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35-550: It became famous in the city after coverage from Alexander Nevzorov in his 600 seconds TV show in the city. After establishing in 1988, the Tambov Gang used a Baroque church on Vasilyevsky Island as the site for interrogating persons. Kumarin and Petrov have been close to the KGB since the late 1980s. Viktor Ivanov has strong links to the Tambov Gang. He supported Vladimir Kumarin 's Tambovskaya OGG in their war against

70-744: A mafia . It also helped organizing several private guard enterprises. Some of its members allegedly became members of the State Duma and the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg , as well as a sector opening in Sydney, Australia allegedly being run by Mikhail Klapanov. Even the speaker of the Assembly Viktor Novosyolov gave his support and maintained close relationships with Kumarin. Formed in September 1994,

105-751: A former member of the Russian State Duma . Nevzorov was born on 3 August 1958 in Leningrad . He started working for the Leningrad television in 1985. From December 1987 to 1993, he hosted the program 600 Seconds on the Leningrad TV channel, aired then all over the Soviet Union . On 12 December 1990 he was shot and wounded during a meeting with someone who pretended to have sensitive documents to offer. In late 1991 his program

140-484: A job and a Polish passport, introduced the Russian mafia , Petrov, Kuzmin, and Malyshev, to the son of a Japanese yakuza from Kobe-Osaka, Kinichi Kamiyasu. Temo Davidov had been acquainted with Petrov, Kuzmin, and Malyshev. In 1993 – 1995, an internal war developed between groups within the Tambov Gang. On June 1, 1994, Kumarin survived a murder attempt in his car but was severely wounded and lost his arm. He believed that

175-709: A major Russian mafia (the Tambov Gang) money laundering scheme be revealed. According to the Bulgarian prosecutor more than one billion euros of Russian money had been laundered through a series of financial transactions in Bulgaria and Estonia. The laundered money was, according to allegations, part of the Saint Petersburg Tambov gang's proceeds from drug trafficking, prostitution and protection rackets. The alleged Tambov Gang money laundering operation

210-740: A maternity hospital in Mariupol . He could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. Nevzorov said that Vladimir Putin's "regime is not going to spare anyone, and that any attempts to comprehend the criminal war [in Ukraine] will end in prison." Nevzorov's wife Lidia stated on social media that her husband was in Israel . On 22 April 2022, Nevzorov was added by the Russian government to the list of individuals acting as foreign agents . In June 2022, Nevzorov and his wife Lidia submitted an application to

245-476: A subsidiary of Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) which Oleg Deripaska and Iskander Makhmudov were the main owners in the early 2000s. Alexander Malyshev , apparently having resolved his feud with the gang, joined with them instead and moved to Spain to continue operations after several attempts on his life in Saint Petersburg. Gennady Petrov , a high-ranking associate and neighbour of

280-692: Is a Russian politician and businessman, former KGB officer, who served in the KGB Directorate of Leningrad and its successors in 1977–1994. He was the director of The Federal Narcotics Service of Russia from 2008 until 2016. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation . Ivanov graduated from Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications under Konstantin Muravyov in 1971. From 1971 to 1977 as an engineer in

315-562: Is a sister firm of Parex Bank, by Mikhail Rebo, also spelled Rabo, and his wife Tatiana Rebo who was the manager of the Parex Bank Berlin. Alexander Litvinenko was a key witness for the Spanish prosecutors. On 13 June 2008 Spanish police arrested 20 members of the organisation's Spanish branch. In connection with the raid Russian politician Vladislav Reznik was investigated A money laundering scheme involved Vera Metallurgica,

350-526: Is considered one of Putin's closest allies. In September 2001 Russia's prime minister appointed Ivanov representative of the state in the boards of directors of the Antei Corporation and Almaz Scientific Industrial Corporation , developing and producing air defence systems, including S-300 . On November 22, 2001, he was elected chairman of the board of directors of Almaz and initiated the merger of Almaz and Antei. Since June 2002 Ivanov has been

385-706: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for Ukrainian citizenship . On 3 June, Nevzorov and the State Migration Service of Ukraine confirmed that Nevzorov and his wife had received Ukrainian citizenship. On 6 June, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov stated that Nevzorov did not yet have citizenship, but that he had only applied for it. Viktor Ivanov Viktor Petrovich Ivanov ( Russian : Виктор Петрович Иванов , born May 12, 1950)

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420-525: The ORT TV channel and often appeared as a political commentator on Sergey Dorenko 's Saturday night news show. In 2012, Nevzorov supported Vladimir Putin during his presidential campaign , and was his authorised representative. In 2014 Nevzorov opposed the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation . In a video posted to YouTube on 11 April 2021, during the build-up of Russian forces near

