The godfather's return to retirement. Who was part of the Malyshevo organized crime group

Leader of the Malyshevskaya organized crime group

Was born: in 1958 in Leningrad

Education: average

Resume: He went through the classic path of a gangster. First, newspapers wrote about him in connection with crimes committed and court sentences, and now - in connection with his return to his homeland as a pensioner.

Biography:

He was born in a communal apartment on the corner of Ligovka and Obvodny Canal. Parents were from Pskov peasants. In the atmosphere of the most Spanish place in Leningrad, Malyshev learned to defend his “ten kopecks.”

In 1971, the father, a proper Soviet artisan, received a three-room apartment in a nine-story block building on Pionerstroya Street in the Krasnoselsky district. And there, among the district peteushniks, his son is at ease. Endowed with strength by nature, he practices freestyle wrestling and slowly becomes a leader.

In August 1975 he entered the Leningrad Mechanical and Instrument-Making College with a degree in metal cutting. But in the fall he gets involved in an unequal fight with the neighboring guys on Mechnikov Avenue, kills, for which he receives six and a half years in prison.

In 1979, he was released into settlement, he joined the Komsomol and left early. After his release, he worked as a bartender at the Yantar pub in Pushkin, and in the spring of 1983 he became a cloakroom attendant at the Riga bar in his own Krasnoselsky district. Back then it was called the prestigious word “bouncer”. In those days, a guy from Tambov, Vladimir Kumarin, expelled from LITMO, was working in a similar position, but in the Tallinn bar.

Six months later, Malyshev was convicted again. He sometimes laughs at himself: “I’ve been holding my fist all my life.” The second time he clashed in a cafe on Veterans Avenue over a girl, after which the victim hit his head on the tile and died. This time three years in prison.

When both came out, the era of Gorbachev and the cooperative movement was already blooming. The masters of Soviet sports imposed tribute on the nascent bourgeoisie. The word "racketeering" flashed. When Leningrad was renamed St. Petersburg in 1991, Malyshev’s name was already a brand. And the world of organized crime was divided into thousands of those who swore allegiance to him and those from Tambov. Whatever happened in the world of power entrepreneurship, it was associated with him, even if he was not aware of it.

In 1992, 17 strong guys were arrested. And godfather Malyshev is charged with organizing an armed gang.

Dossier:

In February 2010, the Spanish National Court of Justice announced the release on bail of three Russians suspected of money laundering, financial fraud, tax evasion and organizing a criminal community. The bail amount is 1.4 million euros. Of these, exactly 500 thousand should be contributed by Alexander Malyshev, aka Alejandro Lagnas Gonzalez, aka the founder of the so-called Malyshev group, which at one time controlled almost half of St. Petersburg.

Behind bars in southern country our compatriots found themselves on Friday, June 13, 2008, after the Spanish police, together with attached units of the National Guard, carried out a full-scale military operation. According to official data, more than 400 people took part in it, who hunted for a group of people in the resorts of Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, Alicante and Marbella Russian origin. 15 people were taken into custody in Spain and one (by a special squad of the investigative unit of the Spanish prosecutor's office) in Berlin. European media then wrote about the triumphant completion of an operation that had lasted for several years, codenamed “Troika,” the main goal of which was the “Russian mafia in Europe.”

“I can say that in addition to the Spanish Prosecutor General’s Office, the work was carried out by employees of five more police departments, the customs service and the Central Bank,” Jose Carrau, one of the leading investigators in the case, told Ogonyk at the time. - We have a large number of financial documents, several hundred hours of telephone conversations have been recorded. A total of 25 arrest warrants have been issued. Some of the suspects are still hiding abroad, including in Russia.

The detainees were charged under seven articles of the Spanish Criminal Code: 515, 517 - creation of a criminal group; 390, 392 - forgery of official and commercial documents; 305 - causing damage to the state treasury; 301, 251 - acquisition of property obtained by criminal means and misappropriation of rights to someone else's property. In total, such a set “pulls” 40 years in prison.

With the light hand of prosecutor Baltasar Garzón, famous after the Pinochet case, the Spanish press began calling the detainees Hermanos de Tambov - “brothers from Tambov.” The same name later ended up in the official indictment. Although for any St. Petersburg resident to call Alexander Malyshev’s group “Tambov” is the same as admitting that Moscow is better than St. Petersburg. Or confuse Sredneokhtinsky Avenue with Liteiny. Because, unlike the “those who came in large numbers,” it was the “Malyshevskys” who were the indigenous St. Petersburg group.

True, in fairness it must be admitted that Malyshev was not just acquainted with the leader of the Tambov gang Vladimir Kumarin (who is currently on trial in Moscow): in the mid-80s, the future defendant in a high-profile Spanish criminal case bore the nickname Malysh and made a living by playing thimbles on the Leningrad Sennaya market, which was partially protected by Kumarin. They became irreconcilable enemies later, after a criminal showdown in which two hundred people took part.

The question of why suddenly in 2008 the Spanish “Troika” ran into a criminal element of Russian origin remains unanswered. Let's try to analyze several versions.

Version one: greetings from home.

After leaving abroad for permanent residence, Alexander Malyshev appeared in his native St. Petersburg only once - in the fall of 2007. The visit happened after his main enemy, the leader of the Tambovites, Vladimir Kumarin, was arrested. According to experts, this single visit by Malyshev was enough for “serious people” to become worried: the redistribution of property in the Northern capital was completed a long time ago, and no one wanted the inevitable new round in the event of Malysh’s return. According to rumors, the Ministry of Internal Affairs received a corresponding order, and a voluminous dossier on the “Malyshevskys” was promptly transferred to their Spanish colleagues.

