On Saturday, one of the leaders of the fraternal organized criminal group, "watching" Irkutsk, Vyacheslav Gamernik (Gomera), was killed in Moscow. His friend and friend, the famous showman Andrey Grozin, were injured.
Since Friday evening, a noisy company was walking in the popular metropolitan restaurant "Yar": the authorities who flew in from Bratsk and Irkutsk celebrated the 30th anniversary of their countryman named Slava Slybon, who had long since moved to the capital. Muscovites were also among the guests. Deep after midnight, after eating sturgeon and sterlet, the company split up. Some of the participants in the feast went to rest in the rooms of Sovetskaya, and the fraternal authority of Homer and his friend Andrei Grozin, who was engaged in show business in the capital (he, in particular, is one of the managers of Alsu, and in the past - of Tender May), decided to continue . At Grozin's suggestion, they took his Volvo to night club"Metelitsa" on Novy Arbat. At about three o'clock they returned to the "Sovetskaya" with two girls - their friends were already waiting there for a room. However, as soon as the Volvo parked at the entrance to the hotel, a VAZ-2109 drove up to it. The windows of the "nine" were lowered, and the unknown person, who was in her back seat, unexpectedly pulled out two Stechkin submachine guns. Directly from two barrels, he opened fire in short bursts. Vyacheslav Gamernik, who was next to the driver, was literally riddled. He died on the spot. Grozin and one of the girls, who was wounded in the legs, were taken to the hospital. Of the four people who were in the Volvo, only one woman was not injured - she described the car that the killers drove up to the policemen who soon arrived. The Siren plan was introduced in the city, and soon operatives found abandoned Zhiguli near the Mostransagenstva building. Inside the car were two "Stechkin", two pairs of cloth gloves and a scattering of spent cartridges. The service-search dog could not trace the criminals - obviously, accomplices were waiting for them in this place in another car.
On Saturday, having made inquiries at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Irkutsk region, Moscow detectives found out that Gomer was the head of an organized criminal group in Bratsk, which was engaged in extortion and arms trafficking. A few years ago, the authority had problems with competitors, he moved to Irkutsk. Homer was even "appointed" to look after this city. Here, over the past five years, he has been arrested four times for fraud, racketeering, illegal possession of weapons and other crimes. But every time the authority was released on bail, and his criminal cases were terminated under various pretexts.
According to information from Irkutsk, the murder at Sovetskaya is probably connected with Homera's affairs in this city. Approximately two months before his trip to Moscow, he bought an armored Chevrolet and hired armed guards, with whom he never parted anywhere and never. On the birthday of a friend in Moscow, Homer, as the operatives say, went light - this killed him. The murder, obviously connected with criminal showdowns, caused a great resonance in Moscow. Suffice it to say that only General Golovanov, appointed head of the MUR, took his investigation under his personal control. Slava Slybon and other visitors to Yar have already been interrogated. Their testimonies boiled down to the fact that "they have their own affairs - we have our own" and they do not know who and for what killed the authority.
Meanwhile, it is known that trips to the capital for many Irkutsk bandits become fatal. For example, the well-known Irkutsk thief in law Vladimir Salominkiy (Straw) was killed here, who was "crowned" by Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik). This murder was never solved.
FEDOR Ъ-MAXIMOV

Fraternal gangsters convicted

Yesterday, the high-profile trial of Mikhail Skrypnik, who was accused of creating and leading an organized criminal community, ended in the regional court - the investigation called it Bratsk, after the place of residence of all members of the criminal group. In addition, Skrypnik and four of his accomplices were charged as part of a gang - a stable armed group - with many serious and especially serious crimes.

Among them, the shooting in the center of Irkutsk of "authority" Pavel Kiselev, with whom seven of his companions lay down, the attempt on the life of the leader from Angarsk Alexei Berduta in the Solnechny microdistrict, when his bodyguard Maxim Telushchenko was killed under machine gun fire, extortion of one and a half million dollars from businessman Igor Svetlov and open abduction of his car, robbery attacks on drivers of foreign cars.

And although Judge Vyacheslav Popravko acquitted Skrypnik and the “brothers” subordinate to him under the main, 210th article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, recognizing the formation, in which high-profile crimes were committed, not by an organized community, but by an ordinary gang, the fraternal mafia still suffered significant damage: seasoned criminals received long sentences. Now, probably, you can not be afraid of machine-gun bursts on the streets of our cities. If, of course, law enforcement they will not allow a new one to grow in place of the severed head of this hydra - organized crime.

Where did the criminal Bratsk come from

The city of Komsomol glory acquired a dubious criminal reputation in the early 90s of the last century. At that time, a fierce war was going on in our area between Lavrushniks - Georgian thieves and local lads. The thief in law who won in it, “crowned” in 1993, managed in a few years to put together a powerful criminal community with a center in Bratsk, which soon spread its influence over the entire Irkutsk region. Using the forces of his militants, he managed to physically destroy the Lavrushniks and the Slavic competitors supporting them, and infiltrate large enterprises in the region. But that was only the beginning of his fast-paced career. The thief in law moved to the Mother See long ago, took his family and capital abroad, became a major legal businessman, who is reckoned with in power circles. However, this does not prevent him from leading the criminal community, which is still called Fraternal. Today it is one of the largest and most dangerous in Russia. Until recently, Vyacheslav Gamernik, who was shot dead in Moscow in July 2003, and Mikhail Skripnik, who was arrested a few months later, were considered the leaders of the main bandit formations in our area.

A man with a capital letter

Mikhail Skripnik has two nicknames: Skripa and Man. That's right - he was called Man with a capital letter by his subordinates. They said: "The man said", "The man ordered ..." In the criminal environment, he enjoyed unquestioned authority. They feared him and tried to imitate him. The world also had to reckon with him.

Investigators carefully filed eight references to the criminal case, given to Skrypnik at the place of his residence, study, work and "imprisonment". In addition to the paper signed by the administration of the Irkutsk pre-trial detention center, where the prisoner is called the leader of a negative orientation, who was placed in a punishment cell more than once for violating the regime of detention, all other characteristics draw a good boy who has grown into a competent specialist, a respectable citizen, a loving spouse, etc. Neighbors in the house on Gogol Street in Irkutsk, where the defendant lived before his arrest, they mention that he “took an active part in public life and home improvement. At Sunlight LLC, where Skripnik worked as a financial director, colleagues called him "a person of high moral character, balanced, responsive, correct." And in Baikal-Helios LLC, their general director was awarded the epithets "honest, decent, enjoying well-deserved authority." At the school of the Olympic reserve, the young man was remembered as a disciplined and gifted athlete, and in the fraternal vocational school-24, as a teenager, he established himself as an energetic, active leader of the youth.

Some of the flattering epithets listed here, the main person involved in the sensational criminal case, of course, deserved: you can’t refuse him energy, activity, and leadership qualities.

Information about his turbulent youth today can only be found in the operational records and certificates of the department for combating organized crime. And the investigation tried to do it. But, since the court did not include this information, which is almost impossible to verify, in the evidence base, we will not go into details about the first career steps of Mikhail Skripnik.

In just a few years, he will become the largest shareholder, controlling leading enterprises, an authoritative businessman, dictating to banks where to direct their financial flows. And traces of the active - already legal - activities of a well-known entrepreneur are now found not in the operational information of detectives, but in abandoned materials and criminal cases, terminated for various reasons.

In 2002, Mikhail Skripnik managed to put Sibkhimmontazh OJSC under his control, which has branches in Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk and other cities. He became the owner of 25 percent of the shares of the enterprise, which he transformed into Sibkhimmontazh - Vostok, and became a member of the board of directors. As follows from the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case, the owners of the securities, as one, told the investigator that they had sold their shares to Skrypnik voluntarily. And, apparently, with pleasure, given that Y. himself bought shares at 25 rubles apiece, and gave Skripnik only ten kopecks. And, for example, S. parted with the shares after an attempt was made on him by unknown persons.

The firm grip of the businessman Skripnik can also be seen in the materials of the 1999 criminal case on the fact of causing a major material damage CJSC "Helios" due to the debt of the enterprise - a partner of "Baikal - Helios", headed by Skripnik. A strange story happened in 2003, when Mikhail Skripnik headed Sunlight LLC. Clients’ money literally poured into the current account of the enterprise he runs commercial bank"Dialogue-optim". Moreover, the clients themselves for the time being did not even know about this leak. The charge was brought against the manager of the Irkutsk branch of the bank, who allegedly misused his official powers. At the same time, during the investigation, his connection with Skripnik was never found, who, moreover, did not repay the loan in the amount of 8 million and forgot to pledge real estate and equipment to the bank under the terms of the contract.

Mikhail Skrypnik, as the leader of the new wave, has not yet had a single criminal record. True, he was once brought to criminal responsibility. In 2000, he even spent a month and a half in custody on charges of hooliganism and bodily harm, but the court acquitted him. So he is, as they say, clean before the law.

The absence of a criminal record has so far allowed Skrypnik to enter into negotiations with the heads of large enterprises and organizations, to feel at home in their circle and be considered an honest businessman with no direct ties to the criminal world.

“It’s your fault that I want to eat…”

Now, not only operational information and materials of the criminal case, the investigation of which lasted a year and a half, but also proved by the court: a well-known businessman, owner of shares and enterprises, Mikhail Skripnik, is in fact the organizer of a gang of murderers and extortionists. At one of the first court hearings, after hearing the accusation brought against him by the prosecutor's office, the "authority" arrogantly stated that he did not understand the meaning of the terms "thief in law", "skripovtsy", and asked to be spared the dubious pleasure of solving such puzzles.

After that, more than 20 victims of the criminal case, about a dozen wives and mothers who buried their loved ones, who were killed by a gang organized by a respectable-looking businessman, went before the court.

Especially in this criminal case, the episodes of extortion of money from the merchant Svetlov and his death are shocking. These crimes were not connected either with the redistribution of spheres of criminal influence, as during the execution of the former officer of Irkutsk Kiselyov, or with revenge on a traitor suspected of killing a comrade-in-arms, as during the attempt on Berduta. The reprisal against Igor Svetlov can only be explained by the wolf laws of the criminal world, where, as in Krylov's fable, the weak is to blame for the fact that the predator wants to eat.

The 50-year-old businessman fell victim to the inhuman greed and cruelty of his criminal acquaintances, whom he mistook for civilized business people. In 1997, Svetlov became close friends with the chairman of the board of one of the banks, K., who asked him to introduce him to his partner Alex Martynov, the head of an American firm. The banker wanted to be helped to place money in US investment funds and purchase in this country land for building. Svetlov brought two businessmen together and considered his mission completed on this. However, when K., who had not fulfilled his obligations to his American partner, was not satisfied with the amount of profit received, it was the intermediary who turned out to be the last one. The missing amount of profit of 300 thousand dollars immediately turned into one and a half million greenbacks - it was first put “on the counter”, and then doubled. After that, he got down to business old friend banker - Skrypnik. Which is not surprising. According to operational information attached to the materials of the criminal case, K. is a close connection of Vladimir Tyurin, nicknamed Tyurik, an important person in criminal world(currently declared in international wanted list). They studied with him in the same class, and Tyurin called K. his brother (their mutual acquaintance told about this during the investigation). In Moscow, the "brothers" even bought apartments in the neighborhood. According to operational information provided by the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Irkutsk Region, the banker is the author and executor of the most profitable schemes for taking possession of property, the organizer of the bankruptcy of a number of the largest enterprises in the Irkutsk Region, including those with a state share of ownership and federal real estate objects.

But if one of the so-called Tyurik brothers turned out to have a bright head, giving birth to ideas for taking over other people's money, then the other had long arms. Skrypnik told Svetlov: “There has never been a case that I have not been repaid my debts. If you don’t return the money, we will take care of your family and the American.” The businessman, who perfectly understands what serious people he is dealing with, rushed to borrow money from his partners. He managed to find and transfer 750 thousand dollars to the extortionist, but this did not save him. Skrypnik continued to threaten him and his family with murder, took away a Lexus car worth 50 thousand dollars. In the end, desperate, driven to a heart attack, Svetlov sent his wife with two children to America, and he turned to the prosecutor’s office with a statement: “I ask you to immediately take the most serious measures and protect me from extortion and encroachment on my life and the life of my family by Skripa” .

Law enforcement agencies were unable to save the condemned. The investigation was sluggish, the case was suspended several times. Only when Skripnik was arrested did the investigation seriously take up the banker. He categorically denied partnerships with Alex Martynov, acquaintance with Skrypnik, and extortion of money from Svetlov to transfer them to the Tyurin family in Spain, France and Switzerland, as well as to the foreign accounts of his "brotherly" friends. However, in the course of executing international investigative orders and conducting accounting expertise, the fact of transferring large sums from the account of the Complex Systems company, the recipients of which were people close to Vladimir Tyurin, was confirmed.

But all this was already after the death of Igor Svetlov, whose fate was a foregone conclusion: he was assigned the role of a guilty switchman in everything. In July 2002, Svetlov left his house in the village of Molodyozhny in his car and disappeared. His headless corpse was discovered almost two years later in woodland along the Goloustnensky tract. About 20 trainees of the training center at the regional police department cleared the area in the forest from snow and branches for several days, burned fires to thaw the ground at the place that the bandits themselves pointed out to the operatives when Skripnik's group was finally arrested.

The investigation charged the defendants with the murder of a businessman, but the court did not confirm this conclusion, recognizing the bandits only for the illegal deprivation of Svetlov's freedom. Be that as it may, the crime was thought out to the smallest detail. The plan included tracking the object, staging with checking documents on the road, for which uniform uniforms of traffic police inspectors were bought in advance and striped batons were made. Bandits parked Svetlov's car near the terminal building. According to the investigation - to create the appearance that he flew away from the city. In court, the perpetrators stated that they thought they were only participating in car theft.

The businessman himself, who allegedly died of a heart attack on the way, was taken to the forest and buried. But first they cut off the head and hands of the corpse. They were neatly folded into a bag and buried separately. The criminals hoped that, thanks to such a precautionary measure, the body, even if found, would not be identified.

