Sergei Vasiliev cottage in Vyritsa. Who do law enforcement deal with?

“Putin’s Russia is an extreme version of ‘in-house capitalism’, in fact, a kleptocracy, where those close to power get the right to steal huge sums for personal needs” (Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics, from an article in The New York Times 18.12 .2014).

1. From the life of Cosa Nostra (instead of a preface).

John Gotti, the legendary boss of the mafia in America, ruled the Gambino family from 1986 to 1992. According to various estimates, the income of his organized criminal group at that time ranged from 250 to 500 million dollars a year. Racketeering, drugs, gas tax scams, all in full swing.

The Gambino family was the largest in the United States, but officially Don Gotti was ... a plumbing and clothing sales manager in two small firms. Working two jobs, Gotti was earning an average of $50,000 a year. And all the millions went to figureheads. As is customary in the mafia.

The modest house of Don Gotti in the New York area of ​​Queens, Howard Beach quarter.

Around - exactly the same houses for the middle class. The main gangster of America, he is also a "plumbing manager", walked around Queens without security, getting into the lenses of reporters.

Gotti was once a hit man Carlo Gambino- the main boss of the mafia in the United States in the 1960s and 70s. The old Gambino, nicknamed "The Godfather", turned over billions, but also lived in an old and more than modest house in Brooklyn, which served as his home and headquarters. The FBI looked after him, there was a bus with outdoor surveillance and wiretaps outside the house around the clock, but Don Gambino still continued to steer Cosa Nostra.

He ruled with an iron fist. His competitors regularly died not by their own death or fell into the hands of the FBI (the old Gambino was a major specialist in frame-ups).

Don Gambino, acquired by overwork, was helped to hide by his friend, also a famous bandit - Meir Lansky. He is the “mafia accountant” and the main launderer of her money. The character sung in gangster films: the prototype of Hyman Roth in The Godfather and Max Berkovich from Once Upon a Time in America.

Meir Lansky (left) and his cinematic image in The Godfather 2 (Jewish mafia Hyman Roth, Don Corleone's partner). When the film came out, Lansky sent congratulations to actor Lee Strassberg saying that he played well, but he could have portrayed me prettier.

1932 Brotherhood. A group of thugs arrested at a gathering in Chicago. Third from left is Lucky Luciano, fourth is Meir Lansky in his youth. No "adidas" and black turtlenecks, which is typical. To the gangway - in a suit and tie.

Lansky provided financial services to Cosa Nostra for nearly half a century. After Al Capone was imprisoned for tax evasion in 1931, Lansky (he was not yet 30 then) was the first to draw the appropriate conclusions.

Even then, the construction of an offshore mafia network began: Lansky was the first to use anonymous firms in Liechtenstein and numbered accounts in Switzerland (all this was already in the 1930s). He was the first to suggest using the Caribbean islands (Cuba, Bahamas, Caymans, etc.) to run dirty money. Another idea was to use casinos for money laundering (this is how Las Vegas was born).

When you now read in the media that Putin’s palace in Gelendzhik was financed by the Lirus company from Liechtenstein with bearer shares ... Or that the cellist Roldugin opened companies in the Caribbean, but with bank accounts in Zurich, through which some incomprehensible billions went … Then you have to understand that all this is not new. Not at all new. Putin was not yet born, and his dad, a Komsomol activist, was still dispossessing his neighbors in his village in the Tver region, when all these mechanisms of concealment and money laundering had already been tested by the mafia.

Of course, the services of the financier of Cosa Nostra were well paid. In 1982, a year before his death, Forbes estimated Meir Lansky's net worth at $300 million. That's about a billion dollars today. However, Lansky himself lived in a rather modest one-story house in Florida and claimed that he was naked like a falcon.

The reason was prosaic: Lansky was regularly run over by tax officials. They also watched movies and read newspapers. In 1970, he was even forced to leave the United States for Israel for a couple of years, as he was facing a term for concealing income. But in the end everything worked out.

In general, the FBI tried to put all these mafia bosses, and Lansky, and Gambino, and Gotti, more than once. In relation to the older generation (Lansky and Gambino), they did not really succeed. Cases fell apart, witnesses changed their testimony, jurors were imbued with sympathy for the accused. Everything is as usual.

With John Gotti they were more fortunate. In the early 90s, the FBI promoted his deputy, who agreed to testify (he was facing the death penalty). As a result, in 1992, the “plumbing manager” received a life sentence for 13 murders (this is what they managed to prove). There, in prison, Gotti died.

Gotti's funeral in Queens in 2002. 75 black limousines with bandits drove through the area to the local Catholic cemetery.

Homemade poster along the way: "John Gotti will live forever!"

In fact, Gotti died in prison. strict regime, in hellish torment, from throat cancer, serving life imprisonment. The coffin was gilded, but the money did not help much. After Gotti's arrest by the Gambino family, his son John Gotti Jr., then his brother Peter Gotti, took over the leadership. The FBI sent her son to jail in 1999, her brother in 2004. The son has already left and officially tied up with the mafia, his brother is in prison for life. The Gambino family has weakened considerably since then, but it still exists.

It was the mafia in America, friends. Now let's move to the other side of the ocean. In modern Putin's Russia...

2. Godfather from Vyritsa.

Leningrad region, Vyritsa village, 60 km from St. Petersburg. Our days. On the banks of the Oredezh River there is a house with an area of ​​about 2100 sq.m. Or rather, not a house, but a reduced copy of the Great Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo (this is where the amber room, baroque, etc.).

Everything inside is cool too. Marble, gold

Vases, chests of drawers

Living room. The height of the canvas is 14 meters. 5-meter statues in assortment.

Not Carlo Gambino's house, yes.

Loshari they are there in the "Cosa Nostra", what to say

House church inside the palace in Vyritsa. The owner is a very God-fearing person. Well, he has something to be afraid of in this regard, let's just say.

Still there in the palace there are paintings, stained-glass windows, mosaic floors made of 19 varieties of marble, doors made of tortoise shells (!), Stucco molding, forging and carving in walnut wood. According to conservative estimates, finishing of this level costs 40-50 thousand euros per square. Those. we are talking about the estate for 100 million euros.

Personal helicopter of the owner of the palace in Vyritsa on the site in front of the house:

On it, he flies to St. Petersburg. On business. The helicopter usually takes off in Vyritsa and lands on the lawn near the Peter and Paul Fortress, right in the center of the city. There the owner of the palace is transplanted into a cortege with guards.

Back - the same way. Motorcade-helicopter-palace.

The owner prefers expensive cars, supercars. In this case, the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport for 2 million euros. There are, in my opinion, only two of them in Russia (the second one belongs to Kadyrov).

And this is the owner of the palace driving a Lamborghini Reventon (1.4 million euros) in the center of St. Petersburg:

On a Rolls-Royce (he owns several, his favorite car):

On the unique "Maserati MS 12" on Nevsky ...