Perhaps these are just rumors, but the indictment, signed by the investigator of the fifth department of the National Court of Justice, Balthazar Garzon, meticulously lists all the previous convictions and sins of both Malyshev and Petrov. Up to exact date and the time of the crimes and descriptions of how and where the accused met. It's hard to believe that the Spanish police have been monitoring their "career" since 1977...

Version two: uncivilized business.

According to the official position of the Spanish investigation, Operation Troika began back in 2006 with an audit of the activities of numerous commercial enterprises established by Alexander Malyshev and Gennady Petrov. The Spaniards believe that the accused created several joint stock companies closed type, into whose accounts huge sums were transferred from banks located in offshore zones in Cyprus, the Virgin Islands and Panama. The money was spent on real estate transactions, so, the police say, by buying up plots and houses in Spain, Malyshev and Petrov were simply laundering criminal capital. The investigation believes that at least two structures created by business partners were involved in illegal transactions: Inmobiliara Calvia 2001 and Inmobiliara Balear 2001. The prosecution considers all real estate transactions to be illegal and hopes to confiscate assets worth 30 million euros. Another 25 million, transferred to the accounts of these companies from banks in Panama, the USA, Switzerland, Latvia and Russia, was frozen by court decision.

The charges also include materials from the Spanish tax services. The indictment contains several hundred such episodes. On May 30, 2005, for example, the Internasion company, owned by Gennady Petrov, bought the yacht Sasha, paying 3.5 million euros for it. VAT on this purchase was never paid, so 530 thousand euros were hidden from the Spanish authorities. In June of the same year, Malyshev and Petrov transferred the ownership of seven land plots to the Inmobiliara company, receiving 4 million shares priced at 1 euro each. No taxes were paid on this transaction.

True, while describing in detail the schemes for carrying out financial fraud, Spanish investigators were unable to answer one question: it is known from which offshore accounts the money came, and it is already clear how these funds were legalized. But where did the money come from in these offshore accounts?

Version three: big ear.

The Spanish newspaper ABC, which gained access to documents from the National Court of Justice, claims that financial fraud is just the tip of the iceberg. “Throughout the entire investigation, the police had access to thousands of telephone conversations of the accused - at first there were seven of them, but then there were more. The 230 recordings are hair-raising, the sources say, because these conversations indicate the enormous power of the arrested leaders, their connections in Russia and former republics of the USSR, a whole range of crimes: murder, arms trafficking, drugs, extortion, bribery, illegal transactions, cobalt and tobacco smuggling, contract attacks, threats... All these operations were managed from Spain, where the mafia leaders moved in 1996 for conspiracy."

This version seems to be the most interesting. True, the passage about “managing global mafia operations” is difficult to take seriously after thimbles and a showdown with shooting over a stolen leather jacket. But no one takes this seriously - after all, we are talking not so much about the persons involved in the case, but about the business in which they were assigned a certain role. What kind of business was this, who else was involved in it, how the income from it was distributed - these are the key questions that, it seems, not only the Spanish investigative machine was trying to find answers to.

The same Spanish newspaper ABC was the first to report that the investigation was primarily interested in the Malyshevsky connections. In her opinion, “the data revealed during the investigation, which lasted two years, indicate that the thieves in law arrested as part of Operation Troika had the opportunity to bribe the highest echelons Russian authorities, and shamelessly took advantage of this opportunity." The newspaper believes that Malyshev and Petrov carried out delicate instructions from high-ranking Russian officials, receiving lucrative contracts in return.

The newspaper did not decipher the degree of delicacy of these orders, but quite transparent hints appeared in other media - among other things, we are talking about the illegal arms trade, to which it was allegedly not so much the former St. Petersburg authorities as their “contacts”. The partner in these operations seemed to be the legendary “black merchant” Monzir al-Kassar (his villa in Marbella, Spain, is located just a couple of kilometers from Malyshev’s villa). Al-Kassar has been widely known among “weapons businessmen” since mid-79. He supplied “products” to Algeria, Libya, Syria, Iran, Bosnia and Croatia, and among his clients were the Palestine Liberation Organization, Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.

Allegedly, it was this master of the shadow market who became an intermediary in the new business of the Malyshevskys: they ensured the purchase of weapons and equipment from Russian military factories, and al-Kassar sent the cargo to its destination. They say that it was thanks to the efforts of the founders of this “joint venture” that Hezbollah militants were able to use Metis-M and Kornet anti-tank missile systems in battles with the Israeli army in southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006. The name of another participant in the “concession” is also mentioned: the transportation of especially valuable cargo to Iran and Syria was allegedly provided by Viktor Bout, who was arrested last year in Thailand and is still in a Thai prison at the American request.

According to sources familiar with this conspiracy version, he destroyed an established scheme of mutually beneficial shadow business none other than... fugitive FSB lieutenant colonel Alexander Litvinenko, who provided Spanish law enforcement agencies with information about Russian crime bosses who had moved to Europe. This information, by the way, is confirmed by the influential Spanish newspaper El Pais, which reported that the fugitive security officer had advised law enforcement agencies in Spain 6 months before the polonium poisoning.

In particular, he provided Spanish prosecutors with information that thief in law Zakhary Kalashov (better known as Shakro-Young) was negotiating supplies Russian weapons with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. And it seems that it was after this tip that the police car (which is important - not only the Spanish one) began to consistently grind down the links of the criminal chain.

First, during a special operation by the Spanish police in Dubai, on May 7, 2006, Shakro-Young was arrested (he is now kept under the strictest guard in solitary confinement in the prison of the city of Suera in the Spanish province of Zaragoza). In June 2007, al-Kassar was arrested. In March 2008, Viktor Bout was captured in Thailand. Warrants for the arrest of both, already in the United States, were issued by the same prosecutor - Michael Garcia. It is worth noting an interesting detail: the composition of the task forces working on these cases was almost completely identical.

