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Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov put on the international wanted list

The Spanish National Court has put on the international wanted list of a Russian businessman with Greek citizenship, Gennady Petrov, his wife and his acquaintance Leonid Khristoforov, whom the Spanish authorities suspect of involvement in money laundering and membership in the Tambov criminal community. Now Gennady Petrov, according to media reports, may be in St. Petersburg. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region is not yet ready to confirm or deny information about the search for Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov.

In the summer of 2008, Spanish law enforcement authorities held a large-scale operation "Three"during which a reputable businessman was detained Alexander Malyshev  and people from his close circle, including businessman Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov. This operation, led by Judge Baltasar Garzon, was presented by the Spanish authorities as the liquidation of members tambov criminal community. Immigrants from Russia were suspected of involvement in money laundering, falsification of documents and tax evasion. The beginning of this operation was the verification of the activities of Gennady Petrov’s enterprises, through which, according to the Spanish police, money was laundered.

In 2010, Leonid Khristoforov and Gennady Petrov were released on bail  in the amount of € 300 thousand and € 600 thousand, respectively. The following year, the Spanish authorities gave Gennady Petrov permission to visit Russia to meet with his mother. After this visit, the businessman returned back. In April of this year, Gennady Petrov and his wife, as well as Leonid Khristoforov, received permission to go to Russia to undergo treatment. However did not return back. According to the St. Petersburg Internet newspaper Fontanka.ru, Petrov and Khristoforov notified the Spanish authorities of their poor health, confirming their words with medical documents.

Three months later, the Spanish national court, according to the Spanish ACB, issued an international warrant for the search and arrest of Gennady Petrov, his wife and Leonid Khristoforov.

Kommersant’s Central Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region reported that there are a number of information requests from Spanish law enforcement agencies in the local branch of Interpol. However, the St. Petersburg police are not yet ready to claim that it is Leonid Khristoforov or Gennady Petrov who is wanted. Security officials explain this by the fact that, as practice shows, people on the international wanted list often change their personal data. Therefore, it is possible that Leonid Khristoforov or Gennady Petrov may appear in the requests of the Spanish authorities, but under different surnames.

Attorney Sergei Afanasyev, representing the interests of a reputable businessman Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarina), whom the Russian law enforcement authorities consider the organizer and leader of the Tambov criminal community, told Kommersant that businessman Gennady Petrov has not gone through any criminal case related to his client. “It’s not the first time for Spanish justice to invent various stories, as well as the first time to arrest someone and then release them,” the lawyer commented on the version of the Spanish media about Gennady Petrov’s membership in the Tambov OPS.

In Russia, Gennady Petrov became widely known only after Operation Troika, when the European media began to write about the Russian mafia. Leonid Khristoforov gained fame in the early 2000s during the trial of the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova. He testified against the group Yuri Kolchin, convicted by the city court of St. Petersburg for the technical organization of the crime. Leonid Khristoforov told how he sold the Agram submachine gun to one of the members of the Yuri Kolchin group, from which Galina Starovoitova was killed.

In Spain, a high-profile trial of the Russian mafia continues, revealing more and more new details of money laundering schemes by members of the Tambov-Malyshevskaya organized crime group. The Russians, according to the state prosecution, have created hundreds of companies for which real estate was registered. Then it was repeatedly resold at increasing cost through firms controlled by the same people. The CrimeRussia also recognized the opinions of opponents who insist on the political motive for the Troika operation.

Among the figures with less loud surnames than Sergei Kuzmin or Vladislav Reznik, the Spanish prosecutor's office distinguishes Leonid Khristoforov and Yuri Salikov.

These are active members of the Tambov-Malyshevskaya organized crime group, who participated in the creation and management of companies through which criminal proceeds were laundered, according to the preliminary investigation.

Leonid Khristoforov - known in criminal circles as the Fuhrer. In 2001, he was sentenced by the City Court of St. Petersburg to an 11-year term for organizing the murder in 1996 of the commercial director of Krasny Khimik JSC Alexander Egorov. Four years after the verdict, he was released on parole, before his new arrest in Spain, he served as the informal curator of the St. Petersburg business Gennady Petrov, connected with the sea transportation of fuel. During his last visit to the boss, Leonid Khristoforov was detained as part of the.