Who is this oligarch from Vyritsa with helicopters and Rolls-Royces, who lives in the royal palace for 100 million euros? - One respected person. Here it is close up:

This is the criminal authority Sergey Vasiliev, the Tambov organized criminal group. Repeat offender, convicted twice in Soviet times: for rape (in 1974) and fraud (1987). In the 1980s, he created one of the first gangs of racketeers in the city (the Vasilyev brothers' brigade).

He bombed car markets, twisted caps (protected thimblers), collected tribute from the Galley (a black market for imported goods near Gostiny Dvor). All this was back in the USSR. In the 1990s Vasiliev became one of the shadow masters of the city. Together with the Tambov organized crime group, he participated in the seizure of the seaport and other enterprises. In the 2000s, under Putin, the bandit Vasiliev reached the heights of prosperity. In October 2017, he was with Putin on his 65th birthday (they have known each other for a long time).

Vyritsa is an urban-type settlement, there are about 12 thousand permanent residents (not summer residents). The neighborhoods where they live look something like this:

Barracks of who knows what years of construction ...

All this successfully complements the palace of the bandit Vasiliev. You can take schoolchildren to Vyritsa. For lessons on recent history Russia. Well, not to tell for a long time. You can also carry students studying social sciences. In the order of studying the topic "Capitalism for its own." To make it clear: here are our own, and here are strangers, everything is clear.

We can say with confidence that none of the leaders of Cosa Nostra in America lives like this. There are more and more "plumbing managers".

Another interesting point: judging by the land cadastre, Vasiliev's palace in Vyritsa stands on a plot of 4.1 hectares, which is allocated for a "health facility" (health complex).

You can be calm about the health of Vasiliev's authority. But the rest of the residents of the village of Vyritsa are being treated at the local district hospital on Moskovskaya St., 12. This healthcare facility is only 4 km from the bandit's palace, but here life is completely different ... The main problem is that it has long fallen into disrepair and the sewerage collector is leaking next to hospital. Feces spread around the area, spreading all the delights of unsanitary conditions. fix? - But there is no money.

Residents, of course, complain to the authorities, they are indignant.

But there is no money. extreme form of capitalism for their own. Nobel laureates do not write in vain.

However, Vasiliev's authority in his "health complex" is of little concern. Salon Interior magazine dedicated to luxury real estate and design, in No. 9 for 2009 he published a photo report on the Vasilyevsky Palace, interviewing the architect. As the architect Igor Gremitsky said, the customer wished to realize his dream here - to live in the royal mansions and that the palace was “designed to impress”. For greater luxury and splendor, the Baroque style was chosen.

In addition, the customer wished that the memory of the “passion-bearer Tsar Nicholas II”, whom he respects very much, was immortalized in the palace. And the memory was immortalized: the house church inside was consecrated in honor of Nicholas II, and at the entrance there is his statue with an angel and a cross. Those. Vasiliev's authority is a type of monarchist. Devout believer, with his house church, etc.

Last time They tried to put Vasiliev in prison back in 1987, back in the USSR. They could not prove racketeering charges (the main thing he was doing at that time), and there were few people who wanted to testify against Vasilyev. They only proved fraud with cars, having soldered 7 years for fraud.

Vasiliev's case was high-profile at that time, and the St. Petersburg magazine Smena wrote about him in March 1988. An interesting portrait of the protagonist was given there.

He has free time[Vasilyeva] never was, the arrow of his activity never for a moment stopped his frantic pace. He lived modestly: old, shabby furniture, a broken bed, canned food in the refrigerator, sprat, boiled sausage - no delicacies. Only a brand new Panasonic tape recorder and a color Japanese TV set of the same company did not fit into this miserable atmosphere of a neglected and dirty apartment. However, this "Spartan" way of life was explained by Vasiliev's pathological greed.

According to Evgeny Vyshenkov, an officer in the Leningrad Criminal Investigation Department and now a journalist, the set of video cassettes in Vasiliev's apartment was just as Spartan. He watched only two films all the time: "Chapaev" and "Battleship Potemkin". And neither you Baroque, nor Bugatti, nor the Tsar-Martyr. Sprat in a tomato and the revolutionary lads from the Potemkin.

That article in "Change" in 1988 about the Vasiliev gang was called "Collapse". This meant the collapse of Vasiliev and his organized criminal group.

Vasiliev himself at that time had just sat down on the second run, and was supposed to leave in seven years.

But the author of the article, Leonid Milos, hurried with the “collapse”. I didn’t know that Vasiliev would sit for only two years, pay off, and in general, new times would soon break out. Leningrad will be renamed St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg will acquire the prefix "gangster", the Tambov and Malyshev organized crime groups will arise, Vasiliev will be in the first roles there. The bandits will buy Sobchak's mayor's office with giblets, and capture all the tidbits in the city. And then the whole country. Cosa Nostra never dreamed of such a thing.

3. "The era of utter lawlessness."

Where does the bandit Vasiliev get money for palaces and rolls-royces? - The main source of his wealth is this enterprise. It is called "Petersburg Oil Terminal" or PNT for short.

This is a former oil depot in the seaport of St. Petersburg, seized by bandits back in 1995. Here is the largest point for the export of petroleum products abroad from Russia. Diesel fuel, fuel oil, etc. here they pour millions of tons into tankers and send them abroad. In addition, bunkering (refueling) of ships takes place here. In general, a bread place. PNT is the source of money for the palace in Vyritsa, which stands proudly among the slums and barracks.

The throughput of the terminal is 12 million tons of oil products per year. This is 50-70 million dollars a year for transshipment services. That's not counting the offshore fuel scams that have always been common here. This is when a ship is refueled with Russian fuel oil in St. Petersburg, and the currency for it is received offshore in Liechtenstein, etc.

Vasiliev is the unspoken owner of PNT. However, his last name is nowhere to be found officially. There are only offshores and denominations that share profits somewhere abroad and according to concepts.

Vasiliev's interests in the PNT are also represented by figureheads. At first it was a certain Dmitry Skigin, a financier of the Tambov organized criminal group from the 1990s. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Dmitry Skigin and his brother Vladimir have been working with the money of serious St. Petersburg gangsters - Vasiliev, Traber (Antiquarian), Ruslan Kolyak (Goggle-eyed). The brothers represented their interests in various types of business, helped to transfer gangster capital to Europe and legalize them there.

Dmitry Skigin (photo from the personal archive of Robert Eringer, head of intelligence of Monaco in 2002-2007)

Skigin's father and son. 30 years in the service of the Tambov organized criminal group.

The origins of Vasiliev's acquaintance with Skigin Sr. are shrouded in mystery. However, they go far enough. So, in 2000, when Putin had just become president, his biography for Western readers was published in Germany under the title “A German in the Kremlin” (in Russian translation - “ Best German in the Kremlin). The author of the book was Alexander Rahr, a German pro-Kremlin journalist and political scientist. His biography of Putin came out, on the whole, laudatory, as ordered.