In June 2008, it was the turn of the Malyshevskys. By the way, the day after the completion of Operation Troika, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said that the detainees were “leaders of international organized crime” and were accused of “illegal arms trafficking.” It is characteristic that subsequently none of the Spanish officials repeated this accusation again - had the minister let it slip inadvertently?

Meanwhile, a few days after the arrest of the Kid and his entire company, al-Kassar was transported from Spain to the United States, where in February last year he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. And if this branch of the investigation into secret weapons operations can be considered completed, the remaining plots in this story are still open-ended: it is still not clear how Bout’s fate will turn out, and it is completely unclear why Malyshev and his companions were released on bail.

The Spanish press started talking about how the case that had started so loudly was falling apart before our eyes and that Baltasar Garzón was in a hurry to announce his victory over the “Russian mafia.” Garson himself, however, does not respond to these accusations. At the beginning of March he is going to come... to Moscow. According to him, the criminal case against the “Russian authorities” lacks an answer to the key question: what role did the high-ranking Russian officials with whom they were in contact play in the dark affairs of Alexander Malyshev and his accomplices? The Spaniards have a list of “contacts”, the content of the conversations is known. Garson sincerely hopes that Russia will help him...

Source: Magazine "Ogonyok" No. 5 dated 02/08/2010

In 2012, the National Court of Spain put on the international wanted list a Russian businessman with Greek citizenship, Gennady Petrov, his wife and his acquaintance Leonid Khristoforov, whom the Spanish authorities suspect of involvement in money laundering and membership in the Tambov criminal community. Now Gennady Petrov, according to media reports, may be in St. Petersburg. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region is not yet ready to confirm or deny information about the search for Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov.

In the summer of 2008, Spanish law enforcement agencies carried out a large-scale Operation Troika, during which authoritative businessman Alexander Malyshev and people from his close circle, including businessman Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov, were detained. This operation, led by judge Baltasar Garzon, was presented by the Spanish authorities as the liquidation of members of the Tambov criminal community. Immigrants from Russia were suspected of involvement in money laundering, document falsification and tax evasion. This operation began with an audit of the activities of Gennady Petrov’s enterprises, through which, according to the Spanish police, money was laundered.

In 2010, Leonid Khristoforov and Gennady Petrov were released on bail in the amount of €300 thousand and €600 thousand, respectively. The following year, Spanish authorities gave Gennady Petrov permission to visit Russia to meet his mother. After this visit, the businessman returned. In April of this year, Gennady Petrov and his wife, as well as Leonid Khristoforov, received permission to travel to Russia for treatment. However, they did not return back. According to the St. Petersburg online newspaper, Petrov and Khristoforov notified the Spanish authorities about their poor health, confirming their words with medical documents.

Three months later, the national court of Spain, as reported by the Spanish ACB, issued an international warrant for the search and arrest of Gennady Petrov, his wife and Leonid Khristoforov.

In the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and Leningrad region Kommersant was informed that the local Interpol office has a number of information requests from Spanish law enforcement agencies. However, St. Petersburg police are not yet ready to say that it is Leonid Khristoforov or Gennady Petrov who are wanted. Security officials explain this by the fact that, as practice shows, people on the international wanted list often change their personal data. Therefore, it is possible that Leonid Khristoforov or Gennady Petrov may appear in the requests of the Spanish authorities, but under different names.

In Russia, Gennady Petrov became widely known only after Operation Troika, when European media began writing about the Russian mafia. Leonid Khristoforov gained fame in the early 2000s during the trial of the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova. He testified against the group of Yuri Kolchin, who was convicted by the St. Petersburg City Court for the technical organization of the crime. Leonid Khristoforov told how he sold one of the members of Yuri Kolchin’s group the Agram submachine gun, which was used to kill Galina Starovoitova.

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Malyshevskaya organized criminal 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, the leader of the organized crime group was 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 petitioned for the release of another ally, Rashid Rakhmatulin, Russian Federation French boxing, the Tonus cooperative and the administration of the prison where he was kept. 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 long time was in prison, 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 operation of the organized crime group was to employ its people in structures and companies of interest, acquire a controlling stake, and train its economic personnel in official educational institutions of the city. 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 of the Spanish city of 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, Yuriy 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 Financial Company Petroleum, affiliated with Kuzmin and Petrov.