The arrest of Gennady Petrov

Among the accused, Yuri Salikov, one of the key members of the group, is in the very first lines, according to Spanish prosecutors. As stated in the arrest warrant, signed by judge of the National Court of Justice Balthasar Garzon, Salikov was involved in arms smuggling in the past. He allegedly supplied Russian military aircraft to Angola.

Leonid Khristoforov

Leonid Khristoforov is called the right hand of Gennady Petrov, who carried out his orders and represented interests in Russia, in particular, managed his assets. He was his representative at the “gatherings” with others, about which he kept up to date with Petrov.

Vladimir Barsukov - Kumarin in court

In addition, by telephone, Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov discussed the promotion of Nikolai Aulov (at that time the head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the Central Federal District), whom the Spanish prosecutor considers a member of the "Russian mafia", who is responsible for relations with Russian security forces. At the same time, Aulov himself explained the recorded telephone conversations by the fact that he used Gennady Petrov as an informant. He allegedly transmitted "useful information on a number of issues."

Nikolay Aulov - lieutenant general of the police. He was the deputy head of the North and North-West Regional Department for Combating Organized Crime. Since November 2006 - Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District. In June 2008, he was appointed deputy director of the Federal Drug Control Service - head of the Operational Investigation Department. After the FSKN was disbanded, there was no information about Aulov’s appointments. Under the pseudonym Nikolay Sofronov is a co-author of detective bestsellers by Andrei Konstantinov “Gangster Petersburg”, “Lawyer”, etc.

Patronage of Petrov

As the investigation established, Leonid Khristoforov transferred funds to Spain in the amount of more than 400 thousand euros and acquired real estate in the amount of about 1.9 million euros. In particular, he applied to one of the La Caixa bank branches of Palma de Mallorca to open an account and apply for a loan. Despite the lack of work and confirmation of his income, the application was granted. The materials of the preliminary investigation indicate that the loan was approved due to the protection of Petrov at the bank. However, details about the relationship with the credit institution were not disclosed. “A man who has just arrived in Spain without a job and assets receives a loan of 1.9 million.

For the loan, Leonid Khristoforov bought a house in Mallorca at 7 Carrer Gran Via Eivissa (Calvia). This is a rather modest mansion, especially in comparison with the real estate of Petrov, Malyshev and Reznik. At the same time, he managed to maintain a high standard of living and expenses in Spain, using money of criminal origin, prosecutors say.

However, Khristoforov’s participation in dubious transactions in Spain ends here, as he developed the main activity in the interests of organized crime groups in Russia. And since the Russian security forces were reluctant to cooperate with the Spanish prosecutor's office, there is very little information about Khristoforov in the materials of the preliminary investigation.

At that time, some considered Yuri Salikov, now engaged in business in Sweden, to be the gray cardinal of the criminal world in St. Petersburg. Yuri Salikova mentions in his famous book "Gangster Petersburg" and writer Andrei Konstantinov:

Yuri Salikov did not like to shine, but worked a lot - he traded in antiques, which went in unknown ways abroad, oversaw underground jeans factories. Yuri had a brother Igor. Salikov constantly urged the gangster youth "to be realistic", constantly reminded that "you need to work a lot." They did not commit atrocities, working mainly against those who did not go to the police to complain — bartenders who had risen to fill the beer with the proletariat, petty stealing hotel administrators and waiters, prostitutes and taxi drivers.

Often the group practiced the usual cheating card game when taking money from a client. There were no bloody traces behind them, they were limited mainly to drunken fights with bruises and broken teeth. The range of their “business interests” was unusually wide: the group was engaged in everything from knocking out card debts and buying up antiques to speculating with bulbs, and the top of its technical equipment was a Lada car with a radar detector. I didn’t hear anything about him until the summer of 2008, when the media reported that Yuri Salikov was arrested in Spain along with Alexander Malyshev, Gennady Petrov and other Malyshevskys as part of a high-profile special operation by Spanish law enforcement officers.

Money Laundering Companies

Later, in the materials of the preliminary investigation, Yuri Salikov was called an active and important member of the organized crime group, who, together with Sergei Kuzmin and Gennady Petrov, participated in the creation of money laundering companies. In 2009, Yuri Salikov was convicted in Spain for illegal VAT refunds worth more than 20 million euros. The central court sentenced him to imprisonment for a term of 2.5 years. On this basis, the prosecutor’s office alleges violation of Spain’s tax laws related to Salikov’s business partners.

His closest partners were brothers George and Pyotr Vasecki, who are now hiding from justice. For fraud, Ikstessav Investments SL (a palindrome from the name "Vasecki") was used, founded on March 1, 1996 with a registered capital of 338 thousand euros. Its co-founders in equal shares were Petrov, Salikov, Vasetsky and.

Through Ikstessav Investments SL, an apartment was sold in building 33 on la Avenida Gabriel Roca. In 1997, real estate and a parking space were bought from a controlled company Pyotr Vasetsky and Gennady Petrov for 210 thousand euros. In 1999, Vasetskiy became the sole owner of the apartment, having bought Petrov’s stake for 66 thousand euros. And in 2000, the apartment was purchased by Sunstar Inversiones SL, whose legal address coincides with the address of the house where Yuri Salikov and his wife Barbara lived. Interestingly, the mansion is located directly opposite the villa of Gennady Petrov.

Through Ikstessav Investments SL and Sunstar Inversiones SL, a lot of real estate purchases were recorded, which were then resold to companies controlled by Petrov for the purpose of money laundering. In fact, “” bought up the entire Sol de Mallorka area. The materials of the preliminary investigation mention about 10 real estate objects that passed through the companies of Petrov and Salikov. For some reason, one of the houses was sold on behalf of the father of Yuri Salikov, a citizen of the Russian Federation Mikhail Salikov.

In addition, Yuri Salikov took loans from his companies Ikstessav Investments SL and Sunstar Inversiones SL, and then returned them, depositing money into the charter of the company. During 2002, Yuri Salikov brought to Sunstar Inversiones SL a total of 900 thousand euros, the origin of which is unknown and which significantly exceed the amount of income indicated in the tax return of the couple.

At the same time, according to accounting reports, almost all of Sunstar Inversiones SL's funds went to the construction of a residential building and the purchase of a BMW car. And after the construction was completed, the company paid for the home improvement, expenses for its maintenance and bills (electricity, water, gardening, maintenance of swimming pools, etc.), as well as the maintenance of a luxury SUV.

The only expenses the company spent on its personnel were payments to director Yuri Salikov. Yuri Salikov did not have a single employee in his subordination and paid his own salary.

Salikov's testimony

In court, Yuri Salikov said that he "was not long" a partner of Gennady Petrov in two companies, and Petrov knew about the criminal past only "by rumors." They were neighbors and "walked with the dogs together."

Salikov said that he did not remember why for less than three years there was an increase in the capital of Sunstar Inversiones SL from 1502 euros to 2.4 million euros. Money to increase capitalization, he said, was given to him by his father, and they were also obtained through tax evasion schemes worth 20 million euros, for which he had already been sentenced in 2009 to 2.5 years in prison.

Yuri Salikov said that he was not connected with the main suspects in the case in Spain - Alexander Malyshev, Olga Solovyeva, Victor Gavrilenkov and Sergey Kuzmin.

CrimeRussia was able to contact Igor’s brother, Yury Salikov, mentioned above. He said that the whole story with the “Russian mafia” lies only in the political plane. According to Igor Salikov, Spain, experiencing a crisis, made concessions for foreign investors, which Russian entrepreneurs took advantage of. They began to run a legal real estate business in Spain. However, then, in 2006-2008, the role of Russia in the international arena began to strengthen and Western intelligence agencies handed over to the Spanish law enforcement agencies a tip on supposedly fraudulent businessmen who could be accused of ties with the Russian authorities and thereby undermine the Kremlin’s authority in the face of foreign partners. For this very reason, influential politicians, deputies and officials were included in the list of suspects. And the trial, which was being prepared for 10 years, began precisely on the eve of the presidential election in Russia.

Leonid Vitalievich Khristoforov was born on July 7, 1970 in the Krasnodar Territory. He is convicted three times: in 1995 for robbery and extortion, in 1998 for smuggling, attempted illegal crossing of the state border and the use of obviously false documents, and finally in 2001 for organizing a murder out of mercenary motives. In 1996, there were 2 attempts on him.

Leonid Khristoforov in criminal circles was nicknamed the Fuhrer. He is convicted three times - for the murder of the commercial director of JSC "Red Chemist" Alexander Egorov, robbery and extortion. He was given 11 years for the murder, but he served four and was released on parole, where he was in charge of the St. Petersburg business of Gennady Petrov, who had left for Spain, until his arrest. In May 2005, the court withdrew his criminal record ahead of schedule.

