He was a thief in Russia and a gangster in America, but he died for wanting to retire

Appearing at the beginning of the 20th century, the thieves in the law soon became the head of the organized crime of the USSR, and then Russia.

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Vyacheslav Ivankov, named Yaponchik, achieved unprecedented success in the USA and died by a sniper's bullet in Moscow. Ivankov once crowned Alexander Bor (Timokha Gomelsky), who can be safely called an authority of international scale. He managed to visit the Russian thief in law and the American gangster, making friends with the Italian mafia in the United States, becoming a killer in Germany and "looking" for Belarus. Timokha was not afraid to go against his "godfather" Jap and the underworld patriarch Aslan Usoyan (Ded Khasan). But the killer’s bullets eventually overtook him for simply wanting to retire ...

«Lenta.ru report” spoke about the life of a famous gangster in several countries around the world, including the USA.

Prison Universities

Alexander Bor was born on January 10 1954 in the Belarusian Gomel. True, he became Boron much later, and the surname Tymoshenko given to him at birth was quite famous in the city: the father of the future kingpin Ivan Tymoshenko made a very successful career in politics. Alexander's family was considered prosperous, and the boy grew up feeling superior to his peers.

When Tymoshenko Jr. became a high school student, his parent rose to the position of secretary of the Gomel Regional Party Committee. However, the high rank of the father did not save his son from the crooked path: in 16 years, Alexander, along with several friends, was arrested and charged with gang rape. And no matter how hard the relatives tried, connecting all possible connections, the teenager could not escape punishment: the side of the injured girl was a tenky and managed to achieve a major public outcry.

October 23 1970, the Gomel Regional Court issued a verdict: find Alexander Timoshenko guilty and sentenced him to six years in prison. The appeals that were filed by the defenders of the convict did not lead to anything, and in February 1971, Tymoshenko was transferred to a juvenile detention facility in the city of Bobrov, Voronezh Region.

After serving there until the age of majority, Alexander went to a correctional institution for an adult contingent. It is noteworthy that, despite the specific article that guarantees the convicts an unfriendly reception at the zone, Tymoshenko — somewhere with cunning, somewhere with a firm character — has established contacts with influential prisoners. He had no authority, but he was not subjected to humiliation by his cellmates.

After serving the sentence from the bell to the bell, Tymoshenko returned to his hometown as a finished urk. He was not going to get a job, contrary to the expectations of his relatives: - Alexander seemed to be a bland free existence of an ordinary workman, but he did not intend to live in lack of money. Together with a school friend, Tymoshenko organized a gang and engaged in a way of enrichment that was popular in the criminal world: he cleansed those who decided to emigrate in search of a better life for Jews. Those who wanted to leave the USSR as soon as possible did not turn to the police, and the racketeers remained unpunished.

This way of life again led the young criminal to the dock: this time for hooliganism. Given the unseemly biography of Tymoshenko, the 7 of January 1982, the judge did not stint when passing the sentence and sent him to jail for five years. The convict served time in two colonies, one of them was located in the Belarusian city of Orsha, and the other in the village of Ozerny in the Arkhangelsk Region. At one of the stages, Bor had a fateful meeting: he became acquainted with the authoritative thief in law, Vyacheslav Ivankov (Jap).

European voyage

From the very first acquaintance, Yaponchik noted that his new friend possesses weighty qualities for a criminal element - strength of will and inflexible character, which the jailers tried unsuccessfully to break. Of course, Ivankov knew under what article Tymoshenko made the first move, but did not attach much importance to this. Firstly, there were already precedents in the thieves' world - for example, the “arbitrator” Datiko Tsikhelashvili (Dato Tashkent) also served time for rape. And secondly, Tymoshenko himself assured Yaponchik that the case was fabricated in order to annoy his high-ranking father.

However, Immediately do the thief in law from Alexander Japchik did not dare, but he tried not to lose touch with him. And as soon as I learned that in November 1986, Tymoshenko was freed, hurried to contact him and offered to leave for Europe. The cunning Jap, understanding that the special services would not give him a quiet life in his homeland, had already planned to emigrate for a long time. But, not having direct subordinates abroad, I was a little afraid of such a step. Tymoshenko also saw him as the most promising candidate you can trust.

