Feb 24 2008
Boris Stratievsky has been in jail awaiting trial since 2005.
Boris Stratievsky was a ‘professor’ of money-laundering for Moscow clients, according to his father, whose conversations were secretly taped by the FBI. Continue Reading »
Jan 25 2008
One of the world’s most feared mafia bosses accused of arms dealing, drug running, uranium trafficking and multiple murders has been captured by around 50 police commandos in Moscow. Continue Reading »
Jan 25 2008
A Russian businessman wanted by FBI and Interpol has been arrested in Moscow, offcials said Friday.
The Russian Interior Ministry’s anti-organized crime unit’s spokesman said that Semyon Mogilevich was detained late Wednesday, the AP reported. Continue Reading »
Jan 18 2008
Nikolay Davydenko has again defended himself against suggestions he threw a tennis match last year, and rubbished talk that he had links with the Russian mafia. Continue Reading »
Aug 15 2007
German prosecutors are putting a suspected Russian mafia boss on trial in a case that could set a ground-breaking precedent and make life very hard for money launderers in Germany in future. Continue Reading »
Jul 19 2007
Planells accused of bribery after giving immigration documents to Russian gangs
THE Government’s former number two in Catalunya has been arrested on suspicion of involvement with an Eastern European mafia gang. Continue Reading »
Mar 31 2007
KIEV, March 27 (Reuters) - A Russian businessman wanted by Ukraine for alleged links to organised crime was shot dead on Tuesday by an unknown assailant as he left a court in Kiev, where he had been standing trial on blackmail charges. Continue Reading »
Feb 02 2007
Chinese hackers are the big threat, say Russian security experts
Russian security professionals Eugene and Natalya Kaspersky dropped by Network World this week en route from Moscow to the RSA Conference in California. In a wide-ranging interview with Features Editor Neal Weinberg, the Kaspersky Lab duo discussed the Russian mafia, the latest in hacker tricks and their view that the bad guys are winning. Continue Reading »
Jan 31 2007
Russian mafia groups are taking over hundreds of major industrial companies as part of a move away from the violent criminal business of the early post-Soviet years, police and analysts said.
“Our analysis shows that more than 2,000 industrial entities have fallen under criminal control,” Alexander Yelin, deputy head of the interior ministry’s department on organised crime, told the Izvestia daily. Continue Reading »
Jan 31 2007
MOSCOW - As of now, there are 446 organized gangs in Russia, Deputy Interior Minister Oleg Safonov said in an interview with the Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper published on Wednesday.
“If we were to answer the question several years ago, we’d use such terms as “approximately,” “according to some reports,” but now we don’t permit even the slightest margins of error,” Safonov said, “there are 446 organized criminal groups with a complex internal structure operating in Russia.” Continue Reading »