On June 12, 2008, Khristoforov was arrested by Italian law enforcement agencies together with Alexander Malyshev and Gennady Petrov.

In January 2010 he was released on bail.

Dossier:

The general public became aware of the existence of Leonid Khristoforov in the fall of 2003. Then, in the Kurortny district of St. Petersburg, the armored Mercedes-Gelenvagen Khristoforov, at that time the commercial director of the tourist company Prima, came under fire. The incident occurred on October 25 at about one in the morning on the 38th kilometer of Primorsky highway. Unknown men from unidentified weapons fired at a car moving along the highway. Khristoforov himself, who was driving a car, was not injured. A criminal case was opened on this fact under article 30, article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted murder), which remained unsolved.
Source: IA Rosbalt dated 10.27.2003

In December 2003, Leonid Khristoforov interested journalists in the St. Petersburg newspaper “Your Secret Advisor” in connection with the conflict between the founders of Kolpino Food Plant, the largest producer of deep-frozen foods in St. Petersburg. During the conflict, Vsevolod Timoshenkov, the plant’s director general associated with Khristoforov, told reporters that he was the victim of pressure from the widow of the murdered co-owner of the enterprise, Sergey Kuznetsov, and another co-founder Georgy Ivanov. At the same time, Tymoshenkov told reporters that pressure on him occurred in the office of Oleg Koryakin, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

Journalists also reported that shortly before this, the killers tried to kill another co-owner of the plant Valery Bogdanov. The attempt on Bogdanov occurred on May 11, 2003, but Bogdanov and the child who was in the car at the time of the attempt were survived. After that, Bogdanov and his family lived abroad and were not going to return to Russia.

Reference: Valery Viktorovich Bogdanov was born on January 7, 1945. Like other participants in this conflict that spilled onto the pages of the media, he was convicted, moreover, twice. In 1975, for fraud, and in 1980 for a crime under the almost exotic article of the Criminal Code, a violation of traffic safety rules. At the same time, in the biography of Valery Bogdanov there is one interesting episode - even before the first trial, he served in the escort troops. In places of deprivation of liberty, carriers of such biographies have a lot of the most serious problems - they say that the friendship between Valery Bogdanov and the other protagonist of this story, the late Sergey Kuznetsov, began with this. They sat in one zone, made friends, and Kuznetsov supported Bogdanov in every possible way, protecting him from the aggression of the orthodox of the criminal world.

Having recovered from his wounds, Valery Bogdanov openly accused Sergei Kuznetsov of organizing an attempt on himself. This was announced to journalists personally by Leonid Khristoforov. By that time, he was on the side of Bogdanov in conflict with other founders of the plant.

Reference: Sergey Kuznetsov was born on April 8, 1942 in Uzbekistan, he came to Leningrad as a relatively young man. In February 1974, he was already convicted by the Dzerzhinsky District People's Court of Leningrad for the crime provided for in subsection 14 (3) of the Criminal Code (“Fraud that Caused Significant Damage”), and was sentenced to 6 years in prison, of which nearly half served, and the remaining time spent on construction sites of the national economy. The next verdict - in 1983, immediately under two articles: the 146th (robbery) and 212th ("theft of vehicles"). The term for departure is 13 years with confiscation of property and a reference to 3 years. In 1994, Sergei Kuznetsov returned to St. Petersburg, where, along with Sergei Bogdanov, he went into business.

On Sunday September 14, 2003, Sergei Kuznetsov was killed. Anna Vasilievna, the widow of Kuznetsova, considered organizer of the murder of her husband Valery Bogdanov and, apparently, Khristoforov.

Vsevolod Timoshenkov did not comply with all the instructions of Ivanov and Kuznetsova, which required to give them the enterprise. And he turned for support to Leonid Khristoforov, an old friend of Kuznetsov and Bogdanov, who had a good command of the situation at the plant. Khristoforov told reporters about this: “When I returned from prison at the end of last year, Valera Bogdanov and Serezha Kuznetsov turned to me with an interesting commercial offer. We agreed that I would enter their business with a chain of stores, so that the Kolpino Combine would have its own branded retail network. I think they offered this not only for commercial reasons - they hoped that as a person who had known them for a long time, I would be able to help them agree. I thought it would turn out that way, and set only one condition: that the composition of the founders should change at Kolpinsky Food Plant LLC. I didn’t want to invest in a company that has six owners besides me, four of whom are nothing more than people from the circle of Bogdanov and Kuznetsov. Everyone knows that the plant has two real owners - Valera and Serezha, which means that in our joint business there should be three of them - they and I.

