Group of Alexander Malyshev. “Malyshevskys” under the “wing” of the Russian authorities Malyshev crime boss biography

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On October 18, the National Court of Spain acquitted 17 defendants in the case of the Tambov-Malyshevskaya organized crime group, who were accused of money laundering and creating a criminal community. This decision shocked the Spanish prosecutor's office: the court“believed” the reports of the Russian FSB presented by the defense, and even ignored the fact that two of the accused admitted guilt (the court decision can be appealed).

In the meantime, the prosecutor's office and the court are finding out the details of money laundering by the Tambovites, The Insider has studied more than a thousand telephone wiretaps included in the case file, from which it follows that the “authoritative entrepreneurs” had the closest connections with Vladimir Putin’s inner circle (you can hear some of these intercepted conversations in this material). Among other things, wiretaps and the verdict showed that:

- Tambov leader Gennady Petrov was a co-founder and holder of a large block of shares in Rossiya Bank, where Putin proudly opened his salary account,

– appointment of Petrov’s good friend, Alexander Bastrykin, as head Investigative Committee was secured thanks to contacts of the leader of the Tambov-Malyshevskaya organized crime group and was joyfully welcomed in criminal community. Petrov provided Bastrykin with patronage, and after his appointment, he helped find premises,

– Petrov’s people maintain close relations with German Gref, who is sometimes referred to simply as “Gera” in conversations. Gref, for his part, invites Petrov’s people to the Sberbank celebrations,

– Petrov maintained close relations with Zubkov (at that time Prime Minister) and Serdyukov (at that time Minister of Defense). It is believed that it was through them that he promoted appointments to law enforcement agencies. He even invited Serdyukov to his birthday. As it turned out, the Minister of Defense presented the Tambov leader with a saber as a sign of friendship.

Verdict: how the Spanish court trusted FSB reports

In Spain, the case of the Tambov-Malyshevskaya organized crime group, which began in 2008, was called “Troika”. By “Troika” we mean Gennady Petrov, Alexander Malyshev and Sergei Kuzmin, whom prosecutors call the leaders of the criminal community (read more about this). The leaders themselves did not appear in court: Kuzmin could not be arrested (he missed his flight because he got drunk at the airport), Petrov, after a year and a half in prison, was briefly released to Russia and did not return, like Malyshev, who allegedly suffers from mental illness. Along with them, Ilya Traber (for whom, Traber’s lawyer, Vladimir Putin himself worked in the 90s) and the son of Gennady Petrov were also wanted. – Anton. A total of 26 defendants were charged in this case, of which 17 were tried in this trial.

Gennady Petrov

According to the panel of judges headed by Angeles Boreiro, between the accused – employees of Gennady Petrov – there was “no connection other than the fact that they were all from Russia and were involved in investments.” The Tambov and Malyshevskaya organized crime groups still exist, the court believes, but Petrov has nothing to do with it, since he was acquitted in the case of creating an organized crime group in St. Petersburg in 1995. It is curious that the 2018 verdict describes in detail that at the trial in St. Petersburg in 1995, the witness Belikov recanted his testimony, who during the investigation stated that two gang members took him directly to Petrov and Malyshev (to the office of the Petrodin joint venture on Kamenny island) and in their presence they extorted 100,000 rubles. monthly. However, at the trial in Russia, Belikov suddenly stated that his kidnappers “introduced him to other people who were passed off as Petrov and Malyshev,” and the Spanish court “has no evidence to the contrary.”

One evidence of money laundering could be that the defendants lived beyond their means and did not hide it. In Mallorca, Petrov lived in a huge villa with stone lions and a view of the sea, owned yachts, drove an open-top car, and gave his wife a crocodile leather jacket for their wedding anniversary for €62 thousand, of which there are only three in the world. However, there was an explanation for this too. The Spanish court identified several legal companies, which, in the court's opinion, explains the origin of Petrov's wealth in Spain. This is, for example, “SP Petrodin”, as specified in the verdict. True, the court does not provide all the details of Petrodin’s activities. But The Insider has already written about what kind of company this is.

JV "Petrodin" – this is a company that in the 90s was involved in the “municipal casino” in St. Petersburg, orders for which were signed by Vladimir Putin, and its Swedish-Japanese co-owner The Insider, that money for a bribe to St. Petersburg “justice” from Gennady Petrov in St. Petersburg in 1994 was collected even with him, which allowed Petrov to leave prison. The honest company Petrodin did not pay taxes, which Vladimir Putin himself admitted in the book “Conversations in the First Person” (now removed from the Kremlin website), commenting on his initiative to create municipal casinos. According to surviving photographs, Gennady Petrov’s “municipal casino” was small and, in all likelihood, served purposes other than “attracting foreign tourists,” as Putin told reporters at the time of its creation. One of the most common methods of money laundering – fraud in reporting the number of casino tables. At the same time, according to the company’s registration data, Petrodin was generally supposed to be engaged in consulting.

Meanwhile, the panel of judges also reproached the Spanish prosecutor's office for objecting to repeated requests from the Russian Prosecutor General's Office to transfer the case for investigation to Russia in accordance with the Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of Criminal Cases of 1972, and this would supposedly make it possible to accurately establish the origin of the funds incriminated against the defendants. At the same time, the judge could not help but remember that there had already been a similar precedent: the case of Oleg Deripaska and Iskander Makhmudov on money laundering by the structure of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, separated into separate proceedings in Spain, was valid at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office in Russia by the Spanish judge Fernando Andreu “for the best investigation” and nothing more is known about the fate of the case. According to The Insider's information from several sources, National Court Judge Fernando Andreu, who buried the Deripaska case, met with the now deceased Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Sahak Karapetyan in Moscow in November 2017. At the same time, Andreu did not officially conduct any cases related to Russia at that time.

The Insider obtained thousands of conversations between Gennady Petrov and colleagues, including those currently in prison, relatives and friends. The Spanish court “doesn’t understand anything” from them, or rather from some of them heard in court, the verdict says. The Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Spain failed to prove in court the “trading in connections” that was charged against Petrov through State Duma deputy Vladislav Reznik – services for organizing appointments to Russian law enforcement agencies and ministries.

The judge believed the defendant Reznik, who stated that he “simply listens to requests (for appointments) and does nothing,” and accepted the explanations of Reznik and his wife about the purchase of Spanish villas, yachts and an airplane from Petrov or together with Petrov and his son Anton on blind trust, since he simply needed to manage his assets of more than €60 million at the time of 2008.

In the first part of the investigation, we present several telephone wiretaps of Petrov, which most clearly demonstrate his connections with both the Kremlin leadership and organized crime.

Gennady Petrov and Yuri Kovalchuk – co-founders of the bank where Putin keeps his salary

Gennady Petrov in the verdict of the Spanish court is listed as a shareholder of the Baltic Construction Company and more than a dozen other companies, but what is most interesting – co-founder and – from 1992 to 2003 – owner of a 27% stake in Rossiya Bank, also known as the “bank of Putin’s friends.” It is no coincidence that Vladimir Putin, after the bank became the target of sanctions, announced that he was transferring his salary account to this bank. In July 2011 Federal service on the financial markets of Russia allowed Rossiya Bank not to publish data on significant changes in its assets and profits, as well as changes in the composition of shareholders.

Another co-founder was also another acquitted money laundering defendant. – Vladislav Reznik (now a State Duma deputy), who for a long time remained a member of the Bank’s board of directors, was also subject to an inspection by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the results of which were also presented to the Spanish court and resulted in an acquittal.

In determining Petrov's share in Rossiya Bank, the court referred to a report from Spanish law enforcement agencies from 2009, which, in turn, relied on documents obtained during investigative actions against members of the alleged group – during searches and wiretapping. Previously, Petrov, like Sergei Kuzmin, were considered minority shareholders of Bank Rossiya with 2.2% of shares. However, they owned shares not only directly as individuals, but also through affiliated companies.