Putin and his German biographer Alexander Rahr shake hands. Valdai, 2011

Rar in his book in colors describes the gangster Petersburg of the 1990s. (however, with reservations that Putin allegedly did not participate in this). In particular, Rahr can read the following story from the early 90s:

“The young Bonn businessman Andrey Tvarkovsky, during the years of changes in all spheres of Russian public life, was almost constantly in Leningrad ... Here he found a business partner and created the Sovex company with him, which was engaged in the manufacture of wooden and crystal products for export. At first, money was continuously received from abroad for goods that were in good demand there ... But then an era of complete lawlessness began and the mafia, which felt its strength, simply ousted Twarkovsky from the Russian market ... At first, the criminal authorities, the Vasilyev brothers, demanded 100,000 marks from Twarkowski's company for "patronage" and a foreign car ... He decided to seek help from the KGB. The employee who received him was very kind and promised all kinds of assistance, but then suddenly supported his Russian partner ...

Sad story. A German arrived in St. Petersburg at the end of the USSR, found a business partner and created the Sovex company with him. They began to export timber, crystal products, etc. From abroad "continuously came money." And then the bandits brothers Vasiliev came and the German was thrown out of the company. And his former Russian partner helped them in this.

Rahr does not name the man who set the Vasilyev brothers on the unfortunate German investor. But in vain. After all, it was Skigin. In December 1989, he actually registered the Soviet-German joint venture Soveks, where he was the director, and then wrested it from the Germans with the help of Vasiliev's authority. This is the very beginning of the 1990s.

Skigin and Vasiliev had many more joint projects, but the most important of them began in 1995 - an oil terminal. It was Skigin who was the author of the very idea of ​​creating a PNT and the scheme for capturing an oil depot in the port. The "brain" of the operation, so to speak.

Since there is only one terminal, and there are many bandits, there were some fights. After the capture of the tank farm, the bandits shared the loot for a long time and enthusiastically (sometimes with shooting). Vasiliev himself was almost killed because of the terminal, but in the end, PNT still got to him.

And of course, speaking of the appearance of a bandit oil terminal in the port, one should not forget that the seizure of the oil depot by the gang in 1995 would have been impossible without the support of the city administration. Without Sobchak and his deputy Putin, who issued all the necessary orders for this. It was one team. Or rather, the brigade.

Putin in 1994 in his office. It was he who oversaw the port at Sobchak's mayor's office.

4.Oil terminal.

So, the former Soviet mafia Sergey Vasilyev, who once spent his leisure time eating sprats in a tomato and watching Battleship Potemkin, became an oil tycoon. However, how exactly did the bandits manage to get into the port, seize the oil depot and settle there for many years?

The whole story began in June 1995, when the mayor's office of St. Petersburg ordered to lease the port oil depot for a long-term lease to the private company CJSC "Petersburg Oil Terminal". According to the agreement, they were given the tank farm for 20 years for $50,000 a year. It's the same as a gift. Even in those years, 2-3 million tons of oil products passed through the terminal, which meant millions of dollars of profit per year. Plus, three months after the lease, the mayor's office gave PNT another 25 hectares of port territory free of charge for future business expansion.

Mayor Sobchak's order to transfer 25 hectares in the port to the Petersburg Oil Terminal in September 1995.

The main shareholders of CJSC "Petersburg Oil Terminal" sample 1995-1998. The balance then changed, but this first composition of shareholders is very indicative. Brothers-s.

As you can see, Traber initially held the majority stake in PNT. Vasiliev's interests were represented by the company Soveks, already familiar to us, whose general director was Skigin. The authority of Gennady Petrov is CJSC Financial Company Petroleum. All these gentlemen are from the so-called. Tambov-Malyshevskaya lads.

Ilya, nicknamed "Antiquarian". It was he who carried out the overall management of the privatization of the St. Petersburg port in the 1990s. The whole port in the end - not only the oil depot, but everything else - went to the bandits.

The omnipotence of bandits in the port arose under Mayor Sobchak (1991-96). Professor Sobchak himself, at the same time, was for the most part an "artist of the colloquial genre" - he pushed speeches from the stands about democracy and market reforms. This worked well for him. And the economy under Sobchak, including the seaport, was supervised by his first deputy, V.V. Putin. It was with him that the interested persons solved the issues.

Early 1990s. Sobchak (center) and two of his most famous nominees, Chubais and Putin.

So, at the time of the creation of the "Petersburg Oil Terminal", the bandit Traber was the main one there. Later, Traber sold his block of shares to the authority of Vasiliev, and the terminal came under the control of the latter. The details of this intra-bandit deal between Traber and Vasiliev are still little known. Both sides prefer not to talk about them.

Briefly, 1998-99 Traber had some problems in Russia, associated with a threat to life and health. In particular, he became a participant in the war of criminal gangs in Vyborg with a bunch of corpses. In order not to become a corpse himself, Traber bought himself a Greek passport and hastily dumped from Russia. And for many years he lived in Europe as a "Greek" Ilyas Traber. Bought luxury real estate and lived in several houses between Mallorca, Nice and Geneva.

Leaving Russia in the late 90s, Traber needed money and sold PNT to Vasiliev. PNT is an expensive asset, Vasiliev did not have so much money, and the sale was in installments. The calculations between them were long and difficult. They finally paid off already in the 2000s, under Putin as president.

Traber's estate at La Tour-de-Pails on Lake Geneva. Not the Vasiliev Palace in Vyritsa, but also one of the most expensive villas on the Swiss Riviera. This is all the money from the St. Petersburg port, here they are:

He will not see his villa soon. Traber is now on the Interpol wanted list (money laundering in Spain) and is sitting in Russia, in his other estate - near St. Petersburg, in the Nevsky forest park. Nothing promotes love for the Motherland like an international arrest warrant.

Returning to the oil terminal, when it became clear that PNT had gone over to Vasilyev in earnest and for a long time, not everyone liked it in the criminal environment. In 2006, the well-known St. Petersburg authority Kumarin (Kum) hired raiders who, using fake documents, tried to steal the terminal from Vasilyev through the tax office (rewrite it to the people of Kum).

At the same time, it was decided to eliminate Vasiliev physically. In May 2006, an assassination attempt was made on him, his Rolls-Royce and a security jeep came under fire from killers in the center of St. Petersburg. The killers were sent by Kum.

Vasiliev was wounded but survived. The transfer of the terminal to other persons in the tax office was also blocked. The killers went to jail. The customer Kumarin also went there in 2007, which caused considerable surprise to the public: Kum had been the “night governor of the city” for many years, no one dared to touch him. And for the Putin team, he is not a stranger.

Well, not a stranger at all.

And if you remember that a certain Vladimir Smirnov, better known as the chairman of the Ozero cooperative, was Kuma’s companion and close friend in the 1990s…

In short, the order to extinguish Kuma after the assassination attempt on Vasiliev came from the very top. Everything was prepared in the strictest secrecy: only Moscow investigators, even special forces, were sent to take him from Moscow. After his arrest, he was immediately transferred to Moscow, because in St. Petersburg he could decide everything and with everyone.

Naturally, the question arises: aren't there too many miracles in Vasiliev's biography? With the advent of Putin, he miraculously found the money and settled with Traber for the terminal (hundreds of millions of dollars). Then he just as miraculously fought off Kum, and few people fought off his raids in the city earlier. And finally, after all this, Kum went to prison for the rest of his days, the threat was radically eliminated.