Indeed, in order to identify him, it was necessary to conduct a molecular genetic examination. The body of the entrepreneur did not rest soon. He was first buried as the corpse of an unidentified man No. 1355, then an exhumation was carried out to take biological samples and compare them with the blood of Svetlov's mother, establishing their relationship. DNA analysis with a probability of 99.84% showed that the remains under study belong, indeed, to the missing Igor Svetlov.

His wife had to suffer a lot during this time: the search for her husband, the identification of what was left of his body, the reburial of the remains are far from all the problems that suddenly fell on the woman. She, who had not previously known any special financial worries, now had to deal with the creditors of her husband, who borrowed large sums to save her and the children.

Judging by the documents received from the Central Spanish American Bank and attached to the materials of the criminal case, hundreds of thousands of dollars, for which Svetlov endangered his own life and the safety of his family, went to repair the house and buy furniture for the wife of Vladimir Tyurin.

Shooting plan overfulfilled

In the world of organized crime, the struggle for spheres of influence practically does not subside. One of the most high-profile crimes incriminated to Skrypnik and his “torpedoes”, the execution on December 14, 2002 in the center of Irkutsk, near the Sports Palace, of the former city officer Pavel Kiselyov and seven persons accompanying him, was connected precisely with the elimination of an objectionable competitor.

In the late 90s, when Kisel was listed as a gray, criminal, mayor of the regional center, and his position in certain circles was quite high, one of the most influential among the fraternal leaders, Vyacheslav Gamernik, nicknamed Gamera, had a close friendship with him. At that time, he had his own group, which, according to the information from the Organized Crime Control Department at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, was engaged in extortion, oversaw the criminal auto business and the supply of large quantities of heroin. Having accumulated capital on this, Vyacheslav Gamernik invested it in a legal business, becoming the head and owner of fairly large enterprises, a respected person who donates money to the disabled and orphans. At the same time, Gamera never forgot about the interests of the criminal community, without regret, he transferred large sums to the common fund. He never had conflicts with Skripnik.

Pavel Kiselev was not their field berry. When in February 2002, accused of murders, including with a grenade launcher, he received an acquittal from the regional court, fraternal leaders met his return from the pre-trial detention center without enthusiasm and even put forward a number of demands. First of all, Kisel had to return to the obshchak a large amount of money spent on personal needs - in the thieves' environment such "pranks" are not forgiven. And besides, he was offered to go into the shadows altogether, to abandon attempts to influence the criminal situation in Irkutsk. While Kiselev was lying on his bunk in a pre-trial detention center, Gamernik actually took the place of the position of Irkutsk, transferring all the companies that paid tribute to his predecessor under his “roof”.

Kissel, of course, tried to defend his position. But he went from the wrong end and made mistakes that ultimately cost him his life. He began to gather around him leaders who were negatively disposed towards the "brotherly". And then he decided to enlist the support of the Lavrushnikov hated by Tyurin - he went to Sochi to meet with representatives of the Georgian thieves' clan in the hope of "crowning" with their help.

Only after this incident, Kiselyov went to Moscow for an audience with his thief in law. Only Gamernik was ahead of him. The officer languished in the waiting room of the crowned lady, waiting for an invitation, which never came. Some of Kiselev's entourage - they say, and he himself - understood then: such an inhospitable behavior of the thief could mean that he gave the go-ahead to the physical elimination of the "authority" who fell into disfavor.

However, preparations for the murder of Kiselyov, as the investigation found out and confirmed by the court, had already begun several months before. Skripnik unequivocally expressed his will to the foremen Pavel Bazhenov, nicknamed Bashka and Mikhail Zakharin, promising them a reward for Kisel's head - at least 100 thousand rubles. Terian zealously got down to business: they attracted Klabuk, Zyryanov and Bykov, who were verified in joint criminal activity in Bratsk, acquired radio stations, began to study the routes of movement of the future victim, his habits, and security.

Plans were swept aside one after another. Kiselev was going to be killed from the territory kindergarten near his house, then in the Mayak bar, then at the exit from the nightclub. In the end, they tracked down when he went shopping with his wife at the Voyage shopping center. Klabuk radioed that the “object” got into a Toyota Mark 2 car, accompanied by two women and a teenager, and moved past the eastern stand of the Trud stadium. Next went the Zhiguli with three guards and a friend of Kiselyov. They didn't get far. The road to the motorcade of the former officer was blocked by a Nissan Sunny car with transit numbers and checkered taxis on the roof. Zyryanov was driving it. The most responsible - the execution of a person sentenced to death - was undertaken by Bazhenov and Zakharin, Skrypnik's close associates. They fired machine guns at the cars from both sides. Criminalists then counted 25 shots fired by Bazhenov from the Kalash. An automatic burst mowed down all those sitting in the Toyota on the spot: both Kiselyov and his wife, and the son of the murdered thief in law Soloma, 15-year-old Misha, whom the driver went for while the “authority” himself was in the store, and a young saleswoman who asked for regular customers throw it to a friend for gloves forgotten the day before. Zakharin, who fired from the AKM team at the Zhiguli, also did not miss. 16 shots hit the target: three young people - employees of the Grom security agency - died on the spot. Only a friend of Kiselyov escaped with minor injuries and the driver survived, who managed to get out of the car and hide under it.

The weapons of the crime - a Nissan disguised as a taxi, and two machine guns - were abandoned by the pro-killers not far from the scene, and they themselves fled in a car that was waiting for them, driven by Bykov.

At the beginning of the investigation, the suspects confessed. They also talked about the murder of Kiselyov, explaining that they could not refuse to complete the task received "from above". Orders in this organization were carried out without discussion. None of the performers, however, regretted the lives lost in addition, beyond the plan. Like, what can you do, the costs of the craft. At the first meeting of the court, the bandits had to be present at the interrogations of the mothers of the murdered guards. “I don’t know what sentence you will be given,” one of them said, “but even your death will not suit me.” Then it turned out that the saleswoman Sveta, who had forgotten her gloves, was killed for company with her buyer, she was raising a child alone. The 13-year-old boy now lives with his grandmother, who looked at the murderers of her daughter without tears and angry words - she no longer had the strength for this.

Order for a "fireman"

The last murder committed by Skripnik's gang before they ended up on the bunk also had a huge public outcry. It was committed again in a crowded place (near the trolleybus stop "Dental Clinic" in the Solnechny microdistrict), and in the middle of broad daylight - at 12 o'clock on September 5, 2003. The car "Toyota-Mark 2" was shot by automatic bursts and, having lost control, crashed into a tree near the bus stop. Maxim Telushchenko, who was driving, riddled with bullets, died on the spot. The boss, whose bodyguard and driver he was, the leader of the Angarsk criminal group "Firefighters" Alexei Berduto, was not even injured.

The motive for this high-profile crime, as in the execution of Kisel, was again associated with the name of Vyacheslav Gamernik. Only Pavel Kiselev Skrypnik had to get out of the way so as not to interfere with his friend's criminal career, and Aleksey Berduto was sentenced to death as a suspect in the murder of an "authority": on July 19, Vyacheslav Gamernik was shot dead in Moscow.

