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Hunting for "Elephants"
On the night of November 26, 1993 Slonovskii OPG has organized one of the most brutal gang warfare beginning of the 1990s - the shooting club factory "Ryazselmash" in Ryazan. The story of one of the largest Russian criminal groups.
Slonovskii organized crime groups, organized in 1991 in Ryazan, originally called "Prezentovskoy" (a gathering place for members of the group was Ryazan restaurant "Present».
Will be 17 photos and some text.
The group emerged when the former driver of the Ryazan deputy city prosecutor Nikolay Maksimov, nicknamed Max (pictured left) and the taxi driver Vyacheslav Ermolov (Elephant) decided to do in the organization of the game in thimbles.
The shell game was a common business among gangs 90s. Many start that way. "Gambler" adhere to a strict hierarchy and discipline. This is displayed on the distribution of income. 25% from each ruble received gambler himself - "grass roots." 10% - "horse" (dummy), 5% is deducted "Lighthouse" (those who are engaged in a cover), half of the proceeds was taking "godfather" - the organizer.
Elephants have been several groups thimblerigger, but revenues did not suit him. Soon the gang members engaged in fraud when buying and selling cars at a local car market. As a result of actions of thugs with no money and the car were both seller and buyer.
In the early 1990s against the group's leaders were prosecuted for fraud, but many victims are then retracted their statements. As a result, Maksimov received a suspended sentence, and in the actions of Yermolov (pictured), the court found no corpus delicti
After that, the gang became involved mostly racketeering, which Elephant has created several "teams", each of which consisted of at least a hundred people. By the time Ryazan has been divided between organized crime groups, the most powerful of which was considered Ayrapetovskaya, whose leader was Victor Airapetov (pictured). After the murder of the director of the local slaughterhouse Victor Panarin, who was "fronting" gang Elephant factional war began.
November 26, 1993, four "Slonovskii" in DC "Selmash" in the center of Ryazan opened fire with machine guns on the rest there "ayrapetovskim." Seven people were killed and ten wounded, most Ayrapetova survived.
In response to the March 31, 1994 was shot Maximov. His funeral service on April 3 "ayrapetovskimi" was an attempt to blow up the "elephants", but the explosive with a radio-controlled detonator triggered 150 meters from hrama18 November 1994 a member of the group Leonid Stepahovym named Bubble was shot Dmitri Kochetkov, the leader of the Kochetov organized crime groups, and in February 1995 year - the leader of another group Ryazan Alexander Arkhipov. So "elephants" became the largest organized crime groups in Ryazan.
Slonovskii OPG actively cooperated with other groups, including those with volgovskih - one of the largest in Togliatti. November 18, 1994 in Tolyatti were sent eight killerov- "elephants", headed by Nikolai Gorelov and Danilevich (aka - "Nick Togliatti", on the left). November 24th they held their first action against competitors' volgovskih. " Dmitry powerful in the named Lenin and Vitaly Akhmetov named Ahmed (right) at the parking lot several times shot at members of OPG Vladimir Vdovin named a partner, but he was still alive.
Since 1993, the group not only engaged in racketeering, and financial pyramids, and fraud with postal credit notices. So, through the pyramid PICO "elephants" have gathered to depositors of 17 billion rubles., And then, in November 1994, Alexey Sergeev named Lёpa (left) shot her director Sergei Sovereign. Then in Tolyatti eight killers of Slonovskii groups committed one murder for hire and a number of assassination attempts. In the spring of 1995 to join the authority of OPG Sergei Filaretov named Felix (center). He tried to implement laws in a gang of thieves.
In the summer of 1995, he was killed the director of the Ryazan slaughterhouse Vasily Panarin who tried to go under the "roof" Slonovskii OPG. On hearing this, someone Chekirov whose gang controlled meat shot the director, hoping to take his post. In response, Sergei Filaretov (Felix) December 11, 1995 Chekirova killed and two of his accomplices. Murder Panarin led to a change of the Ryazan police chief who was Ivan Perov, who began to work actively against Slonovskii OPG. Then Slonovskii decided to eliminate his last rival Viktor Ayrapetova (pictured left). He was killed in November 1995.