The explanation for these miracles is quite simple: Vasiliev did not take the terminal under himself alone. In this case, he was helped (financially and administratively) by this man: Mr. Sechin. For 30%. This is Sechin's unofficial stake in PNT.

This in itself is not news. That Sechin has a share in PNT, wrote Novaya Gazeta in 2007, shortly after Kum's arrest. The most important thing here is to understand correctly what "Sechin's share" means in Putin's Russia. It's like Putin's share.

Once Sechin was the head of Putin's secretariat at the mayor's office in St. Petersburg. I sat in the reception and solved organizational issues. Some take girls as secretaries, and Putin took Sechin. Under Putin as president, the media created an image of Sechin gray cardinal Russia, endowing the secretary with completely supernatural qualities. Allegedly, he turns everyone backstage there, including Putin.

However, this is an exaggeration. Sechin under Putin is like Skigin under Vasiliev. Junior partner and vice chairman. Like a traffic cop at his post, everything he takes is shared with the commander. Otherwise, it won't stay there for long. That is why Vasiliev behaves so impudently. Palaces, supercars. And why should he be afraid with such and such a roof?

5. Meir Lansky of the St. Petersburg spill.

An important point is that the creation of a PNT in the seaport in 1995 was only part of a global plan to seize the fuel infrastructure of St. Petersburg, which was implemented by bandits in 1994-96. In those years, in addition to the oil depot in the port, the Tambov organized crime group and its allies captured:

1. The city's largest filling station network of more than 100 filling stations ("Petersburg Fuel Company" or PTK for short). Kumarin (Kum) and his partner Vladimir Smirnov (the first chairman of the Ozero cooperative) gained control over the PTK;

2. Oil depot in Brooks (the largest tanks of gasoline in the region). After the capture, the base was attached to the PTK;

3. Tank farm in Pulkovo (aircraft refueling). It was received by Vasilyevsky "Sovex" in 1996, but later Vasilyev gave this base to Traber in the course of their mutual settlements;

4. And finally, the Kirishi Oil Refinery, the largest in the North-West, was the source of oil products for all the listed enterprises. Control over it was seized by a group of Chekists led by Timchenko (firm), who worked on the same team with the bandits.

In the 1990s, Dmitry Skigin had a friend and business partner in St. Petersburg, Maxim Freidzon, who now lives in Israel. He was a witness and in some places an accomplice to the processes described above.

20 years later, in 2015-16, in a series of interviews for Radio Liberty, Freidson told interesting details of those events of the mid-1990s. So, according to him, it was Skigin who was the “think tank” of operations to seize oil depots in the port and in Pulkovo by bandits. And it was Skigin who was the mediator in the negotiations between the lads and Putin on these issues. Including negotiated with him about kickbacks for the necessary decisions.

In the end, everything went well, and both tidbits went to the "right" firms. Putin now likes to speak on the topic of the "dashing 90s", predatory privatization, and so on. So let him remember how he himself participated in this.

As all of the city's key fuel infrastructure facilities were seized and divided up, what Freidson calls a "collective" was formed. Steady mafia group. So, Timchenko kept a plant in Kirishi and supplied fuel to everyone else. It was necessary to take the goods only from him, the requirement of the "collective".

Then this fuel was sold, the profit was transferred abroad to offshore companies. In Liechtenstein, Skigin had a firm called Horizon International Trading, which served as a settlement center. The money of the "collective" flocked there, laundered, distributed, Skigin was responsible for this. His assistants were an Englishman, Graham Smith, and a lawyer from Liechtenstein, Markus Hasler. Two offshore businessmen from Europe who specialized in mafia clients from Russia.

The overall picture was a real regional organized crime group, which established its monopoly in the fuel market of the North-West:

“Fuel supplies for Sovex and PNT came from Timchenko... Putin provided city support for this group of companies, the entire licensed part, everything related to the lease of city property, etc. Dima Skigin provided the business component, Graham Smith was engaged in western component and cleaning up money, and Kumarin and Vasiliev provided everything related to the criminal component: a “roof”, the fight against competitors and the seizure of new territories. The bandits captured, Putin formalized the captured. The team worked well together"(Maxim Freidzon, from an interview with Radio Liberty on June 25, 2016).

In fact, Skigin was such a Meir Lansky of the St. Petersburg spill. Mafia accountant. Like Lansky, he was involved in money laundering around the world, managing a network of offshore companies. Skigin's activity in this area was so violent that in May 2000 he was even deported from Monaco for money laundering. He had a firm there called Sotrama, through which the money of Traber and Vasiliev was laundered. In extra large sizes. So big that at some point the authorities of Monaco got tired of it, and they asked Skigin not to appear in their country anymore.

Below is a fragment of the dossier on Skigin, which was maintained by the Monaco police. Skigin Dimitrios (he traveled around Europe with a Greek passport, like Traber), born in Leningrad in 1956, decision on deportation No. 00-62 of May 19, 2000 Cote d'Azur with Traber (report dated February 4, 2000), who is associated with "Russian criminal group" Tambov "(meaning the Tambov organized crime group of St. Petersburg).

So that dear readers correctly understand the situation: the entry to Monaco Skigin in 2000 was closed by the authorities without explanation (like Kobzon in America), and the documents on this episode were made public only 10 years later former boss intelligence of Monaco by Robert Eringer.

And again, so that dear readers understand correctly: Monaco is actually one of the world's recognized money laundering centers. Was and is. To be thrown out of there for laundering is like from a brothel for debauchery. That is, you have to stand out. Dima Skigin, Putin's liaison to the Tambov organized crime group, was such a tough guy.

Two photos with a difference of about 25 years. Both are made in Israel. On the left is Skigin with his wife Albina (1995, from the personal archive of Maxim Freidzon), on the right is Meir Lansky with his daughter Sandra. Accountant of the Tambov organized criminal group and accountant of Koza Nostra.

In June 1996, Sobchak lost the next mayoral election, Putin left his post and moved to Moscow in the Yeltsin administration. But he remained a member of the "collective". And Skigin helped him in this again:

“When Sobchak lost the election[in 1996] ..., then it became hard for Vladimir Vladimirovich. It became unclear what he should be paid for. Dima Skigin, my friend and partner in the Sigma and Sovex companies, told me that he decided to make a somewhat risky move - to support Vladimir Vladimirovich by maintaining his share in the already operating oil terminal[at the seaport] and in Sovex[refueling terminal for aircraft in Pulkovo] . Dima made such a bet and convinced his teammates - Traber, Vasiliev and Kumarin - that it is not worth writing off Vladimir Vladimirovich from the accounts. It was, I assure you, a serious decision. Because the situation was changing rapidly, and spending money on a person who can’t give anything yet[on Putin] , was a risky strategic decision"(Maxim Freidzon, from an interview with Radio Liberty, August 14, 2016)

We must pay tribute to the late Dima (Skigin). He correctly assessed Volodya and put in a good word for him in front of the lads. We must pay tribute to Volodya, he does not forget Skigin's offspring, his son Mikhail is a full member of the "collective". And not only in the port.

