"Turtle" from Podolsk

How the largest operation of the Spanish police against the "dirty Russian money", the Podolsk organized crime group and Udo Shakro young are related

In December 2020, Spain took place

Arrests

As part of the Operation Testudo (“Turtle”) against immigrants from the former USSR, “laundered” money received illegally in Spain. Unlike other similar operations (“wasp”, “troika”, “oligarch”), “test” went unnoticed by the Russian public. But after three years, it was that operation that began to greatly affect the criminal world of Russia. In particular, because of it, a thief in law No. 1 and the holder of the all-Russian “common fund” Zakhary Kalashov-Shakro young were released ahead of schedule. And this, in turn, can lead to the next conflicts in the criminal world of Russia and Europe.

Without noise, but large

Last week, the Ust-Labinsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory satisfied the petition of Zakhary Kalashov for conditional removal for health reasons. "New Europe" already
told
About the most influential thief in Russia in the Law of Kalashov named Shakro young, as well as why Spain has become the central country of Europe, where Russian criminal authorities laundered “dirty” capital.

“The first wave of representatives of the criminal world of the former USSR arrived in Spain was immigrants from the Caucasus,” the Spanish lawyer Serzhio ​​Rezomo told New Europe. -These were Georgian thieves in the law, for which in their country in the late 80s-early 90s a real hunt unfolded. As well as those who fled from military conflicts in Nagorno -Karabakh, Ossetia and Abkhazia. For the most part, they did not try to gain a foothold here for a long time. We waited for some time and left. Someone was returning back, someone moved on-in the USA or Israel. Then, around 1996-1999, those who tried to assimilate began to appear here. Former criminal emperor Peter
Alexander Malyshev
- A bright representative of this wave. These fled from Russia, mainly escaping from competitors. Due to the fact that, since 1993, in Spain it was relatively easy to legalize the money of dubious origin, they did not come to an empty place, but already having real estate, bank accounts, own firms.

According to Rosomo, such companies, controlled by immigrants from Russia, did not actually conduct economic activity, but huge amounts of money passed through them. The most striking example is the company “Aqua de Mijas” (Mikhas - the nickname of the Solder Solsesk organized crime group Sergey Mikhailov). The activities of this structure were suppressed within the framework
Operations "oligarch"
conducted by the Spanish police in September 2017. Then, among others, Alexander Greenberg, a co -owner of the network of expensive Spanish restaurants and the Marbella football club, and Arnold Spivakovsky (also known as Arnold Tamm), former assistant Pavel Borodin at a time when the latter was the executive secretary of the Union State and Belarus, were detained.

Among the detainees in the framework of the Testudo in 2020 (the name “Turtle” comes from the combat protective construction of the Roman infantry of the time of the Roman Empire) there were no high -profile surnames. Therefore, the Spanish press even allowed itself criticism: they say, they called the “turtle” because they moved for a long time to the goal that they never reached. But the Spanish police stood on the fact that, despite the lack of high -profile names, this is the largest operation in the history of Spain against Russian organized crime. As the details appeared (in particular, telephone conversations were published between the defendants in the case), it became clear that the “test” could really have very serious consequences that could affect the criminal world of Russia and Europe.

The Spanish police watched the main suspects, Russian entrepreneurs Mikhail Danilov and Anton Pinsky. These Russians were the owners of the largest Bora Bor disco island. According to the Spaniards, it was a head enterprise and headquarters of scammers who laundered the money of several criminal clans in Spain at once. During the investigation, hundreds of telephone negotiations were recorded, dozens of various contacts were recorded, business and friendly ties were identified with those whose money was laundered in Bora-Bor. These were the former Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation (1999–2000) Boris Ivanyuzhenkov, now the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Communist Party, and the son of the owner of the Vityaz sports club (Podolsk) Sergei Lalakin (presumably, this is criminal authority of the bers) Maxim. The participation of these two suggests that through the “Boro-Bor” the money could go through the money of one of the most powerful, who still retained their influence of criminal groups-the Podolsk organized crime group. In addition to them, among customers Danilov and Pinsky were also
installed
Thieves in Law Merab Dzhangveladze (Merab Sukhumsky) and Vasily Khristoforov (Vasya resurrected). These two surnames contain the main intrigue not only of the Operation Testudo, but also of modern relationships within the criminal world of Russia.

The "pie" was not divided

As we are already
They wrote
Earlier, in the late 80s-early 90s, Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Japanchik and the thieves supporting him in law, almost managed to gain control of the criminal world of the whole country. This was done using the new formation of bandits, called "athletes", they were then headed by Sergey Timofeev nicknamed Sylvester. But in 1994, Ivankov’s plan cracked, because street gangs did not want to obey the old sideltsa who felt the power of a large money. An attempt to put athletes in place (the murder of the famous boxer Oleg Karataev in the United States in January 1994) turned into great blood and
I laid the beginning
Criminal wars throughout the space of the former USSR.

