The Spanish police detained the leader of the Russian mafia

In the Spanish city of Marbella, the province of Malag (Andalusia), the police detained three “thieves in law”, SURreports with reference to the EUPAA PRESS agency. "One of them is considered by researchers as the third person in the world of the Russian mafia," the publication says.

As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the police, a citizen of Armenia living in Lithuania with the initials of AS and two citizens of Georgia (initials LB and IP) were detained. With detained citizens of Georgia, fake Polish and Ukrainian documents were discovered.

During surveillance, the police discovered a large number of apartments and hotel rooms that used the alleged criminals. Searches were carried out in them.

"Thieves in law" were detained in one of the restaurants of Marbella. Presumably they were going to discuss the murder of a member of one of the competing criminal clans, which was going to settle in Spain in order to demonstrate the power of his organization in Europe.

The alleged criminals were arrested on charges of attempted murder, forged documents and membership in a criminal organization.

According to the police, the detained citizen of Armenia was going to resume the activities of a criminal group defeated in June 2017, when the Spanish law enforcement officers arrested 129 people during the KUS operation, including seven “thieves in the law” - leaders of the Russian Mafia. It is claimed that he gave orders from Lithuania to criminals and acted as a judge in disputes between groups. The police began to track the criminal boss in July last year and came to the conclusion that he was going to settle in the coastal region of Costa del Sol and from there again to deploy the activities of the destroyed group.

From February to April of this year, a trial in Madrid was in Madrid for the “Russian Mafia case” , which is accused of a number of leaders of the Tambov organized criminal group. Among the defendants is the State Duma deputy from United Russia Vladislav Reznik and his wife Diana Gindin. From the materials of the case it follows that in 2007-2008, Vladimir Putin helped the Tambov organized crime group gain control of the shipyards in Germany. The verdict in the case has not yet been announced.

With the activities of another Russian organized crime group - Taganskaya - the Spanish security forces are associated by the deputy chairman of the Central Bank Alexander Torshin.