In June 2017, the public of St. Petersburg was quite surprised by the project of toll bridges in the city, which was presented by the mayor's office. Some private company "Toll Road", previously unknown to anyone, suddenly received a concession to build a series of toll bridges across the railways within the city. That is, you drive down the street, you run into a crossing. Further - either you stand, or you pay money to the Toll Road company and go on top.

The reaction to this idea was, shall we say, mixed. The last time they took money for traveling over bridges in St. Petersburg in 1755. Then they somehow managed, both under the tsars and about the communists. But not with brothers. For when they began to find out who was the owner of the mysterious Toll Road company (it, by the way, received the right to toll bridges back in Tula and in the Moscow region), it turned out that 50% of it belongs to a certain Roman Belousov (Mikhail Skigin's confidant), and 50% - offshore from Panama, where the denominations ... - Graham Smith and Marcus Hasler. The same guys who served the Tambov organized criminal group and Putin back in the 1990s.

By the way, Robert Eringer mentioned above, former head Intelligence of Monaco, collecting information on St. Petersburg bandits in the 2000s, made inquiries about Smith and Hasler from the authorities of Liechtenstein. According to Eringer, it was Graham Smith who was the main one in this tandem. "Looking for Putin's money in Europe - take a closer look at Graham Smith", Eringer wrote in 2015.

If you pass over toll bridges in St. Petersburg, Naro-Fominsk, and across the Upa River in the Tula province, don't forget about Smith. A modest Englishman who once distributed Soviet communist literature in England for royalties from the KGB. Then he dumped from there to Liechtenstein, was involved in the scandal with the collapse of the LUI insurance company in 1990 (a major financial scam in England). Well, then I found myself working with the St. Petersburg lads.

6. Epilogue.

In 2002, the TV series Brigada was released in Russia, glorifying the criminal romance of the 90s.

As you understand, in America, the president of the country also spends his leisure time playing golf with the killers of Cosa Nostra, and then photographed for memory.

Back in the distant 1970s. Mosfilm stuntman Inshakov joined Yaponchik's brigade, participating in raids on shop workers and other representatives of underground capitalism in the USSR. Then Yaponchik went to prison, and for a long time, and was released only in 1991. After that, he left for America, from where he ruled all Russian organized crime in the first half of the 90s. The Japanese also found a job for an old comrade in the racket. By specialty.

Well, and then Inshak, aka Stuntman, became the producer of the Brigade. The film, shot by a bandit about bandits, was a wild success. The educational idea of ​​the film was loyalty to the brigade as the main virtue real kid. Another striking find there was the image of Vvedensky, a Chekist who covers the brigade throughout its entire activity.

There were many such brigades throughout the country, and one of them was in St. Petersburg, in the port: Putin, Vasiliev, Traber, Skigin, Timchenko. Having become president, Putin remained faithful to his brigade and does not forget it, carefully protecting it, as before.

However, the brigade is voracious, and the food base is not so great (taking into account the previously stolen). Therefore, toll bridges are being introduced in St. Petersburg for the first time since 1755. It will be necessary (for the brigade) - and the air will be paid. Cosa Nostra never dreamed of such a thing. They never had their own state.

"Extremely daring crime" - this is how the prosecutor of St. Petersburg called the attempt on the life of businessman Sergei Vasiliev. The shooting at the victim's limousine and the guard's jeep is associated exclusively with the recent failure of a raider attack on the victim's business. His stevedoring company is indeed a tidbit for would-be invaders. However, there is another version of events.

"Extremely daring crime," - this is how the prosecutor of St. Petersburg called the attempt on the life of businessman Sergei Vasiliev. The shooting at the victim's limousine and the guard's jeep is associated exclusively with the recent failure of a raider attack on the victim's business. The business is really tasty for potential invaders: the value of the largest stevedoring company in the city, the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal, according to some estimates, exceeds half a billion dollars. Nevertheless, the "Privy Councilor" is ready to offer another version of events.

Jealousy is a bad feeling...

On the banks of the Oredezh River in Vyritsa, the "Catherine's Palace" is growing. More precisely, a somewhat reduced copy of the famous royal residence in Pushkin. Vyritsky Palace in a little over a year, if everything goes according to the plan of the builders, they say, will become the residence of Sergei Vasilyev. Actually, almost everything is ready. Even the descent to the water is made - an elegant ladder. And the freshly grown green grass in the park still looks like a freshly cut lawn. Nothing, it will grow - they will cut it for real.

Patterns of cast-iron lattice, golden onions of the palace chapel, sky-blue plaster and snow-white statues - all this almost exactly repeats the famous Catherine's palace in Tsarskoye Selo. But you can’t really see anything: most of the palace is gently wrapped in polyethylene, and from the side of the river, so is the whole structure. And of course, no one will tell anything about the interiors. “The same as in Ekaterininsky?” - we ask. “What are you doing! Better!" - answer. Friends of the owner say that the tortoise-shell doors alone cost $30,000 each. Vasiliev did not like one of them for some reason, he ordered to throw it away and replace it.

The area of ​​land around the palace is not exactly known. “Four hundred meters - there, four hundred - here,” a man with the appearance of a guest worker waves his hand vaguely. Vigilant guards do not allow close to the construction site, it is strictly forbidden to photograph the area. "Private area!" a broad-shouldered man in uniform raises his finger respectfully.

But we will still try to take a picture ... Because all this splendor is now not so much a local attraction or a future residence as another version of the assassination attempt. Sources from organized crime fighters suggest that this spring, some Muscovites, who apparently noticed such beauty in the Leningrad Region, promised Vasilyev an amount comparable to the cost of an oil terminal for a palace in Vyritsa with all the land. Vasiliev, they say, refused. He also laughed ... Well, they answered.

Stages of a long journey

Sergei Vasilyevich Vasiliev is the middle brother. A year older - Alexander Vasilyevich, five years younger - Boris Vasilyevich. All three brothers are boxers: in the village of Vyritsa, where they were born, once, they say, there was a good boxing section. Now only the eldest, Alexander, has retained his regional residence permit. But, even having apartments in the best areas of St. Petersburg, the Vasiliev brothers still live in their Vyritsa. In a much more "own" than at the time of tender childhood. And not only thanks to the "Catherine's Palace", located not in the village itself, but somewhat on the outskirts.

The brothers expressly do not associate any business with Vyritsa and shower her with their generosity. Everyone, for example, knows that the famous wooden church of the Kazan Mother of God, which foreigners are taken to see, has been restored and exists thanks to Sergei Vasilyevich. For a long time the most popular among the people wild beach on the banks of the Oredezh was right under the noses of the brothers, five meters from their house, the natives and guests squealed, kneaded the dirt in the Oredezh and fried sausages on a fire. Nothing, be patient. Now, however, neighbors have appeared, built a chorus for themselves, blocked the villagers' approach to water. But the Vasiliev brothers here, they say, have nothing to do with it.