After killing Ayrapetova the "elephants" are no more competitors. OPG has quickly become a central Ryazan, controlling markets, offices, ZhEKi, factories and farms. At the same time the bandits lived in grand style, their favorite holiday destination remained the restaurant "Present."
September 9, 1996 six members of the group kidnapped a businessman Slonovskii Khodjieva and demanded a ransom. In the same month they were detained and later confessed to almost 20 assassinations. October 1st Prosecutor of the Ryazan region opened another criminal case against members of organized crime groups. Within a short period, he was arrested most of the "Slonovskii" killers headed by Leonid Stepahovym (right) In the photo from left to right: Mr Moguchёv ("Lenin"), Alexander Gorelov ("face").
In early June 2004 the Ryazan district court reduced the term of Leonid Stepahova from 15 to 11 years and 9 July, he was released on bail. Later, prosecutors challenged the decision of the court, but Stepahov disappeared. July 26, 2006 he was detained in Kolomna, Moscow suburbs and 30 July transported to Ryazan
January 25, 2000 Ryazan regional court sentenced 22 members of a gang in a total of 214 years in prison. For the trial at an engineering plant was ordered by a special cage. Reading the verdict took three days, it has been proved 86 murders. Some leaders of the group, including Yermolov, are still being sought.
May 5, 2006 was an attempt to co-owner of the joint venture ZAO "Petersburg Oil Terminal" (PNT) by Sergei Vasiliev. Alleged perpetrators of the crime were former members of organized crime groups Slonovskii brothers Oleg and Andrei Mikhalev. In October 2006, they received 18, 5 and 20 years in prison. It was reported that the order for the killing came from the authority of a businessman Vladimir Barsukov (coumarin derivatives), trying to take over the terminal.
Seven members of the group are still in the federal wanted list. According to some reports, the ringleader of Yermolov lived in Europe, where does business. One of the former members of organized crime groups Slonovskii Fedor Provorotov ("Fyodor Bald") from 1999 leads political activities. But about it you can write a separate story, anyone interested can be found on the wiki.
www.kommersant.ru/gallery/2352092#id=951789
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That's all.
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Slonovskii organized crime groups, organized in 1991 in Ryazan, originally called "Prezentovskoy" (a gathering place for members of the group was Ryazan restaurant "Present».
Will be 17 photos and some text.
The group emerged when the former driver of the Ryazan deputy city prosecutor Nikolay Maksimov, nicknamed Max (pictured left) and the taxi driver Vyacheslav Ermolov (Elephant) decided to do in the organization of the game in thimbles.
The shell game was a common business among gangs 90s. Many start that way. "Gambler" adhere to a strict hierarchy and discipline. This is displayed on the distribution of income. 25% from each ruble received gambler himself - "grass roots." 10% - "horse" (dummy), 5% is deducted "Lighthouse" (those who are engaged in a cover), half of the proceeds was taking "godfather" - the organizer.
Elephants have been several groups thimblerigger, but revenues did not suit him. Soon the gang members engaged in fraud when buying and selling cars at a local car market. As a result of actions of thugs with no money and the car were both seller and buyer.
In the early 1990s against the group's leaders were prosecuted for fraud, but many victims are then retracted their statements. As a result, Maksimov received a suspended sentence, and in the actions of Yermolov (pictured), the court found no corpus delicti
After that, the gang became involved mostly racketeering, which Elephant has created several "teams", each of which consisted of at least a hundred people. By the time Ryazan has been divided between organized crime groups, the most powerful of which was considered Ayrapetovskaya, whose leader was Victor Airapetov (pictured). After the murder of the director of the local slaughterhouse Victor Panarin, who was "fronting" gang Elephant factional war began.
November 26, 1993, four "Slonovskii" in DC "Selmash" in the center of Ryazan opened fire with machine guns on the rest there "ayrapetovskim." Seven people were killed and ten wounded, most Ayrapetova survived.