Yuri Kovalchuk, friend of Vladimir Putin and Gennady Petrov

Petrov is not just a shareholder. According to the wiretap dated August 2, 2007, he had a very good relationship with Yura Kovalchuk (now the main shareholder of Rossiya Bank). On that day, Petrov’s son (Anton) complains to his father that “Savelyev is not fulfilling his obligations, they are re-discounting there” (obviously, this refers to the issuance and restructuring of loans by Bank St. Petersburg, where Alexander Savelyev is the chairman of the board). In response, Gennady Petrov states that when he is in Moscow, he will try to renew relations with Yura Kovalchuk, with whom he used to be very good friends.

Petrov also had a conversation with a certain Dmitry about the appointment of his man (a certain Olga Alexandrovna) to Gazenergoprombank (since 2010, absorbed by Rossiya Bank). “This is a purely Gazprom bank. They brought there all the assets of Mezhregiongaz, Gene, and all generation, both thermal and energy. Miller did this purely for this purpose. If this bank actually sits on this Gazprom business – on generation and on interregion, this is not the worst option, Gen, you understand. Another thing – Khodursky’s level is not high... Yura made up 50% of it last year,” – Petrov's interlocutor explains.

Petrov understood the hint about “Yura”: “I’ll come anyway and one way or another I’ll see him. We agreed to call on the 15th, on the 15th – I'll see you on the 16th... I can through Yura. In any case, it is imperative to bring them together.” Dmitry: “And besides, you understand that he can take it from Gazenergoprombank back to GPB <очевидно, имеется в виду «Газпромбанк», который на момент 2007—2008 года контролировал Юрий Ковальчук – The Insider>, when she will carry out her reformation there... I believe that she does not need to make any decisions before your arrival, your meetings.” "No need", – Petrov agrees.

Dmitry continues: “Alexander Dmitrievich came to see me <Александр Жуков, на тот момент – зампред правительства – The Insider> , well, you understand who I’m talking about, but he’s close, and then Dmitry Anatolyevich participated in the primary situation <имеется в виду Дмитрий Медведев, на тот момент – председатель совета директоров ОАО «Газпром» – The Insider>. He asked me “is it necessary”? But first, roughly speaking, we need to decide for ourselves. Plus, there is also such a person Androsov. Do you know what role he’s playing now?”

Petrov: “No, I haven’t even heard, to be honest.”

Dmitry: “This is Gref’s former first deputy. Gref's right hand in the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. And now he is the chief of staff of the VV. He plays the role of Igor <очевидно, имеется в виду Сечин, который долго работал начальником аппарата Путина – The Insider> , only in government. Do you understand what I'm talking about?.. And plus he has a very close, trusting relationship with Herman. That is, we have two options for German: Slava <имеется в виду Резник - The Insider> and him."

“Yes, yes. Only through one is necessary. In two – this won’t work anymore,” – says Petrov.

“Well, it’s going to be a mess,” – Dmitry agrees.

“Yes, yes. And he reacts inappropriately right away,” – says Petrov and bursts out laughing.

Petrov also “resolves issues” regarding loans from Rossiya Bank. For example, on July 2, 2007, Petrov discusses a loan of €10 million that Rossiya Bank issued to the Ultra company. Entrepreneur Mikhail Mironov, Ultra partner, is going to an appointment with Mikhail Klishin – to the general director of Rossiya Bank, and fears that they will begin to demand the debt from him, as from a former partner. Mikhail Mironov consults with Petrov about what to answer about the debt. Petrov advises insisting that the Ultra director himself get in touch with Klishin.

Mikhail Mironov himself communicates with Petrov quite often about the construction of facilities in St. Petersburg, permits, certain shares or bribes to the authorities (“let them say as much as they want”) and preempting problems. So, on August 3, 2007, he calls Petrov in a panic and reports that riot police are conducting a search in his office. Petrov recommends not to worry, go to the office and call him in Mallorca. Mironov's situation is resolved – it was some kind of misunderstanding, and as a result, a certain “chief in St. Petersburg” personally apologized to Petrov, which Petrov himself informs his son Anton about. Now Mironov needs “a security chief who can actually work.”

“I’ll now ask the current ones who they recommend,” – says Petrov. As a result, Petrov calls back and advises Mironov to hire his friend for a job in the security service – Yuri Britikov from the UBEP, and Mironov agrees.

Petrov and German Gref. “I’ll say, f***, have you been on a boat? Here’s hello and don’t forget your share!”

Judging by the wiretaps, one of Petrov’s important contacts is German Gref, who at that time had just been appointed head of Sberbank. His defendants are called “Herman”, “Gref”, “Hera”. So, Gref on the birthday of Sberbank, a person acting in the interests of Petrov – Nailya Malyutin, at that time the general director of the Financial Leasing Company (FLC), – which Malyutin himself reports to Petrov. Today Malyutin is in prison for fraud and organizing the murder of his partner Andrei Burlakov in 2011. The investigation believes that the murder was carried out by the famous gang of Dzhako the Bloody – aka Aslan Gagiev, aka Sergei Morozov – and by the way, Jacko also appears in the wiretaps. (For more information about the history of the theft of public funds through FLC bonds guaranteed by Sberbank and about the subsequent bloody showdowns, see the materials and “”).

In addition, Gref was in close contact with another defendant, right hand Petrova, State Duma deputy from the party " United Russia» Vladislav Reznik (more about him in the material). June 29, 2007 Reznik calls Petrov and complains that German is delaying appointments – “doesn’t say no,” but at the same time he has already taken three. Petrov recommends calling German and asking strictly – let him say, “yes or no.”

“Gennady Vasilyevich, how are you? ... Just so you know: yesterday I visited Fedorov, this is at UAC (United Aircraft Corporation), we have already written draft resolutions and decree. There Levitin supported, Sergei Borisovich Ivanov approved, and now we are preparing documents to go there... We seem to have only one question. I believe that there is no need to ask for anything, no topics, except one. We need to bring Fedorov there to see him so that he understands that he can rely on him in case of emergency. When he knows that we have a relationship, that everything is laid out, he, naturally, neither to the left nor to the right, he is not suicidal. And it will be easier for us to resolve all issues.”

Petrov: “This is all clear, everyone has spoken, I’m waiting for an answer.”

Malyutin: “I’m just informing you that you must know the latest news, otherwise any inconsistencies may show that you are not in the material, and this is wrong. You are the helmsman of the convoy, and we – just bring in the shells. I am the one to wipe... Your friend, Gref, invited me to a banquet on November 12 in honor of the 166th anniversary of Sberbank.”

Petrov: “Only he will start on the 20th.”

Malyutin: “Already invited, on the 12th. I’ll go and tell him hello from you.”

Petrov: “Pass the fiery one.”

Malyutin: “I’ll tell you, f***, have you been on a boat? I was riding. Here’s hello and don’t forget your share!”

(Laugh).

Petrov and Sechin. “You shouldn’t ask him, he’ll take everything himself”

Malyutin, acting in the interests of Gennady Petrov, plans to meet with “Igor Ivanovich” and asks for instructions. In a conversation, Petrov at first does not understand which Igor Ivanovich, and in the end Malyutin clarifies: “yes, with Sechin.” However, Petrov and Malyutin doubt whether it is worth making requests to Sechin, since “he himself will take everything away.” At the same time, “they can take it away in any case,” the interlocutors agree. Malyutin calls Sechin “the overseer” of shipbuilding.

Petrov could have known Sechin and his appetites from the times when he worked as Putin’s assistant at the St. Petersburg mayor’s office. And with another Putin assistant in the mayor’s office, Viktor Ivanov (at the time of recording the wiretaps – head of the Federal Drug Control Service), relations with Petrov seem to have developed better.

Earlier, Viktor Ivanov said that the main “fighter against the Malyshevskys” in St. Petersburg was his deputy Nikolai Aulov. By strange coincidence, after the “successful” fight against the Malyshevskys, when all the leaders were acquitted, Aulov turns out to be one of Petrov’s main connections when he moved to Spain. Petrov paid for Aulov’s phone and even his dentist’s services. Aulov, judging by the wiretaps, communicated with Petrov almost every time he was lazy. On June 27, 2007, at the end of Vladimir Putin’s second term, Aulov asks Petrov: “What kind of rumors are there about changes up there - are they expected, are they not expected?” Petrov replies: “There are no nuances. According to my information, there should be changes, but everything depends on one person – the most important one. To be or not to be - everything depends on him.”