Sergei was the first of the brothers to be convicted. In 1974, at the age of 19, he was sentenced to five years in prison for rape. He served three years and was released on parole. The police believe that it was then that the team of the Vasiliev brothers began to form. The brothers (or already brothers?) have chosen, according to the UBOP, thimblers and the video business, more precisely, the novelty of the 80s - video salons. Over time, the daily income of a stable group of people, policemen say, could approach a million rubles.

In 1986, two brothers were already detained - the middle and the eldest. They were taken on charges of extortion, the court found both guilty of fraud. In 1989 Sergei was released. While the brothers were in prison, the team assembled by them broke up, as the fighters against organized crime say, into several brigades, many went to the "Malyshevsky". And the brothers themselves, together with the surviving associates, they say, were drawn to the automobile business. By the way, in the late 80s - early 90s, the transfer of cars from abroad and resale were one of the most profitable types of business. If cars even had a dark history, foreigners did not try to search for the lost in a distraught and practically devoid of laws. new Russia. The brothers, as is commonly believed, controlled the automotive market for Energetikov.

By the way, Sergey Vasiliev always had cars - almost the most expensive ones in Leningrad-Petersburg. In 1997, he bought his first Rolls-Royce, a white 1971 toy. In 2000, he had a one-year-old light gray Mercedes and the next Roll-Royce - black. Two years later, a silver Lamborghini and a blue Ferrari, half a thousand horsepower each. And a third Rolls-Royce. The fourth and last (so far!) "Rolls", a dark gray limousine of 2004, mutilated by bullets, Sergei acquired exactly two years ago - in May 2004.

"He was warned..."

Interesting information hangs on the Internet forum of professional bodyguards. According to the words of the people sitting in the fired cars, they talk about what happened at the intersection of Levashovsky and Ordinary on May 5 at about half past two in the afternoon: in a few seconds, two machine gunners shot down a jeep and left 48 bullet holes in the car; another shooter who attacked the Rolls with a Kalashnikov made 30 holes in the limousine. The guard in the jeep, having received a tangential wound to the back, nevertheless jumped out of the car and rushed to the Rolls-Royce, forcing the shooters to hide. That is why, apparently, there was no control shot at the client.

Judging by the text left online by a professional security guard, Sergei Vasiliev knew that an assassination attempt was being prepared on him: “He was warned almost two weeks in advance both in writing and by phone about the impending assassination attempt. Throughout the time the guys worked with him, they talked about the armor, and about the group of operational drivers. But he himself did not care deeply, because he considers himself charmed. But in this situation, it was the guards who saved his life ... The guys who were there became hostages of the client's negligent attitude towards their own safety ... ”Believing or not believing is the right of the reader.

A week after the assassination attempt, Sergei Vasilyev is still unconscious in the intensive care unit of the Military Medical Academy. Doctors call his condition extremely serious: two bullet wounds to the head. Forecasts are not given yet.

One of the versions of the assassination attempt is connected with a failed attempt to raid the Petersburg Oil Terminal CJSC. It is difficult to see the direct connection of Sergey Vasilyev with this largest stevedoring company in the city, however, according to the Delovoy Peterburg newspaper, he owns offshore companies that own half of the CJSC. The publication emphasizes that, having gained control over the oil loading equipment in the port in 1996, PNT did not seek external financing, but invested in business development and the construction of a new transshipment complex the income received from working on old equipment. Now, according to experts, PNT provides 15 percent of the total volume of oil products transshipment in the Baltic Sea region. The Kommersant newspaper estimates the terminal's capacity at 12 tons of oil products per year, and its annual revenue at $60 million.

Recall that recently the "Privy Councilor" mentioned PNT among the enterprises that the raiders laid eyes on. However, as prosecutor Zaitsev stated, "all versions are being considered." And one of them is quite far from the oil business. However, the prosecutor's office has yet to figure out the "palace secrets" of the Vasilyev brothers...

Tatiana Vostroilova,
Svetlana Tikhomirova,
Irina Tumakova

Every year, Forbes magazine ranks the richest people Russia, and what is most remarkable, almost all of the participants in the rating are married. We invite you to look at the wives of the richest people in our country, who are behind the most powerful men in our country.

Irina Viner, 69 years old
Spouse: Alisher Usmanov, 64 Founder of USM Holdings, which combines assets in the mining industry and metallurgy, telecommunications, controls the Kommersant publishing house, and also owns a 30.2% stake in London's Arsenal football club
Wealth: $15.5 billion (5th place in the Forbes ranking of "200 richest businessmen in Russia")

Sandra Melnichenko, 40 years old
Spouse: Andrey Melnichenko, 45 years old. Chairman of the Board of Directors of EuroChem, SUEK (Siberian Coal Energy Company) and Siberian Generating Company
Wealth: $11.4 billion (9th place in the Forbes ranking of "200 richest businessmen in Russia")

Elena Perminova, 31 years old
Civil spouse: Alexander Lebedev, 57 years old. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Reserve Corporation, co-owner of several newspapers
Net Worth: $400 million

Marina Dobrynina, 58 years old
Spouse: Viktor Vekselberg, 60 years old. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova Group of Companies, President of the Skolkovo Foundation
Net Worth: $13.4 billion (10th place in the Forbes ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia)

Elena Feigin, 38 years old
Spouse: Yan Yanovsky, 39 years old. Investment banker, one of the founders of Bioenergy Corporation and First Nation Societe Bancaire, member of the boards of directors of a number of Russian companies

Irina Agalarova, about 62 years old (on the photo: second from the left, together with her son Emin, daughter Sheila and husband Araz)
Spouse: Araz Agalarov, 61 years old. President of Crocus Group
Wealth: 1.8 billion dollars (51st place in the Forbes ranking of "200 richest businessmen in Russia")

Olga Karput, 34 years old
Spouse: Pavel Te, 54 years old. Co-owner of Capital Group
Wealth: $0.1 billion

Margarita Lieva, 33 years old
Spouse: Eduard Taran, 49 years old. Owner of RATM Holding, which includes the Ekran plant and the Gidromash enterprise, president of the Russian Business Club
Net Worth: $800 million

Lyudmila Lisina, 61 years old
Spouse: Vladimir Lisin, 61 years old. Owner of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works and the transport and logistics holding Universal Cargo Logistics Holding
Wealth: 1.6 billion dollars (3rd place in the Forbes ranking of "200 richest businessmen in Russia")

Ekaterina Potanina, 42 years old
Spouse: Vladimir Potanin, 56 years old. Co-owner of Norilsk Nickel, the largest producer of nickel and palladium in the world
Wealth: 1.4 billion dollars (8th place in the Forbes ranking of "200 richest businessmen in Russia")

Natalya Davydova (about 34 years old, hides the exact age)
Spouse: Ivan Streshinsky, 48 years old. Partner of Alisher Usmanov, CEO of USM Advisors and one of the richest top managers in Russia according to Forbes magazine
Condition: dollar millionaire (salary - $15 million a year)

