear where the money came from offshore. And whose money was it?

Help. Articles of the Criminal Code of Spain imputed to members of the "Tambov-Malyshevsky" community: 515, 517 - creation of illegal (criminal) associations - up to 12 years in prison;
390, 392 - forgery of an official or commercial document - up to three years in prison;
305 - causing damage to the state treasury of Spain - up to six years in prison;
301 - acquisition of property knowingly obtained by criminal means - up to two years in prison;
251 - assignment of false rights to property - up to four years in prison.

It must be taken into account that, in accordance with Spanish law, punishments under certain articles can be summed up when sentencing.

The Spanish Supreme Court is mastering the unfamiliar concepts of "vor v zakone" (thief in law), "autoritievti" (authorities) and "hermanos de Tambov" (brothers from Tambov). These words appear in the indictment brought by prominent investigating judge Baltasar Garzon against twelve Russians and three local lawyers.

Those arrested are suspected not only of being leaders or accomplices of the “Tambov-Malyshevskaya” criminal gang and laundering money. They are accused of tax evasion. This one is old but effective method back in 1931, he allowed the American authorities to send the leader of the Chicago mafia, the famous Al Capone, to prison.

According to the materials of the Spanish preliminary investigation, the arrested Russians underpaid several million euros, and the sources of their income were very vague, which allowed justice to become interested: where did the yachts, villas, Mercedes and Jaguars come from, as well as 11 million euros, which one of the defendants tried to invest in a Russian bank?

In the Spanish indictment, the leaders of the group named Alexander Malyshev, Gennady Petrov and Vitaly Izgilov. They were arrested in luxurious villas in the resort towns of Spain during the Troika operation, in which more than 400 Spanish police officers took part.

State corporations and banks

Sources close to the Spanish investigation told Novaya Gazeta that, according to the materials of the case, Malyshev and Petrov's plans included, as it were, obtaining contracts from the United Shipbuilding Corporation, which was recently created in Russia. This state corporation appeared last year and is still in its infancy. The initiator was First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, the board of directors was headed for some time by Sergei Naryshkin (now head of the presidential administration), who was replaced Igor Sechin- Deputy Prime Minister in charge of industry and energy ( commentary by IA "Ruspres"- back in 1992, Alexander Malyshev could often be met in the reception room of Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office. He could regularly get there only through the head of the receptionist, Igor Ivanovich Sechin, whose influence was already sufficient at that time to control access to Putin. Malyshev did not have to wait long in the dressing room, since the business relationship with Sechin was very reliable.).

Rosprom, which, in particular, oversees the shipbuilding industry, told Novaya Gazeta that they could not yet comment on the situation, and the press service had not yet been formed at the United Shipbuilding Corporation. They explained to us that at the moment the process of changing the president of the state corporation and corporatization of state unitary enterprises that will be part of it is underway.

According to the indictment, Alexander Malyshev has a common business with entrepreneur Sergei Kuzmin. Kuzmin's wife Svetlana is also accused of knowingly taking part in community activities and contacting Gennady Petrov .

Kuzmin owns 80% of the Spanish company "Inversiones Finanzas Inmuebles" (Inversiones Finanzas Inmuebles SL, in translation - "investment in real estate"). 20% of the company is owned by businessman Leonid Khazin, who also appears in the criminal case.

In the resort town of Marbella, the company is located at the same address and has the same telephone number as the World of Marbella company (MYR Marbella SL). Khazin is its leader, as well as a representative of the Swiss MYR SA. The World of Marbella website says the firm has been operating since the 1980s and is part of the Mir group, which includes nine companies involved in marketing, financial planning, real estate operations, and research and development of industrial technologies. The Group declares that during the period of its existence it has realized investment projects in Europe for 500 million euros. Industrial facilities, residential complexes and prestigious villas worth several million euros each are listed. In 2006, Mir Group planned to invest 70 million euros. Among the completed projects on the company's website, in particular, are: a health complex in the south of Spain, apartments and a restaurant in Marbella and a villa in the Sierra Blanca area.

As we managed to find out, in the early nineties, Leonid Khazin from Sverdlovsk was a co-founder of the German firm Globus Electronics Import-Export (Globus-Elektronik Import-Export Handels GmbH), the head and founder of which was an emigrant from the USSR Yakov Lipovetsky. He supplied coffee to Russia, and now he is engaged in nutritional supplements.

Lipovetsky told Novaya Gazeta that he met Leonid Khazin and his acquaintance Alexander Kostinsky in the early nineties, because they had good connections in the state-owned Vnesheconombank (now the state corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs) and ensured accelerated wire transfer and money conversion. Subsequently, they became his partners. Since 1993, according to Lipovetsky, he has not dealt with Khazin and Kostinsky, the entrepreneurs left Germany. Lipovetsky is also familiar with Michael Rebo , who appears in a criminal case and was recently arrested in Germany at the Spanish request. Yakov Lipovetsky is perplexed about this, in his opinion, these people could hardly occupy any serious position in the criminal hierarchy, as the Spaniards report.

We managed to get in touch with Leonid Khazin, who was in the Marbella World office. He perceives the Spanish criminal case as a misunderstanding and is confident that the authorities will sort everything out.

“I've been working here for over twenty years and have had no problems with the law,” he says without going into details. When asked what connects him with those arrested, Khazin replies that he is no less interested in this than we are. Khazin refrained from explaining, citing that he continues to work and that clients are waiting for him.