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– I know what you are afraid of. Please listen to what I have to say and this will all end forever.
I tried to explain to her as best I could about the souls coming to me and how I was trying to help them all. I saw that she believed me, but for some reason she was afraid to show it to me.
“Your husband is with me, Milya, and if you want, you can talk to him,” I said carefully.
To my surprise, she was silent for a long time, and then quietly said:
“Leave me alone, Vlad, you’ve tormented me long enough.” Leave.
I was completely shocked by how much anguish there was in this woman’s voice!.. And, as it turned out, it shocked not only me, the answer also stunned her strange husband, but only in a different way. I felt a wild whirlwind of alien energy next to me, which literally tore everything around me. Books, flowers, a tea cup - everything that was lying on the table flew down with a roar. The neighbor turned white as a sheet and hastily began to push me out. But such “effects” as throwing cups have not frightened me for a very long time. Therefore, I gently pulled away the poor shaking woman and firmly said:
- If you don’t stop scaring your wife so vilely, I’m leaving, and look for someone else for the same number of years...
But the man did not pay any attention to me. Apparently all these for many years he was just waiting for someone to eventually find someone who could help him “get” his poor wife and his ten-year “sacrifice” would not be in vain. And now, when it finally really happened, he completely lost control of himself...
– Mile, Milenka, I’ve been wanting to say for so long... come with me, dear... let’s go. I can’t do it alone... I can’t live without you for so many years... come with me.
He mumbled something incoherently, repeating the same words all the time. And then it only dawned on me what this man really wanted!!! He asked his living, beautiful wife to leave with him in a place that simply meant dying... At this point I couldn’t stand it any longer.
- Listen to me! You're just crazy! – I mentally screamed. “I won’t say these vile words to her!” Get away to where you should have been long ago!.. This is exactly your place.
I was simply sick with indignation!.. Could this really happen?! I didn’t yet know what I would do, but I knew one thing for sure: I would never give him this woman for anything in the world.
He was infuriated that I did not repeat to her what he said. He shouted at me, yelled at her, cursed in words that I had never heard... He cried, if you can call it crying... And I realized that now he could truly become dangerous, but I still didn’t understand how can this happen. Everything in the house moved furiously, window panes shattered. Milia stood in a stupor in horror, unable to utter a word. She was very scared, because, unlike me, she did not see anything that was happening in that “other” reality that was closed to her, but saw only inanimate objects “dancing” in front of her in some kind of crazy dance ...and slowly went crazy...
It’s very funny in books to read about mysterious poltergeists, other realities and admire heroes who always “defeat dragons”... In reality, there is nothing “funny” about this, except quiet horror that you don’t know what to do with it, and that Because of your helplessness, a good person may die right now...
I suddenly saw how Mile began to sink to the floor and became pale as death. I became terribly scared. I suddenly felt like who I really was then - just a little girl who, through her stupidity, got into something terrible and now doesn’t know how to get out of it all.
“Well, no,” I thought, “you won’t get it!”
And with all her might she energetically hit this insignificant entity, putting all her indignation into this blow... A strange howl was heard... and everything disappeared. There was no more crazy movement of objects in the room, there was no fear... and there was no more that strange crazy man who almost sent his innocent wife to the next world... There was dead silence in the house. Only occasionally some broken things jingled. Milia sat on the floor with her eyes closed and showed no signs of life. But for some reason I was sure that everything would be fine with her. I walked up to her and stroked her cheek.
“Aunt Milya, it’s already over,” I whispered quietly, trying not to scare her. - He will never come again.
She opened her eyes and looked around her disfigured room with a tired look.
-What was that, honey? – she whispered.
– It was your husband, Vlad, but he will never come again.
Then she seemed to burst through... I had never heard such a heartbreaking cry before!.. It seemed that this poor woman wanted to cry out everything that had accumulated in her life over these long and, as I later found out, very terrible years. But, as they say, no matter how much despair or resentment there is, you cannot cry endlessly. Something overflows in the soul, as if tears wash away all the bitterness and pain, and the soul, like a flower, little by little begins to return to life. So Milya, little by little, began to come to life. Surprise appeared in the eyes, gradually giving way to timid joy.
“How do you know he won’t come, baby?” – as if wanting confirmation, she asked.
Nobody called me “baby” for a long time, and especially at that moment it sounded a little strange, because I was exactly the “baby” who had just, one might say, accidentally saved her life... But naturally, I was not going to be offended. And there was no strength, not only to take offense, but even just... to move to the sofa. Apparently everything to the last was “spent” on that one blow, which now I could never repeat.
My neighbor and I sat together for quite some time, and she finally told me how all this time (for ten whole years!!!) her husband had been tormenting her. True, she was not completely sure then that it was him, but now her doubts were dispelled, and she knew for sure that she was right. Dying, Vlad told her that he would not rest until he took her with him. So I tried for so many years...
I couldn’t understand how a person could be so cruel and still dare to call such horror love?! But I was, as my neighbor said, just a little girl who could not yet fully believe that sometimes a person can be terrible, even in such a sublime feeling as love...

One of the most shocking cases in my very long “practice” of contacts with the essences of the dead occurred when I was calmly walking home from school on a warm autumn evening... Usually I always returned much later, since I went on the second shift, and had lessons with we ended somewhere around seven o'clock in the evening, but that day there were no last two lessons and we were sent home earlier than usual.
The weather was unusually pleasant, I didn’t want to rush anywhere, and before going home I decided to take a short walk.
The air smelled of the bittersweet aroma of the last autumn flowers. A playful light breeze rustled in the fallen leaves, quietly whispering something to the naked trees bashfully blushing in the reflections of the sunset. The soft twilight breathed with peace and silence...
I really loved this time of day, it attracted me with its mystery and fragility of something that had not happened and at the same time had not even begun... When today had not yet become a thing of the past, and the night had not yet come into its own ... Something “nobody's” and magical, something as if suspended in the “between time”, something elusive... I adored this short period of time and always felt very special in it.
But on that day, something “special” happened, but certainly not something special that I would like to see or experience again...
I was calmly walking towards the intersection, deep in thought about something, when I suddenly found myself abruptly torn out of my “dreams” by the wild squeal of brakes and the screams of frightened people.
Right in front of me, a small white passenger car somehow managed to hit a cement pillar and, with all its might, hit a huge oncoming car right in the forehead...
After a few moments, the essences of a little boy and girl “jumped out” from the crumpled almost flat white car, who looked around in bewilderment, until finally they stared in shock at their own physical bodies, disfigured by a strong blow...

In the early 90s, St. Petersburg groups were an analogue of dashing bands of bandits operating on 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.

Relationships have also changed significantly gangster world with law enforcement agencies. 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 turned into a powerful factor in shadow life 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 the northern districts of the city, in particular a large market. The “guards” extorted 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. IN different times Under the banner of the “empire”, about 20 large and smaller groups operated 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 residents immediately tried to take advantage of the situation, who had long been trying to subjugate the underworld of the second capital. 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 daring, 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, Elephant, 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 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. Komaru and his people for a long time managed to contain 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 composition 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.

Leader of the Malyshevskaya organized crime group

Was born: in 1958 in Leningrad

Education: average

Biography:

In 1992, 17 strong guys were arrested. And godfather Malyshev is charged with organizing an armed gang.

Dossier:

Our compatriots went to jail in the southern country on Friday, June 13, 2008, after the Spanish police, together with attached national guard units, carried out a full-scale military operation. According to official data, it involved more than 400 people who were hunting in the resorts of Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, Alicante and Marbella for a group of people of Russian origin. 15 people were taken into custody in Spain and one (by a special squad of the investigative unit of the Spanish prosecutor's office) in Berlin. European media then wrote about the triumphant completion of an operation that had lasted for several years, codenamed “Troika,” the main goal of which was the “Russian mafia in Europe.”

“I can say that in addition to the Spanish Prosecutor General’s Office, the work was carried out by employees of five more police departments, the customs service and the Central Bank,” Jose Carrau, one of the leading investigators in the case, told Ogonyk at the time. “We have a large number of financial documents, several hundred hours of telephone conversations have been recorded. A total of 25 arrest warrants have been issued. Some of the suspects are still hiding abroad, including in Russia.

The question of why suddenly in 2008 the Spanish “Troika” ran into a criminal element of Russian origin remains unanswered. Let's try to analyze several versions.

Version one: greetings from home.

Perhaps these are just rumors, but the indictment, signed by the investigator of the fifth department of the National Court of Justice, Balthazar Garzon, meticulously lists all the previous convictions and sins of both Malyshev and Petrov. Down to the exact date and time of the crimes and a description of how and where the accused met. It's hard to believe that the Spanish police have been monitoring their "career" since 1977...

Version two: uncivilized business.

According to the official position of the Spanish investigation, Operation Troika began back in 2006 with an audit of the activities of numerous commercial enterprises established by Alexander Malyshev and Gennady Petrov. The Spaniards believe that the accused created several closed joint stock companies, into whose accounts huge sums were transferred from banks located in offshore zones in Cyprus, the Virgin Islands and Panama. The money was spent on real estate transactions, so, the police say, by buying up plots and houses in Spain, Malyshev and Petrov were simply laundering criminal capital. The investigation believes that at least two structures created by business partners were involved in illegal transactions: Inmobiliara Calvia 2001 and Inmobiliara Balear 2001. The prosecution considers all real estate transactions to be illegal and hopes to confiscate assets worth 30 million euros. Another 25 million, transferred to the accounts of these companies from banks in Panama, the USA, Switzerland, Latvia and Russia, was frozen by court decision.

Version three: big ear.

The same Spanish newspaper ABC was the first to report that the investigation was primarily interested in the Malyshevsky connections. In her opinion, “the data revealed during the investigation, which lasted two years, indicate that the thieves in law arrested as part of Operation Troika had the opportunity to bribe the highest echelons of Russian power, and shamelessly took advantage of this opportunity.” The newspaper believes that Malyshev and Petrov carried out delicate instructions from high-ranking Russian officials, receiving lucrative contracts in return.

The newspaper did not decipher the degree of delicacy of these orders, but quite transparent hints appeared in other media - among other things, we are talking about the illegal arms trade, to which it was allegedly not so much the former St. Petersburg authorities as their “contacts” that were involved. The partner in these operations seemed to be the legendary “black merchant” Monzir al-Kassar (his villa in Marbella, Spain, is located just a couple of kilometers from Malyshev’s villa). Al-Kassar has been widely known among “weapons businessmen” since mid-79. He supplied “products” to Algeria, Libya, Syria, Iran, Bosnia and Croatia, and among his clients were the Palestine Liberation Organization, Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.

According to sources familiar with this conspiracy version, the established scheme of mutually beneficial shadow business was destroyed by none other than... fugitive FSB lieutenant colonel Alexander Litvinenko, who passed on information to Spanish law enforcement agencies about Russian crime bosses who had moved to Europe. This information, by the way, is confirmed by the influential Spanish newspaper El Pais, which reported that the fugitive security officer had advised law enforcement agencies in Spain 6 months before the polonium poisoning.

In particular, he provided Spanish prosecutors with information that thief in law Zakhary Kalashov (better known as Shakro-Young) was negotiating the supply of Russian weapons with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. And it seems that it was after this tip that the police car (which is important - not only the Spanish one) began to consistently grind down the links of the criminal chain.

Source: Magazine "Ogonyok" No. 5 dated 02/08/2010

Three months later, the national court of Spain, as reported by the Spanish ACB, issued an international warrant for the search and arrest of Gennady Petrov, his wife and Leonid Khristoforov.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region told Kommersant that the local Interpol office has a number of information requests from law enforcement agencies in Spain. However, St. Petersburg police are not yet ready to say that it is Leonid Khristoforov or Gennady Petrov who are wanted. Security officials explain this by the fact that, as practice shows, people on the international wanted list often change their personal data. Therefore, it is possible that Leonid Khristoforov or Gennady Petrov may appear in the requests of the Spanish authorities, but under different names.

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 was a favorite place for criminals from all over the country to visit. 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 Melodiya 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 the 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. The other side of the activities of samurai bandits is 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, legal address which coincided with the address of the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall. At that time he worked in this institution future president Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, who, by order of Mayor Sobchak, headed the 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 become 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.

The state is me

His Catholic Majesty Juan Carlos I is a significant figure on the international horizon; A direct descendant of the great Sun King Louis XIV, he is stubborn and adamant, like a real Bourbon, but is not inclined to make sudden movements without good reason. According to rumors, Spanish intelligence services, at the dawn of the 2000s, fell at the feet of the king with persistent requests to begin an investigation into the suspicious activities of the new Russian Spaniards.