Protector Yaponchik European prospects liking, and he successfully prepared all the documents. For this, Tymoshenko deftly changed his nationality: he indicated that he was a persecuted Jew in the USSR (both by mother and father). In addition, he successfully married his former compatriot with American citizenship, Elena Bohr, and took her surname. However, according to the statements of Tymoshenko-Bora’s acquaintances, the marriage was not at all fictitious: they had feelings with Elena, and authority had a good attitude to step-son Dmitry, the son of his wife from his first marriage.

First of all, the newly born Bor went to the Federal Republic of Germany. Once in Germany, he adapted a little, began to look closely at the criminal situation and soon found out that the nominal ruler of the Russian criminal "throne" in the Federal Republic of Germany was Efim Laskin - another relatively successful person from the Soviet Union. He lived in Europe since 1972, and engaged in scams with fake money, resale of old icons, smuggling weapons and precious metals and other illegal things, for which he was taken by law enforcement agencies "on a pencil." At the same time, Laskin was not a thief in the law: on the contrary, he in every way prevented the penetration of thieves from the USSR into the territory of Western Europe.

However, Laskin clearly overestimated his strength: the Soviet authorities did not intend to nurse him, and soon the death sentence was passed on to the intractable competitor. Alexander Bor was to perform it.

Knife in munich

Of course, the sewers in the bag were not concealed: they warned Laskin about the looming threat. But he, confident of his invulnerability, only brushed aside from seemingly annoying “well-wishers”. In the fateful evening for themselves 27 September 1991, Yefim arrived at the Ungererbad building in Munich. According to some data, he intended to swim a little, according to other information - he arrived at a business meeting. As soon as Laskin left the auto salon, a killer ran up to him from behind his back and began to beat the authority with a knife: later, experts will count the wounds on the body of the deceased 11 order.

Ungererbad
Photo: Gras-Ober / Wikimedia

Not far from the crime scene, law enforcement officers found a wig with traces of blood on it. A little later, a bloodied handkerchief was found in the parking lot: some of the tracks belonged to the murdered Laskin, some to the unknown. Investigators managed to calculate Bohr only by the end of 90-x: they systematically checked everyone who had at least some contact with Laskin. Bor was among those: when comparing his DNA samples with those found on the evidence, the guards smiled good luck - the materials were identical.

During the investigation, it turned out that Bor was involved in another crime: together with accomplices, he “pressed” a native of Poland - the housekeeper of his mistress, from whom the Polka allegedly stole a decent amount of money (50 thousand German marks). The woman denied her involvement in the theft, but Bohr did not believe her and soon moved from the threats to cruel torture. As a result, the psyche of the unfortunate could not stand it: she seized the moment when the torturers were distracted, and jumped out of the window of the third floor. Doctors literally dragged the woman from the world, but she remained disabled for her whole life.

Immediately, the suspect could not be detained: by this time Bohr had moved to the United States, where the “rules” were still the loyal Jap. Once in America, Bohr acquired a decent mansion on Long Island and began to develop new schemes for their enrichment. In particular, he began to help influential Russian businessmen to launder money through fake foreign firms, having a good percentage of these operations. By approximate calculations, hundreds of millions of dollars passed through Bor.

The authority worked closely with the Italian mafia clans of Gambino and Galeno: together they opened dozens of companies allegedly specializing in the construction of golf courses. In fact, the main task of Bohr and his accomplices was to artificially raise the prices of companies' shares through brokers specially hired for this purpose, reselling securities at the peak of their value and quickly disappearing with the money raised. However, despite the fruitful cooperation, Bor did not really trust the Italian "colleagues". And when a certain Mikhail Syroezhin appeared on the horizon, a native of St. Petersburg who moved to relocate and volunteered to help Bor in his dark deeds, he was glad: he came from the USSR as a reliable candidate for the role of his closest aide.

Bor was cruelly mistaken: Syroyzhin, who took the name of his grandmother, Gass, for the simplicity of pronunciation by foreigners, turned out to be an FBI informant. He got hooked to the feds almost immediately after immigration: they found out that the guest did not arrive empty-handed — he brought with him two million dollars, which, taking advantage of his official position, he stole from one of the Russian TV channels. In order to avoid a prison sentence, Syroyzhin agreed to become an informant.

It is thanks to him that all the criminal schemes of Bohr and the Italians were revealed. In addition, Gass discovered that only in Russia in the possession of Bor are about 30 firms that generate an annual income of at least one million dollars. Numerous arrests of all accomplices of the swindler began, but Bor himself proclaimed the raid on time and decided to leave home in a hurry. However, he still failed to get away from justice: the path of authority lay through Germany, where he was eagerly awaited by the local police officers who had learned about the voyage.

They also found out that the suspect was traveling with a false Greek passport in the name of Alexander Ioannis Bora. As a result, the fugitive was detained on 9 on September 1999 of the year at Munich Airport, where he was waiting for a transfer flight to Moscow. Under him, 11 of thousands of dollars and a suitcase of expensive clothes were found: Bor himself told field investigators inspecting his baggage that each of his costumes cost more than one thousand dollars.

A hair away from life

The authority was immediately taken into custody, but during interrogations he was silent as partisans. However, this did not prevent the law enforcement authorities from successfully completing the investigation and sending the case file to the court, which started in Munich in the spring of 2001. Knowing who the suspect really is, the guards tried to provide maximum security measures for transporting and keeping the criminal behind bars.

For example, on the street along which Bor was taken to court, it was categorically forbidden not only parking - a second stop of any type of transport. And in order to get on the process itself, a person had to go through three cordons of protection, at each of them he was subjected to thorough inspection. But in the end, the zealous Germans found that the game was not worth the trouble - and to save money, they began to hold court hearings right in the prison building, where authority was kept.

The lawyers of Bohr understood: with such iron evidence, their client could not see the acquittal of his ears; To the bloody shawl was added the hair, which the experts found on the inside of the wig. The fact that it belongs to Bohr, the experts managed to prove very quickly. But lawyers did not expect how severe the sentence would be: life imprisonment. Such a verdict the judge read out 27 September 2002, exactly 11 years after the death of Efim Laskin. Shocked by this turn of events, Bohr was speechless. He no longer believed the promises of human rights defenders to challenge the court decision. But as it turned out, nothing.

By law or by crook, Bohr’s lawyers managed to get a review of the case: they were able to prove that a lot of procedural errors were made during the trial. Based on this, as a result, the first sentence was canceled, and the second, announced 5 of August 2004, was several times softer - 13 years of imprisonment. By the way, at the trial, Bor, who, during his time in jail, became fascinated with religion, generously sprinkled with quotations from the Bible. In particular, addressing the judge with a request for leniency, he screwed up the words of the Apostle Paul, told to Christ: “I expect mercy from You, and not retribution”. Given his previous sentence, Bor naturally reasonably considered that 13 years is a true gift from heaven. Yes, and he did not serve the entire term: after sitting for a couple of years, the authority, which local convicts for some reason called Petrovich, was released in the 2006 year by parole and soon left for Russia.

Rebel thief

By the time he was detained at the German airport, Bor was already in the status of a thief in law nicknamed Timoha of Gomel. In 1996, he was crowned by two of the most powerful Russian authorities - Jap and Aslan Usoyan (Ded Hasan). The latter was very pleased with the recruits in his camp: at that time he was actively fighting with the thieves in law the Oganov brothers. Everything else, Hassan was brewing conflict with the influential thief Tariel Oniani (Taro).

Bearing in mind the ancestral roots of Timokha Gomel, Hassan and Yaponchik made Bor looking for Belarus. He did not lose his head and immediately took control of most of the country's enterprises, enriching both the thieves' obshchak and his own pocket. Timoha beat off and part of the fishing industry in Kaliningrad, came into conflict with the local authority, nicknamed Karasik.

However, it turned out that Bohr eventually turned away from his “godfather” and went over to the side of his worst enemy Taro. The banal situation was the reason for such a strange act: in the middle of the zero at the wedding of Hassan's daughter, after drinking well, two authorities quarreled - the right hand of Timokh was a thief in law Dmitry Galeyev (Galya) and a supporter of Hassan, the authority of Yury Pichugin (Pichuga). The result of the altercation was the traditional wedding fight, after which the opponents did not put up - and held a grudge against each other.

Bor in all respects supported Galei - and soon both thieves went over to the side of the Tarot that was pleased with such a turn of events. To the chagrin of Jap, who, in conflict with Oniani, took the side of Hassan, his former protégé began to subscribe to slander calls calling him to deprive Santa of his status as thieves. In retaliation for such behavior, Hassan himself “opened up” Bohr and dismissed the Gomel watchman from his post, putting in his place the thief Alexander Kushnerov (Sasha Kushner, or Kushner Gomel).