By the way, it seems that Petrov did have a way out against Sechin. One of them – Vladimir Golubev, known as "Barmaley". This is an “authoritative” businessman associated with the Tambov gang, who is considered close to Sechin, and is often mentioned in wiretaps. They write about “Barmaley” as a trader in connections, but Petrov’s people seemed to like to show him that they themselves were not bad. So, in one of the conversations between Gennady Petrov and his son Anton, the son mentions that he saw Malyutin and Burlakov at Barmaley. They boasted to Barmaley that Burlakov was in contact with Medvedev on the issue of the Aker shipyards (later Wadan Yards).

Petrov, Zubkov, Serdyukov

On July 19, 2007, Petrov celebrated his birthday in Moscow. Among the guests – only the closest ones. Those who were unable to come in person – called back with apologies, such as the now wanted “authority” Ilya Traber. He called twice from Spain and recommended Petrov to reduce his activity, rest more, and retire.

Among the guests – Anatoly Serdyukov, at that time – Minister of Defense, and now Sergei Chemezov’s partner, industrial Anatoly Serdyukov (“First”) and Viktor Zubkov (“Son-in-law”)

The invitation to the First is conveyed through his advisor, Alexey Perets (in this case, Perets – this is not a nickname). This is what this invitation looks like in a wiretap: On July 3, 2007, Anton Petrov communicates with his father. Anton Petrov: “Perets just came to see the First, I must tell him.” “So that I can call you?” Anton Petrov: “Yes. Well, they say, he’s already asking Perts about the 19th” (Petrov’s birthday). “Well, yes, Antosha, he must be with Yulia, this is his wife.” leg."

The relationship between Tolik and Petrov was the most friendly. Serdyukov even presented the authority with a saber. Here is the wiretap from August 1, 2008:

Gennady Petrov:

– We visited Tolik and Sasha, then we stopped at Lena’s.

Anton Petrov:

– How is Tolik?

Gennady Petrov:

– Very good. You need to come on the eighth, and see him on the ninth. I say, “I’ll go myself.” He says, “No need, let Anton explain everything, I’ll go to Vita or whoever needs it, and we’ll solve this issue now.”... To do this, you need to draw up a paper...

Anton Petrov:

– Yes, the paper is already ready.

Gennady Petrov:

– Here. That means everything. We need to arrive on the eighth and meet with him on the ninth.

Anton Petrov:

– Do you need to buy something?

Gennady Petrov:

– What should I buy? Buy a bottle of very good cognac, flowers for your daughters and wife. He gave me a saber. (Laughter).

Where did such connections come from?

According to two The Insider sources in St. Petersburg, Anatoly Serdyukov has long-standing ties with the Malyshevskys. One of the sources is Natalya Mikhailova, a former assistant to deputy Marina Salye in the Petrograd Soviet. According to her, Serdyukov appeared in the building of the Petrograd Soviet “with a gold chain and in a crimson jacket,” and therefore suspicions arose that he belonged to an organized crime group. The second source worked at Pulkovo Airport in the 90s, and currently works at the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry. According to him, “in the 90s, Serdyukov trained in the Malyshevsky gym, was part of what was politely called the Malyshevsky movement.” I was there in third roles. When he was detained, not for the first time, for illegally carrying weapons, the police advised him not to be an eyesore and to get hired in an official structure. And he ended up working with Zubkov in the tax service and subsequently married his daughter, which ensured his career.”

In turn, Zubkov himself was the chairman of the Priozersky City Executive Committee until 1991 (it was in the Priozersky district of the Leningrad region that the Ozero cooperative would later arise), then until 1993 he worked as Putin’s deputy in the Committee for External Relations in the mayor’s office and after that headed tax office in St. Petersburg, and with a scandal: the previous manager challenged his dismissal in court.

According to the recollections of Petrodin co-founder Kinichi Kamiyasu, the tax service in those years was used for arbitrary reprisals against entrepreneurs. It was under Zubkov that the tax authorities began to create a “nightmare” for business, says St. Petersburg entrepreneur Mikhail Mokrousov, who now lives in exile in Europe, in a conversation with The Insider.

Petrov’s liaison Viktor Zubkov was prime minister at the time of the Spanish investigation, and now holds the post of chairman of the board of directors of Gazprom. For Serdyukov, the former Minister of Defense, after a small public flogging due to the case of Evgenia Vasilyeva and Oboronservis, everything also worked out; today he is the industrial director of the Rostec aviation cluster. Serdyukov is also a member of the board of the same United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), whose branch, the Financial Leasing Company, was previously bankrupted by Nail Malyutin and Dzhako Krovovy, representing Petrov’s interests.
Petrov and Bastrykin: “Tell me – he’s a good guy, reliable, dad knows him.”

On June 22, 2007, Petrov talks with Leonid Khristoforov, one of the leaders of Malyshevskaya, who served two terms for murder (it was Khristoforov’s pistol that killed Galina Starovoitova). In this conversation, Petrov doubts whether to accept some money “according to the Armenians” – “fuck this is necessary.” In the same conversation, he boasts: “They appointed a man. Remember what I told you? So that's it – appointed. Very high." "Oh, okay" – Khristoforov rejoices. The two authorities rejoiced at the decision to appoint Alexander Bastrykin as chairman of the Investigative Committee.

On that day, June 22, 2007, the Federation Council approved Bastrykin’s candidacy for the post of chairman of the Investigative Committee. Having discussed this joyful event, “businessmen” Petrov and Khristoforov move on to their business issues. True, they are more like discussions not of business transactions, of criminal extortions. Khristoforov: “I’ve created horror, the Armenians are screaming, where to transfer 200 thousand?” Petrov: “What a bastard. Call Anton, but don’t let Anton take it himself, but tell someone to take it.”

And that same day in the evening, Petrov receives a call from Police Major General Nikolai Aulov (at that time the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Central Federal District): “I’ve heard about Sasha, right? That’s it, they’ve appointed.” “Okay, Christmas tree sticks,” – Petrov answers. “I was at Igor’s birthday , and they said it. Not by phone" –

Founded

Alexander Malyshev

Years of activity Territory

Saint Petersburg

Criminal activity Opponents

Malyshevskaya organized crime group- a large organized crime group operating in St. Petersburg from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.

Creating a group

The founder of the group was former wrestler Alexander Malyshev. He was previously convicted twice of premeditated murder and negligent homicide. After his release, he “worked” as a thimble maker at the Senny market in Leningrad under the cover of the Tambov organized crime group. In the late 1980s, Malyshev created his own group, uniting under his leadership the Tambov residents, Kolesnikov residents, Kemerovo residents, Komarov residents, Perm residents, Kudryashov residents, Kazan residents, Tarasov residents, Severodvinsk residents, Saranets, Efimov residents, Voronezh residents, Azerbaijanis, Krasnoyarsk residents, Chechens, Dagestanis, Krasnosel residents, Vorkuta residents and bandits from Ulan-Ude. Each of these groups had from 50 to 250 people. The total number of the group was about 2000 people.

Initially, the Malyshevskaya organized crime group was adjacent to the Tambov criminal group. But in 1989, the Tambovskys and Malyshevskys staged one of the first criminal showdowns in Devyatkino. Members of both groups used firearms. After this, the Malyshevskaya and Tambovskaya organized crime groups became opponents.

Group activities in the early 1990s

After a “showdown” with the Tambov bandits, Malyshev and another active member of the organized crime group and one of its future leaders, Gennady Petrov, were arrested on suspicion of banditry. But Petrov was not included in the first wave of arrests and was the first of all the accused to leave prison. Later Petrov moved to live in Spain, but often came to St. Petersburg and Moscow. And 72 members of the Tambov organized crime group were brought to criminal liability.

Almost immediately after his release, Malyshev fled to Sweden, from where he spread rumors about his death in a shootout. The leader of the Malyshevskys returned to Russia after the court acquitted or handed down very lenient sentences, and released from custody all the arrested Tambovskys.