“Their criminal wealth casts a shadow on the Spanish crown. Russian bandits are buying up Spanish officials, police officers and civil servants in droves,” the intelligence services broadcast.

According to rumors, the king received a report based on information from Alexander Litvinenko about the connections of Russian crime bosses with people from the highest echelon of power in Russia. “These connections are so deep,” the report wrote, “that it is impossible to distinguish where the state is operating and where the organized criminal groups are.” This is how operations Avispa (2005) and Troika (2008) appeared.

In order for the operation to be successful and the Russian mafiosi not to run away, the police had to arrest 23 people en masse, among whom were the mayor of Marbella Marisol Yage, his assistants, notaries, lawyers and even the local police chief.

The Spaniards rightly believed that the tentacles of corruption must first be cut off, because if the mafioso is warned, then when he is captured by law enforcement officers, he turns out to be, as in the old Castilian proverb, “holier than a nun.”

The quiet Spanish siesta of the Malyshev group was interrupted by the heavy tread of the royal guards. In June 2008, the world learned the names of Russian mafiosi - Gennady Petrov, Alexander Malyshev, Ildar Mustafin, Leonid Khristoforov, and became acquainted with the personality of thief in law Vitaly Izgilov (The Beast). They were charged with money laundering, tax evasion and document forgery. The detention was noisy and large. Everyone was arrested: wives, children, lawyers and even the children's governesses.

In fact, behind the rather vague letters of the accusation, there were other terms hidden, which, however, could not be officially imputed, namely “drug trafficking,” “illegal arms trade,” “prostitution,” and “cobalt smuggling.”

In particular, information received by the Spanish intelligence services closely connected Gennady Petrov with the disgraced leader of the Tambov organized crime group Vladimir Kumarin, and the leader of the Malyshevskaya organized crime group Alexander Malyshev with Nikolai Patrushev, the current Secretary of the Security Council. In addition, received by the Spanish intelligence services in 2007-2008. The recording of wiretapped telephone conversations between Gennady Petrov and his “friend” Nikolai Aulov showed the scope of the merger of Russian law enforcement agencies with criminal groups. The Spaniards have no doubt: Petrov, through Aulov, lobbied his interests in the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation for top level.

Your will with my hands

Money from the criminal activities of Russian bandits was laundered conveniently - by investing in beautiful Spanish real estate. In this regard, the St. Petersburg corporation “Twentieth Trust” came to light. With the help of subsidiaries of this company, funds were sent to different countries of the world, but mainly to Spain. This money was used to buy and build real estate here. Thus, in Spain, two apartment hotels of the La Paloma tourist complex were built on the resort sands of Torrevieja, and the Dona Pepa villa was purchased in the gardens of the town of Rojales.

The Spanish police and its judicial authorities, not without reason, believed that financial fraud occurred through the companies of Gennady Petrov, who was an official tax resident in the country. A modest police estimate showed that since 1998, Russian mafiosi have bought property worth 50 million euros in Spain. The money came from five companies registered offshore in the British Virgin Islands. The seized accounts of Gennady Petrov's companies contained more than 10 million euros, however, nothing indicated the activities of the companies from which they could receive such large sums.

According to rumors, Petrov’s companies were created to launder money from Russian corrupt officials and security generals. Russian intelligence services believe that these accounts may even belong to Petrov only on paper. After Troika, the Spanish media vigorously discussed the fact that the leaders of criminal groups and corrupt intelligence officers were doing business under the guise of the St. Petersburg Fuel Company (the main business of the Tambov organized crime group).

In fact, the Malyshevskaya organized crime group has a long history of money laundering through Western companies. Clever financial fraud began with Andrei Berlin back in the 90s. A former mathematics student, convicted of theft in 1974, already under the hands of Alexander Malyshev, created the Inex-Limited CF. Other companies in the group are Nelly-Druzhba LLP and Tatti, which were founded by Oleg Romanov. The money received into the accounts of these companies was transferred through friendly St. Petersburg banks to Cyprus. And from there to Switzerland, in freely convertible currency.

Those who came out of the war

The history of the emergence of the “Malyshevskaya” criminal group goes back to the distant 80s. The formation of the “Malyshevskaya” group was caused by gang violence. At the end of 1987, there was a conflict for control over the clothing market near the Devyatkino railway station between the Tambovskys and the Malyshevskys. Malyshev collected 10 rubles from his nose. For this bribe, the traders were allowed to work, they were even provided with strong guys for protection. A certain Lukonin (a friend of the notorious Vladimir Kumarin) took a leather jacket from one seller. The merchant complained about the chaos, and Sergei Miskalev (nicknamed Boiler) beat the impudent people and returned the goods. The insulted Lukonin “scored the point” of the “Malyshev” brigade. Thus, the story of the theft of a jacket grew into a real massacre, as a result of which one of the Tambov men, a certain Vitya Muromsky, died. He rushed at "Broiler", and he responded with a knife blow. This moment can be called a turning point both for the fate of Malyshev himself and for his fighters. After all, it’s no secret that Alexander Ivanovich himself comes from the Tambov gang.

A stormy life brought him to the dock early. Malyshev was convicted twice, in 1977 and 1984, both times for murder. Because of an unequal fight on Mechnikov Avenue, where he killed a man in the heat of battle, he received 6.5 years in prison. In 1979, he was released early. The second conviction also began with a fight and also ended in prison.

In the late 80s, Malyshev managed to unite under his leadership about 20 small groups, from tough Kemerovo guys to bandits from Ulan-Ude. The composition of the “Malyshev” group was very diverse both in approach to “affairs” and in national composition. The total number of organized crime groups, according to security officials, reached 2 thousand militants.

By 1992, Alexander Malyshev’s group was considered one of the largest criminal organizations in the Russian Federation. The only competitor in St. Petersburg for the “Malyshevskys” was the “Tambov” group, with which they were in a state of permanent war.

