The Russian kingpin was convicted of creating an organized criminal gang in New York

In the court of the Southern District of New York, a jury recognized the thief in law Russian Rajden Shulai, known in criminal circles as Rajden Pietersky, Brother and Roma, guilty of five counts. He faces 65 years in prison, writes Kommersant.

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Shulalay was accused of creating in New Jersey a criminal gang consisting mainly of immigrants from Georgia, as well as racketeering, drug trafficking, illegal organization of gambling, theft, including computer, and other crimes. Another accusation - in preparation for the contract killing - did not reach the court.

His accomplice Avtandil Khurtsidze, last world boxing world middleweight champion according to the WBO, was found guilty of computer fraud and could get up to 20 years in prison. According to the investigation, the participants of the organized criminal group used both classic criminal methods (for example, they sent women drinking clubs with chloephin to customers) and the most modern ones, hacking the computer codes of slot machines in Atlantic City and Las Vegas casinos. Most of the members of the group lived in the New York area of ​​Brighton Beach and controlled the small business of the Russian-speaking diaspora.

According to US law enforcement officials, the organized criminal group maintained contacts with other criminal groups operating not only in the United States, but also in Russia and Ukraine. Shulay himself, as evidenced by his intercepted conversations, liked to emphasize his influence in different countries. "In America, I put everything on the thieves' rails," he boasted in one of the conversations.

It is noted that in the summer of 2013, along with 18, criminal leaders from the former republics of the USSR Rajden Pitersky was detained in Europe, but then quickly released. After being detained in the United States, he said that he understood what he was accused of, but did not understand why. The verdict of Shulae and Khurtsidze will be passed in a few months.

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