The Berduty group was called “firefighters” because the gym in the fire station was the meeting place for its members. In this gym, in training, the leader got close to Gamernik, who, although he was five years younger than him and inferior to him in the boxing ring, enjoyed much greater authority in the criminal community and even the favor of the thief in law himself. It is known, for example, that he trusted Gamera with large funds from the common fund for investing in legal business.

Vyacheslav Gamernik came to Angarsk for permanent residence in 1995. Berduto soon became one of his bodyguards and confidants. It was the leader of the “Firefighters” that Gamera secured responsible for the main direction of his criminal business by 2000: the theft of fuel and lubricants from the territory of the ANHK. Berduto had to ensure complete control in this area, cutting off all competitors. Thanks to the patronage of Gamernik, his friend and bodyguard coped with the task brilliantly. Admission Money in the common fund of the Fraternal criminal community has increased significantly. And at the same time, both Gamernik's authority and Berduta's influence in the criminal environment grew.

Only the leader of the "Firefighters", apparently, eventually got tired of being in the shadow of his patron. It became known that Berdut was also in the capital at the same time as Gamera, and on the night of the murder, there was no bodyguard next to the chief. Berduto returned to Irkutsk with the coffin of his patron. No one believed in his clumsy attempts to “get rid of” involvement in the crime. He explained that he went to Moscow alone on his personal business and allegedly ended up with Gamera by accident in the same hotel, witnessing his death.

The role of the direct executors of the order for the murder of Berduta, Skrypnik assigned, according to the investigation, to the killers - the most experienced and closest to him, Alexander Antonov and Andrey Alexandrov. All the same Pashka Bazhenov, who communicated directly with the boss, called from Bratsk his battle-tested criminal brigade - Zakharin, Zyryanov and Klabuk. Each of them knew his function: who should follow Berduta, who should drive the car from which the shooting should be carried out (it was again disguised as a taxi), who should ensure the escape of the killers.

Later it was established that Antonov fired at least 14 shots at Berduta’s car from a Chinese machine gun, Alexandrov fired 7 from a Kalashnikov. All the bullets went to Maxim Telushchenko, a bodyguard with a law college diploma. His boss, who was fond of boxing, had a good reaction: he managed to duck down, instantly sensing danger.

However, the brave leader of the criminal gang, who terrified competitors in Angarsk, was seriously frightened, apparently guessing who ordered it. Even when Skripnik landed in a pre-trial detention center along with his militants (only the killers Aleksandrov and Antonov managed to disappear, in respect of which the case was separated into a separate proceeding), a sound sleep did not return to Berdut. Hiding from the operatives who caught him as the main defendant in another criminal case, he was much more afraid of Skripa's long arms. I even thought of handing over a video cassette with a statement in which he asks to stop criminal prosecution in relation to those detained for the attempt on his life: allegedly he knows them well and they could not wish him death.

But at least Aleksey Berduto is alive today. In the regional court, the consideration of the criminal case on charges of organizing a criminal community, banditry and many murders is nearing completion.

However, not all participants in the high-profile crime in Solnechny managed to live to see the court verdict. On the night of February 4, 2004, the corpse of Pavel Bazhenov with a noose around his neck was found in the solitary confinement cell of the pre-trial detention center. Before that, he confessed, because of which he was very worried. During the interrogation, he stated that the operatives put pressure on him, but during a covert interrogation using a hidden video camera, the prisoner said doomedly: “For me, testifying against Skripnik is ...” and ran his finger along his neck, making it clear what exactly should follow this . And so it happened.

To each according to work

Skripnik's gang was distinguished by strict discipline and devotion to the leader. It gathered tough guys who were quite professional in their duties. It was not easy to get into this group, created on the basis of compatriot ties. The gangster corps consisted of young people who had known each other from school, such as Bazhenov, Zyryanov and Klabuk, or from joint criminal activities in fraternal groups. chump on preliminary investigation said: "The skripnik asked me to find reliable guys to carry out his tasks." Reliable guys were called from Bratsk to Irkutsk, where Bashka placed them in rented apartments, gave out money for food and, of course, everything necessary for the performance of their functional duties: cars, weapons, radios, money to buy uniforms, rent garages, etc.

But if it was difficult to enter a gang, then voluntarily leaving it was simply impossible. At the preliminary investigation, Zyryanov, talking about the murder of Kiselyov and his entourage, said that since he got into Skrypnik's group, he had no other choice but to participate in the crime, since not following Skripnik's instructions meant death. Only death, as in the case of Bazhenov, or a serious injury, as in the case of Prudnikov, who crashed in a car, could free voluntary recruits from the bandit share.

However, they did not consider her unhappy. For their work they were supposed to be rewarded - each in accordance with his contribution to the common cause. According to the testimony of the same Zyryanov, he and Zakharin received 50,000 rubles each from Skrypnik for participating in the execution of Kisel. Klabuk, according to him, was given out for this crime only 10 thousand.

The bandit formation had a four-level structure. The man, as the ordinary “employees” of the organizer of their “enterprise” Skrypnik called, with his unquestioned authority occupied a dominant position - he led the armed group without going directly to ordinary members. Operational command was entrusted to Pavel Bazhenov and Mikhail Zakharin. Skripnik was especially close with Baska, they even walked together at Tyurin's birthday party. The foremen planned crimes, prepared them, distributed roles among ordinary soldiers, monitored discipline, handing out cuffs to petty violators. “We were forbidden to drink alcohol,” Klabuk said during the investigation, and when this happened, Bazhenov and Zakharin beat us, but not much. Klabuk himself and his friend Prudnikov were listed as privates in the group - infantry, who were instructed to follow the intended victim, drive the car to the garage, etc. Zyryanov and Bykov were tougher. Their privileged position is associated with a long record of "work" with Skrypnik. These veterans of the organization have already managed to leave a legacy in Bratsk. In 1996, they, together with Bashka, were brought to justice for the fact that, while dealing with the guy who crashed Skripnik's Mercedes, they tried to take away his apartment for debts. But this case was successfully dismissed, as well as another, in which Zyryanov and Bazhenov were detained for rape of minors.

Skrypnik through Baska paid for the services of each. For this, there was a special monetary fund, which he disposed of. The salary depended not only on the position, but also on the quality of work. When, for example, the militants killed his bodyguard Telushchenko instead of Berduta, their bonus, as they say, was covered.

The leader of the gang, as both the investigation and the court admitted, turned out to be a good organizer. In his group, for example, there was an excellent conspiracy. All the Skripovites had a permanent residence permit in Bratsk, and they visited Irkutsk only at the call of the brigadier when a business was planned. After the "business trip" they returned to their native land. And the life of the police was complicated, and an alibi in case of a trial was at hand.

In secret apartments, the fighters lived in accordance with the position they occupied in the gang: the privates were separate from the foremen.

As for the cars needed to monitor future victims, hide from crime scenes, block the passage of those sentenced to death, the court counted eight foreign cars and at least five domestic cars in the gang. Moreover, all the cars turned out to be either issued to nominees, or registered to the previous owners, with whom the bandits did not fully pay off, or were previously stolen. They hid them in specially rented garages.