In response to the March 31, 1994 was shot Maximov. His funeral service on April 3 "ayrapetovskimi" was an attempt to blow up the "elephants", but the explosive with a radio-controlled detonator triggered 150 meters from hrama18 November 1994 a member of the group Leonid Stepahovym named Bubble was shot Dmitri Kochetkov, the leader of the Kochetov organized crime groups, and in February 1995 year - the leader of another group Ryazan Alexander Arkhipov. So "elephants" became the largest organized crime groups in Ryazan.
Slonovskii OPG actively cooperated with other groups, including those with volgovskih - one of the largest in Togliatti. November 18, 1994 in Tolyatti were sent eight killerov- "elephants", headed by Nikolai Gorelov and Danilevich (aka - "Nick Togliatti", on the left). November 24th they held their first action against competitors' volgovskih. " Dmitry powerful in the named Lenin and Vitaly Akhmetov named Ahmed (right) at the parking lot several times shot at members of OPG Vladimir Vdovin named a partner, but he was still alive.
Since 1993, the group not only engaged in racketeering, and financial pyramids, and fraud with postal credit notices. So, through the pyramid PICO "elephants" have gathered to depositors of 17 billion rubles., And then, in November 1994, Alexey Sergeev named Lёpa (left) shot her director Sergei Sovereign. Then in Tolyatti eight killers of Slonovskii groups committed one murder for hire and a number of assassination attempts. In the spring of 1995 to join the authority of OPG Sergei Filaretov named Felix (center). He tried to implement laws in a gang of thieves.
In the summer of 1995, he was killed the director of the Ryazan slaughterhouse Vasily Panarin who tried to go under the "roof" Slonovskii OPG. On hearing this, someone Chekirov whose gang controlled meat shot the director, hoping to take his post. In response, Sergei Filaretov (Felix) December 11, 1995 Chekirova killed and two of his accomplices. Murder Panarin led to a change of the Ryazan police chief who was Ivan Perov, who began to work actively against Slonovskii OPG. Then Slonovskii decided to eliminate his last rival Viktor Ayrapetova (pictured left). He was killed in November 1995.
After killing Ayrapetova the "elephants" are no more competitors. OPG has quickly become a central Ryazan, controlling markets, offices, ZhEKi, factories and farms. At the same time the bandits lived in grand style, their favorite holiday destination remained the restaurant "Present."
September 9, 1996 six members of the group kidnapped a businessman Slonovskii Khodjieva and demanded a ransom. In the same month they were detained and later confessed to almost 20 assassinations. October 1st Prosecutor of the Ryazan region opened another criminal case against members of organized crime groups. Within a short period, he was arrested most of the "Slonovskii" killers headed by Leonid Stepahovym (right) In the photo from left to right: Mr Moguchёv ("Lenin"), Alexander Gorelov ("face").
In early June 2004 the Ryazan district court reduced the term of Leonid Stepahova from 15 to 11 years and 9 July, he was released on bail. Later, prosecutors challenged the decision of the court, but Stepahov disappeared. July 26, 2006 he was detained in Kolomna, Moscow suburbs and 30 July transported to Ryazan
January 25, 2000 Ryazan regional court sentenced 22 members of a gang in a total of 214 years in prison. For the trial at an engineering plant was ordered by a special cage. Reading the verdict took three days, it has been proved 86 murders. Some leaders of the group, including Yermolov, are still being sought.
May 5, 2006 was an attempt to co-owner of the joint venture ZAO "Petersburg Oil Terminal" (PNT) by Sergei Vasiliev. Alleged perpetrators of the crime were former members of organized crime groups Slonovskii brothers Oleg and Andrei Mikhalev. In October 2006, they received 18, 5 and 20 years in prison. It was reported that the order for the killing came from the authority of a businessman Vladimir Barsukov (coumarin derivatives), trying to take over the terminal.
Seven members of the group are still in the federal wanted list. According to some reports, the ringleader of Yermolov lived in Europe, where does business. One of the former members of organized crime groups Slonovskii Fedor Provorotov ("Fyodor Bald") from 1999 leads political activities. But about it you can write a separate story, anyone interested can be found on the wiki.
www.kommersant.ru/gallery/2352092#id=951789
Photo: mzk1.ru
That's all.
Source:
