2014: Russian Organized Crime 5 Years OutCaitlin Rice, 8 Dec 2009PIA2365 – Transnational Organized Crime

Introduction

What? Current status of Russian organized

crime is marked by trends towards oblast’ centers, leadership power vacuum, increasing opportunities (Olympic contracts/businesses)

So what? Sochi: capital of Russian crime by

2014 Winter Games

Overview

I. Russian Organized Crime Today

What, where, who? The year 2009▪ 1 death (“Yaponchik”)▪ 1 decline (“Taro”)▪ 1 rise to power (“Ded Khasan”)

Legal response/involvement

Overview

II. Sochi (Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation)

Regional crime in Northern Caucasus Government corruption Russian-Olympic corruption (2002, 2014)

III. 2014: Alternate Futures Future of vory v zakonye? Profit from Sochi Winter Olympics? Law enforcement/rule of law?

Russian Organized Crime: Who?

Аслан Усоян (Дед Хасан)Aslan Usoyan (“Ded Khasan”)

Russian Organized Crime: Who?

Тариэл Ониани (Таро)Tariel Oniani (“Taro”)

Russian Organized Crime: Who?

Тариэл Ониани (Таро)Tariel Oniani (“Taro”)

Russian Organized Crime: Who?

Захар Калашов (Шакро-молодой)Zachar Kalashov (“Shakro molodoi”)

Russian Organized Crime: Who?

Лаша Руставский/ШушанашвилиLasha Rustavsky/Shushanashvili

Lasha Shushanashvili

Aslan Usoyan

Russian Organized Crime: Who?

Вячеслав Иваньков (Япончик)Vyacheslav Ivankov (“Yaponchik”)

2008 – 2009

July 2008 – Taro’s meeting on boat, arrests

Feb 2009 – Alek “Sochi” Minalyan dead

May 2009 – Andrei Golubev killed

July 2008 Feb 2009 May 2009

2009 (continued)

28 July 2009: Yaponchik shot 19 Sept 2009: malyava on Taro

issued 9 Oct 2009: Yaponchik dies

“from Ded Khasan”

Yaponchik’s funeral, Moscow (13 Oct 2009)

Lashamedium business, trade, petty theft

Ded Khasan

oil, hotels, gambling,

banking, travel, vehicle sales, $

laundering

Taroreal estate, drugs,

arms, gambling, banking, $ laundering

YaponchikInterest banking,

information technology,

vehicle sales, contraband

Otherfirms protection,

waste disposal, drugs, consumer

goods

Moscow, early 2009

Lasha(w/

D.Kh.’s permissi

on)

Ded Khasan

(+ Y’s territory

)

Other(?)

Moscow, late 2009

Russian & Olympic corruption

Salt Lake City 2002

So what?

Sochi as capital of Russianorganized crime in 2014?

Alternate Futures (under construction)

In 2014… is Ded Khasan the leader of the vory v zakonye? have the Winter Olympics brought high profits? international toleration of Olympics corruption? unification of crime gangs versus turf wars?

Other factors status of conflict in Georgia/Caucasus? Economic situation in Eastern Europe/Eurasia? Russian rule of law? (i.e. life sentences for

organizers)

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