The peak of OCG activity occurred in 1991-1992. At that time leader of an organized crime group often called “the emperor of gangster Petersburg.”

In October 1992, Malyshev and 18 of his closest accomplices were arrested during the implementation of the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and in the case of entrepreneur Dadonov. On August 25, 1993, Malyshev’s closest associates were released on their own recognizance: Kirpichev, Berlin and Gennady Petrov. The St. Petersburg Boxing Association, the Russian Federation of French Boxing, the Tonus cooperative and the administration of the prison where he was kept petitioned for the release of another ally, Rashid Rakhmatulin. Rakhmatulin was released, and the supervising prosecutor Osipkin, who opposed this, was soon dismissed from the prosecutor's office.

After Malyshev’s arrest, Moscow thieves in law tried to bring St. Petersburg crime under their control. Andrei Berzin (“Trouble”), who spoke out against this at the Moscow-St. Petersburg “gathering” in March 1993, was killed. In the same year, attempts were made on almost all prominent St. Petersburg bandits.

At a “gathering” in 1993, the Malyshevskaya organized crime group secured the right to trade drugs, thereby ousting Azerbaijani bandits from this sphere.

The trial of Malyshev ended in 1995, he was sentenced to 2.5 years of general regime for illegal carrying and possession of weapons, but since he spent 2 years and 11 months in a pre-trial detention center, Malyshev was released. Despite the fact that Malyshev was in prison for a long time, his authority in the criminal world of St. Petersburg still remained high. Through his lawyers, he continued to manage cases. By 1995, Malyshev’s group numbered 350-400 people.

Group structure

The Malyshevskaya organized crime group consisted of small teams:

  • Yuri Komarov’s group controlled the cities of Zelenogorsk, Sestroretsk, camping, recreation centers, and foreign tourism. Komarov had connections with the leadership of the Zelenogorsk police. For some time, Komarov’s group managed to keep the Tambov, Kazan and other bandits on its territory under its control. But after the death of the “arbiter of the bandits” Bondarenko, control in this area passed to the Chechen bandits.
  • Sergei Miskarev’s group was created by him in a colony-settlement and consisted of about 50 people. She controlled the Krasnoselsky district and the Oktyabrskaya hotel.
  • Valery Ledovsky's group controlled gas stations and gasoline transportation and had its own external surveillance unit.
  • Kaplanyan's group controlled the drug business.
  • The Sasha Matros group controlled road transport and had an external surveillance service
  • The Sharks group controlled the Avtovo area.
  • The Zhuk group controlled the Krasnoye Selo area.
  • Stanislav Zharikov’s group controlled the Kirov region and was involved in pimping.
  • Pankratov’s group controlled the Okhtinskaya Hotel.
  • Troitsky's group carried out external surveillance and radio interception.

Further activities of the group

One of the methods of activity of the organized criminal group was to employ its people in structures and companies of interest, acquire a controlling stake, train its economic personnel in official educational institutions cities. The group controlled hotels and restaurants, antiques trade and gambling.

The Malyshevskaya organized crime group created a number of companies - cafes, saunas, purchases of non-ferrous metals and others. The leader of the organized crime group held the position of manager of Nelly-Druzhba LLP and was the founder of the Tatti company, which owns a chain of commercial stores. Malyshev maintained contacts with Moscow through the leader of the Krylatsky group Oleg Romanov. Malyshev used Caucasian bandits to collect debts.

The group’s money was transferred to financial institutions banks in Cyprus, with their help Malyshev sought influence on the largest banks in St. Petersburg. With Malyshev’s money, the Kiselyov Music Center was created, and the “Vivat St. Petersburg!” holidays were held. and “White Nights of Rock and Roll.” The organized crime group also organized the underground production of small-caliber revolvers.

In the mid-1990s, the Malyshevskaya organized crime group was supplanted by the Tambov group. Some of the Malyshevsky leaders were killed, some, including Petrov and Malyshev, fled abroad.

Arrests in Spain

In May 1997, the organized crime unit of the Commissariat spanish city Marbella, through the Spanish Embassy in Russia, asked for assistance. In Spain, they investigated the laundering of significant money invested in real estate and found Russian citizens who created the company “Hisparus” in January 1997. Then the investigation turned its attention, in particular, to Gennady Petrov and Sergei Kuzmin. The Spanish police were interested in persons who had already come to the attention of the department for combating organized crime in Russia. They appeared in operational reports, where they were called members of an organized crime group. In addition, judging by the Spanish indictment, their names were known to law enforcement agencies in the United States and the European Union.

On June 12-13, 2008, 20 Russians were detained in Spain - Leonid Khristoforov, Alexander Malyshev-Gonzales, Gennady Petrov, Yuri Salikov, Yulia Smolenko, Vitaly Izgilov and others - all of them were accused of money laundering, arms trafficking, contract killings, extortion, drug supply, document forgery, cobalt and tobacco smuggling. In 1998-1999, Petrov and Kuzmin were co-owners of Rossiya Bank; they each owned 2.2% of the bank’s shares, and at shareholder meetings they were represented by Andrei Shumkov, who was on its board of directors in 1998-2000. 14.2% of the shares of Bank of Russia in 1998-1999 belonged to the St. Petersburg companies Ergen, Forward Limited and Fuel Investment Company (TIK), which were associated with Shumkov. "Ergen" was owned by Shumkov and Kuzmin, and the co-owners of "TIK" were the companies "BKhM" and " Finance company Petroleum”, affiliated with Kuzmin and Petrov.

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The carriers, among whom was Anna Mikhailovna, drew level with the young man, and for a moment, from behind the backs and backs of the people’s heads, he saw a high, fat, open chest, the fat shoulders of the patient, raised upward by the people holding him under the arms, and a gray-haired, curly, lion's head. This head, with an unusually wide forehead and cheekbones, a beautiful sensual mouth and a majestic cold gaze, was not disfigured by the proximity of death. She was the same as Pierre knew her three months ago, when the count let him go to Petersburg. But this head swayed helplessly from the uneven steps of the carriers, and the cold, indifferent gaze did not know where to stop.
Several minutes of fussing around the high bed passed; the people carrying the sick man dispersed. Anna Mikhailovna touched Pierre's hand and told him: “Venez.” [Go.] Pierre walked with her to the bed on which the sick man was laid in a festive pose, apparently related to the sacrament that had just been performed. He lay with his head high on the pillows. His hands were laid out symmetrically on the green silk blanket, palms down. When Pierre approached, the count looked straight at him, but he looked with a look whose meaning and meaning cannot be understood by a person. Either this look said absolutely nothing except that as long as you have eyes, you must look somewhere, or it said too much. Pierre stopped, not knowing what to do, and looked questioningly at his leader Anna Mikhailovna. Anna Mikhailovna made a hasty gesture to him with her eyes, pointing to the patient’s hand and blowing her a kiss with her lips. Pierre, diligently craning his neck so as not to get caught in the blanket, followed her advice and kissed the big-boned and fleshy hand. Not a hand, not a single muscle of the count’s face trembled. Pierre again looked questioningly at Anna Mikhailovna, now asking what he should do. Anna Mikhailovna pointed him with her eyes to the chair that stood next to the bed. Pierre obediently began to sit down on the chair, his eyes continuing to ask whether he had done what was necessary. Anna Mikhailovna nodded her head approvingly. Pierre again assumed the symmetrically naive position of the Egyptian statue, apparently regretting that his clumsy and fat body occupied such a large space, and using all his mental strength to appear as small as possible. He looked at the count. The Count looked at the place where Pierre's face was while he stood. Anna Mikhailovna in her position showed an awareness of the touching importance of this last minute meetings between father and son. This lasted two minutes, which seemed like an hour to Pierre. Suddenly a shudder appeared in the large muscles and wrinkles of the count’s face. The trembling intensified, the beautiful mouth became distorted (only then Pierre realized how close his father was to death), and an indistinct hoarse sound was heard from the distorted mouth. Anna Mikhailovna carefully looked into the patient’s eyes and, trying to guess what he needed, pointed first to Pierre, then to the drink, then in a questioning whisper called Prince Vasily, then pointed to the blanket. The patient's eyes and face showed impatience. He made an effort to look at the servant, who stood relentlessly at the head of the bed.
“They want to turn over on the other side,” the servant whispered and stood up to turn the count’s heavy body over to face the wall.
Pierre stood up to help the servant.
While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell helplessly back, and he made a vain effort to drag it. Did the count notice the look of horror with which Pierre looked at this lifeless hand, or what other thought flashed through his dying head at that moment, but he looked at the disobedient hand, at the expression of horror in Pierre’s face, again at the hand, and on the face a weak, suffering smile that did not suit his features appeared, expressing a kind of mockery of his own powerlessness. Suddenly, at the sight of this smile, Pierre felt a shudder in his chest, a pinch in his nose, and tears blurred his vision. The patient was turned on his side against the wall. He sighed.
“Il est assoupi, [He dozed off," said Anna Mikhailovna, noticing the princess coming to replace her. – Аllons. [Let's go.]
Pierre left.