Elena Timchenko (exact age unknown)
Spouse: Gennady Timchenko, 64 years old. Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Novatek Net worth: $1.6 billion (5th place in the Forbes ranking of Russia's 200 richest businessmen)
Net Worth: $14.2 billion (10th place in the Forbes ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia)

Elena Likhach (Skoch) (about 40, exact age unknown)
Spouse: Andrey Skoch, 51 years old. Co-owner of CJSC Gazmetall, co-owner of Metalloinvest, deputy State Duma
Wealth: 7.9 billion dollars (17th place in the Forbes ranking of "200 richest businessmen in Russia")

Victoria Manasir, 35 years old
Spouse: Ziyad Manasir, 51 years old. Founder of the Manaseer Group, which is engaged in construction, oil production and refining and other types of business
Wealth: 600 million dollars (140th place in the Forbes ranking of "200 richest businessmen in Russia")

Natalya Yakimchik, 32 years old
Spouse: Valery Shevchuk, 50 years old. Former Head of the Moscow Heritage Committee and former Vice President of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Deputy CEO OOO "ETK-Invest"
Net worth: dollar millionaire (exact amount unknown)

The assassination attempt on the co-owner of the joint venture CJSC "Petersburg Oil Terminal" Sergei Vasiliev (pictured) was committed on the afternoon of May 5, 2006 on the Petrograd side of St. Petersburg. The armored Rolls-Royce Phantom of a businessman, accompanied by a Chevrolet Tahoe jeep with security guards, was moving along Levashovsky Prospekt towards Ordinary Street. Before the crossroads, a Zhiguli blocked their way, overtaking the businessman's cortege and forcing him to slow down.

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Two young men armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles jumped out of a stopped VAZ-2109 car and opened fire in bursts at a Rolls-Royce and a Chevrolet. Sergei Vasilyev is wounded, lying in a red suit.

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As the investigation later calculated, the killers fired about 50 bullets from machine guns. After riddling two cars of Vasiliev's motorcade, they jumped into the "nine" that drove a little further and fled the scene of the crime.

photo 3.

Vasilyev was hospitalized with severe wounds in the clinic of military field surgery of the Military Medical Academy, where guards were posted at his ward. One of his bodyguards, 32-year-old Roman Ukharov, died at the scene of the crime, and two others were injured.

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The armored Rolls-Royce Phantom crossed the intersection and crashed into the Niva moving towards the street.

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After Vasiliev and the wounded guards were taken away, the driver with a head injury, glass fragments and a Chevrolet Tahoe remained at the scene. The body of 32-year-old Roman Ukharov, an employee security company Alex-West was in the back seat. The deceased guard did not have time to get a gun.

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Next to the car, the criminals threw machine guns.

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Soon, the "nine" was found in the courtyard of a neighboring block, where, presumably, the attackers changed their car. As the investigation later established, the VAZ-2109 car gray color, on which the shooters fled, was sold in July 2003, at the same time the numbers H692BB47 were to be removed from it. The car was sold by general power of attorney to the husband of a school friend's sister, who was the driver of one of the entrepreneurs. When the car was sold, it was yellow-beige.

2. CONSEQUENCE.

As Russian media reported the other day, in St. Petersburg, an investigation into the case of one of the killers, Vyacheslav Yezhov, who is accused of an attempt on the life of co-owner of the St. Petersburg oil terminal, Sergei Vasiliev, was completed in 2006. Then the businessman and two of his guards were wounded, and another guard was killed. The organizer of this crime, according to investigators, was an authoritative St. Petersburg businessman Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), who intended to seize the terminal together with his accomplices. The defense of Mr. Barsukov, who is already serving a term for raiding, said that she did not know anything about the case of Vyacheslav Yezhov.

In August 2007, Vladimir Barsukov was detained in St. Petersburg. He was charged with organizing the assassination of Sergei Vasilyev and his bodyguards and the murder of a businessman's bodyguard. Soon, new charges were brought against Barsukov - in organizing a criminal community and 13 counts of fraud. In November 2009, the businessman was convicted by the court of organizing the forceful seizure of the Petersburg Corner restaurant and the Smolninsky supermarket and sentenced to 14 years in a strict regime colony.

The attempt on Vasiliev's life was initially associated with a raider attack on the PNT, which was undertaken, according to investigators, by Vladimir Barsukov's group. In 2006, Vyacheslav Orlov, an intermediary between the raiders and employees tax office N 15 of the St. Petersburg Department of the Federal tax service, appealed to the tax authorities, asking them to make changes to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities for eight enterprises, including PNT, for a fee. The changes concerned only the name and management of the company (in particular, the oil terminal turned into OOO Perspektiva). However, the capture attempt ended in failure.

CJSC Petersburg Oil Terminal is the largest Russian oil products transshipment terminal in the Baltic region. The terminal's capacity is 12 million tons of oil products per year. According to the results for 2009, the terminal handled a record amount of oil products for the entire period of the company's existence - 12.1 million tons, which is 300 thousand tons more than in 2008. The cost of the terminal is estimated at about $800 million.

The Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation announced the completion of the investigation of the criminal case of Vyacheslav Yezhov, one of the participants in the execution of Sergei Vasilyev and his guards. Mr. Yezhov, who was detained in October 2007 in Zelenogorsk, has been charged with the murder of a businessman's bodyguard, the attempted murder of a PNT co-owner and his bodyguards, and illegal arms trafficking.

According to investigators, the accused acted as part of a criminal group created by Vladimir Barsukov. At the end of January 2006, as follows from the UPC report, Vyacheslav Yezhov arrived in St. Petersburg with a fake passport, where he lived with his accomplices in a rented apartment until mid-May. As for Mr. Yezhov's accomplices, the Investigative Committee was unable to clarify whether their identities were established and whether they were detained. The press secretary of the city court of St. Petersburg, Kristina Vazhenina, confirmed to Kommersant that they had received the criminal case against Vyacheslav Yezhov, adding that the date of the first meeting had not yet been set.

Mr. Barsukov's lawyer Sergei Afanasiev said that he did not know anything about Vyacheslav Yezhov. “My client was detained in 2007, at the same time he was charged with organizing an assassination attempt on Vasilyev, but there was no Ezhov in the case file,” Mr. Afanasyev explained.

3. DOSSIER.

Sergey Vasiliev, born in 1955, since the late 1980s, has been positioned by law enforcement agencies as the leader of the organized criminal group of the Vasiliev brothers. He was first convicted in 1974 for rape to five years in prison, of which he served only three (he went on parole). Around this time, according to police data, the Vasiliev organized crime group began to form. Again Vasiliev was detained in 1986 on suspicion of committing extortion, but he sat down under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "fraud" for six years with confiscation of property. Released only in 1989.

It is believed that after his arrest in 1986, the previously mentioned group broke up into several brigades, most of which went to the "Malyshevsky" OPS. Later, the organized crime group joined the ranks of the Tambov criminal community. According to rumors, Vasiliev worked closely with the Sediuk brothers, and also controlled the market on Energetikov Avenue.