Moreover, the members of the gang, as the court established, were engaged in robbery for expensive foreign cars and on their own, without the blessing of Skripnik. Outsiders were sometimes invited to help. The court considered three such episodes. In each of them, the drivers were not only threatened with a gun, but also beaten, taking away their jeeps, for which the hunt was announced.

End of the gang

And yet - despite the brilliant conspiracy, clear discipline and organization - Skripnik's gang came to an end. This happened at a time when the reputation of the Skripovites, or, as they are also called fraternal, was just on the rise. In criminal circles they were afraid, in business circles they were considered. And ordinary citizens, looking at lawlessness, mass executions in the city, for which no one is responsible, lost their last confidence in law enforcement agencies.

Under investigation, tough bandits gave confessions, which were the basis of the verdict by the court. Later, in the trial, all the accused, as usual, retracted their words, stated that they had slandered themselves and their accomplices under the pressure of the operatives, the physical and mental influence of the cellmates specially planted next to them. Their statements were checked by the court, but did not find confirmation.

The attempt to save the position of the defendants with the help of false alibis also failed. Although, it must be admitted, the lawyers did a huge job. About two hundred additional witnesses were invited to the court hearings, who assured, for example, that on the day of the execution of Kiselyov, Skrypnik was hunting, and during the preparation for it, Zakharin was in Bratsk, where he participated in cross-country skiing. Zyryanov at that time allegedly carried out a cultural program - he watched the film "Die, but not now" at the "Chaika" cinema together with a girl who, after the session, took him to her place. Bykov, on the other hand, was being treated for such an illness that he was not up to Kiselyov. During interrogations, Skripnik's well-wishers naturally got confused, contradicted each other and themselves. The court was critical of both their "good" intentions and the assurances of accomplices that they had slandered themselves during the investigation. It was the testimony that the defendants gave during the investigation that aroused more confidence, since they were obtained in accordance with procedural norms, are stable and do not contradict the totality of the evidence presented.

We should pay tribute to the operatives of the department for the disclosure of contract killings of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the region, who managed to unravel the crimes of the Skripovites, who had been listed as “grouses” for years, to obtain material evidence that allowed the bandits to sit in the dock.

A colossal work was carried out by the investigative team, created from seven experienced employees specifically to work on the Skripnik case. The division was headed by Vladimir Bukin, head of the regional prosecutor's office. By the way, according to the results of last year, he was recognized as the winner in the competition “The Best Investigator of the Irkutsk Region” announced by the governor. Previously suspended criminal cases, in which the Skripovites were involved, were merged into one, which by the end of the investigation had swelled to 63 volumes.

State prosecutors Sergei Plahotniuk and Lyudmila Inyutina from the regional prosecutor's office, who during the trial managed to break up numerous false alibis of the defendants, asked for life imprisonment for the leader of the gang, Mikhail Skrypnyk, and his main, most active assistant, Mikhail Zakharin.

The court sentenced Mikhail Skripnik, guilty of creating and leading a gang, premeditated murder, extortion and robbery, to 23 years in prison in a colony strict regime. Mikhail Zakharin, who participated in the murder of nine people, received a life sentence, which he will serve in a special regime colony. Artyom Klabuk was sentenced by the court to 21 years, Oleg Zyryanov - 20, Alexei Bykov -15 years in correctional institutions of strict regime. Aleksey Tishchenko and Denis Komissarov, who are not members of the gang, received 7.5 and 7 years, respectively, for participating in robbery attacks.

It is likely that the verdict will be appealed to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. And the final point in this story has not yet been set.

Interest in industrial regions is shown not only by entrepreneurial, but also by criminal structures. In one of our last year's publications, we talked about the situation in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Now correspondents are interested in the Irkutsk region. Along with the struggle for control of its industrial enterprises, local gangsters have been dividing power among themselves since the late 80s.

The first acquaintance with Siberia took place when I arrived in Bratsk. Morning. No frost, no snowdrifts - in vain I was carrying high fur boots of the 43rd size (I did not find others). From the porch of the airport I see the taiga - tall thin pines, sprawling spruces and frail birches clogged with them. The Siberians who were flying with me immediately said: "This is not the taiga - this is what was left of it."

The taxi driver immediately began a story about Bratsk. The fact that the city is only 40 years old, there are about 350 thousand inhabitants in it, that the largest enterprises here are the Bratsk aluminum plant and the timber industry complex, that the local administration does not want to develop business and, of course, that that life is bad. Interrupting the talkative driver, I explain that I came to write about the deceased local thief in law Alexander Moiseev (Mas) and about his killer Sergei Popov (Pop).

The taxi driver turned out to be a knowledgeable person and began a “criminal excursion”. “Here, on the outskirts, we have an area called Padun. Andreychik and Pop held him. I once worked with Pop at a timber industry complex.

He felled the forest, was a foreman. The man is strong, with unmeasured strength. They respected him. Then, however, he sat on the needle, got in touch with all sorts, but he was able to quit with drugs. - We drive up to a tiny house, almost in one window. - This is where Pop lived. - Let's move on. - But at this place Masya was blown up, someone erected a monument to him.
At first it was made of marble chips. Now in pink granite. - We stopped at a rock. - It seems that there was a photograph on it before, but it disappeared somewhere. And Bratsk has never seen a funeral like Masya's. There were people, cars! In general, we have a bad town ... "

After living in the city for several days and listening to different stories, I understood why the driver found such a definition. Bratsk, like most Siberian cities like it, arose on the site of prisons, and today there are many zones and prisons around it. So most of the locals know their criminal heroes firsthand. Suffice it to say that two hundred kilometers from Bratsk, in the prison of the city of Tulun, the most influential thief in Russia, Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik), was serving his last term in his homeland. The modern criminal history of the region begins with him.

The prison in Tulun for especially dangerous recidivists and those for whom the death penalty was commuted to a pardon is notable not only for the fact that Yaponchik was imprisoned in it. Her former boss Ostapenko in the early 90s let the prisoners go for a walk at night. In the wild, they did their usual things, feeling completely safe: in which case, they had an alibi - imprisonment. Probably, Ostapenko managed to convince the judges that he could not solve the economic problems of the old prison in any other way, and he was sentenced conditionally (for five years).

Fraternal criminal authorities and thieves in law, taking with them food, drink, drugs and girls, often came to Tulun to visit the sufferers. This required a lot of money. The only thing that worried the locals was that the Georgian thieves beat off the bread. In the early 80s, there were about 20 of them in the Irkutsk region, rich in raw materials and enterprises. The most authoritative among them were Paata Gudushauri (Pata or Tbilisi Cattle) and Ilya Simonia (Makho). Their people, who were engaged in legal business, began to launder money obtained by burglaries, robberies, and drug trafficking. The position of Georgians in the region was strengthened.

Yaponchik, who ended up in the Tulun prison in the mid-80s, did not like this: he was transferred there from the special regime zone, where he raised a rebellion. By that time, Ivankov was already the most powerful Russian thief. The world of thieves bequeathed to him a thief in law nicknamed Puso. Having looked closely at the local order, Yaponchik began to fight with the Georgian clans. He decided to counterbalance them by crowning the Russians.

