Former Odessa resident Marat Yakovlevich Balagula, who served three sentences for debit card fraud and gasoline tax evasion, died in New York. He had a reputation as the "godfather of the Russian mafia", which was mainly created for him by my late colleague Robert Friedman,...
Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Yaponchik, a failed gymnast and mental hospital patient, was one of the most famous mafiosi in Russia. The Jap achieved everything in the Russian criminal world, and at the dawn of the 1990s he left for the USA. Overseas, Jap has achieved unprecedented success, becoming...
It became the nightmare of the "Russian" district of New York - Brighton Beach, and the patronage of the famous Sicilian "Cosa Nostra" allowed the Agron gang to arrange a real chaos across the ocean. However, the Italian mafiosi did not accept Yevsey into the "family", and when their interests crossed, they sent him to the "Russian" ...
Upper East Side businessman Oleg Mitnik said federal agents betrayed him by releasing two people accused of plotting his murder, The New York Post writes. “The man who was supposed to kill me left prison after 16...
The most famous Russian gangster in New York, Boris Nayfeld, known by the nickname Biba, wants to return to his homeland. The Mafiosi has faced criminal charges in the United States on several occasions, including heroin sales, tax fraud and more. Now he is 70 years old, he recently came out ...
Law enforcement agencies in New York detained members of the Russian “diamond” mafia, abc7ny.com TV channel reports. Members of the criminal group deceived several dozen businessmen trading in diamonds and other precious stones. Russian-speaking gangsters bought jewelry from owners of various companies, writing bad checks or promising to pay for the goods after...
The nine people who were arrested the day before in a Brooklyn court are called members of the Russian mafia by the FBI. Moreover, quite influential. The indictment states that all the detainees are suspected of having close ties with Russian thieves in law. NY Daily News reporters clarify ...
According to the NY Post, the trial of Boris Nayfeld has begun in Manhattan Federal Court. Journalists call him “a prominent representative of the first generation of the Russian mafia in America,” writes the BBC. 69-year-old Nayfeld, known in the criminal community as Biba, stated at the trial that he admits...
Judge Catherine Forrest has set for November 7 the beginning of the trial in New York over the Brooklyn gangster, named Beeba, who was arrested in January. A native of Gomel, who is called the representative of the first generation of the "Russian mafia" in America, is accused of extortion and conspiracy to ...