In the meantime, open confrontation between the thieves' communities was rapidly gaining momentum. First, in 2009, the Jap was wounded and soon died, Yaponchik followed him to the other world in 2013, Grandpa Hassan set off, and Tarot was taken to jail. But Timokha continued to adhere to Oniani’s supporters and stood at the right hand of Tariel’s successor Merab Dzhangveladze (Merab Sukhumi). Because of this, Bor was in disgrace now from the Slavic thieves, who wondered why Timokha was sticking to the Georgian authorities, whose prominent representative was Merab.

Opponents of Timokha diligently waited for the right moment to strike him - and in the end they waited. In January, 2014, the authority was detained around one of the capital's entertainment institutions. Formally, there was a pretext: in April 2013, Timokha received another term, but, admittedly, conditional - for drug possession. The law enforcement officers who brought him to the police station began to question the authority about the rules which he, as the holder of the suspended sentence, should follow. At some point, the policeman, knowing full well who was in front of him, asked a common question: does the detainee consider himself to be in the category of thieves in the law?

Timokhi’s response discouraged even seasoned law enforcers. “No, I do not belong to any category of any thieves,” the detainee snapped. Guardian of the order immediately clarified, they say, you were a thief? “No, I have never been a thief and I am not a thief!” Timokha shook his head. This behavior of the authority was very strange: he had always confirmed his status as thieves. For example, during a raid on supporters of the Tarot, which occurred in July 2008, on a motor ship on the Pirogov reservoir, Timokha boldly called himself a thief to the camera and announced his nickname.

Timokha Gomel on camera refuses the title of thieves
Frame: PrimeCrimeRu / YouTube

Renegade bullets

A video of Timokha’s abdication immediately fell into the hands of those concerned - and his behavior was put on the agenda during the 2014 March meeting of Slavic thieves in law. There are four ardent enemies of Timokhi on her - thieves Mikhail Voevodin (Misha Luzhnetsky), Vladimir Zyatkov (Zyatek), Vasily Khristoforov (Vasya Voskres) and Robinson Arabuli (Robinson) who joined the Slavs (Robinson) - condemned the apostate. It was proposed to at least ignore Timokha in the thieves' world, as a maximum - to deal with him. “He is worthy only of an aspen stake in the throat,” sounded at the meeting. Not only the scandalous video played against Timokhi, but also the accusation of collaboration with law enforcement agencies: authority was often detained with drugs, but by some miracle he always left the water.

However, for Timokha, an authoritative thief Oleg Shishkanov (Shishkan) unexpectedly stood in the role of an “arbitrator” of the meeting, who decided: to delay the decision on the case of the “defendant”. They say that he is still a thief and nobody has been burglarizing him (Hassan’s unauthorized attack was not taken into account). On that and decided.

Meanwhile, Timokha settled in the village of Maslovo, Odintsovo District, Moscow Region. He was listed and metropolitan apartment in Krivokolenny lane. There, according to rumors, Timokha spent explanatory work with his debtors: the neighbors repeatedly noted that shouts and groans were heard from the apartment. However, the guards arriving at the place of order did not register anything illegal for the owner of the dwelling.

In the last years of his life, Timokh increasingly inclined to religion and attended the church in the neighboring village of Znamenskoye every weekend. There death awaited him. 31 May 2014 of the year, authority, as usual, arrived at the matins: in the 9 hours area, he left his Mercedes and slowly moved to the church. At the moment when Timokha left his guards' field of view, a killer ran up to him from behind and several times fired a pistol with a silencer at close range. Authority died almost instantly.

The liquidator rushed to the accomplice who was waiting for him on the scooter, and they quickly disappeared from the scene. The “Interception” plan, announced by the law enforcement officers who arrived at the place, did not give anything, and the murder eventually fell into the category of “visies”. The main version of the death of Timokha to this day is considered his unauthorized renunciation of the title of thief in law.

The grave of Timokhi Gomel. Photo: Prime Crime

Nevertheless, the authority was buried with all the honors of the thieves in the closed Osovtsy cemetery in his native Gomel, next to the grave of his father. And they even erected a pathos monument, traditional for thieves in law, which, by its scope, is hardly inferior to the memorial complex at the grave of Timokha’s “godfather” Yaponchik. And as the epitaph, the quatrain from the song “Paradise apples” by Vladimir Vysotsky was chosen:

"I will die once - we always die once, -
How to guess so that not himself - so that in the back with a knife:
The slain are spared, read the funeral and pampered with paradise, -
I will not say about the living, but we protect the dead. "

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