In 1989, at the suggestion of Yaponchik, a daring resident of the city of Zima, Sergei Boytsov (Fighter), who had almost never left the colonies, became a thief in law. The second such honor was awarded to a resident of Bratsk, Alexander Moiseev (Masya). He most often visited Ivankov in Tulun. The redistribution of spheres of thieves' influence began. Through the efforts of Yaponchik, the center of the criminal movement in the Irkutsk region, power and money began to slowly move from the regional center, where Georgian thieves settled, to Bratsk. Yaponchik appointed Masya as a position (unspoken master) of the region.

Alexander Moiseev was born in 1958 in the Kalinin region. Graduated from 5 classes high school. I did not want to study further. At school, Moiseev even beat teachers. The police noticed him and registered him. Then Masya began to specialize in hooliganism and robbery: he would undress someone on the street, beat him half to death, and then meet him again in a dark corner and add that it was not customary to contact the police. The first time Masya was sent to a colony in 1974, the last time he visited there was in 1987.

In Bratsk, I called Masya's mother, Margarita Vyacheslavovna. I ask about what her son was like: “Fair, but he couldn’t keep his mouth shut. For this he got it. People won't say anything bad about him." “Was he really a toboggan worker, or was he just listed there?” “Yes, he didn’t leave the punishment cell,” Margarita Vyacheslavovna, crying, refused to continue the conversation. The law enforcement agencies confirmed to me that Masya tried to live fairly. He often dealt with disputes between businessmen and conflicts in the underworld. However, during disassembly, he often broke down and beat the lads, which were smaller, with what turned up under the arm.

By the time Masya became a member, many Russian authorities had long been working for Georgian thieves. Vladimir Andreenkov (Andreychik) and his right-hand man Sergei Popov (Pop) collaborated with the clan of Pata and Maho. They even donated money to their common fund. Masya decided that “there is no person - there is no problem”, and ordered to remove Andreychik. They shot at him, but unsuccessfully.

A few months later, on the evening of June 10, 1991, the Zhiguli car, in which Masya and his bodyguard driver, a certain Matsak, were driving, was blown up not far from the traffic police post on the Padunskaya highway. The remains of Masya, Matsak and parts of the car were scattered over 100 meters. The explosion occurred right in front of the policemen who were driving in a patrol car. The murder of Masi was one of the first in a series of contract killings of Russian thieves in law and authorities.

To see Masya and his bodyguard on their last journey, thieves in law from all over Russia gathered in Bratsk. The city had never seen such a pompous funeral before. Lots of cars drove to the cemetery. According to rough estimates, at least 200 people gathered. Masya and Matsak lie side by side, behind the same fence. There is an inscription on Masi's monument: “Sleep well, brother. In memory of the brothers. Around the wreath: "Sasha from the Painted and Vikhogorskaya punks", "From the vagrants UK-25".

The day after the explosion, law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case. The proceedings on the case were suspended for more than a year, but they continued to collect operational information. As a result, the operatives learned that the henchman of Yaponchik was removed by order of the Pata clan. An anti-tank mine was used for the explosion, almost for the first time in Russia using an explosive device with a remote control.
The policemen drew attention to a certain craftsman-electronic engineer from Bratsk, who was serving a sentence for the manufacture of explosive devices. He testified that Pop and Andreichik were among his customers.

The picture of the murder of Masi began to gradually emerge. After an unsuccessful attempt on Andreychik, Georgian thieves in law recommended him the only way to salvation - to forestall Masya. Andreichik's people began to prepare for the operation. In one of military units bought an anti-tank mine. The electronics engineer ordered an explosive device.

When it was ready, Masya was invited to visit Pop (despite the conflict, Masya bought drugs from him, and they injected together). When Masya once again got ready to visit the Tulun prison, Andreychik and Pop asked him to hand over a box of chocolates to the lads. Konstantin Gladuntsev, one of Andreichik's gang members, said that a few hours before the explosion, Masya drove up to Pop's house, from where they took out a box of chocolates and put him in a Zhiguli. There was supposedly a bomb there.

In August 1992, Popov and Gladuntsev were arrested (the latter for possession of weapons, he was a witness in the case of the murder of Masya). Andreichik is still on the wanted list. According to investigators, Popov, who had no previous convictions, said that he would take all the blame on himself and only on such a condition would he testify. For investigation, the case was transferred to the Irkutsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, and Sergei Popov was transferred to SIZO-1 in Irkutsk.

Irkutsk. The merchant town is filled with once festive gingerbread, and now worn out by time, two-story mansions, wooden barracks with carved shutters and architraves nestled next to them, next to them are Khrushchev and high-rise buildings. I'm renting a room at the Angara Hotel. “Do you want a phone or a shower?” “Is it possible with both?” - I answer a question with a question. "If only with a neighbor." I agree.

On the hand of a local barman there is a tattoo - "freedom". He carries himself politely and very proudly. “Yes, we have a lot of people here. Pata and his wife Nino lived in a room on the fourth floor for a long time. Good man. I didn’t drink, I didn’t smoke, however, I injected a lot.” "And didn't swear?" - put in a word. “I don’t know, I haven’t heard. He treated everyone in the hotel with respect.

He enjoyed great prestige. Many brothers came to him. They used to sit on their haunches at his door and wait for him to come out or let him in. Nino gave birth to Maria here. And she herself went around in such outfits - in sables. “And what did Pata earn? Did he keep your inn?" “Paid for the room, like everyone else. And Pata's brother, a businessman, fed the family. He once brought tea here. One carriage was lost, and he waved his hand at it. Then Pata bought an apartment here. Three-room. True, on the ground floor. There he was killed. Shot right through the window. June 10, 1994 - as I remember now. Nino left for Georgia. Maho, his friend, in Sochi. The killer was not found - no one needed it. The bartender wiped away a tear. Pata was killed exactly 3 years after Masi's death.
In the prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region, the murder of the thief in law Masya was investigated by 33-year-old investigator for especially important cases Sergey Kalinin. He knew how to solve murders. The authorities even nicknamed him Fartov. He received awards "for disclosure" more often than others. In November 1993, Kalinin completed the investigation and handed over the case to the Irkutsk Regional Court.

On the night of December 3-4, investigator Kalinin was killed. He was returning from guests with his girlfriend, the judge. Both were very drunk. Four people approached Kalinin - supposedly to shoot a cigarette. Then the investigator shouted to his companion: "Run." She still managed to see how Kalinin was hit on the head with a nail puller from behind, and he fell. At home, the woman claims, she fell on the bed and fell asleep immediately from shock. Only in the morning I went to the scene, found the corpse of Kalinin and called the police. The dead man lost his official ID and service pistol.
The Irkutsk city prosecutor's office took up the investigation of the case. The killers were found - they turned out to be two minors and two recidivists - 42-year-old Anatoly Arkhipov and 35-year-old Stanislav Savelyev. They spent more than twenty years in places of deprivation of liberty, but they never rose above the “sixes”. The criminals burned the certificate, and sold the gun to an unknown person for 15,000 rubles.