One of the arrested, whom the Spaniards included in the top three leaders of the criminal community, shortly before his arrest, negotiated with representatives Russian bank. According to the indictment, on April 3, a certain Koba reported Vitaly Izgilov that he can get a serious interest if he transfers 11 million euros from a Swiss bank to a Russian bank, where he becomes a major shareholder. According to the Spanish document, a meeting subsequently took place in Puerto Banus, which was attended by Izgilov, Malyshev and Denis Gordeev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Baltic Development Bank. [Verbatim quote from indictment : IZGILOV mantiene el día 3/04/2008 una conversación con interlocutor no identificado y apodo Kobe, quien le indica la posibilidad de obtener una comisión del 25% sobre la suma de 11.000.000 € que el primero se ocuparía de hacer transitar desde unaentidad bancaria suiza a un banco ruso en el que el propio IZGILOV tendría control accionarial y que resultaría ser el BANCO BÁLTICO DE DESARROLLO del que Denis GORDAEEV es un relevante Ejecutivo ycon quien recientemente IZGILOV se reunió en Puerto Banús, en compañía del también imputado en las presentes Alexander MALYSHEV - commentary by IA "Ruspres"].

A week ago, we contacted the Baltic Development Bank and sent the bank's representatives the text of the indictment. However, Denis Gordeev did not comment on the situation.

The Baltic Development Bank was established in 1994 in Kaliningrad. By 2000 he moved to Moscow. According to one of the bank's former affiliates, it seemed that the origins of the bank were a Korean citizen Cho, who had good contacts with representatives of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the Kaliningrad region.

Prior to joining the Baltic Development Bank, Denis Gordeev was the head of a department at MDM Bank. An affiliate of the Baltic Development Bank Sergey Medvedev was the former head of the cash operations department of MDM Bank, the former chairman of the board of directors of the Baltic Development Bank Igor Nizovtsev was also an employee of MDM Bank. The press service of MDM Bank reported that the Baltic Development Bank had never been part of the ownership structure of MDM Bank.

real estate temptation

One of the projects of the World of Marbella company by Leonid Khazin is a villa in the Sierra Blanca area worth $3,053,000

The scale of the Spanish operation is wide. In Marbella arrested not only Russian businessmen. The high-profile operation "Troika" was preceded by a police action, which overnight mowed down almost all the officials of the resort town. In 2006, Marbella Mayor Marisol Yage was arrested on suspicion of corruption, along with assistants, notaries, lawyers and the local police chief, and the city council was dissolved. A total of 23 people were arrested. They are accused of financial fraud, price gouging, money laundering and abuse of power.

It can be assumed that the Russians arrested in 2008, whom the Spanish law enforcement agencies suspected of the same money laundering for several years, settled in Marbella on very fertile ground. And after the Spanish justice took on its own regional civil servants, Russian cases also surfaced.

Spanish real estate has long attracted Russians. Russian officials also have an indirect relationship to it (indirectly, since it is rare for any of the high-ranking Russians to register expensive property in their own name). With investing in Spanish real estate was partly due high-profile Russian criminal case No. 144128 of the St. Petersburg Corporation "Twentieth Trust" (more details: Novaya Gazeta, No. 73, 2005). Since 1992, officials from St. Petersburg have been transferring budget money to the corporation in the form of loans, although the company was almost bankrupt.

From the Twentieth Trust and its subsidiaries, funds flowed to eight countries of the world, mainly to Spain and Finland. More than $1 million and 12 million Spanish pesetas went to five Spanish companies. In Spain, two apartment hotels of the La Paloma tourist complex were built in the resort town of Torrevieja. There is also a restaurant there. In the resort town of Rojales, the villa "Dona Pepa" was bought and renovated.

Vladimir Putin (currently Prime Minister), Alexei Kudrin (Minister of Finance), Dmitry Pankin (Deputy Minister of Finance) and other well-known persons were mentioned in the materials of the criminal case. The case was dismissed in August 2000 "due to lack of corpus delicti".

One of former leaders Andrei Zykov, an investigative group, told Novaya Gazeta that pressure was put on the investigators, Oleg Kalinichenko, an operative of the anti-corruption department of the St.

* Brothers from Tambov - (translated from Spanish).

Help "New"

Alexander Malyshev - a well-known St. Petersburg "authority", more than once fell into the field of view of law enforcement agencies different countries. At home, he was tried for premeditated murder in 1977 and for negligent murder in 1984. In 1992, he was arrested, and by 1995 received two and a half years for illegal possession of weapons. Released because he had already spent time in pre-trial detention. In 2002, he was detained in Germany on suspicion of forging documents to obtain Estonian citizenship. The founder of the group, named after him "Malyshevskaya", which since 1987 was considered a competitor of the "Tambovskaya" grouping. The leader of the Tambov gang, Vladimir Kumarin (Barsukov), was arrested in Russia in August 2007.

Gennady Petrov was a ward of Kumarin, and then Malyshev, although in Spain they continue to associate him with Kumarin. It is possible that the groups that had been at war in St. Petersburg since 1987 found a common language in Spain, where their representatives retrained as businessmen and established business ties with each other.

Vitaly Izgilov, who is credited with the nicknames the Beast and Vitalik Makhachkala, was already under arrest in Spain in 2005, but was released on bail. He was called a member of the "Bauman" and "Vidnovskaya" groups. In Spain, they suspect that he is a thief in law who settled in their country and took a leading position in the new criminal hierarchy.

Closing indictment
(main theses)

Preliminary investigation 321/06 J.

The named persons are known as a criminal community and are part of a criminal structure, divided into groups and divisions. They are accused of having moved to Spain in 1996, because then in Spain they did not know about their activities, and developed a criminal activity that allowed them to receive substantial funds and real estate in the country. To achieve this, they used lawyers who became advisers to the criminal group.

1. Gennadios Petrov,
2. Yuri Salikov,
3. Yulia Ermolenko,
4. Leonid Khristoforov,
5. Alexander Malyshev,
6. Svetlana Kuzmina,
7. Leonid Khazin,
8. Olga Solovieva,
9. Ildar Mustafin,
10. Juan Antonio Untoria Agustin,
11. Juan Jesus Angulo Perez,
12. Ignacio Pedro de Urquijo Sierra,
13. Zhanna Gavrilenkova,
14. Vitaly Izgilov,
15. Vadim Romanyuk.

