CHECKIST SYROEZHKIN AND STOLE BILLIONS

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The other day in Munich finished a judicial marathon almost four years long. This is the longest criminal trial in the history of Bavarian justice. He almost cost the life of a servant of the German Themis and cost the treasury one and a half million euros ....

The other day in Munich finished a judicial marathon almost four years long. This is the longest criminal trial in the history of Bavarian justice. He almost cost the life of a servant of the German Themis and cost the treasury one and a half million euros.

A matter in the balance

Exactly thirteen years ago, in the parking lot at the Ungererbad pool in Munich, the body of 52-year-old Yefim Laskin, stabbed with a knife, was found. The Bavarian police spoke very badly about this “third wave” emigrant: “Herr Laskin passed us as the godfather of the Western European mafia and an international gangster. He has a criminal record in Germany for counterfeiting…”.

Nothing but a hair and a few blood stains that did not belong to the victim was found at the scene.

And the case remained in the “hanging” category until the summer of 1999. So far, at the Munich airport, the vigilant border guard did not pay attention to the suspicious passport of a certain Mr. Ivanidis. The “Greek” turned out to be not a Greek at all, but a Russian citizen Alexander Bor. He is Tymoshenko, he is also Timokha, he is also Bulbash, passing through the Interpol file cabinet as "the closest associate of Ivankov-Japonchik."

The hair found at the scene of Laskin's murder turned out to be from Bohr's hair. The blood is also his.

But the suspect was stubbornly silent. And there was no other evidence. Because, according to the Munich criminal police, “in the process of collecting evidence of the guilt of Mr. Ivanidis-Tymoshenko-Bora, about twenty witnesses or participants in the showdown disappeared without a trace or were killed.”

Three million in exchange for testimony

Only a heroin dealer named Grisha the Cannibal escaped a fatal fate. In the black list of the international drug mafia, this dealer is listed as a "singing bird" to be eliminated. After all, this former citizen of the USSR by the name of Royzis handed over to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) several dozen of Bohr's associates. After that, the United States included Roizis in its witness protection program.

Nevertheless, relying on the letter of the law, the lawyers of the accused Bora-Timokha persistently began to demand the direct participation of the Cannibal in the Munich process. Roizis readily responded to the request made by the German court through the relevant US intelligence agencies. But he demanded an advance payment of one and a half million dollars for arriving in the Bavarian capital.

The heart of the judge, who had already completed his hard work, could not stand such impudence. Herr Schmitt ended up in intensive care with a heart attack. And German justice was forced to start the whole thing "from scratch".

Operation Manhattan

For the second time, public prosecutor Michael Hehne requested a life sentence for Bohr, already under the new judge Dauster. Now the doctor of jurisprudence, like each of the jurors, had several understudies at once. The Palace of Justice, and then the conference hall of the prison, where the meetings were moved for security reasons, was guarded by many machine gunners. After all, according to the German press, from 200,000 euros or more was allocated by the "Russian mafia" for the "neutralization of witnesses."

And there were several of them at the new stage of the judicial investigation. All are very interesting. Luis Cardinali, a DEA special agent, gave a detailed account of "Mr. Bohr's international mafia group operating in Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, the United States, Israel and Italy."

A certain Misha Syroezhkin helped to find the “right hand of Yaponchik” in America. At the trial in Munich, this FBI informant appeared under the pseudonym Michael Gass. The son of a career Soviet intelligence officer, a graduate of the law faculty of Leningrad State University, a former KGB officer, Syroezhkin has been working in St. Petersburg since 1993. It was there, according to Russian investigators, that he "stole valuables and money worth 2,000,000 US dollars."

Syroezhkin took refuge behind the ocean. But he “laundered” his prey there so carelessly that he landed in jail. From thirty years in prison was saved only by agreeing to work for the American intelligence services.

Syroezhkin-Gass was supplied with a "legend", a luxurious car, a large amount of money ... The introduction into the "Russian mafia" in Brighton Beach was very successful. The “concrete kid” managed to win the trust of the now accused Bora-Timokha, who by that time the Daily News had dubbed “the boss of the largest crime family” in New York.

Under the control of the FBI, Syroezhkin invested $250,000 in the Russian-Italian "Project Manhattan". The essence of it was that the Bora group, on par with the Colombo clan, organized a network of front companies allegedly specializing in equipping golf courses. Through bribed brokers, "fake" shares on the stock exchange rose from a few cents to 6-8 dollars.

The scam brought the fraudsters a profit of ten million dollars and deprived them of their freedom for a long time. Bora-Timokha was not among the forty convicts. By pure chance, he avoided arrest, then used a passport bought in Greece and moved to Western Europe.

And then, to his misfortune, Boru-Ivanidis took it into his head to fly through Munich to the Austrian Alps.

"Mute" has spoken

The “Russian mute”, as the local press dubbed Bora, in the fourth year of the trial, nevertheless began to give confessions. First, he told how in Berlin, even before participating in the bloody Munich division of money and the murder of Laskin, “I had to solve the problem with a debt of 55,700 marks with the help of an iron and fists.”

The reason why, instead of the twice requested life sentence, the Russian received only 13 years in prison, is hardly the humanism of the German court. According to experts, the parties came to a special agreement. It is no coincidence that one of the FBI employees especially leaned in his testimony on "Mr. Bohr's close contacts with high-ranking officials from Moscow." The “leader of the Russian mafia in the United States” allegedly “played a significant role in the legalization of hundreds of millions of “dirty” dollars that passed through the Bank of New York.

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