The assassination attempt on Vasiliev in 2006 is far from the first. One of them happened in 1993, when on October 26, at about 6 pm, under the arch of house 5 on Kuibyshev Street, Vasilyev and a man who was with him were fired from an unknown weapon. According to some reports, in 1996 Vasilyev had the St. Petersburg representative office of LUKOIL in his area of ​​​​interest.

Vasiliev had almost the first Rolls-Royce car in St. Petersburg - he got it back in Soviet time. The shelled Rolls-Royce of gray color was released in 2004 and belongs to businessman Sergey Vasiliev. Jeep Chevrolet Tahoe black, manufactured in 2005, belongs to the joint venture ZAO Petersburg Oil Terminal. According to some reports, there are more than a dozen of the most expensive cars in the businessman's garage. At the time of the crime, the value Petersburg Oil Terminal, owned by Vasiliev, was estimated at about $600 million.

Based on materials from open sources. Photo by RU. Press

Deema (in the world - Algemen Sisokka) - part of the hip-hop empire Timothy was born on January 3, 1980, 24 years old, "Capricorn" according to the horoscope, was born in Berlin. The artist's cherished dream is for people all over the world to listen to his songs, his music.
Three times for this purpose Deema participated in the competition "Berlin Battle", one of the prizes was the first place. Already managed to work as an opening act for rapper Puff Daddy. If R-Kelly or Sting agreed to sing along with Deema, he would be happy and proud. But while he is very proud of the fact that he became a father! In people he does not like stupidity, in women - accessibility, in men - femininity.
Appreciate honesty and integrity. One of the funniest moments in life - when I first tried to smoke! He does not smoke, sometimes he can afford a cocktail. He studied well at school - but only when he got to the lessons!
Favorite subject is literature, least favorite is chemistry. For breakfast, the artist has fruits and pancakes. He cooks very well - he will gladly treat guests with sushi, pilaf, pasta of his own preparation. Once it was very embarrassing that on stage, during the performance of a song, he accidentally tangled the entire group in the microphone cable. He loves rain in "reasonable amounts" - it calms and gives inspiration. He loves to read, among the writers he respects are A. Pushkin, O`Henry, A. Dumas. I like different music - performed by all those who know how to do it professionally. New Year Deema loves to celebrate in Russia. Favorite holiday - birthday: the artist should not give teddy bears, and it is best to give a car of your favorite brand. It's a black Lamborghini. I managed to take with me to a desert island in a five-minute training session mobile phone, slippers, swimming trunks, and just in case - an American Express card. The most unusual place he visited was the Maldives. He wants to win the New Wave, so he decided to fight for the victory. The choice of songs for the competition program was influenced by the advice of friends from Russia. As if a hurricane broke into the European music industry, the young R&B artist Deema, and made even the most fierce critics talk about himself. Glossy covers of fashionable newly-made magazines were full of his photographs, lured exclusive interviews and surprised the entire music community with allegations of Deemi's participation in various shows, tours and entertainment events. The riot began in 2000, with the signing of his 1st contract with Sony Columbia, when Deema, as the lead singer of Snoov-D, released his first album Hunting Season, which included his famous song - the soundtrack written for the movie "Werewolf in Paris". This song instantly took the lead in the charts in Germany and France. A few days later, the public saw Deemi on the cover of the famous French and German magazine "Juise" .The famous German radio Kiss FM 98.8 offered Deemi a monthly contract “Face - Kiss FM 98.8”. Oil was added to the fire by the released video for the song Wild West, which was filmed by the famous American director Elon Kalzatti (among his works there is a clip 2-PACa and Notorius BIG - Hit them up). In the same year, according to WOM (World of Music) - Deema became the most talented European R&B artist. The annual publication stated that Deema is the most rising R&B artist in all of Europe. The following year, 2001, with a contract with BMG, the oldest American record company, he released his stunning album “The end of the world” – followed by a year-long tour with American Rap Stars – Puff Daddy, The Beatnuts, De-La-Soul. In 2003, a significant event happened in R&B and hip-hop life throughout Europe - a representative office of one of the most powerful American record companies, Def Jem Germani, opened in Germany and the first European artist with whom the company signed its contract was Deema. His album “One Man Standing” came out half a year after signing the contract and blew up all the European hit parades - He was in the Top 20 of European MTV, held 5 sessions in the TOP 10 of France, not to mention the hit parades on radio stations. The cult music channel VIVA – presented Deemi with the award as the most progressive R&B artist of 2003. Deema devoted all of 2004 to producing the German Star Factory (Pop Star's) – in particular, he produced the winners of “Pop Star's - 2004” – the group “OVER GROUND” Based on the results of sales of the single of this group “ Shik mir'nen Engel”, DEEMA received a Platinum Disc award (in Europe, this award is given to an artist when an album is sold over 1 million copies), and the results of sales of the first solo album of the same group - the Golden Disc. In the same 2004, Deema wrote the soundtrack for the video game Dino Crazy's on the Sony Playstation. In July - August of the same 2004, Deema took 3rd place in international festival New Wave - 2004 ( New wave- 2004), which took place in Jurmala. At the moment, as many as three record companies: Roca-Fella Records The Vergine Aftermat are fighting for the right to produce his new album - “Out of Control” and “Man on Moon”. In March 2005, in Canada, the shooting of the video for the song “Close the door” will begin, and in April he will start creating a solo concert program with the participation of the orchestra, vocal group, ballet. So, at the beginning of 2005, Deemi has 2 completed albums, 5 video clips, 2 soundtracks, Platinum and Gold discs for producing the German Pop Star's and universal recognition. Tragically died in an accident on March 23, 2007.

On March 22, a major car accident occurred in the center of Moscow, as a result of which 5 people died. The identity of the dead could not be established immediately. After identification, it became clear that the victims of the accident were former member"Star Factory-4" Ratmir Shishkov, as well as a singer named Deema. Timur Baysarov was driving the Mercedes. The young man, according to some media reports, is the nephew of Christina Orbakaite's ex-husband Ruslan Baysarov. However, the representation of the Chechen Republic in Moscow did not confirm the existence of family ties between Timur and Ruslan Baisarov. According to a REGNUM correspondent in Chechnya, Baysarov is a fairly common surname.

The accident occurred at the intersection of Sadovaya-Spasskaya Street and Orlikov Lane on the night of March 22. A Volkswagen Touareg and a Mercedes collided at an intersection, trying to run a red light. From impact "Mercedes" was thrown aside and in a moment the car was engulfed in flames.

The passengers and the driver of the Mercedes died on the spot. According to the preliminary data of the traffic police inspectors who measured the braking distance, "Mercedes" slipped into a red traffic light at a speed of 220-250 kilometers per hour.
The victims of that ill-fated accident were fellow musicians Sergey Zaikovsky (Deema sound engineer) nicknamed Guru-Rabbit, 22-year-old Timur Baisarov, singer Aldzhemen Sisokka (Deema), 19-year-old ex-"manufacturer" Ratmir Shishkov and 23-year-old Aldzhemen's girlfriend Kristina Get tired. Ratmir Shishkov was supposed to turn 19 on March 24. Deema is survived by two children.