According to the materials of the law enforcement agencies of Russia, the European Union and the United States, the leaders of this structure are of Russian origin, they are from St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Arriving in Spain, they settled in the Costa del Sol (Malaga), the Levant and the Balearic Islands, and from there, through intermediaries and subordinates, they controlled illegal activities, including murders, beatings, threats, smuggling, fraud, falsification of documents, influence trading, bribery, drug trafficking.

The profit derived from criminal activity was sent to Spain thanks to the assistance of financial consultants serving this structure and becoming part of the Tambov-Malyshevo community, which is characterized by a number of temporary links between individual groups.

The community has integrated into the legal economy through equity and shares in companies, as well as investments in countries such as Germany. Various individuals made investments through companies and numerous banking transactions that masked the real origin of the money of the criminal structure. To assimilate into legal economic activity, they used the creation of fake companies and false incomes, as well as individuals who forged documentation.

Each of the leaders (Petrov, Malyshev, Kuzmin and Izgilov) had his own subordinates and his own sphere of activity.

Gennadios Petrov

Petrov is known in the criminal environment as one of the "authorities" of the Tambov group, and the Russian authorities have information about him as the creator of a rigid hierarchical structure. Petrov was in a Russian pre-trial detention center at the same time as Sergei Kuzmin. To hide his Russian origin, Petrov obtained documents on the origin of the Greek, and Spain turned to Greece with a request to provide information about him.

Petrov is linked to Vladimir Kumarin, another leader of the Tambov group, who has been in pre-trial detention in Russia since August 22, 2007.

Petrov helped free his subordinate Yuri Mikhailovich Salikov, who was in pre-trial detention in Spain in a VAT (value added tax) fraud case - the so-called "VAT carousel".

Petrov created companies together with Yuri Salikov, Viktor Gavrilenkov and Sergei Kuzmin, and is also associated with Georgy and Petr Vasetsky. Submission to Petrov was unconditional, for example, Leonid Khristoforov, referring to him, called him "boss". And once he was asked to use his influence and prevent a murder. Petrov also took advantage of his influence and sought the removal of data from the archives of law enforcement agencies in Russia and Greece.

Constantly communicating with other members of the community, Petrov gave orders for bribes and punishments if they did not obey him.

An analysis of companies associated with Petrov showed that since 1998 they have accumulated movable and immovable property worth 30 million euros. The latest acquisition was a property in Mallorca for 7 million euros. The money came from five companies in the Virgin Islands.

During the preliminary investigation, the accounts of companies with more than 10,300,000 euros were frozen. These earnings are unverified as the firms did not conduct commercial activities.

Gennady Petrov settled in Calvia in Mallorca and was a tax resident in Spain. He is charged with major tax evasion: in 1999, Petrov and his wife did not declare income in the amount of 2,270,000 euros, without paying approximately 880,000 euros. For 2000, 52 million pesetas were not indicated, without paying 120,000 euros, for 2001 they forgot to remember about 985,000 euros, without paying 350,000, for 2003 they did not give 180,000 euros to the treasury.

On May 30, 2001, the company (“Inversiones Gudimar SL”), of which Petrov was the sole administrator, bought the yacht “Sasha” in Italy (registration number 6-PM-1-01111-01) for 3.5 million euros, and indicated in Spain that the yacht was not even worth 700,000 euros, having underpaid 530,000 euros of tax.

Finally, for 2005, Petrov did not indicate any income, but on June 22, 2005 he allocated a land plot as a contribution to "Inmobiliare Calvia 2001 SL" and received 4,156,900 shares of the company, each worth 1 euro, thus not paying more than 1 million euros taxes.

Yuri Salikov

Salikov is accused of being an active member of the Tambov group. He created companies with Kuzmin and Petrov, and the profits from illegal activities could also come to him.

In 2005, after the Spanish preliminary investigation (protocol No. 376/05), Salikov was required to be sentenced to 12 years in prison. He was accused of VAT fraud in excess of 28.5 million euros. He contacted the other members of the group and asked for bail to be posted for him. He was released in March 2008, and despite having his accounts frozen, he lives a wealthy lifestyle with high incomes.

Yuri Salikov and his wife Marlena Barbara Salikova live in Calvia. In 2000, the couple declared only 12,000 euros, hiding 1,502,531 euros of income and not paying 600,000 euros. In 2002, the couple declared 41,000 euros, although in reality the income amounted to 900,298 euros.

Yulia Ermolenko

accused of active participation in a community led by Petrov, she had ongoing personal and professional relationships with other members of the group, which was established by tracing telephone conversations. Her phone number was found in the notebook of a certain "Schulish", who was arrested in Mallorca at the request of the German authorities for bribery, threats and bodily harm. Ermolenko controlled the bank accounts and was aware of the financial flows of the community. She was the administrator of the companies that served as fronts, and together with the lawyer Felix Untoria Agustin and the manager Julián Jesus Angulo Pérez, she made decisions about the activities of the companies. Ermolenko is related to several episodes of the case. The point is that the money received from criminal activity was transferred to the legal economy.

Leonid Khristoforov

A member of the "Tambov" group, has permanent stable ties with Petrov. Together with Petrov, they arranged the supply of cement from Russia, hiding the origin of the products. Khristoforov addresses Petrov as a subordinate to the boss. In conversations, they discussed meetings with thieves in law. Although Khristoforov's legally declared income did not exceed 100,000 euros per year, he was able to purchase a boat for 400,000 euros and 1.9 million euros of real estate.

Alexander Malyshev

He is Alexander Lagnaz Gonzalez. Accused of the following crimes committed from 1996 to the present. Malyshev is the leader of the "Malyshevskaya" organized criminal group, partly associated with the "Tambovskaya". In 1990, the Malyshevskaya police operation was carried out against him. The group headed by Malyshev has a clear hierarchy. The next place in the hierarchy is occupied by Mikhail Rebo and Pavel Chelyuskin, who share business with Malyshev. Next come Eldar Mustafin, Ruslan Tarkovsky and Suren Zotov, who manage Malyshev's assets in Russia, obey his instructions and manage the money. They are minority shareholders in some businesses, protect and ensure the safety of Malyshev, such as Alexander Yakov, who is the head of Malyshev's "security service".