By common agreement, the relevant documents were prepared when it remained to put the latest seals and signatures on them, there was an attempt on Valery Bogdanov. It became clear that the plans for a “company for three” would never come true. But Leonid Khristoforov didn’t completely leave the “ravioli” affairs - Valery Bogdanov, who flew abroad, asked him to represent his interests at the plant and support the General Director Vsevolod Timoshenkov in order to protect him from anybody’s pressure. Tymoshenko began to appear everywhere along with Khristoforov, surrounded by quite impressive protection. They even settled nearby - in two rented cottages in Dunes on the shores of the Gulf of Finland. After this there was an attempt on Christoforov.

Khristofrov linked the incident with Anna Kuznetsova.

After that, even before the entry into force of the inheritance rights of the shares of the murdered Sergey Kuznetsov, the majority of the votes in the combine came from the “Ivanov team”.
Source: "Your Privy Advisor" from 12/01/2003

In 2005, George Ivanov was killed. This crime was associated with the same conflict. Shortly before his death, he gave an interview to reporters of the newspaper “Your Privy Councilor”. He told his version of the murders of the founders of the Kolpino plant. According to Ivanov, he sold his jeep for 20 thousand dollars, Kuznetsov - three apartments. With this money, their long-time partner Valery Gusev built the plant. But as a result of the conflict described, by the end of 2004, Ivanov had already lost the opportunity to participate in the management of the dumpling company. He said that, together with his supporters and lawyers, he was trying legally to return the seized enterprise.

“The invaders,” explained Georgy Nikolaevich, “introduced their man, the general director Timoshenkov, who then forged the signatures on the documents, and as a result the plant left our hands ...”

Ivanov also commented on the events that happened in 2003 in connection with the Kolpino food factory. According to the entrepreneur, both the attempt on Bogdanov and the attempt on Khristoforov are nothing more than a dramatization. “Kuznetsov and Bogdanov quarreled over the latter’s greed,” he said. - He promised Kuznetsov that he would sit in Spain and just get the money. As a result, Kuznetsov was killed, Bogdanov in Spain ... The arrows were correctly transferred to him. And Khristoforov now runs the enterprise. It’s easy to understand if you know that Tymoshenkov is Bogdanov’s man ... ”

In mid-December 2004, by the decision of the Arbitration Court, Kolpinsky Food Plant LLC was declared bankrupt and bankruptcy proceedings were opened for one year. Journalists suggested that Ivanov somehow interfered with the takeover of a bankrupt enterprise by another company.
Source: www.fontanka.ru from 10.31.2005

In less than a month, the Kolpino Food Plant was once again in the focus of law enforcement. On November 18, 2005, Alexander Timoshenkov, the father of the head of the enterprise, Vsevolod Timoshenkov, was wounded. Two attacks in a short time are difficult to attribute only to the category of accidents ...

Alexander Timoshenkov himself is a famous man in the city. Since 1971, he served in the state security organs. He finished his service in 1992 with the rank of colonel. But until the end of the 90s he did not leave the department, working as an assistant to the chiefs of the St. Petersburg FSB department, including Viktor Cherkesov.
Source: www.fontanka.ru on 11/21/2005

In early 2007, journalists wrote about the relationship between the head of the apparatus of the chairman of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Zaragatsky, and Leonid Khristoforov. It was about the fact that at the birthday of Zaragatsky there were noticed: Alik Beglov (Kazan organized crime group), Leonid Khristoforov, businessman Dmitry Mikhaylchenko, Bobovnikov Sasha (Izmailovo organized crime group of Moscow), businessman Mikhail Sliozberg.
Source: www.rospress.com on 02/08/2007

In June 2008, Leonid Khristoforov, along with Gennady Petrov and several people from their environment, were arrested by the Spanish police. This was followed by a new surge in press interest in Khristoforov. They were accused of financial fraud and money laundering.

Leonid Khristoforov (Kristo Folov) was detained in Marbella at four in the morning on June 12, 2008. As with the rest of the unfortunate owners of coastal mansions, the Spanish special forces stormed his house, throwing light on the windows of the bedroom with grenades and swinging the doors open in the opposite direction.