There was no one else in the reception room except Prince Vasily and the eldest princess, who, sitting under the portrait of Catherine, were animatedly talking about something. As soon as they saw Pierre and his leader, they fell silent. The princess hid something, as it seemed to Pierre, and whispered:
“I can’t see this woman.”
“Catiche a fait donner du the dans le petit salon,” said Prince Vasily to Anna Mikhailovna. – Allez, ma pauvre Anna Mikhailovna, prenez quelque сhose, autrement vous ne suffirez pas. [Katish ordered tea to be served in the small living room. You should go, poor Anna Mikhailovna, and refresh yourself, otherwise you won’t be enough.]
He didn’t say anything to Pierre, he just shook his hand with feeling below the shoulder. Pierre and Anna Mikhailovna went to the petit salon. [small living room.]
– II n"y a rien qui restaure, comme une tasse de cet excellent the russe apres une nuit blanche, [Nothing restores after sleepless night, like a cup of this excellent Russian tea.] - said Lorren with an expression of restrained animation, sipping from a thin, handleless, Chinese cup, standing in a small round living room in front of a table on which stood a tea set and a cold dinner. Everyone who was in the house of Count Bezukhy that night gathered around the table to reinforce their strength. Pierre remembered well this small round living room, with mirrors and small tables. During balls in the count's house, Pierre, who did not know how to dance, loved to sit in this small mirror and watch how ladies in ball gowns, diamonds and pearls on their bare shoulders, passing through this room, looked at themselves in the brightly lit mirrors, repeating several times their reflections. Now the same room was barely lit by two candles, and in the middle of the night, on one small table, a tea set and dishes stood randomly, and various, non-festive people, talking in whispers, sat in it, with every movement, every word showing that no one forgets even that what is happening now and still has to happen in the bedroom. Pierre did not eat, although he really wanted to. He looked questioningly at his leader and saw that she was tiptoeing out again into the reception room, where Prince Vasily remained with the eldest princess. Pierre believed that this too was so necessary, and, after hesitating a little, he followed her. Anna Mikhailovna stood next to the princess, and both of them said at the same time in an excited whisper:
“Let me, princess, know what is necessary and what is unnecessary,” said the princess, apparently in the same excited state in which she was at the time she slammed the door of her room.
“But, dear princess,” Anna Mikhailovna said meekly and convincingly, blocking the way from the bedroom and not letting the princess in, “wouldn’t this be too hard for poor uncle at such moments when he needs rest?” At such moments, talking about worldly things, when his soul is already prepared...
Prince Vasily sat on an armchair in his familiar pose, crossing his legs high. His cheeks jumped up and down and seemed thicker at the bottom; but he had the appearance of a man who was not much occupied with the conversation between the two ladies.
– Voyons, ma bonne Anna Mikhailovna, laissez faire Catiche. [Leave Katya to do what she knows.] You know how the Count loves her.
“I don’t even know what’s in this paper,” said the princess, turning to Prince Vasily and pointing to the mosaic briefcase she was holding in her hands. “I only know that the real will is in his office, and this is a forgotten paper...
She wanted to get around Anna Mikhailovna, but Anna Mikhailovna, jumping up, again blocked her way.
“I know, dear, kind princess,” said Anna Mikhailovna, clutching the briefcase with her hand so tightly that it was clear that she would not let him go soon. - Dear princess, I ask you, I beg you, have pity on him. Je vous en conjure... [I beg you...]
The princess was silent. The only sounds that could be heard were the struggle for the briefcase. It was clear that if she spoke, she would not speak in a flattering manner for Anna Mikhailovna. Anna Mikhailovna held him tightly, but despite that, her voice retained all its sweet viscousness and softness.
- Pierre, come here, my friend. I think that he is not superfluous in the family council: isn’t it, prince?

The Malyshevskaya organized crime group was one of the first in Russia to receive its name from the surname of the leader, and not based on geography - the places of initial formation or birth of the group’s leaders. Alexander Malyshev himself in his youth served 2 serious sentences for murder - by negligence and intentionally. With such baggage from the past, the failed athlete-wrestler could only count on continuing his criminal biography. After serving his last sentence, he took a fancy to the Sennaya market in Leningrad and began to defraud gullible citizens by playing thimbles.

In the future, his love for gambling will lead him to the title of “pioneer of the gambling business” of the Northern capital. The market on Sennaya was completely under the control of "", so Malyshev had to be in close contact with members of this group and obey the rules of the game established by them. Sennaya Square at that time there was favorite place visiting criminal elements from all over the country. There, the future head of the nominal community met determined guys from regional blatote groups who came to look for a place in the sun in a giant metropolis.

People from Severodvinsk, Perm, Kazan, Vorkuta, Ulan-Ude, Voronezh, Saransk, people from Chechnya, having met an experienced criminal who knew the situation in the city well, were forced to recognize his dominance over themselves. At first, Alexander Malyshev proved himself to be an excellent organizer and diplomat. Having created his own army, quite impressive in size, he lived peacefully for some time with the leaders of the Tambov organized crime group. But divorce was inevitable. It happened in 1989 “in Russian”, bloody. Both groups gathered in the Devyatkino area and, after a short useless dialogue, unanimously took up arms. After the incident, a long period of hostility and fierce competition ensued.

In the Malyshevskaya organized crime group, a certain triumvirate in management was established, uncharacteristic of other criminal entities. Leader Alexander Malyshev took upon himself the resolution of all issues by force. “The kids on the street,” as he called them, intimidated, beat, kidnapped, tortured, and sometimes killed their victims. The community's headquarters on Krestovsky Island was guarded 24 hours a day by armed guards using automatic weapons. Mobile units cruised around the city guarding control points and collecting taxes. In its heyday, the Malyshevskaya organized crime group could have been called a regiment. Its strength reached 2000 people.

Malyshevskaya organized crime group goes into business

The second most important leader in the organization was Gennady Petrov. In the future, he will even displace the founder of the community from the first place. His area of ​​responsibility is contacts with government agencies, law enforcement officers, and businessmen. The Malyshevites quickly realized that a normally functioning business could legally generate income greater than racketeering.

Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin)

To do this, it is necessary to create greenhouse conditions for him, simultaneously crushing his competitors in a legal way. It was these issues that Petrov dealt with quite successfully. Having connections in the tax department, he easily liquidated the Nevskaya Melody casino, which belonged to the leader of the Tambov gang. Tax officials slightly changed the terms of the contract between the mayor's office and the owners, after which the gambling establishment soon collapsed. The third leader of the group, Sergei Kuzmin, served as an economics expert. The calculator in his head instantly calculated the amount of required investment and possible income from the project being implemented, as well as ways to increase efficiency. His word in these matters was final and never questioned.

Alexander Malyshev (right) and Gennady Petrov during their youth in St. Petersburg (1992)

Such a flexible joint policy of leaders allowed the Malyshevskaya organized crime group to squeeze out numerous competitors for some time and protect itself from servants of the law. After the memorable divorce proceedings, community leaders were only briefly arrested once on charges of banditry, but were soon released and continued their work with renewed vigor. Malyshev himself became more respectable and much more careful, acquired the positions of head of Nelli-Druzhba LLP and the Tatti company, and began to pay more attention to laundering criminal money in Cypriot banks and “pumping” it back into some St. Petersburg credit institutions. His empire included hotels, restaurants, cafes, saunas, and non-ferrous metals purchasing points. Alexander Malyshev outwardly gradually transformed into a successful businessman.