During their heyday, the “Malyshevskys” completely controlled 5 districts of the city - Kirovsky, Moskovsky, Kalininsky, Krasnoselsky and even part of the Central District. Their field of interest included hotels, markets (especially the car market on Salova), restaurants, gambling establishments, including underground ones, and tourism business in the Kurortny district. They then expanded into drug trafficking and a well-organized network of brothels.

The Malyshevskys were responsible for the “Resort”. “Komarovskys” - a group of Yuri Komarov, which controlled all the hot spots in Sestroretsk and Zelenogorsk, collecting considerable tribute from hotels, restaurants and campsites, sports centers, etc.

Over time, Malyshev’s sphere of interests also included other, completely legal areas of business, such as points for the purchase of non-ferrous metals, trade in antiques, and even the production of small-caliber revolvers. Malyshev was one of the first to legalize himself from crime bosses to businessmen. Large businessmen and even heads of large banks, such as Oleg Golovin (Petrovsky Bank), visited his offices at the Pulkovskaya Hotel and on Berezovaya Alley on Kamenny Island.

By the mid-90s, the Malyshevskaya organized crime group controlled almost all the companies in the Krasnoselsky, Kirov, Moscow and partly the Central and Kalinin districts. The “Malyshevites” took over the “Polyarny”, “Universal” and “Petrobir” restaurants, the car market in the Frunzensky district and the iconic Nekrasovsky market, the “Oktyabrskaya”, “Okhtinskaya”, “Pribaltiyskaya” hotels.

Already from the beginning of the 90s, Malyshev began to introduce know-how into his business - placing “his” or loyal people in key positions in government agencies and large business structures, buying up controlling stakes through dummies and, as they say, even training his accountants and economists in prestigious universities in St. Petersburg.

Difficult October

Security forces consider October 8, 1992 to be the end of the Malyshevskaya criminal group. It was on this day that the leaders of the organized crime group were arrested. Actually Malyshev himself, as well as Andrei Berlin, Vladislav Kirpichev, Gennady Petrov and 14 other people on charges of extortion as part of an organized group. The Malyshevites were accused of extorting property from businessman Sergei Dadonov.

Malyshev’s group was developed by the St. Petersburg RUOP as part of an investigation into the fraud of businessman Sergei Dadonov, owner of the Niltov company, who collected money from companies in Moscow and St. Petersburg, promising to supply a large batch of beer and... disappeared. The background to this fraud was very Ruopian. A Dagestan group made claims against the businessman. The businessman turned to the Malyshevskaya organized crime group for salvation, but they also began to “shake” the entrepreneur for their help. They demanded that his company enter into an agreement with the German company SeyKaM Import-Export Handels GmbH to purchase canned beer worth more than $1.21 million from it. And then Niltov began collecting advance payments from interested merchants. According to the security forces, this scam was started by the Malyshevites themselves, and Dadonov acted on their orders.

The hearing of the case began on April 25, 1995 in the City Court of St. Petersburg. It is noteworthy that Dadonov did not appear at the trial, and journalists unsuccessfully searched for him for another two years. There were rumors that the operatives simply hid him, fearing reprisals from the bandits.

The hearing of the case was loud. They also tried to obtain a written undertaking not to leave the place for the respected Alexander Ivanovich. famous people Northern capital, like Alexander Nevzorov and even State Duma deputies. However, only comrades-in-arms – Kirpichev, Berlin, and Petrov – received a subscription. In 1993 they were released from custody.

The trial took place quickly and very scandalously. The charge of banditry did not stand; most of the defendants were acquitted. Alexander Malyshev was sentenced to 2 years only for illegally carrying weapons. After the arrest of the Malyshevskys, their gangster empire collapsed within 3 months. Their direct competitors, the Tambov group, took the helm.

All the time in prison, Malyshev tried to keep everything under control and conduct business through his lawyers, but his main positions were already lost. In addition, as luck would have it, comrades in arms passed away. In 1995, Sergei Akimov, a crime boss nicknamed Maradona, who controlled Pskov on behalf of Malyshev, died in an accident. In December 1995, another one, Stanislav Zharinov (Stas Zharenny), died in Kresty, allegedly from a drug overdose (he was considered the “owner” of the Kirovsky district of the city and specialized in organizing brothels). In June 1996, Vyacheslav Kirpichev was shot dead in the bar of the Joy nightclub.

Yuri Komarov (Komar), who oversees the Kurortny district of St. Petersburg, also had a bad time. After the arrest of Malyshev and his associates, he had to restrain the appetites of the unruly “Tambovites” and “Kazan residents” and survive several assassination attempts from Caucasian groups. Several bodyguards paid a heavy price for his life.

Therefore, Malyshev began to look for ways to escape from Russia altogether. In 1998, he received Estonian citizenship, but two years later Estonia put him on the wanted list for using fake documents. In 2002, Alexander Malyshev was arrested in Germany at the request of the Estonian authorities, but was quickly released. Next point Spain became a non-return. Alexander Ivanovich decisively broke with his homeland, married a Latina and took her last name. From now on, he became “Alejandro Lagnas Gonzalez” and settled in Malaga, where his friends from the dashing 90s began to slowly gather. Then the company quietly dispersed throughout the Costa del Sol and the Balearic Islands.

Feet to hands

The high-profile Spanish story ended in 2010. Despite the fact that Judge Balthazar Garzon and, in general, the entire National Court of Justice were determined, and Alexander Malyshev even spent a long time in a cell with Basque terrorists, all those arrested were soon transferred to house arrest after paying millions in bail.