In Russia, at least three times they tried to bring Malyshev to justice for illegal possession of weapons and premeditated murder. In Berlin, he was arrested for providing false documents in order to obtain Estonian citizenship.

In 1996, Malyshev moved to Spain together with Olga Solovieva. He is also in contact with other defendants: Sergey Kuzmin (they have common businesses), Vitaly Izgilov (fixed telephone conversations with Malyshev. Izgilov was arrested in 2005 during Operation Ogro (The Beast), by Viktor Gavrilenkov (the issues of Greek documents were discussed with him), Gennady Petrov (business partners, have a common consultant on economic issues), Juan Jesus Angulo Perez, Cypriot lawyer Nikolai Egorov, Olga Solovieva (community finance). Malyshev also had telephone conversations with Ildar Mustafin, Mikhail Rebo, Nikolai Aulov, Ruslan Tarkovsky and Suren Zotov. The conversations reflected the group's economic ties and activities.

Malyshev uses "brothers from Tambov" ("hermanos de Tambov") to solve problems and as a means of influence. He gives direct instructions to fund managers about what money should be open and what money should be hidden. Over the period approximately 2001-2008, the volume of laundered money amounted to more than 10 million euros.

With Petrov and Kuzmin, Malyshev shares the highest place in the hierarchy, they are "authorities" and tried to stay on the sidelines, not keep any funds and not leave signatures.

Olga Solovieva

Partner of Alexander Malyshev, had indirect connections with other defendants. Malyshev has no economic education and Solovieva's knowledge helps him manage the community's finances. With the help of lawyers Juan Jesus Angulo Pérez and Ignacio Pedro Erquijo Sierra, they laundered the funds received from criminal activities.

Solovieva cooperated with her mother and daughter - Tatyana Solovyova and Irina Usova, lawyer Nikolai Yegorovich, who managed businesses in Cyprus, as well as a certain Armand, who represented their interests in Switzerland.

As for the connections between Malyshev, Solovieva and Petrov, for example, on July 31, 2001, the company owned by Petrov (Inmobiliaria Balear 2001 S.L.) made an alleged deal to sell the Standing Ovations boat for 100,000 euros to the company (Peresvet S.L.) , the only leader of which was Solovyova.

The accounts associated with Solovieva and Usova received money from Switzerland, Russia, Hungary, Estonia and Latvia. 970,972 euros were transferred to Boris Pevzner and sent to a company (SBZ Investments Ltd). This Cypriot company returned the money to Spain to Peresvet S. L., which invested it in real estate.

Money transferred from Cyprus was either cashed out or invested. Thus, 3,100,000 euros were cashed out and 5,100,000 invested. The Cypriot SBZ Investment is the largest recipient of funds and hides Solovyova and Malyshev. In reality, the money of this firm returns to Spain, goes to deposits that guarantee Solovyova's income, goes back to Cyprus and again returns to the name of another person. Thus, the inflation of the capital of a Cypriot company is artificial and necessary in order to justify the presence of large funds.

Ildar Mustafin

He is accused of being involved in money laundering. Between 2001 and 2008, about 10 million euros were laundered. He received direct instructions from Malyshev and demonstrated obedience in telephone conversations with him. Mustafin is fully aware of the criminal structure and its leaders, although he denies knowing about it. He is connected with Mikhail Rebo, with whom he is united by money transactions, is familiar with Vitaly Izgilov, met Petrov several times, and is also aware of the management of Cypriot companies that are part of a criminal structure.

Ildar Mustafin plays the role of a link between Malyshev and Russian government officials in order to use the influence of officials. With such connections, he obtained information about government contracts, and also received advance warnings about the beginning investigations regarding the group. Malyshev's telephone conversations indicate that Mustafin, Mikhail Rebo, Suren Zotov, Ruslan Tarkovsky and Pavel Chelyuskin are involved in a common business, and that they all recognize Alexander Malyshev as the "boss".

In regards to the group's restaurant business, Malyshev instructed Ruslan Tarkovsky that he should receive $10,000 a month from Mustafin until he paid $80,000 for "bad" months.

German authorities confirmed that on April 12, 2008, Mustafin, Malyshev and other members of the criminal community gathered at the birthday party of Mikhail Rebo, but in fact it was an occasion for a visit to Berlin to discuss business.

Vitaly Izgilov

Once he was already in pre-trial detention in Spain, was involved on suspicion of criminal activity in 2005. His participation in the current case can be traced through telephone conversations that he had with Viktor Gavrilenkov. From these conversations, one can understand that Izgilov is a "thief in law", and that he created a new hierarchical system in which Gavrilenkov is his subordinate. From the recorded conversations, it can be understood that Izgilov is engaged in money laundering, and that the money comes from illegal activities under his control in Russia.

When Izgilov got into pre-trial detention in Spain, he was promoted in the criminal hierarchy.

On March 4, 2008, a conversation took place between Izgilov and an unidentified person, Arkady. Arkady said that a body was found in the forest, he used the expression "a piece of meat thrown in the forest." At the same time, Izgilov had a telephone conversation with another person - Vadim, who said that a tablecloth from Izgilov's restaurant was found next to the corpse, this could "create problems" and it all depends on the district prosecutor.

Since 2005, Izgilov has received large amounts of money of unknown origin to cover his expenses in Spain. After visiting his home, the investigators found that over the past few months he had purchased expensive cars, one of which costs at least 40,000 euros, and another ordered in the US - 115,000 euros.

On April 3, 2008, Izgilov had a conversation with an unidentified person whom he called "Koba". He told him about the possibility of receiving 25 percent of the commission from 11 million euros, which Izgilov would transfer from a Swiss bank to a Russian bank, where he would become a major shareholder. This bank is the Baltic Development Bank, whose board of directors is chaired by Denis Gordeev. Izgilov met with Gordeev in Puerto Banus. Malyshev was present at the meeting.