Connection with the Yakuza

The 90s were a turbulent, revolutionary time. The country and morals were changing before our eyes. In 1991, gambling was officially allowed in St. Petersburg. Malyshev remembered the size of his income from an ordinary thimble and realized that slot machines and casinos could become his Eldorado and Klondike combined. The Petrodin joint venture was immediately organized, in which 35% of the shares belonged to the Swedish company Dyna AB, and the rest Russian company BHM, wholly owned by Gennady Petrov and Sergey Kuzmin.

Using their own money, they attracted the Austrian company Novomatic, a recognized world leader in the development of the business of selling slot machines, to develop the project. Without limiting itself to gambling, having received its first profits, the Petrodin joint venture became one of the owners of the large domestic bank Rossiya and the founders of the Association of the White Nights of St. Petersburg festival, the main character of which was the famous showman Vladimir Kisilev, subsequently taught Vladimir Putin to play the piano and introduced the latter to Gerard Depardieu.

It should be noted separately that the Swedish Dyna AB was the European branch of the Japanese company Dyna CO Ltd from Osaka. The owner of the Swedish branch of the Asian gambling industry giant was Kinichi Kamiyasu. It is through this person that the Malyshevskaya organized crime group will be the first of the domestic criminal groups to come into contact with the large international criminal structure of the Yakuza ().

It is worth keeping in mind the difference in European and Asian mentality. In Japan, members of the Yakuza do not at all hide their affiliation with it. In the eyes of the Japanese, members of the organization are part of a patriarchal brotherhood with a strict hierarchy. It operates quite officially and occupies certain niches in the Japanese economy. These areas include gambling, cinemas, and entertainment venues. The Yakuza have traditionally patronized the national sumo wrestling federation. Reverse side activities of samurai bandits - brothels, brothels, production and distribution of pornography.

Casinos in St. Petersburg

Kinichi Kamiyasu's father was a real Yakuza, and his son is an excellent programmer, under his patronage he found a place for himself in a business controlled by the Japanese mafia. He participated in the creation of the famous program for “one-armed bandits” Cherry Master. Living in Stockholm, close to St. Petersburg, Kinichi Kamiyasu quickly learned from his colleagues that Russia offered great prospects for his business. The Japanese's first step was a contract for the supply of three hundred gaming machines with cash winnings, which were placed throughout St. Petersburg metro stations and shopping centers. It was then that he received a new, even more profitable offer from the “Malyshevites” - to open a casino in the city.

Turned out to be for real business people instantly solving all the intricate organizational problems in the midst of complete Russian anarchy. The management company Neva-Chance quickly came into being, the legal address of which coincided with the address of the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall. At that time, the future President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin worked in this institution, who, by order of Mayor Sobchak, headed a special supervisory committee for city casinos. In May 1992, the first gambling establishment in the city, Casino Neva, was opened with fanfare, which subsequently changed its name to Laguna and Admiral Club.

Between the Malyshevskys and their partner Kinichi Kamayasu, not just business, but real friendly ties were quickly established. During his days in St. Petersburg, the Japanese invariably stayed under reliable guard at the group’s headquarters on Krestovsky Island. Friends even armed the foreigner with a revolver just in case. The time was very turbulent. A Japanese businessman witnessed a raid on the Malyshevskaya organized crime group large group outraged gypsies. It almost ended with shooting in the very center of the city.

Alexander Malyshev and Gennady Petrov

Gennady Petrov took the official position of representative of Dyna AB in St. Petersburg. In turn, Kinichi Kamayasu sent letters of recommendation to the Internal Affairs Directorate, necessary for the release of the group leaders on bail from arrest. The “Malyshevites” were delighted by the visit to St. Petersburg of Chief Kinichi’s brother from Osaka, Iida Misamichi. This character was a real Yakuza with all the necessary attributes - and lifestyle. Domestic bandits met him with bread and salt, gave him a tour of the city, spoke in detail about their business and arranged a luxurious banquet in his honor. The Yakuza were stunned by the group's arsenal and freedom of action. Probably, if Mayor Sobchak wanted to open legal brothels in St. Petersburg and gave instructions to the future president to monitor the process, the Japanese experience and the Russian breakthrough ingenuity of the “Malyshevites” would perform another miracle.

Pressure of former security forces

But the cloudless time quickly ended. A new crop of competitors was raising their heads, mainly former officers The KGB, left out of work as a result of staff reductions. Former security officers, angry with the whole world, made active attempts to seize the building on Berezovaya Alley on Krestovsky Island. The mid-90s marked the decline of the community. The “Tambov” began to gain momentum and eventually took revenge for past grievances.

All the leaders, after the trial for illegal carrying, left Russia together, and the remaining members scattered across different teams. Kinichi Kamayasu received a lucrative offer from the leader of the Tambov team, Vladimir Kumarin, and subsequently reoriented his business. Alexander Malyshev, Gennady Petrov and Sergey Kuzmin chose Spain as their new place of residence.

Gennady Petrov during the “Spanish” arrest

In the new location, Malyshev organized the Hisparus company as a cover, but did not abandon it. In the Pyrenees, he is involved in money laundering, arms trafficking, contract killings, document forgery, cobalt and tobacco smuggling. In Spain, he changed his last name to Gonzales after tying the knot with a Latina. The Spaniards' patience ran out in 2008. All the Spanish "Malyshevites" were arrested overnight. Only Sergei Kuzmin managed to escape. He literally disappeared without a trace, but his wife found herself under investigation pressure on a huge bunch of charges. The investigation has acquired a scandalous international character. The meticulous Spaniards tried to get to the ore. So in the case there were episodes about an incomprehensible regime for favoring the business of criminal authorities during the time they worked in the mayor’s office of Vladimir Putin and much more, which served as a reason to declare Russia as a state completely riddled with corruption.

Vladimir Kumarin

Vladimir Kumarin was detained in 2007 and is now in the capital’s “Matrosskaya Tishina” pre-trial detention center, where he is serving a sentence for fraud and raider takeovers. Subsequently, he was charged with extortion, as well as attempted murder of businessman Sergei Vasiliev in a dispute over. Former deputy Mikhail Glushchenko The level of his influence was such that the press nicknamed him the “night governor”; operatives from the capital were even specially sent to detain him, and his St. Petersburg colleagues, fearing that they were connected with Kumarin, were not informed.

Vladimir Kumarin has a daughter, Maria Lanskaya, who graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, and now represents her father’s interests in court. She was the owner of a small company called Violet, which sold toys. The girl has a very small business of her own, more like a hobby. Since 2016, she has been a co-owner (50%) of FashionLavka LLC, a consignment boutique selling luxury clothing brands from Cartier and Balenciaga to KENZO and Yves Saint Laurent. According to SPARK, the company’s revenue for 2016 amounted to only 55 thousand rubles.

In addition, Maria Lanskaya is a socialite. Judging by her social networks, the girl often travels around the world in the company of her mother Marina Haberlakh, the ex-wife of Vladimir Kumarin. Together they often attend private parties, fashion shows and expensive restaurants.

It is also interesting that Maria Lanskaya’s mother was also an entrepreneur in the past. Until 2014, she was the owner of Kortezh LLC, which was a shareholder (75%) of Rzhevka airport. The land of the already former airport (175 hectares) was acquired by LSR Group in 2014 (then the cost of the land was estimated at 10 billion rubles), which plans to build 1 million m2 of housing there.

Alexander Malyshev

An authoritative businessman, Malyshev began his career in the late 1980s at the same time as Vladimir Kumarin, a native of the Tambov province. In 1992, Alexander Malyshev and almost two dozen people who were called “Malyshevskys” were arrested on suspicion of organizing a criminal gang, but investigators and prosecutors failed to prove the creation of an organized crime group in court. As a result, in 1995, Malyshev was sentenced to 2.5 years of general regime for illegal storage and carrying of weapons and was released in the courtroom. Soon after this he moved to permanent place residence in Spain.