Millionaires who had just fallen asleep after the celebration of the Day of Russia, took these sounds by surprise. Finally, they came to their senses only in the chambers with hand and foot shackles put on them. “It’s like I am Doctor Lector!” Leonid Khristoforov is indignant. “I thought that these were our riot policemen, who were sick in the head, but they were far from the Spaniards. They drove me to the toilet for three days under guard from six machine gunners.”

"Biography"

Leonid Vitalievich Khristoforov was born on July 7, 1970 in the Krasnodar Territory. He is convicted three times: in 1995 for robbery and extortion, in 1998 for smuggling, attempted illegal crossing of the state border and the use of obviously false documents, and finally in 2001 for organizing a murder out of mercenary motives. In 1996, there were 2 attempts on him.

"News"

In Spain, a trial of 27 members of the Russian mafia

The trial of Russians and Spaniards, alleged members of the so-called “Russian Mafia,” will begin at the Spanish National Court of Justice (NSPI) on June 12 and will last until July 6, 2017, a Spanish legal source told DW. The trial will take place in the Third Criminal Division of the NSPI, chaired by Judge Felix Alfonso Guevara. Defendants held accountable for membership in a criminal gang and laundering criminally acquired capital in Spain are facing a sentence of 5 and a half to 8 and a half years, as well as a fine, the total amount of which is 2.7 billion euros.

9 year investigation

The arrests of persons involved in the upcoming process were made back in 2008 as part of the Troika police operation. Entrepreneurs Gennady Petrov, Alexander Malyshev, Yuri Salikov, Leonid Khristoforov, Leonid Khazin, Mikhail Rebo and others were in the hands of the police. In accordance with the conclusion of the Spanish prosecutor’s office published in the press in 2016, they are accused of belonging to the St. Petersburg Tambov and Malyshevsky criminal communities. Criminalized and their Spanish accomplices.

It also appears from the prosecutor’s document that the capital - we are talking about millions of euros - that have been “scrolled” in Spain since 1996 through 19 companies created by the group, were obtained in Russia by criminal means, in particular as a result of extortion and raider seizures of property. The investigation also revealed that the persons acting in Spain had high patrons in Russia, for example, Colonel General Nikolai Aulov and former Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Igor Sobolevsky.

The case of the “Russian mafia” in Spain: the resonance process lies ahead

We are only talking about economic crimes - the laundering of Russian capital of allegedly criminal origin here. The public outcry, Quintana added, is most likely caused by the identity of the accused and their connections in Russia, revealed by the investigating authorities of Spain. The lawyer believes that the materials of the Spanish prosecutor’s office set out for the court on 500 pages are “a kind of saga about Russian crime and Russian society as a whole.”

After all, they feature not only the Russians brought to trial, whom the Spaniards call the major authorities of the Tambov-Malyshevsky organized crime group - Gennady Petrov, Alexander Malyshev, Leonid Khristoforov, Yuri Salikov and their accomplices in Spain - only 27 people. The prosecutor’s office also calls people associated with the accused “business relations” in Russia. And these are representatives not only of the criminal world, but also of the political, business and law enforcement agencies of Russia.

Spanish media reported the issue of an arrest warrant for 12 Russians

The judge of the Spanish National Court, José da la Mata, issued an arrest warrant for 12 people who are suspected of having connections with a group of the so-called criminal authority Gennady Petrov. This was reported by the Spanish agency EFE, reports RIA Novosti.

Spain put on the international wanted list of deputy Vladislav Reznik

State Duma deputy from "United Russia" Vladislav Reznik is put on the international wanted list at the request of Spain. Parliamentarian charged with involvement in a criminal group and money laundering

United Russia deputy Vladislav Reznik and his wife Diana Gindin have been put on the international wanted list by Interpol at the request of Spain. This was reported to RBC by a source surrounded by the deputy. The lawyer of the parliamentarian Alexander Gofshtein confirmed to RBC this information.

Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov put on the international wanted list

The Spanish National Court put on the international wanted list of the Russian businessman with Greek citizenship, Gennady Petrov, his wife and his friend Leonid Khristoforov, whom the Spanish authorities suspect of involvement in money laundering and membership in the Tambov criminal community. Now Gennady Petrov, according to media reports, may be in St. Petersburg. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region is not yet ready to confirm or deny information about the search for Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov.
  link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 32358.htm

Vertical redistribution of Mikhalchenko

So the insidious Lavrov is guaranteed to update the overview reports, having served the promised position of Shamanin as the head of the SEB department with a further eye. From the banal gangster and murderer Leonid Khristoforov Kolpinsky (industrial outskirts of St. Petersburg) spill, a young employee of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Andrei Pichushkin sculpts a person almost guilty in an avalanche of raider attacks in St. Petersburg. Khristoforov is a successful goal, since he personifies the so-called “Malyshevskaya” organized crime group, which is led by Alexander Malyshev himself from the Spanish Malaga, and in Moscow the Malyshevskys are represented by a certain Gennady Petrov. It was the Malyshevskys who could make the former Tambov rivalry.
  link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 19694.htm

Khristoforov who escaped from Spain was involved in the murder of a Chechen in St. Petersburg

The party at the Music bar 11 last weekend, December 16, ended with shooting and death. Fontanka learned that that night Leonid Khristoforov was relaxing in the club, whose extradition as a member of the “Russian mafia” requires the Spanish authorities. As a result, the conflict of Azerbaijanis and some Chechens who walked with him ended in blood. Gangsters approaching the meeting fired point-blank from three combat pistols. Meanwhile, friends of the deceased from the North Caucasus have already arrived in Petersburg. Police are awaiting retaliation.
  link: http://rospres.com/government/ 11640 /

In St. Petersburg, police detained and released Russians escaping from Spain, simulating the fight against the mafia

In St. Petersburg and its environs, police detained fugitive defendants suspected of laundering funds accumulated by the Tambov criminal group in Spain. The search for detainees was carried out at the request of Interpol, but they are not threatened with extradition to the Iberian Peninsula, since the law protects domestic criminal authorities no worse than other Russians. The spouses Gennady and Elena Petrova, as well as their friend Leonid Khristoforov, were detained, Rosbalt reports citing a source in law enforcement agencies.
  link: http://www.newsru.com/crime/ 18oct2012 / tambovmafiafreespb. html

National judge Santiago Pedraz granted the motion of the Spanish prosecutor and issued an arrest warrant and wanted list for Gennady Petrov, his wife and closest partner, an authoritative resident of St. Petersburg Leonid Khristoforov. Petrov and Khristoforov were arrested by the Spanish police in the summer of 2008, they were charged with organizing the Tambov criminal community, conspiracy to launder money and crimes against society. In January 2010, Judge Pablo Rus decided to release authoritative Russians on bail: Petrova - 600 thousand euros, Khristoforova - 300 thousand euros.
  link: http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/ 2012/07/20 / 1013402.html

Tambovs took a pledge

On Friday, it became known that the Spanish National Court of Justice decided to release three people involved in the so-called “case of the Russian mafia” on bail. According to the newspaper El Mundo, two accused of money laundering, embezzlement and falsification of documents, Alexander Malyshev and Leonid Khristoforov, may be released on bail in the amount of 500 thousand and 300 thousand euros, respectively. The court made such a decision on Thursday.
  link: http://www.gazeta.ru/social/ 2010/01/29 / 3318138.shtml

For the alleged leader of the Tambov-Malyshev group, Gennady Petrov, who has been living in Spain since 1996, a deposit of 600 thousand euros was assigned the day before. Today, two other suspects were released - the so-called “second number” of the Russian mafia in Spain, Alexander Malyshev and Leonid Khristoforov were “valued” at 500 thousand and 300 thousand euros, respectively.
  link: http://www.fontanka.ru/2010/ 01/29/091 /

Tambov found in the homeland

Employees of the National Bureau of Interpol in Russia established the whereabouts of reputable entrepreneurs Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov, who fled from justice in Spain. They will not be given to the initiators of the search, but they can be convicted in the Russian Federation for money laundering and participation in the criminal community.
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Spain. The release on bail of the Russians arrested in 2008 continues

The Chamber of Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of Spain decided to release two more Russians suspected of money fraud on condition of subscription not to leave the house. Earlier, a collateral of 600,000 euros for Petrov was reported here, and yesterday, on Friday, Alexander Malyshev and Leonid Khristoforov were “valued” at 500,000 and 300,000 euros, respectively.
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"Russian Mafiosi" in Spain released on bail