The thieves 'world, who lived according to the "thieves' law", also split into two parts. One was compiled by numerous thieves in the law, which had Caucasian roots. On the other side, the Slavic "lawyers" stood and representatives of some nationalities who joined them, such as the Kurds, represented by grandfather Hassan (Aslan Usoyan) and Shakro young (Zakhary Kalashov). Until a certain point in a total war, there was still no destruction. And abroad, immigrants from the former Soviet republics generally forgot about internal straightforces and performed in the international arena by a united front.

- Japanese and grandfather Hassan were killed because they underestimated their main opponent in the thieves community - Tarot (
The thief in the law of Tariel Oniani, a native of Georgia, by nationality of Svan, is considered the main leader of the Caucasian criminal clans.
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Approx. Ed.
), - believes the thief in law, introduced as Ivan Ivanov. -But it all began again with the participation of Shakro young, and not somewhere, but in Spain. There, this year in 2002 or 2003, Shakro arrived, fleeing from the Izmailovites (members of the Izmailovsky organized crime group, Moscow region) who really wanted his blood. By the time Shakro got to Marbella, Oniani was already quite firmly settled there. Tarot left for France back in the 2000th, but quickly moved to the Spanish coast. Shakro the young Tarot met how to meet one thief of the other: with a feast, with generous gifts (a house in Spain, where Shakro lived, he received from Oniani as a gift) and with a proposal for a general business. And then they had one thing - the legalization of criminal money.

And here Shakro showed himself a more professional businessman. Gradually, he rakes all the strings for himself. At the same time, Oniani was not offended.

Nobody threw it with money, and Shakro turned out to be the best for the wash of the money at Shakro.

One of the most pretty character traits Shakro is its wide, truly Caucasian, in the best sense, nature, ”continues Ivanov. - Even when I was in business, he became a witness to such an incident. It was a year in 1992 or 1993, not so important. But the public of Russia, especially that part of it that worked in the service sector (waiters, hotel workers, taxi drivers, hints, bartenders, etc.), was aware of who the thieves were in the law and what power we then had. Shat and I sat in the restaurant of the Savoy Hotel (until 1988 it was also called the Berlin Hotel). And then something rather beautiful waitress brings us something, Shakro grabbed her. And she suddenly unfolds and gives Shakro slap in the face. Everything is in a stupor, but Shakro (and he was surprised almost the most) they stopped them and asks her: “Do you know who I am?” She nodded, and then says: “I know that you are a big person, but only my husband can grab me, and no one else.” And so firmly said that. And Shakro takes out his wallet, scoop up all the cash from there, 12 thousand bucks in total, and holds out to her: “Take, he says, beauty, as an apology and educate the daughter of the same faithful and correct!” And such gestures were completely in the order of things, he always tried to overpay better than to underpay and thereby question the deal. Well, at least look at the case, because of which he sat down for the last time. After all, it was about one and a half hundred ($ 150 thousand), but when the matter did not grow together and he was detained, what bribe Shakro brought in the UK for their liberation? A million bucks, and I suspect that this is only what they voiced.

According to the Spanish lawyer of Russian origin Serzhio ​​Rezomo, Shakro led a business in Spain with the same generosity.

“Personally, I and Zakhary Kalashov crossed only three times during some public events,” recalls Rezomo.

“But I heard a lot about him from colleagues.” And only the good, they say, everyone who had business with him did not stay in the lining. At least such a small nuance: after signing the document, Shakro always gave his pen to the second side.

And this, for a second, has always been a golden “parker” with a monogram of the letters “s” and “h”, applied by interspersed with diamond crumbs. Such a pen 2-3 thousand euros costs. He even transferred money bribes along with some additional bonus. Type of expensive cognac or collection wine. It is not surprising that many Spaniards dreamed of having a matter with him.

According to the thief in the Law of Ivanov, by 2005, many financial flows were concentrated in the hands of Shakro young, through which huge amounts of money passed. The OSA operation, carried out by the Spanish police, was a serious blow not only on direct performers and defendants, but also on the entire structure of legalization of criminal money. Tariel Oniani and Zachariah Kalashova in 2005 could not be detained. Both slipped out of the networks of the Spanish police just a few hours before the arrests. Shakro young was later found in the Arab Emirates, but Oniani officially addressed the Russian authorities to provide Russian citizenship, received it and lived in Moscow since 2006.

“While Shakro young was chasing in the Spanish prison, the financial flows that closed on him tried to intercept his grandfather Hassan,” the thief in law Ivanov told New Europe. “But Oniani opposed this, because more than half of the money that Shakro operated on was entrusted to him, and he already transferred them Shakro for laundry.” If you approach this issue purely according to the concepts, then here both sides have been condemned. Grandfather Hassan is that he tried to put his paw on someone else's piece of pie. And Tarot Oniani was that this piece himself slipped the enemy, entrusting the common money to the man, initially the former in the confrontation with the clans that the Tariel represented.

For two years, representatives of different clans tried to agree, and then the Japanchik, according to Ivanov, chopped off his shoulder. In the spring of 2008, Japanchik and Grandfather Hassan gathered a gathering of thieves in the Moscow Crystal casino (37 “Lawyers” were present) and deprived Taro Oniani, and his closest associates of Merab Sukhumsky and Timokh Gomelsky (Alexander Tymoshenko, shot on May 31, 2014 in the village of Znamenskoye, Odintsovo district of the nearby, out of the aid of the Nearby, out of leaving churches) the titles of thieves in law. But not all thieves' authorities accepted this message unequivocally. The fact is that neither Tarot nor Merab and Timokh were present at that gathering, and therefore they had no opportunity to say anything in their protection.