The version of contract killing was not confirmed. All of Kalinin's colleagues are convinced that the murder was not planned. Today, the case is under further investigation and will be sent to court again in a few days.
Transferred to SIZO-1 in Irkutsk, Sergei Popov, the main accused in the murder of Masya, spent a long time in a "submarine" - a deaf cell in solitary confinement. Then Pop wanted to be with people, and he was transferred to a common cell. There, Pop lived well - his cellmates shared his commitment to Georgian criminal gangs. But once a week, the riot police arranged the so-called prophylaxis for the prisoners. They kicked them out of their cells, lined them up against the wall and beat them. Once, Pop, standing against the wall, yelled at the prisoners: "Well, be silent - let them beat you." Then Pop, the only one of them all, was passed by rubber clubs.

In the fall of 1993, Popov began to complain to his lawyer Mikhail Stepanov that the operatives were threatening that he would not live to see the trial if he did not tell everything. Popov began to write to the Irkutsk Regional Court and the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia. There was no reaction. Then, according to the lawyer, Pop was transferred to inmates from rival gangs. According to Stepanov, this was done on purpose so that the prisoners would remove Pop or that his murder could be blamed on them. Stepanov is sure that the investigators had no evidence against Popov, and the case will crumble in court. Master of sports in judo Sergei Popov told the lawyer that if something happened to him, he would "take two with him."

On the morning of January 29, 1994, a few days before the start of the trial, the SIZO staff found Pop dead. According to the results of the forensic examination, he died from blunt force trauma to the abdomen. Popov's wife told the lawyer that all her husband's bones were as if ground. Three cellmates were charged with Pop's murder. One of them, a homeless man, allegedly beat Pop with a stick. He was transferred to solitary confinement, where he allegedly hanged himself. The main defendant in the murder of Popov was a 24-year-old resident of Angarsk Brosovsky, who already had two murders on his account. One of these days his case will be sent to the city court of Angarsk. However, now Pop's killers can put all the blame on the dead bum.

The operatives who developed the Masya murder case claim that if Popov had lived to see the trial, the case could not have fallen apart. According to their version, Pop paid the price for speaking badly about some of the thieves in law, with whose supporters he was sitting in the same cell.

The Irkutsk Regional Court, by its decision, immediately terminated the criminal case against Popov in connection with his death. Popov's lawyer, Mikhail Stepanov, has appealed this decision to the Supreme Court of Russia and is seeking a trial, in which he plans to achieve Popov's posthumous rehabilitation - the termination of the criminal case for lack of corpus delicti. Supreme Court satisfied the lawyer's complaint, and the other day the visiting collegium of the Irkutsk Regional Court in Bratsk began hearing the case on the murder of Masya. Only the widow and mother Masi came to the process. They want Popov to be found guilty. Then the victims will be able to recover money from Popov's wife for the car torn apart by the explosion.

Popov's wife, after the death of her husband, moved from Bratsk to another city and was not present at the trial. If the court finds Pop not guilty, she will be able to recover from the state about 50 million rubles for the illegal detention of her husband. So in court, both of them will essentially fight for material benefits.

The power of Masi after his death passed to two of his henchmen. Great strength they did not have, and they were quickly removed by supporters of the Georgian groups. Then Masi's closest friend, Vladimir Tyurin (Tyurik), took over the power. He differed sharply from the local lads - he did not drink, did not smoke, and graduated from school with a gold medal. True, the medalist at the age of 16 landed in a colony for rape. Then he was imprisoned several times for unintentional bodily harm, hooliganism and other crimes (in total he was accused under five articles of the Criminal Code).

Tyurik was one of the first in Bratsk to buy a VCR. For showing porn films at home, he collected 5 rubles from the lads. For this, he sat down once again and received the unloved nickname Projectionist. Then Tyurik took up bodybuilding and opened a gym, and then the only casino in Bratsk, which still has almost no visitors.
The authority of Tyurik grew rapidly. This greatly worried the Georgian clans. In the spring of 1993, several authorities, among whom were Yakovenko, Udartsev, Lysenko, attempted on Tyurik. A grenade was thrown through the window of his car. It bounced off and exploded, almost without even damaging the car. Wanting to find out whose hands this was, Tyurik scheduled a meeting in the premises of the Chaika pool. By this day, his ill-wishers were preparing more thoroughly.

They decided to blow up Tyurik after the meeting. The road near the pool was blocked with a log and mined. Nearby, a clearing was cut down, where an ambush was placed. Wired the remote control. They put up a "police patrol" from disguised lads. He was supposed to inform the ambush by radio when Tyurik's car appeared. However, after the meeting, Tyurik moved into someone else's car. "Patrol", not finding him, gave a signal to clear the road.

With the rise of Tyurik, Yaponchik's position in the Irkutsk Region became even stronger. Ivankov and his supporters gained control of the largest enterprises by buying up their shares through nominees. In particular, policemen say that one of the region's aluminum plants belongs to Yaponchik, although the name Ivankov, of course, is not in the register of shareholders.

In 1994, Tyurik moved to Moscow. Bought a house in Spain. In June 1994, Tyurik was crowned in Moscow. Yaponchik, Shakro and Khasan became his guarantors. Friends say about Tyurik: “His head works. It can become cooler than Yaponchik. In the capital, Tyurik plunged into business, laundering criminal money. According to law enforcement agencies, he had solid connections. However, Tyurik does not forget about the lads. Yesterday, employees of the Moscow RUOP detained Igor Abanin (Beshenyi), a resident of Bratsk, in the capital. Besheny had important business in Moscow: Tyurik was to crown him.

At the beginning of last year, the Georgian thieves' clan practically lost its influence in the region. But that didn't mean less crime. In 1995, there were about 65 thousand of them committed here, which is 6.9% more than in 1994. Maybe because it is more difficult to control the region from Moscow or New York than from Tulun or Bratsk.

Ex-deputy of the State Duma Denis Voronenkov. According to investigators, he turned out to be the Russian crime boss Vladimir Tyurin. In the 1990s, he led a "fraternal" criminal gang. The son of a criminal authority could also be involved in the murder of Voronenkov. Sofya Savina found out how the head of the organized criminal group passed his business to his descendants.

TYURIK - THE CHIEF OF THE "BROTHER"

The fraternal criminal group got its name in honor of the Siberian city of Bratsk in the Irkutsk region. In the early days of their existence, the "brotherly" supervised the drug trade, they were also ordered to kill business competitors. In 1991, the leader of the group, Alexander Moiseev, nicknamed Masya, died. His successor was Vladimir Tyurin - known under the nicknames Tyurik, Batya and Projectionist.

Two years later, he is “crowned” - ordained as a thief. The ceremony is held by the thief in law Yaponchik (Vyacheslav Ivankov). Among Tyurin's other influential friends in the underworld are Shakro Molodoy (Zakhary Kalashov) and Ded Hasan (Aslan Usoyan).

Gradually, the "fraternal" take over all the major enterprises of the oil and timber industry of the Irkutsk region. The leader of the group, Vladimir Tyurin, controlled the Bratsk aluminum smelter, the city's casino, and export channels for metals and timber from Siberia to St. Petersburg and Western Europe.