455-721: The Petersburg Fuel Company (PTK) was administrated by the Saint Petersburg City Administration . During the later half of 1993 and into 1994 and with bank accounts in New York, Vladimir I. Dyakov ( Russian : Дьяков Владимир Иванович , b.1959) of the Kazan Gang , which had many very devout Muslim Tatars , fought the Tambov Gang for control of St. Petersburg's energy trade. The St Petersburg mafia gangs also fought for control of

490-605: The Russian Supreme Soviet (Nevzorov had supported the anti-Yeltsin side). Nevzorov worked as a reporter in the Yugoslav Wars and the Transnistria War in 1992–1993. In the 1993 campaign , Nevzorov was elected deputy in the State Duma of the Russian Federation for the first time, and after that was re-elected as an independent deputy three times, serving until the 2007 elections when

525-725: The single constituency seats were abolished. He served as an adviser on film, TV and radio to Vladimir Yakovlev during the latter's tenure as the Governor (mayor) of Saint Petersburg . In 1994 Nevzorov was a vocal supporter of the initiation of the First Chechen War . In 1997 he wrote and directed the TV film Chistilishche ("Purgatory") about the Chechen war, co-produced with Boris Berezovsky and released in March 1998. As

560-515: The Chechen War dragged on, his views changed and he became skeptical of Russian imperialism. He regretted his past nationalist positions, and said in 2015 about his involvement in Nashi (Russian political party) : I experimented with fascism in laboratory, soft forms. I don't have to spend my whole life following ideas whose delusion has become obvious to me. In 2003 Nevzorov collaborated with

595-592: The Malyshevskaya OGG for control of the Leningrad sea port and the trafficking of Colombian narcotics through the Leningrad sea port to Europe. In 1989, the gang clashed with Malyshev's Gang  [ ru ] , another leading criminal group of Leningrad , in a bloody armed conflict. In 1990, some of the gang members including Kumarin were imprisoned for racketeering, but Kumarin was released from prison in 1993. He later briefly allied with Alexander Malyshev ( Russian : Александр Малышев ), who controlled

630-689: The St Petersburg seaport, however, Viktor Ivanov strongly supported the Tambov Gang to control both the oil and the seaport. From 1998 to 1999, Kumarin became Deputy President of PTK, the top fuel trading company in the city. In the autumn of 1999, the status of the gang started deteriorating again. Viktor Novosyolov was killed by an explosion in his car on October 20. Some of its most important members were imprisoned or killed. Kumarin left his position of PTK Deputy President. The Tambov Gang now includes several hundred active members. In August 2001, Interior Minister of Russia Boris Gryzlov said that

665-650: The State of California in the United States had a ballot initiative asking voters about the legalization of marijuana, Ivanov public spoke out against it. He flew to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., to lobby against drug legalization, meeting with the Los Angeles mayor, Los Angeles county sheriff, and U.S. drug czar. In 2010, Rinat Akhmetshin penned an op-ed article for the Washington Times which

700-513: The Tambov Gang controlled up to 100 industrial enterprises in Saint Petersburg, including PTK, the leading fuel retailing operator in the city, as well as four main sea ports of Northwestern Russia, Saint Petersburg , Kaliningrad , Arkhangelsk and Murmansk . On 16 January 2007, the Prosecutor General of Russia Yury Chaika announced that the Tambov Gang had recently forcefully taken over 13 large enterprises in Saint Petersburg and

735-462: The Ukrainian borders , Nevzorov predicted that the future Russian invasion of Ukraine is inevitable and will end in tragedy and humiliation for Russia. He also predicted fierce Ukrainian resistance. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in earnest, Nevzorov was charged on 22 March 2022 under Russia's "false information" law after he published information that Russian forces had shelled

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770-621: The Velikie Luki were responsible and, later, Viktor Gavrilenkov ( Russian : Виктор Гавриленков ) and Nikolai Gavrilenkov ( Russian : Николай Гавриленков ) were shot with Viktor Gavrilenkov being killed in the bedlam. He continued his recovery in Düsseldorf (Germany) and Switzerland . By 1995, he allegedly had retaken full control over the gang. By then, the gang had incorporated some of the racketeer businessmen and became interested in investment and fuel trading effectively evolving into

805-533: The acquitted. According to Mark Galeotti in 2017, the Tamboskaya OGG controls both the Saint Petersburg sea port and the Stockholm sea port. Alexander Nevzorov Alexander Glebovich (Oleksandr Hlibovych) Nevzorov ( Russian : Алекса́ндр Гле́бович Невзо́ров ; Ukrainian : Олександр Глібович Невзоров; born on 3 August 1958) is a Russian and Ukrainian television journalist, film director and

840-541: The army, he worked at Leningrad's research institute Vector ( Russian : НПО "Вектор" ) which conducted research and development of mobile and portable microwave communications monitoring and direction finding devices using micro-assemblies and microcircuits. In 1987–1988 as a KGB officer he took part in the Soviet–Afghan War . In December 1990 together with Boris Gryzlov and Valentin Chuykin he founded