During a search of Izgilov's house in Alicante, five cars were found: a Mercedes S-500, a Mercedes S-55, a Maserati Quatroporte, a Ferrari 550 Maranello, and a historical rare car "Clinet" (worth 40,000 euros), as well as various jewelry, 20,000 euros and 10,000 dollars.

Vadim Romanyuk

He is accused of being a member of a criminal community, was a subordinate of Gavrilenkov and participated in business management, as well as money laundering.

Zhanna Gavrilenkova

She is accused of assisting a criminal structure and advising her husband Viktor Gavrilenkov, who sought to take a leading position in the criminal community, which also operates in St. Petersburg. Illegal income and her husband's funds allowed her to lead a rich lifestyle. During a search at an address in Alicante, two Jaguar cars (Jaguar S-type, Jaguar XJ8) and a Mercedes A-160 were arrested.

Leonid Khazin

He is accused of being an active member of the criminal community. Owns 20 percent in a Spanish company (Inversiones Finanzas Inmuebles S.L.), in which Sergey Kuzmin owns 80 percent. Khazin is a representative of the Swiss company MYR S.A. and Spanish MYR Marbella S.L. and the sole administrator of Ayurvida S.L., registered at the same address as many of Kuzmin's companies in Marbella - business front structures that allow Sergey Kuzmin to be called a successful businessman.

Svetlana Kuzmina

The wife of Sergei Kuzmin is accused of being an active member of the criminal community and knowingly taking part in money laundering. Maintains constant contact with Alena Boyko and Gennady Petrov, as well as other members of the community.

Living in Spain, she is well aware of the activities of the companies and knows that they are just a front for receiving illegal money and acquiring real estate. Svetlana Kuzmina is an administrator of several Spanish companies, as well as a director and chief accountant of Panamanian companies (Banff Investment and Kost De Inversiones).

The company (Ken Espanola De Inversiones), in which Kuzmina was the sole administrator, acquired a Mercedes S-500, increasing its capital to 20,000,000 pesetas thanks to the contribution of Sergey Kuzmin, who on August 12, 1999 made a contribution to the company by transferring real estate to it.

The alleged sale of company shares between 2004 and 2006 allowed the legalization of 4,463,044.7 euros (…).

The Spanish tax authority is requesting the preliminary detention of the said persons without the right to release on bail and with the right to release Leonid Khazin on bail of 6,000 euros and Zhanna Gavrilenkova on bail of 100,000 euros.

The indictment was signed by investigating judge Baltasar Garzon.

(None of those listed in the indictment can be called guilty before the verdict of the court).

Thanks to Paul Lauener for help in preparing the material

The most numerous, but less organized criminal community. He has mafia connections in the middle management of the city. It includes a large number of criminal elements. Dangerous in physical collision. The main goal is large commercial structures (including banks). One of the methods is to get your people to work in structures and firms of interest, to acquire a controlling stake, to train your economic personnel in the official educational institutions of the city.

Spheres of influence: Krasnoselsky, Kirovsky and Moskovsky, part of the Central and Kalininsky regions.
hotels: "Oktyabrskaya", "Okhtinskaya", "Pribaltiyskaya",
restaurants: "Polyarny", "Universal", "Petrobir"

Markets: automobile markets in the Frunzensky district, on Marshal Kazakov Street and allegedly takes control of the Nekrasovsky market.

Trade in antiques. Gambling business. Particularly controls Nevsky Prospekt.

Management:

Malyshev Alexander Ivanovich, born in 1958.

Previously engaged in wrestling, but did not achieve much success. He has many acquaintances among athletes. After serving two terms in 1977 (premeditated murder) and in 1984 (negligent murder), he was a "thimblemaker" at the Hay Market, worked under the guise of the Kumarin group and had the nickname "Baby". Contrary to rumors, he was never a thief in law. He put together his own group in the late 80s, uniting under his leadership the "Tambovites", "Kolesnikovites", "Kemerovo", "Komarovtsy", "Perm", "Kudryashov", "Kazan", "Tarasov", "Severodvinsk" , "Saranians", "Efimovites", "Voronezh, "Azerbaijanis", Krasnoyarsk, "Chechens", "Dagestanis", "Krasnoseltsev", "Vorkuta" and bandits from Ulan-Ude. Each group consisted of 50 to 250 people. The total number of the group is about 2,000 militants.

Malyshev's residence was located in the Pulkovskaya Hotel, there was an office on Berezovaya Alley (Kamenny Ostrov), where he received businessmen and, in particular, met with the chairman of the board of the Petrovsky bank, O.V. Golovin. The mediator in the negotiations was a citizen of Cyprus Getelson.

He is the manager of LLP "Nelli-Druzhba" and the founder of the company "Tatti", which owns a network of commercial stores. I used Caucasians to work on knocking out debts. He transferred money to financial institutions (banks) of Cyprus, with their help he achieved influence on the largest banks in St. Petersburg. With the money of Malyshev, the Kiselev Music Center was created, the holidays "Vivat St. Petersburg!" and White Nights of Rock 'n' Roll. Organized the underground production of small-caliber revolvers. At the meeting in 1993, he secured the drug trade, leaving the "Azerbaijanis" only the sale of agricultural products.

After a showdown with the Tambovites, he fled to Sweden, from where he spread rumors about his death in a shootout. He returned after the failure of the trials of his colleagues. In October 1992, Malyshev and 18 of his closest connections were arrested during the implementation of the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the case of businessman Dadonov. On August 25, 1993, Malshev's closest associates were released on bail not to leave: Kirpichev, Berlin, Petrov. For the release of another colleague - Rashid Rakhmatulin, the Association of Boxers of St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation of French Boxing, the Tonus cooperative and the administration of the prison where he was kept petitioned. Rashid was released, and the supervising prosecutor V. Osipkin, who opposed this, was soon dismissed from the prosecutor's office.

