The secret of death in Terra Mitica

Who benefited from killing in the underground parking of a "joyful city"? It turned out that everyone

Residents of the ancient Spanish town La Vila Joosa will remind you at the first opportunity what they say here in Valenciano - the Dialect of the Spanish language, which in the autonomy of Valencia is considered the second state. Translated into Russian from the local dialect, the name of this place sounds like a "joyful town." Having taken the car at the Alicante Airport and going to the AR-7 highway, after 30 minutes you will be in the La Villa center-locals prefer to reduce the name of the city. And after another 10 minutes you can conveniently sit at the table of the street cafe on the corner of Carrer de Colón (Columbus Avenue) and Calle de Pedro Ruiz Gallo, named after a military engineer from Chile, about a half -centuries ago, who had been undermined in his own hangar when testing an underwater military torpedo designed by him. There is just a good coffee.

The owner of the bar will tell you that La Vila Joosa is not just a sea resort. Once there was a fortress and a large port, today it is better known for its chocolate factory and La Olivera Grossa, the oldest in the province of Alikanta with an olive tree, whose age exceeded 1400 years. But the center of attraction of tourists who are coming here from Alikant and Benidorm is a Terra Mitica attractions park.

Recently, a part of the history of this “mystical land” has become an episode that local residents will try not to even remember. The bloody murder in the underground parking of an apartment building in La Vila Jooosa is not the best way to attract tourists.

The body of the former Russian military pilot Maxim Kuzminov with six bullet wounds from the Makarov pistol was found here late in the evening of February 13. After he was already shot, unknown killers moved his body in a car, which was thrown a few kilometers from the crime scene and burned. Residents of La Vila Joosa had seen such an except in the cinema. For example, in films about "Russian mafia."

My interlocutor, with whom I agreed on the meeting for almost a month, is well acquainted with the course of the investigation in the murder case, but asks not to mention his real name and title. We go along the multi -colored facades of the old city, brightly painted in the style of Casco Antiguo, towards the Church of Parroquial de la asunción. A Russian speech is constantly heard around. And this is the first thing that immediately surprises me in Kuzminov. Soon after his death, the influential NYT will write that Kuzminov’s decision to settle in the Red Zone (as American journalists called the agglomeration speaking in Russian) was his main mistake. In the suburbs of Alikant and Benidorma, a really large Slavic diaspora, and conflicts between immigrants from Russia and Ukraine are not uncommon.

Yes, says my interlocutor with whom we slowly go to the city center, Kuzminov chose this place himself. Special services of Spain could not send a person under the guise of the status of a “political refugee” in the very heart of the Russian -speaking world.

In the province of Alikant, the former military pilot, who, without hiding his faces, gave an interview in Ukraine after the hill of a helicopter and the murder of two colleagues, they could find out in about the first minute of his stay.

The actions of the Spanish authorities at first glance are a great riddle.

The Minister of Defense of Spain Margarita Robblez immediately after the incident hastened to declare that the government and the Ministry of Defense were not aware that Kuzminov was in the country: "He arrived freely, and the government did not have any information that this person was here in Spain." The Russian media immediately tried to attribute Rodnes another quote: "The death of the pilot is partially due to a series of errors from Spain." But she did not say that. Madrid did not make any mistakes. True, El Mundo journalists, according to the source in the Special Services of Spain, reported that "Madrid knew from the first day about the presence of a pilot in the country." However, in the same article, a very emotional author hastened to report that “the KGB could be killers” - it sounds like in those very Hollywood films. But all this is nonsense.

In fact, there are no contradictions in the actions and public statements of Spanish officials. From the first day, the government knew that 33-year-old citizen of Ukraine Igor Shevchenko, born on September 15, 1990, had arrived in Spain, the holder of the GG passport No. 843153. The fact that the real Igor Shevchenko, a former volunteer from the DPR, had not reported to the Spanish government under a fictitious name 28-year-old Kuzminov. Only in one department, the office of which is absolutely classified and hidden from prying eyes at the congress from the A6 highway in the suburb of Madrid, could know who exactly came to the suburbs in the suburbs of Alikant. But CNI (Centro Nacional de Inteligencia) will never publicize operational information and comment on rumors. The National Intelligence Center of Spain on the visit of Kuzminov simply closed his eyes. At the end of February, El Pais summed up the rumors: the Spanish government did not provide him with protection. And this is the main thing that you need to know.

“He himself was looking for housing, he equipped himself, spent his huge money,” says my interlocutor, “a rich neighbor immediately attracts attention.” Everything is in sight.

Money by the standards of La Vila Joosa Kuzminov was huge with them.500 thousand US dollars , which were paid to him for a stolen helicopter, the death of his colleagues and public performance, turned his head and the defector himself.

He “managed the money very noisily,” says my interlocutor, reluctantly delving into the details. He is not that it is embarrassed for Kuzminova, but guests usually do not behave like that in La Vila Joosa. After Kuzminov’s death, his neighbors, bartenders and regulars of local clubs will remember that “this strange Russian” in the evenings was looking for drugs and conflict with the pimps from Algeria and Morocco, trying to bring down prices for their peculiar goods.