Gennady Petrov was the first to set sail for his homeland. First, he went to St. Petersburg, in 2011, to visit his sick mother. He returned to Spain, and in 2015 he again visited his native shores to stay here. Leonid Khristoforov did the same. In 2014, a person close to Malyshev, Ildar Mustafin, returned to St. Petersburg. Then Alexander Malyshev himself returned to Russia. It is noteworthy that all the returnees, having inhaled the air of the Gulf of Finland, suddenly lost their health and sent the Spanish themis medical certificates about their ailments. Yuri Komarov (Komar), according to rumors, went to Thailand and is staying there for now, without attracting the attention of local authorities.

Whether this happened thanks to the connivance of Spanish justice or for some other reason is difficult to say. Until the allegations are investigated by a Spanish court, no one will know the truth. But since in Russia it is not customary to extradite its citizens, and the Spanish justice system involves a judicial investigation and does not provide for hearings in absentia, therefore the criminal prosecution of these persons is becoming more and more elusive.

Today, all those involved in this high-profile story live a quiet, almost retired life. According to rumors, Alexander Malyshev lives in a beautiful Stalinist house on Tipanova Street in the Moskovsky district and often visits his country house. Gennady Petrov is not in poverty, because his son owns a chain of jewelry stores. There is no need to say that the “Malyshevskaya” criminal group exists today. But no one said that one sunny country cannot be replaced by another, more “hospitable” one, where they are more interested in investments than in the mistakes of their stormy youth.

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

Spheres of influence: Krasnoselsky, Kirov and Moskovsky, part of the Central and Kalinin districts.
hotels: "Oktyabrskaya", "Okhtinskaya", "Pribaltiyskaya",
restaurants: "Polyarny", "Universal", "Petrobir"

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

Antiques trade. Gambling business. Particularly controls Nevsky Prospekt.

Management:

Malyshev Alexander Ivanovich, born in 1958.

Previously, he was engaged in wrestling, but did not achieve much success. He has many acquaintances among athletes. After two imprisonments in 1977 (premeditated murder) and 1984 (careless murder), he was a “thimble maker” at the Senny market, worked under the cover of Kumarin’s group and had the nickname “Kid”. 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 “Tambovtsy”, “Kolesnikovtsy”, “Kemerovotsy”, “Komarovtsy”, “Permtsy”, “Kudryashovtsy”, “Kazanets”, “Tarasovtsy”, “Severodvintsy” , "Sarans", "Efimovtsev", "Voronezh", "Azerbaijanis", Krasnoyarsk", "Chechens", "Dagestanians", "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 Island), 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 Cypriot citizen Getelson.

He maintained connections with Moscow through the leader of the Krylatsky group, Oleg Romanov (killed in the fall of 1994). He created a number of gangster companies: calling prostitutes to homes, cafes, saunas, buying non-ferrous metals, etc.

He is the manager of Nelly-Druzhba LLP and the founder of the Tatti company, which owns a chain of commercial stores. He used Caucasians to work on collecting debts. He transferred money to financial institutions (banks) of Cyprus, with their help he achieved 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". Organized the underground production of small-caliber revolvers. At the gangway in 1993, he secured the drug trade, leaving the “Azerbaijanis” only with 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 trials against his colleagues. In October 1992, Malyshev and 18 of his closest connections were arrested during the implementation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' investigation into the case of businessman Dadonov. On August 25, 1993, Malshev’s closest associates were released on their own recognizance: Kirpichev, Berlin, Petrov. The release of another ally, Rashid Rakhmatulin, was petitioned by the St. Petersburg Boxing Association, the Russian Federation of French Boxing, the Tonus cooperative and the administration of the prison where he was kept. Rashid was released, and the supervising prosecutor V. Osipkin, who opposed this, was soon dismissed from the prosecutor's office.

After Malshev’s arrest, Moscow thieves in law tried to take control of St. Petersburg crime. Andrei Berzin (Beda), who spoke out against this at the Moscow-St. Petersburg gangway in March 1993, 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. By 1995, its structure consisted of 350-400 fighters.

Berlin Andrey, born in 1953.

A businessman, mathematician, was a correspondence student and Komsomol activist. He started in business by making fake “branded” jeans. In 1974 he was also charged with burglary. He acted out schizophrenia and spent more than 13 years in a psychiatric hospital, where he studied Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Finnish and Swedish. In the late 80s he went into 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 group. Released by the police. Now the president of CF "Inex-Limited".

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

The leaders of criminal groups included in the “Malshevo” group are:
Ledovskikh Valery.
The group operates gas stations and gasoline transportation. Has its own external surveillance unit.

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

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. police named Tofik.

Zharinov Stanislav (Stas Zharenny).
The group is engaged in obtaining money from “call girls”; controls the Kirovsky district.

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

Pankratov.
The group controls the Okhtinskaya Hotel.

Komarov Yuri (Komar).
A former cook, a boxer, who ended up in the zone where he ended up for beating him by an authority figure. He built a new restaurant "Gloria", invested money in sports complexes, allegedly, according to rumors, refuses to deal with drugs and has a very bad attitude towards making money through prostitution. The group controls Messrs. Zelenogorsk, Sestroretsk, campsites, recreation centers, foreign tourism. Almost always there was also Zelenogorsk or Komarovo. He had connections with the major police leadership of the city of Elenogorsk, the son of one of them worked for him.

According to unverified data, representatives of Transcaucasian criminal structures killed several Komar bodyguards 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 restrain newcomers from Tambov, Kazan, and others in his domains. But after the death of the “arbitrator” of the community, Bondarenko Svinary, control in this area passes to the “Chechens.”

Ghaplanyan.
Controls the drug business.

"Sasha Sailor"
Controls road transport and has an external surveillance service.

"Shark".
The group controls the Avtovo district.

"Bug"
The group controls the Krasnoe Selo area.