In June 2009, Tariel Oniani was arrested, and after this arrest in all prisons, pre -trial detention centers and colonies of Russia, the Thieves' Overseas (the official letter of the thief in law), initiated by the Japanese and grandfather Hassan, departed. In this letter, Oniani is not only deprived of the title of thief in law, but also lower him to the rank of “lowered”.

The answer was followed immediately: July 26, 2009 Sniper mortally wounded Vyacheslav Ivankov. The Japanchik died in October of the same year, never regaining consciousness. After his death, Aslan Usoyan managed to convince the thieves' community that Oniani was involved in this murder. And although he was in a pre -trial detention center on charges of extortion since June 2009, many believed in his involvement: being behind bars never prevented the authorities of doing business in the wild. The thieves' world finally split into two hostile camps. Blood poured not only in Russia, but also in Europe. In France, the supporter of Oniani was killed, left by him on the “European economy”, the thief in law Vladimir Dzhanashiy (Lado). In May 2010, Makhonia was killed in Greece (Malkhaz Kitia, also from the Oniani clan). A few days after Kitia in Thessaloniki, under strange circumstances, a friend of grandfather Hassan Lavrenti Cholakidis (Leva Greek) dies. September 16, 2010 on Tverskaya Street in Moscow bullet
Finds
and grandfather Hassan. The killer shot from the apartment of the famous artist Mikhail Gurvich, from the Kalashnikov assault rifle with a muffler. At that time, Aslan Usoyan survived. One of the possible organizers of the attempt on Grandfather Hassan was then called Merab Jangveladze (Merab Sukhumsky).

Suspicious run

While Grandfather Hassan came to his senses and was treated after the assassination, his place was taken by the thief in the law of Lasha Shushanashvili (Lasha Rustavsky), who continued the war for destruction. But the “opposition” in the person of Oniani and the Kutaisky clan with the Azerbaijani thieves in law also did not doze off. In August 2011, in Belgium, in a restaurant fight organized by order of Merab Sukhumsky, a thief in the Law of David Ozmanov (Dato Krasnodar) and the authority from Armenia Roman Manukyan were seriously wounded. A few days after that fight, already in Moscow, Lieutenant Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Tomazo Broie (Tamazik, the main link between Santa Hassan and law enforcement agencies) was shot dead. In April 2012, Danabash dies in Moscow (Ilgar Dzhabrailov, answered in the clan of grandfather Hassan for communications with the authorities of Moscow). In May 2012, in Anapa, during a tough detention, a thief in the law of Miraly Musoyan (Omar, a fellow tribe and a friend of Usoyan, was looking in the Krasnodar Territory dies in the Law of the Law.

“For grandfather Hassan, these were painful blows, but not critical,” says the thief in law Ivanov. - He had more people than Oniani with Merab, and therefore he could always find the replacements of the retired. The war again took on a protracted character. In September 2012, Merab Sukhumsky gathers supporters of the Opposition in Italy. The decision is made on the "final resolution of the issue at any cost." As they told me, Merb said so, raising the question of eliminating grandfather Hassan. He was killed in January 2013 in the center of Moscow on Tverskaya, from the attic over the apartment of Sergei Mikhalkov.

According to Ivanov, according to thieves' concepts, as well as according to the customs of the Kurds-Sezids, Shakro young is obliged to avenge the death of the elder in the clan. Initially, everything went like that: the conflict between the two formations in the thieves' world did not go away and continued to smolder. Therefore, it was amazing to find out that the representatives of the two warring clans (Vasya resurrected - a member of the clan, who previously headed Grandfather Hassan, and Merab Sukhumsky - the right hand of Tariel Oniani) are clients of the same money laundering.

“Here, of course, you can write off that abroad many domestic conflicts are not very relevant, but not in this case,” Ivanov believes. - Too a lot of blood in 15 years spilled so that this war could simply be forgotten. And that is why

I don't really believe that he
The famous run
Shakro in February 2022, in which he calls for forgetting long -standing conflicts and unite, is really written by him.

Firstly, it is customary to write “run” by hand, and not on a computer or a printing machine. Secondly, as I said, Shakro is obliged to take revenge not only by thieves' concepts, but also by national customs.

В то же время, по словам Иванова, в общую схему не совсем укладывается участие Подольской ОПГ, которое фактически указывает на то, что во всей этой истории с испанской операцией «Тестудо» и досрочным освобождением Шакро имеются интересы властей на уровне депутатов, сенаторов и генералов. Единственное, что не вызывает сомнения, так это то, что освобождение Шакро и операция «Тестудо» очень сильно взаимосвязаны. А это означает, что в ближайшее время будут предприняты меры по нивелированию ситуации с российскими деньгами в Европе. Но как это сделать в условиях изоляции России — пока загадка.