The Russian press wrote that Kuzminov was trying to buy or even bought an apartment in the coastal village of Platja de la Cala de Finestrat (Kala-de-Finnet), to which from La Vila Joosa can be reached in 30 minutes by regular bus. In the village itself, this is not remembered, but today it doesn’t matter already. The mysterious “Igor Shevchenko” was enough for a good apartment in any suburb of Alikante. For example, for 250 thousand, he could calmly buy a 100-meter apartment with a sea view, a playground in the yard and pool. And half of the "fee" would still have remained. So Kuzminov acted, at the same time bought a place in the parking lot and the new Mercedes of the S-class.

At the entrance to the underground parking of a new apartment building he was shot.

“The police and the special services believe that there were two killers,” my interlocutor tells me, “the camera cameras are not working everywhere. But it is not difficult for professionals to recognize the location of the cameras.

The surprise of the local police was caused by the fact that the already dead body crossed the car. Such an episode was in the last series of the Soprano clan, but there the car was driving itself ...

And here - not herself, I want to add. I recall the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili, the godfather of Moscow, who in April 1994 shot a sniper from the roof of the house opposite the Krasnopresnensky baths. Killer Alexei Sherstobitov, who received $ 3,000 for his “work”, defeated the butt of a sniper rifle in respect for the victim. Such is the symbolism of the Russian criminal world. If the killer moves the victim’s body with a car, he shows his deepest contempt for the deceased. So it was here. But this is not clear to everyone and not at once.

“Without informing the local police and special services about their history, Kuzminov, with fake documents on someone else's name, greatly risked,” continues my interlocutor. We go to the sea. The sun sits down.

Kusminov risked or was simply not the smartest and very careless, now it’s difficult to say now. For Russia, he was a traitor who violated the oath, who betrayed and killed his comrades. For the GUR of Ukraine, he was also not “his own”, but a defector who took the fee and flew to admire the sunsets of a “joyful city” at Costa Blanca. In the eyes of the special services of Ukraine, he is also a traitor. It was just that his betrayal was beneficial to him at that moment.

You can look at all this story through the eyes of Spanish special services, who definitely did not want to hide the fled military pilot who escaped from all the former military pilot, for which they had to inevitably come. As far as it becomes clear now, they simply closed their eyes to its existence. What will happen.

Kuzminov was supposed to understand this. Maybe he, without hiding, was looking for not drinking and not cheap drugs in coastal bars, and not easy love in Algerian brothels? Maybe he walked towards death?

“No,” my informant tells me when we are turning into the center of the Old City, “he called his mother, inviting her to move to him at sea.” She left Russia even before the theft of a helicopter. There was information that this 52-year-old woman moved to Korea. Investigators are now finding out this fact, but it is no longer so important. His telephone correspondence was intercepted because he did not even change the SIM card. Further is the work of technology.

The Spanish media has no doubt that the “work of technology” was the “business of the Russian hands”.

In order to defiantly shoot Kuzminov and move it with a car, you do not need a visiting James Bond from special forces. There are enough local leaders of Russian criminals, which, as the Spanish police believe, could “fulfill” even for free.

Al, along with Malaya and Marbeyia, Alicante is considered one of the capitals of the Russian -speaking criminal empire in Spain. Not far from La Vila Joosa just four years ago, one of such criminal groups was defeated by the Spanish police. A total of 20 people were arrested who are accused of laundering millions of dollars, extortion, custom -made murders, drug trafficking and people. True, only the press calls the “Russian mafia” this group: among the arrested there are Kazakhs and the Spaniards themselves. Just as among the thieves in the law, which at different times were detained in the south of the country, there are not so many Russians - Merab Dzhangveladze, Tariel Oniani, Lasha Shushanashvili.

Spanish special services manage to infiltrate the criminal clans of immigrants from Russia quite often, so there are chances to reveal the murder of Kuzminov. Moreover, the investigation is conducted by the best operatives of the Civil Guard of Spain, an elite police militarized formation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Leaving La Vila Joosa and leaving behind the back of the Mother of God, you suddenly understand that you suddenly understand that

The murder in Terra Mitica was beneficial to everyone except the inhabitants of this small coastal city. Here they think that Russia showed everyone - it does not forgive traitors.

Ukraine also did not lose: she captured a helicopter, conducted a PR event with a tector in the title role, and after his death accused Russia of a crime in the territory of a third country. Spain seemed to have sheltered a defector, but she did not begin to hide or defend him. For Spain, he is also a traitor, besides a completely alien. His death is trouble, but not a tragedy. At least this is what they say in Terra Mitica. Very soon, the "joyful city" will forget everything, the holiday season begins.

Andrey Kalitin

And the work of the Spanish special services in the near future can be added. According to journalists, El Español, “The Spanish Civil Guard discovered that the NATO production countries, which different European countries are transferred to Ukraine, ultimately falling into the hands of organized crime, especially the clans of organizations engaged in the international drug trade delivered to Spain through the Gibraltar Strait.”

The weapon, which, according to the first estimates of the special services, was sent to Ukraine, brought to Spain a clan of drug dealers from Sanlukur de Barrameda. A large party was arrested on the night of May 21. Among the weapons captured by the police were machine guns and assault American M16-A4 caliber rifles. El Español is considered to be the extreme right edition, whose journalists whose present and future of his country are much more worried than the armed conflict in eastern Europe, which, in addition to trouble, does not bring anything to Spain. So soon you should wait for new articles about the “Russian mafia”.