875-490: The chairman of the board of directors of the result of the merger, OJSC Almaz-Antei Air Defense Concern. Since November 4, 2004, he has also been the chairman of the board of directors of JSC Aeroflot airline. Since May 15, 2008, he has been a director of Russia's Federal Service for the Control of Narcotics and a chairman of State Anti-Narcotics Committee, which includes 29 heads of Russian ministries. In 2010, when

910-647: The narcotics trade since 1993 after ousting the Azerbaijani mafia from the narcotics trade, to fight the Kazan gang from Tatarstan . Kinichi Kamiyasu met Gennady Petrov ( Russian : Геннадий Васильевич Петров ) and Kuzmin in December 1990 when Manvel Davidov through his father Temo Davidov, a member of the Chechen mafia which had caused Manvel to flee the Soviet Union for Stockholm where Kinichi Kamiyasu gave him

945-407: The newspaper. The investigation, which is going on in Bulgaria, is secret. Two persons were investigated in Bulgaria on May 23, 2008, for this case, Elizabet Elena Von Messing and Sverozar Milter. Von Messing, a Russian with Finnish citizenship and whose second husband Andrei Khloev ( Russian : Андрей Хлоев ) is very close to Kumarin, had acted as a proxy. The court hearings on the investigation of

980-516: The sister of King Juan Carlos was also arrested. During the police operation, code-named Operation Troika, US$ 307,000 in cash and twenty-three luxury cars were seized. Bank accounts totalling €12 million were frozen. Arrests were made in Berlin as well, where a member of the organisation, Michael Rebo , was involved in laundering the proceeds of drug trafficking and other illegal activity. The criminal investigation of 2008 led to further arrests and

1015-557: The small-scale enterprise Blok engaged in various businesses and became its director. He has strong links to the Tambov Russian mafia . He supported Vladimir Kumarin 's Tambovskaya OGG in their war against the Malyshevskaya OGG for control of the Saint Petersburg sea port and the trafficking of Colombian narcotics through the Saint Petersburg sea port to Europe. In October 1994 he resigned from FSK and, upon Vladimir Putin 's recommendation to Mayor Anatoly Sobchak ,

1050-963: The two Russians were not open to the public. A similar trial in Spain involves the Solntsevo Gang . After a ten-year trial the Third Section of the Criminal Chamber of the Spanish National Court has acquitted all 17 defendants on October 18, 2018, on all accounts. The prosecution provided insufficient evidence to link the defendants to the criminal conspiracy or any associated wrongdoing. Vladislav Reznik, Michail Rebo, Juri Salikov, Diana Gindin, Andrey Malenkovich, Leonid Khazhin, Svetozar Milter, Leocadia Martin Garcia and Ignacio Pedro Urquiujo Sierra and others are among

1085-749: Was a subsidiary of the John Kluge 's Metromedia and later formed in 1984 in Mexico City and owned by Carlos Slim 's América Móvil , had a 45% stake in Teleplus. In 1999 he succeeded Nikolai Patrushev as the head of the Internal Security Department of Russia's FSB . As of 2007, he had been a Deputy Head of the Presidential Staff for personnel appointed by Vladimir Putin since January 5, 2000. Viktor Ivanov

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1120-781: Was appointed Chief of the Administrative Staff of the Saint Petersburg Mayor Office until Sobchak lost the election in 1996. Ivanov headed the Russian-United States firm Teleplus CJSC also spelled Tele+ or Teleplyus ( Russian : ЗАО "Телеплюс" ) in 1996 and served as its CEO until 1998. "Teleplus" CJSC is a United States-Russia company which was engaged in broadcasting and installation of transmitters and receivers for both satellite and terrestrial communications. It had 30 channels including CNN and Euronews . Telcell, which

1155-519: Was being investigated. In May 2015, Spanish prosecutors alleged that Parex Bank , which held mostly offshore deposits for persons from Russia, was the preferred Latvian bank for the money laundering of Vladimir Putin , Yuri Chaika , and Russian Mafia especially the Tambovskaya Mafia from Saint Petersburg and that very large sums were laundered for them through Latvian and German firms associated with Parex Bank and Overseas Services, which

1190-575: Was coordinated by Elizabet Elena Von Messing and Svetozar Milter. According to the sources, about a billion euros of Russian money were first transferred to a real estate and financial services company in Bulgaria, called Optima Ca. That firm then wired half of the money to the Estonian financial house AS Tavid, which sent the money back to Russia. The rest of the money was transferred to accounts in Cyprus, Dubai, Hong Kong and other countries, according to

1225-491: Was taken off the air twice and later gradually lost its popularity. During the 1991 coup d'état attempt , Nevzorov supported the State Committee on the State of Emergency , the organ of the coupists. Nevzorov formed the Nashi movement (not to be confused with the later pro-Putin youth movement of the same name). The broadcast was finally closed down in the aftermath of Yeltsin's victory in his confrontation with

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