In 2008, Spanish authorities detained a businessman and several other Russians, accusing them of creating a gang and money laundering. In the Western media, the arrest was presented as the capture of the Russian mafia, and Alexander Malyshev himself was called a “godfather”, who is also allegedly connected with the entire top of the Russian establishment. True, very quickly the “main Russian mafioso” and the rest of the detainees were released under house arrest to villas in Marbella, where they lived quietly for the next seven years. In 2015, Alexander Malyshev asked the Spanish authorities for permission to travel to St. Petersburg for treatment, and never returned to Spain.

In St. Petersburg, Alexander Malyshev has a daughter from his first marriage, as well as six children from his second. The father of many children went into business again - the son of his old friend Gennady Petrov, Anton Petrov, sold him a share (16.65%) in Neva LLC, and Malyshev’s wife owns another 16.7%. Behind the name lies the business center "76", which is managed by Neva LLC. " Management company NEVA LLC has been operating in the office real estate market since 2001. The main activity of the company is the management of the Business Center "76" by leasing offices, managing technical operation and maintenance," according to the company's website. According to the SPARK system, in 2016, net profit amounted to 6.7 million rubles, and turnover - more than 33 million.

Also, Alexander Malyshev and his wife own the Avtodom company (37% for two, this is paid parking and a small pavilion for rent), and together with his sons Ivan and Mikhail - Megapolis LLC. Alexander Malyshev’s wife, Olga Solovyova, is herself a successful businessman, with shares in almost a dozen St. Petersburg companies involved in transportation, real estate and parking.

Gennady Petrov

In the 1990s, Gennady Petrov was considered the right hand of Alexander Malyshev and was arrested at the same time as him in the early 1990s, but got out earlier than others and controlled the business of his friends while they were in jail. Together with Alexander Malyshev, he left with his family for Spain, where he lived until 2014; he was also detained in 2008 as part of the so-called “Russian mafia case” and released under house arrest. In 2014, under the same pretext as Alexander Malyshev a year later, he returned to St. Petersburg.

Gennady Petrov himself is now only a co-owner (30%) of MOSTODORSTROY 82 LLC. Together with him, shares in the company are owned by Leonid Khristoforov (30%), whom the media also shares with businessman Alekhan Albogachiev (40%).

The key companies in the structure of the assets of the Shevchenko family are the companies, and, whose annual turnover exceeded 2.2 billion rubles, and their net profit amounted to 258 million rubles. In 2006, the Nord shopping gallery was opened at 46 Nevsky Prospekt, which is now fully leased by the chain. The Nord company also manages the Grand Palace boutique gallery. Metropol is an M-Hotel "in the center of St. Petersburg on Sadovaya Street with prices that can hardly be called exorbitant. The most expensive room costs from 9 thousand rubles per day. "North-Metropol" is more.

Dmitry Skigin

They write about Dmitry Skigin as a “widely known person in narrow circles” of St. Petersburg business. Skigin was the owner of the Sovex company, a St. Petersburg oil terminal, as well as the Sotrama company, which, according to Novaya Gazeta, was involved in a money laundering investigation. Close friends describe Dmitry Skigin as very educated person, who spoke several languages ​​and gave the impression of a classic St. Petersburg intellectual. In 2003, he died in Nice from cancer.

From his father's assets, the heirs inherited, the revenue of which in 2016 amounted to more than 2.5 billion rubles. “My father gave, for example, Sovex Pulkovo, other assets, plus a lot of money to this man. At the same time, my father was left with the oil terminal, which at that time was in a deplorable state. I think that it was much more important for him to get rid of any unpleasant meetings and any dependence in favor of possible freedom,” he said in an interview with RBC.

If Skigin Sr. had been alive, he would probably have been proud of his son: after the death of his father, Mikhail created a whole network of Toll Road companies, which, as the name suggests, is engaged in the construction and operation of toll roads. The idea is simple: the company builds a road at its own expense, and after commissioning it collects tolls.

In 2017, the governor signed an agreement with St. Petersburg Toll Road LLC, part of Skigin’s business structures, on the intent to build toll overpasses on the Sapsan and Allegro routes. It was reported that the company would spend about 8 billion rubles on this project, and after completion of implementation it would charge a fee for the move, agreed upon with the city authorities.

Mikhail shares his entire business empire with his younger brother Evgeniy. It is worth noting that the Skigin family owns its assets through Cypriot offshore companies.

Brothers Nikolai and Viktor Gavrilenkov

The brothers Nikolai and Viktor Gavrilenkov were called the founders in the press; it was believed that it was from this structure that the legendary “Tambov” group emerged. Nikolai’s elder brother was killed in 1993 - it was from this event that the “war” between the “Tambov” and “Velikoluksky” began. By 1996, of the entire group, only one person remained alive - Viktor Gavrilenkov, who went to live in Spain. He returned to St. Petersburg in 2008, after the arrest of Vladimir Kumarin.

The son of the eldest of the brothers, Gleb Gavrilenkov, became an abstract artist, and his works were exhibited in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Paris and Basel. As reported on his personal website, “Gleb regularly participates in auctions, charity events, joint projects with Russian and foreign artists, contemporary art galleries and architectural studios. They are in private collections in Russia, the USA, France, Italy, Finland, Spain, Switzerland , China, Japan, Georgia, Australia."

Son younger brother Zhan Gavrilenkov does not own any business assets. On social networks you can find accounts associated with the name of Gavrilenkov, where a party is captured on the luxury yacht Lady Britt, the rental price of which is €445 thousand per week. There are also photographs of a white Rolls-Roys with license plates x999w. This car can be rented from one of the companies in Moscow for 15 thousand rubles per hour. In addition, several photos from the BMW 650i series have been preserved. The cost of such a car starts from 15 thousand dollars.

The page under the name “Zhan Gavrilenkov” also published many pictures referencing the mafia. For example, photographs of the heroes of the series “The Sopranos,” which tells about the life of an American mafioso in depression. Shortly before publication, this VK account was deleted. However, photos and posts from the page remained in Google's cache.


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In the early 90s, St. Petersburg groups were an analogue of dashing bands of bandits operating in a certain territory. These gangs were content with extorting money from the merchants they controlled, and there was enough room in the sun for everyone.

Today, the groups are more like principalities: with their own military detachments ensuring order in their domains, a certain formed “code of laws” - a sort of “gangster truth” and a subordinate population paying tribute - from a simple stall owner to a banker.
Organized crime is not only of interest to small and medium-sized private business, but also large enterprises and even entire industries, including those whose control is formally in the hands of the state.

The relationship between the gangster world and law enforcement agencies has also changed significantly. Businessmen are looking for patronage and protection from “attacks” or unscrupulous partners not only from criminal groups, but also from people from law enforcement agencies. “Cop” or committee “roofs” have become a powerful factor in the shadow life of Russian business. It is not uncommon for people with secret service IDs to come to gangster “shooters” - not at all to “suppress illegal activities,” but to solve business problems between “their own” and “other people’s” businessmen.

At the same time, criminal groups are willing to create their own legal security structures - this allows them to legally protect controlled companies and openly use firearms.
An example of this approach to business can be called “Delta-22”. This private security company controlled several facilities in northern regions cities, in particular a large market. The “guards” collected debts, kidnapped and killed debtors and competitors from the ranks of the “Chechens” - sometimes they created such chaos that other bandits could envy them. According to some reports, Delta-22 was a legalized part of the Tambov team’s combat structure. Another new factor in the life of organized crime in St. Petersburg was the active penetration of various groups into other regions of North-West Russia (Pskov, Novgorod regions and Karelia). And Moscow bandits, for example the Solntsevskaya group, are showing keen interest in St. Petersburg itself.

In 1992, the “Malyshev empire” was considered the most influential in the city on the Neva, and Alexander Malyshev enjoyed authority in criminal circles not only in St. Petersburg, but throughout Russia. At different times, about 20 large and smaller groups operated under the banner of the “empire” with varying degrees of independence. Subsequently, some of them created their own “empires” that are still active today.