The Spanish National Court of Justice released three Russians on bail, suspected of money fraud and considered members of the “Russian mafia”. For the alleged leader of the Tambov-Malyshev group, Gennady Petrov, who had been living in Spain since 1996 and was involved in money laundering, a security deposit of 600 thousand euros was assigned the day before. Today, on Friday, two other suspects were released - the so-called “second number” of the Russian mafia in Spain, Alexander Malyshev and Leonid Khristoforov were “valued” at 500 thousand and 300 thousand euros, respectively. None of the three defendants has yet to make a deposit, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reports.
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Tambov Mafia in Spain

Three Russians accused of committing crimes as part of the so-called Tambov criminal group were released on bail in Spain, Gazeta.ru reports. Alexander Malyshev, Leonid Khristoforov and Gennady Petrov are accused of money laundering, theft of property and forgery of documents. All three and another 20 people from their environment were detained in the summer of 2008 in Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, Alicante and Madrid.
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Judge Garson leaked to the press negotiations of the deputy head of the Federal Drug Control Service Nikolay Aulov with criminal authority Gennady Petrov

The National Court of Justice of Spain decided to release from prison on bail authoritative St. Petersburg businessmen Alexander Malyshev, Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov. Mr. Petrov quietly returned to his luxurious villa on the island of Mallorca, where now he should regularly be noted in the commissariat before the trial.
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The National Court of Spain has put on the international wanted list of the Russian businessman with Greek citizenship, Gennady Petrov, his wife and his friend Leonid Khristoforov, whom the Spanish authorities suspect of involvement in money laundering and membership in the so-called Tambov criminal community. Now Gennady Petrov, according to media reports, may be in St. Petersburg. The GU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region are not yet ready to confirm or deny information about the search for Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov.

In the summer of 2008, Spanish law enforcement agencies conducted a large-scale operation "Troika", during which authoritative businessman Alexander Malyshev and people from his close circle were detained, including businessman Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov. This operation, led by Judge Baltasar Garzon, was presented by the Spanish authorities as the liquidation of members of the Tambov criminal community.

Immigrants from Russia were suspected of involvement in money laundering, falsification of documents and tax evasion. The beginning of this operation was the verification of the activities of Gennady Petrov’s enterprises, through which, according to the Spanish police, money was laundered.

In 2010, Leonid Khristoforov and Gennady Petrov were released on bail in the amount of € 300 thousand and € 600 thousand, respectively. The following year, the Spanish authorities gave Gennady Petrov permission to visit Russia to meet with his mother. After this visit, the businessman returned back. In April of this year, Gennady Petrov and his wife, as well as Leonid Khristoforov, received permission to go to Russia to undergo treatment. However, they did not return back. According to the St. Petersburg Internet newspaper Fontanka.ru, Petrov and Khristoforov notified the Spanish authorities of their poor health, confirming their words with medical documents.

Three months later, the Spanish national court, as the Spanish newspaper ABC reported, issued an international warrant for the search and arrest of Gennady Petrov, his wife and Leonid Khristoforov.

Kommersant’s Central Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region reported that there are a number of information requests from Spanish law enforcement agencies in the local branch of Interpol. However, the St. Petersburg police are not yet ready to claim that it is Leonid Khristoforov or Gennady Petrov who is wanted. Security officials explain this by the fact that, as practice shows, people on the international wanted list often change their personal data. Therefore, it is possible that Leonid Khristoforov or Gennady Petrov may appear in the requests of the Spanish authorities, but under different surnames.

Attorney Sergei Afanasyev, representing the interests of the authoritative businessman Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), whom the law enforcement authorities consider the organizer and leader of the Tambov criminal community, told Kommersant that businessman Gennady Petrov has not gone through any criminal case related to his client. “It’s not the first time for Spanish justice to invent various stories, as well as the first time to arrest someone and then release them,” the lawyer commented on the version of the Spanish media about Gennady Petrov’s membership in the Tambov OPS.

In Russia, Gennady Petrov became widely known only after Operation Troika, when the European media began to write about the Russian mafia. Leonid Khristoforov gained fame in the early 2000s during the trial of the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova. He testified against a group of Yuri Kolchin, convicted by the Petersburg City Court for the technical organization of the crime. Leonid Khristoforov told how he sold the Agram submachine gun to one of the members of the Yuri Kolchin group, from which Galina Starovoitova was killed.

Dmitry Marakulin