The trial of Malyshev ended in 1995, he was sentenced for illegal possession and possession of weapons to 2.5 years of general regime, but since he spent 2 years and 11 months in the "SIZO", he was released.

Berlin Andrei, born in 1953.

Businessman, mathematician, was a student - correspondence student and Komsomol activist. Started in business by making fake "signature" jeans. In 1974, he was also charged with burglary. Played out schizophrenia, spent more than 13 years in a psychiatric hospital, where he studied Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Finnish and Swedish. In the late 1980s, he entered the computer business. Arrested in 1992 in the case of businessman Dadonov. On August 25, 1993, he was released due to insufficient evidence. In early February 1994, he was kidnapped and beaten by a rival gang. Released by police. Now the president of KF "Inex-Limited".

The leadership of the Malyshev group, in addition to those mentioned, includes:
Belobzhevsky Sergey.
Kirpichev Vladislav.
Petrov Gennady.
Severtsev.

The leaders of the criminal groups included in the "Malshevskaya" group are:
Ledovskikh Valery.
The group works on gas stations and gasoline transportation. It has its own surveillance unit.

Miskarev Sergey (Broiler 1)
The group was recruited by him in the colony-settlement, controls the Oktyabrskaya hotel, pogroms in the markets were organized by his closest assistant Lunev.

Musin Sergey (Musik).
The group consists of about 50 people. Controls the Krasnoselsky district. Musin has access to the deputy head of the 8th department. militia named Tofik.

Zharinov Stanislav (Stas Fried).
The group is engaged in receiving money from "call girls"; controls the Kirovsky district.

Trinity.
The group carries out outdoor surveillance and radio interception.

Pankratov.
The group controls the Okhtinskaya hotel.

Komarov Yuri (Komar).
Former cook, boxer, who became in the zone, where he got for beating with authority. rebuilt new restaurant"Gloria", who invested in sports complexes, allegedly refuses to deal with drugs and has a very bad attitude towards making money through prostitution. The group controls Zelenogorsk, Sestroretsk, campsites, recreation centers, foreign tourism. Almost always there was also Zelenogorsk or Komarovo. He had connections with the large police leadership of the city of Lenogorsk, the son of one of them worked for him.

According to unverified information, representatives of the Transcaucasian criminal structures killed several bodyguards of "Komar" in the summer of 1995, he himself disappeared and, according to rumors, is hiding either in Germany or in Thailand.

Until recently, Komarov managed to keep the newcomers from Tambov, Kazan, and others in his possessions. But after the death of the “arbitrator” of the community, Bondarenko Svinar, control in this area also passes to the “Chechens”.

Kaplanyan.
Controlling the drug business.

"Sasha Matros".
Controls trucking, has a surveillance service.

"Shark".
The group controls the Avtovo district.

"Bug"
The group controls the Krasnoye Selo area.

From the end of the 80s of the last century, criminal brigades began to appear in all regions of the collapsing Union. They did not hide from anyone, they were not afraid of anyone, they acted brazenly and defiantly. Members of gangs stole, kidnapped and killed people, took other people's property for themselves, and all this with virtually impunity. The brigades in major cities, where there was something to share and something to fight for. Since the beginning of the 80s, the largest association of criminal groups, called itself "Malyshevsky", operated in Leningrad.

Historical reference

The dashing 90s "gave" Russia the majority of today's oligarchs, businessmen and major politicians. At that time it was very easy to "rise" both in terms of finances and authority. The newly-minted democratic state turned out to be practically defenseless against hundreds of criminal gangs that arose in a “free” society like mushrooms after rain. These gangs were usually headed by strong, charismatic personalities who managed to organize disparate gangs and create a powerful personal army.

The activities of the groupings did not differ in variety. They tried to take control of small and large enterprises, establish their authority in the region and the city and, of course, get a lot of money. To achieve these goals, the bandits did not shy away from any methods: they kidnapped, tortured, threatened and killed people, engaged in raider seizures, theft, robbery and other illegal activities.

The police could not resist the well-armed and merciless bandits. Most government officials preferred to make deals with criminal forces rather than oppose them. The same few who challenged the bandits of the 90s, unfortunately, paid with their lives and the lives of their loved ones.

Those gangsters who were smarter realized in time that such a life is unlikely to last long, so they managed to organize a legal business in time or run away abroad with the money they earned.

History of the Malyshev group

The founder and leader of the group was Alexander Malyshev, a former wrestler, a man with authority in certain circles. By the mid-80s, he managed to commit two particularly serious crimes: premeditated murder and negligent murder. After serving his term, Malyshev was released. For several months he "worked" as a thimblemaker at the Hay market, worked as a porter, was a co-operator, even a member of the board of the joint-stock company.

For some time, Malyshev himself was "under the roof" of the Tambov organized crime group, his foreman was Vladimir Kumarin, a well-known crime boss in St. Petersburg. Gradually, his own team is formed around the charismatic Kid, several disparate gangs unite. Subsequently, this group will become the most influential in the city on the Neva and throughout Russia. Until 1989, the Tambovskiys and Malyshevskiys worked together, but after a ridiculous quarrel between the leaders, they became serious competitors.

Biography of G. Petrov

Gennady Petrov was born in Leningrad in 1947 during the difficult post-war years for the city. Despite his criminal record, he managed to get a job as a foreman at the Moscow railway station, but he became famous for a different reason. In 1987, fate brought him together with Alexander Malyshev, at that time already a well-known crime boss. Petrov joined his team and for several years they worked side by side. But a ridiculous quarrel over a banal leather jacket led to a shootout and the division of the group into two parts.

After the split, the biography of Gennady Petrov took a different turn. He manifests himself as a strong and extraordinary leader. Carries out a certain reform within his team, after which the activities of individual gangs were clearly distributed. Someone was engaged in drugs, someone in hotels, prostitutes and tourism, others carried out the protection of controlled enterprises.