Vladimir Kumarin, who has already lost his right arm

Alexander Ivanovich Malyshev was born in 1958, was involved in wrestling as a child, and graduated from a vocational school. In 1977 he was convicted of premeditated murder, in 1984 - of “careless” murder. Then he worked as a doorman, a security guard in a restaurant, was a co-operator, commercial director of a music center, and a member of the board of a joint-stock company. At an early stage of his criminal past, Malyshev “twisted thimbles” at the Senny Market (“his foreman” during this period was Vladimir Kumarin), and had the nickname Malysh.

At the end of the 80s, Malyshev created one of the most powerful St. Petersburg groups, but already in 1989, Malyshev left for Sweden, fleeing the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. In 1991, he returned to St. Petersburg for some time.

Now Malyshev lives in Spain, where he has large real estate.

The influence of the “Malyshevites” in their heyday extended to Krasnoselsky, Kirov, Moskovsky, part of the Central and Kalinin districts. Serious objects in other parts of the city were also under control: hotels, car markets, restaurants, gambling establishments.
Alexander Malyshev was one of the first St. Petersburg “authorities” who began investing in business. Intimate service agencies, points for the purchase of non-ferrous metals, saunas, and factories for the production of small-caliber revolvers were created. At one time, the “Malyshevites” took over the drug dealers, ousting the “Azerbaijanis” from this sphere.

Malyshev was listed in some commercial structures as either a manager or a founder. However, during his arrest in October 1992, Alexander Ivanovich stated that he was unemployed, but lived on the money they gave him good people. According to some experts, it was Malyshev who was the first to introduce his people into structures of interest, buy up controlling stakes through dummies and train his own economists in educational institutions in St. Petersburg.

The arrest of Alexander Ivanovich and two dozen of his closest associates in the fall of 1992 caused a stir in criminal St. Petersburg. Law enforcement trumpeted their victory. And the underworld was preparing for big changes...

The Moscow people, who had long been trying to subjugate the underworld of the second capital, immediately tried to take advantage of the situation. In 1993, a wave of assassination attempts on the leaders of St. Petersburg groups swept through the city. And they arranged a division, trying to grab a fatter piece from the “Malyshev empire” in the absence of the owner. However, the decline of the “Malyshevites” came later. The victory of the police was, to put it mildly, incomplete. First, in the summer of 1993, Alexander Ivanovich’s closest accomplices were released from prison on signature or bail: Berlin, Kirpichev, Petrov and Rakhmatulin.

About Berlin - a little more detail. This businessman (a mathematician by training), while still a part-time student and Komsomol activist, began his ascent into the world of big business by manufacturing counterfeit branded jeans. In 1974, he was accused of burglary. An attempt to act out schizophrenia led to Berlin spending 13 years in a mental hospital, where he studied Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Swedish. In the late 80s, upon release, he went into the computer business. In 1992, along with the rest of the noble “Malyshevo” people, he was arrested. On August 25, 1993, he was released due to lack of evidence. In February 1994, he was kidnapped by a rival gang. The economic adviser of the “empire” was rescued from captivity by the police. Without waiting for trial, Berlin fled to Germany, where he ended up in famous prison"Moabit" for a number of economic scams on German territory.

They tried repeatedly to release Malyshev before trial, including with the help of deputies State Duma, in particular Alexander Nevzorov. The noisy trial ended in nothing: the charges of banditry were dropped and many of the defendants were acquitted. Malyshev himself received a prison sentence for illegally carrying a ladies’ revolver.
He was given a preliminary report, and he walked out of the courtroom.
And yet the main thing was done: the figure of Malyshev was taken out of the active life of urban criminal groups. During his imprisonment, he was diagnosed with a herniated disc, and one leg began to shrink. Soon after his release, he went abroad to improve his health. According to some reports, today he is in Spain, where he has real estate. But no one has yet managed to fully manage their own “business”, constantly being several thousand kilometers away from it. Malyshev also failed.

After Malyshev left, the struggle for the redistribution of spheres of influence flared up with renewed vigor.
In 1995, due to his own stupidity and recklessness, a famous crime boss nicknamed Maradona, whom Malyshev sent to control Pskov. In December 1995, Stas Zharenny died in Kresty. The official version is a drug overdose.
In the spring of 1996, Oleg Romanov (according to some sources, one of the leaders of the capital’s “Krylat” group), who was accused in the “Malyshev” case, was killed in Moscow.

In June 1996, Vyacheslav Kirpichev was shot dead in the bar of the Joy nightclub. In March 1997, another “Devyatkino” veteran, Slon, became a victim. According to competent sources, after Malyshev left for Spain, Elephant was unable to cope with the youth, whom he himself selected for the “Krasnoselskaya” brigade. It was precisely with the growing influence of the young that his fears about his share, which the representatives of the younger generation would begin to “cut out,” were connected.

The position of the “Malyshevites” was seriously affected by the death of Svinary, who was considered the “arbiter and minister of foreign affairs” of the “Malyshev empire.” The deceased acted as a link between various groups. Possessing diplomatic talents, Pigman knew how to resolve conflicts peacefully, without leading to large-scale showdowns. He lived in Roshchina, where he had several houses. He died in 1995 from cirrhosis of the liver. While he was in the hospital, people came to him and there to “solve problems” - 50-60 people a day.
After the death of Pig, Komaru had to make room for a lot. This former cook became a serious “authority” in the zone. His group controlled many objects in the resort area of ​​St. Petersburg: cafes, restaurants, campsites, recreation centers, foreign tourism. Komar invested money in sports complexes and the restaurant business.

I built a dacha for myself - a mini-castle in the “New Russian” style - not so far from the dacha mansion of the St. Petersburg ex-mayor. According to rumors, Komar refused to deal with drugs and had a very bad attitude towards prostitution. For a long time, Komar and his people managed to keep out the newcomers in their possessions: “Tambovites”, “Kazanians” and representatives of other criminal groups. Shortly before the death of Svinary, several assassination attempts were organized on Komar by bandits from Caucasian structures. Then several of his bodyguards died, but the “authority” himself survived. True, he chose to escape from Russia and is now in Thailand.

Today, according to some sources, the control of the “Malyshevites” over the resort area has changed to “Chechen”. According to others - in “Kazan”.
Broiler is one of the few authoritative figures of the “Malyshev empire” who survived, despite seven attempts on his life. For some time, Broiler’s group was based in a sports club in Vsevolozhsk. Then his “office” consisted of 80-100 active “fighters”.

At one time, Broiler actively created an image for himself as a businessman and patron of the arts. He was even listed as the founder of the newspaper “Rhythms of the City”. According to some reports, the Oktyabrskaya Hotel is under the control of Broiler. From 1995 to 1997, he was in Kresty, where he was imprisoned on suspicion of extortion. During this time, most of his possessions went into the hands of friends from the “Malyshev empire.” After his release, Broiler’s demands to return “his property” were received without enthusiasm. An assassination attempt was organized on him, after which Broiler, wounded by machine gun fire, left for treatment in Bulgaria. Now he is back in St. Petersburg.

Today it is hardly possible to say that the “Malyshev” group exists. It has split into several small but active groups that no longer have the same influence as before. Shark, the leader of the group that was once part of the “Malyshev empire,” also remains alive. He patronizes a number of companies and individuals involved in the paper and forestry business in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. He also controls several security structures, including those employing former employees of the KGB and other agencies. His team, according to some sources, controls the Avtov region.

Another fragment of the “empire” is the Musica group, whose active membership includes about fifty people. This group operates in the Krasnoselsky district.
The brigade of the Zhukov brothers, the Petrov group, and the people of the Shanaev brothers were allocated to special “destinations.” It is known about the latter that they took the place of the murdered Chinese, one of Malyshev’s former comrades, who held the territory of the Zvezdny market under his control before his death. Little is known about Malyshev’s other “authorities”: Trofim went into business and is trying to maintain the purity of his new image; The Timofeev brothers, according to rumors, have disappeared from the criminal horizon.



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