Compound

At first, the group consisted of scattered gangs with their own little "princes" and spheres of influence in certain areas of the city. There were violent clashes, sometimes accompanied by murders, explosions, kidnappings, etc. Since the late 80s, these gangs have united under one command, a clear structure has been created:

The gang of "Sasha Matros" was engaged in controlling cargo transportation in Russia and abroad, had an official security service.
The gang of Yuri Komarov covered a large part of the business of the region, collected tribute from companies involved in tourism, camping; on this basis, clashes with other opposing groups often arose, and over time the niche went to the Chechen brigades.
Pankratov's gang was watching the largest hotel in the city and one of the districts.
Stanislav Zharinov's gang exercised "supervision" over the service sector in St. Petersburg.

One of the groups controlled the Krasnoye Selo, the other, created from the former prisoners of the colony-settlement, controlled the Oktyabrskaya hotel and the Krasnoselsky district. After separating from the Tambov gang, the leaders of the Malyshev gang, including Gennady Petrov, seriously engaged in the competent distribution of the activities of the controlled brigades, in everything in line with the motto "divide and rule."

Activity

In the dashing 90s, hundreds of enterprising people suddenly became rich, became owners of entire factories, holdings and even industries. And it all started the same way - with the forceful or relatively forceful seizure of property. So the Malyshevskaya brigade began with protecting markets, stalls and small cooperatives and gradually moved on to controlling the largest enterprises in the Northern capital, which formally continued to remain state-owned.

At first, the organized crime group of Gennady Petrov was engaged in raiding, kidnapping and extortion, not caring about the consequences and possible criminal prosecution. Even then, the leader of the Malyshevskys makes influential friends at the very top of power. Over time, legal agencies were created that deal with the same racket, but now the bandits had official permission to carry weapons and conduct security activities. According to some reports, the company "Delta-22" carried out the orders of the leaders of the Malyshev group, was engaged in the abduction and murder of objectionable businessmen.

Legal business

The leader of the Malyshevskaya OPG, G. Petrov, by the age of 40, withdrew from open participation in gang activities. He proved to be a good organizer and manager. He quickly got used to the role of a businessman, successfully carried out transactions, concluded contracts, and, if necessary, resorted to more drastic measures. Petrov managed to make friends with many managers of St. Petersburg, and when they left for the capital in the late 90s and early 00s, he skillfully used his friendship to promote large commercial projects.

The heyday of the group

The years of "heyday" of the Petrov group begin in 1992. Then under the influence of the Malyshevskaya organized criminal group were the largest and richest districts of the city: Krasnoselsky, Kirovsky, Moscow, Kalininsky and Central. All private and state organizations they paid a monthly "tribute", in addition, the bandits themselves opened commercial enterprises.

Basically, the leaders of the Malyshev brigade created sex salons, saunas, a small arms factory for the production of small-caliber weapons was opened. Most of the income came from the drug market, here the Malyshevites managed to "move" the Azerbaijanis.

Criminal activity

Over time, the organized crime group of Gennady Petrov went into legal or semi-legal business. Petrov opened a network of gambling establishments in the city and region. Close acquaintances in the city administration and tax services helped him quickly collect Required documents and bypass all possible competitors.

Subsequently, connections with high patrons helped Petrov more than once in business. According to some print media, in 1992 he opened a construction company together with Mikhail Shelomov. By the mid-90s, the personality of Gennady Petrov in St. Petersburg and even in Moscow became known in the highest circles. One of his most significant and successful commercial projects was his participation in the leadership of Rossiya Bank.

The name of Petrov is associated with many criminal authorities and businessmen in Russia. Some he knew personally, others he did business with or lived in the neighborhood. So, among his acquaintances were the Kovalchuk brothers, the owners of the Rossiya bank; Gennady Timchenko, famous Russian entrepreneur and founder of the investment company Volga Group; Vladimir Yakunin, Vladimir Kumarin, leader of the Tambov group; Petrov also spoke with Leonid Khristoforov, who was involved in the murder of Galina Starovoitova.

Life in Spain

In 1996, Gennady Vasilyevich Petrov and Alexander Ivanovich Malyshev were arrested Russian authorities on suspicion of banditry and extortion. But Petrov was lucky, he was soon released and immediately, with some of his close associates, moved to permanent residence in Spain, since there were more than enough funds for a comfortable life.

All business in Russia remained under the close supervision of the head, he controlled by phone. Subsequently, it is this habit of discussing cases that will become the beginning of criminal prosecution. Sometimes he personally came to St. Petersburg and Moscow to follow the work of his attorneys.

Operation Troika

The Spanish authorities have always paid close attention to wealthy Russian citizens who came to Europe for business or life. In Spanish prisons at different times there were criminal authorities Shakro Molodoy, Tariel Oniani and Vitaly Izgilov.

The Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon became interested in the case of the Russian businessman; he was already well known in the world in connection with the case of the Chilean dictator Pinochet. Together with the investigating authorities of Spain, the judge analyzed the activities of Petrov and came to the conclusion that he and his people were involved in murders, kidnappings and large-scale tax fraud.

The charges were based on telephone conversations conducted in Spain by Gennady Petrov. The investigation had facts about the connection of the Russian businessman with many influential people in the Russian Federation. He helped transport and “launder” huge funds, including budget funds, as well as solve the problems of competitors. Among his close acquaintances, the Spanish authorities name Anatoly Serdyukov, Viktor Zubkov, Dmitry Kozak and even German Gref.

Investigation

The arrest of crime boss Gennady Petrov received a huge response in the world. It was not about an ordinary criminal, but about a person associated with the government of the Russian Federation. The Spanish and Russian media immediately reacted with a series of reports about the criminal sphere. The criminal investigation lasted 7 years and was eventually presented to the public on more than 400 pages.

Results of the investigation

While the investigation was underway in Spain, Petrov managed to get him released on bail of 1 million euros. Soon he asked to leave the country, allegedly to meet with his elderly mother, but, once in Russia, the businessman got lost and was no longer going to return to Europe. The Spanish authorities have repeatedly sought the extradition of the criminal, to which the investigating authorities of our country have responded with a categorical refusal. Perhaps Petrov's influential connections in higher circles worked.

Today, the exact location of Gennady Petrov is unknown, it is only known that his activities continue. His two sons are involved in large projects, such as the 585 jewelry chain, and also controls construction and financial companies in different regions Russia. The Spanish authorities, in anticipation of a fugitive criminal, gave Petrov's property for charitable detail.

Born September 9, 1958 in Leningrad. He arrived in St. Petersburg from places of deprivation of liberty in 1995.

He was the manager of Nelli-Druzhba LLP and the founder of the Tatti company, which owns a network of commercial stores.

Source: Kompromat.Ru, 1996

Alexander Malyshev moved to Spanish Malaga at the very beginning of the 2000s together with Olga Solovieva. In essence, Malyshev fled from Russia. This happened back in the spring of 1998 - after a series of failed assassination attempts on him. In the same year, he managed to obtain Estonian citizenship. When it turned out that during the paperwork, Alexander Ivanovich presented a fake birth certificate, the Estonian authorities imprisoned the newly-made citizen for a whole month. Of course, this was far from Malyshev's first walker - he had previously been under arrest on charges of premeditated murder, banditry and illegal possession of weapons.

After his release, Malyshev hastily left Estonia and took refuge in Spain. Here he appeared already as Alexander Langas Gonzalez, marrying a Hispanic woman and taking her last name.

For the period approximately 2001-2008, according to the Spanish police, the volume of laundered money amounted to more than 10 million euros.

In 2002, Malyshev was detained in Germany on suspicion of forging documents to obtain Estonian citizenship.

At the moment, with Gennady Petrov and Sergey Kuzmin, Malyshev shares the highest place in the hierarchy of the criminal group they created.

Source: Novaya Gazeta No. 50 dated 07/16/2008

Dossier:

In the mid-90s, Alexander Malyshev was seen by journalists like this.

Malyshevskaya OCG is the most numerous, but less organized criminal community. He has mafia connections in the middle management of the city. It includes a large number of criminal elements. Dangerous in physical collision. The main goal is large commercial structures (including banks). One of the methods is to get your people to work in structures and firms of interest, to acquire a controlling stake, to train your economic personnel in the official educational institutions of the city.

Spheres of influence: Krasnoselsky, Kirovsky and Moskovsky, part of the Central and Kalininsky districts of St. Petersburg.

hotels: "Oktyabrskaya", "Okhtinskaya", "Pribaltiyskaya",

restaurants: "Polyarny", "Universal", "Petrobir"

markets: automotive in the Frunzensky district, on the street. Marshal Kazakov and allegedly took control of the Nekrasovsky market.

Trade in antiques. Gambling business. Particularly controls Nevsky Prospekt.

Source: Kompromat.ru, 1996

Gennady Petrov;

Yuri Salikov (Petrov's longtime companion);

Yulia Ermolenko (Petrov's legal adviser);

Leonid Khristoforov (Petrov's right hand);

Alexander Malyshev, aka Alexander Lagnas Gonzalez;

Svetlana Kuzmina (wife of Sergei Kuzmin, an old comrade of Petrov);

Leonid Khazin;

Olga Solovieva (civil wife of Malyshev);

Ildar Mustafin (accomplice of Malyshev in the early 90s);

Juan Antonio Felix (Spanish lawyer);

Ignacio Pedro (Spanish lawyer);

Julian Perez (Spanish lawyer);

Zhanna Gavrilenkova (wife of Viktor Gavrilenkov - Stepanych Jr.);

Vitaly Izgilov (Moscow thief in law, nicknamed Vitalik the Beast);

Vadim Romanyuk.

According to journalistic sources, development began several years ago. Since the autumn of 2007, the Spanish police have been actively listening to the mobile phones of those arrested, conducting covert surveillance of them, and recording the arrivals of guests. As part of the international cooperation program, investigators received information from Greece, Germany and Russia.

Victor Gavrilenkov appeared in St. Petersburg only after the arrest of Vladimir Kumarin - 12 years later.

An analysis carried out by law enforcement agencies suggests that since the mid-1990s, in Spain, the accused have created several closed joint-stock companies, which received huge funds from the offshores of Cyprus, Panama and the Virgin Islands. In turn, these ZAOs, through their subsidiaries specializing in real estate transactions, laundered money by buying up land and mansions in Spain. The Spanish side directly names two main structures involved in illegal transactions: Inmobiliara Calvia 2001 and Inmobiliara Balear 2001.

The prosecutor's office believes that in addition to Mikhail Rebo, the financial brain of the "Tambov-Malyshevsky" arrested by the German police in Berlin, the following may be involved in fraud:

Sergei Kuzmin (Petrov's partner);

Salikov's wife Marlena Barbara Salikova (Polish by nationality);

Ruslan Tarkovsky (Mustafin's partner);

Suren Zotov (a major businessman from Russia);

The Botishev family (Sergey, wife Nina, daughter Anna), who own five offshore companies in Cyprus;

Tatyana Solovieva (mother of Solovieva) and Irina Usova (sister of Solovieva),

Dordibai Khalimov;

Boris Pevzner.

But the core of the accusations are the materials received from the Spanish tax police.

And there are hundreds of such examples.

Help. Articles of the Criminal Code of Spain imputed to members of the "Tambov-Malyshevsky" community:
515, 517 - creation of illegal (criminal) associations - up to 12 years in prison;

390, 392 - forgery of an official or commercial document - up to three years in prison;

305 - causing damage to the state treasury of Spain - up to six years in prison;

301 - acquisition of property knowingly obtained by criminal means - up to two years in prison;

251 - assignment of false rights to property - up to four years in prison.

It must be taken into account that, in accordance with Spanish law, punishments under certain articles can be summed up when sentencing.

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Grouping under the leadership of Gennady Petrov. Honored guests of Alexander Malyshev - Yakuza. Novaya Gazeta: "Connected with the Past"

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