On the right is the leader of the Bratskaya OCG Vladimir Tyurin

One of the most high-profile murders committed by the “fraternal” was the elimination of Roman Tsepov, nicknamed “guard cardinal”. He guarded the ex-mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak, as well as Vladimir Putin, then vice-mayor of the city.

The influence of Tyurik is still being talked about. This year, sources of journalists in law enforcement agencies called him a contender for the role of the head of the Russian underworld. The place was vacated after the arrest of "thief in law No. 1" - Shakro Molodoy.

As befits a thief in law, Vladimir Tyurin has his “friends” among big businessmen and officials. Billionaire Oleg Deripaska and ex-State Duma deputy Nikolai Kuryanovich were called his friends. The former common-law wife of Tyurin, Maria Maksakova, was also a State Duma deputy.

Now Maksakova is connected with Tyurin by two common children. She is known as an opera singer, soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2011, she was elected to the State Duma from the United Russia party and joined the culture committee. A year earlier, Maksakova mentioned Tyurin in an interview as her husband. She married the murdered Denis Voronenkov only in 2015.

"RUSSIAN MAFIA" IN SPAIN

Tyurin's "zones of influence" are called not only the Irkutsk region, but also the criminal world of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Spain. He moved to the Spanish city of Orihuela in 1998. There, in partnership with other criminal authorities, he created a network of "laundries" - firms for laundering criminal proceeds.

In 2005, the local police carried out Operation Osa, during which more than 200 members of the "Russian mafia" were arrested. Tyurin escaped arrest: at that moment he was in Russia. The Spanish authorities put Tyurik on the international wanted list and in 2010 sent a request to Russia to extradite the criminal. He was accused of creating a criminal community and laundering criminal money that he invested in seaside resorts.

Vladimir Tyurin and Maria Maksakova

Russian authorities arrested Tyurin in 2010. During the arrest, it turned out that he received Russian citizenship illegally, and was registered in Kazakhstan. There he moved to live in 1991 to his common-law wife - then he received local citizenship. The trial lasted until 2012. As a result, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office refused to extradite Tyurin to Spain.

According to some reports, now Vladimir Tyurin has left the crime and is engaged in legal business. In the Russian Unified Register legal entities only two individual entrepreneurs with the same name as Tyurin are registered - one in Moscow, the other in Yekaterinburg. There is also a machine tool trading company called Snabprofit from Kaluga, founded by a person with the same name. At the same time, more than a dozen companies are registered in the name of the son of the head of the "fraternal" - Dmitry Tyurin.

WHO OWNS BRATSK

According to the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, the son of Vladimir Tyurin, 32-year-old Dmitry, was involved in the murder of Voronenkov. According to the investigation, he got the role of an intermediary: on March 20, he flew on a Rome-Kyiv flight and brought some money for the perpetrators of the murder.

Maria Maksakova also commented on suspicions of Dmitry Tyurin's involvement: “It is likely that Tyurin's son is also involved in this. They are all there henchmen of an infinite group.

The sphere of business interests of the leader of the "fraternal" included enterprises in the mining, forestry and oil industries. The son of Vladimir Tyurin is interested in exactly the same. Now under the control of Dmitry Tyurin there are several companies in Bratsk at once - the native year of his father and his organized criminal group.

Dmitry owns 50% stakes in local companies: Bratsk Investment Complex LLC, Promis LLC, OGR LLC, TC Baikal LLC, East Siberia Region - Product Trade LLC, Germes Management Company LLC, BratskSibResource LLC and a 32% stake in Power of Siberia LLC.

Homeland of the "Brotherly" criminal gang

Fraternal partners of Dmitry Tyurin - Mikhail Shchetkin and Sergey Silko - are listed as leaders in the same companies as Tyurin himself. Sergey Silko is a brotherly businessman, he calls himself a “philanthropist” and invests in a martial arts sports club. In one of the interviews, he says that he owns hunting grounds where sables are bred. He owns hunting companies for wild animals: Angarsky Sobol LLC, Sobol LLC, Ostrov LLC, Sports Hunting Club LLC.

The second partner, Mikhail Shchetkin, heads the United Group "Razvitie", which owns the markets and shopping malls of Bratsk. Previously, these companies belonged to other owners. They were headed by a local businessman Alexander Demidov.

He was called a confidant of the local authoritative businessman Artsruni Khachatryan, a deputy of the Bratsk City Duma, right hand mayor. It was he who was the director of the municipal enterprise "Association of City Markets", which controlled all the shopping areas of the city.

According to local media reports, Khachatryan was friends with Vladimir Tyurin and was also associated with the Bratsk organized criminal group. After his death in 2006 (according to one version, it was a murder), the markets were headed by Alexander Demidov, and then Dmitry Tyurin.

OIL AND A FRAUD BANK

Dmitry Tyurin wholly owns two Moscow mining companies precious metals and gold trading: Selco Life Group LLC and Robur LLC.

Another of his Moscow companies, Kazakhoil Moscow LLC, specializes in the production of petroleum products and fuel trade. The share of 50% of the company belongs to Dmitry Tyurin, the rest belongs to the Kazakh partnership "Kazakhoil Trans World Group". The partnership is headed by Dauren Kogabaevich Sarsekeyev.

This is the young son of the Kazakh writer and journalist Kogabay Sarsekeyev, who made a career in the oil and gas business. According to the Panama Papers, it is not him who has registered an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands, First Line Intervest Ltd, with a registration address in Moscow.

Dmitry Tyurin owned a share in a commercial bank six months ago - 9.7% of the shares of the Ritz-Bank in Petrozavodsk, Karelia. The bank was involved in a criminal case, and in May 2017 its license was revoked. The order of the Bank of Russia states that the management and owners of the Ritz-Bank "withdrawn assets", as a result of which the bank completely lost its capital.

Dmitry Tyurin's partners, who owned shares in the Ritz-Bank, Dmitry Khasanov and Elmira Miloserdova, were arrested in October 2016 in the case of embezzlement at Development Corporation JSC. Its former CEO, Sergei Maslov, is suspected of embezzling 1 billion of corporation funds. According to the investigation, Khasanov and Miloserdova provided financial and legal services to the management of the Development Corporation. The rest of the bank's shareholders, like Dmitry Tyurin himself, were not affected by the arrests.

APARTMENT NEAR THE KREMLIN, MANSION ON RUBLEVKA, OFFSHORE ON THE ISLANDS

The name of Dmitry Tyurin is also listed in the Panama Archive, a leak of documents from Mossack Fonseca, which helps register offshore companies. According to the archive, Dmitry Tyurin is a shareholder of the company "Boster Resources Ltd" with a Swiss address and jurisdiction of the British Virgin Islands. The company was registered in February 2013 and existed until October 2014. Another owner of the company is a man named Yuri Alekseev with a registered address in Moscow.

The registration address of Dmitry Tyurin in the Panama Archives coincides with the address given by his father Vladimir Tyurin on video detentions:

- Where are they registered?

- Moscow, Bolshaya Polyanka, 4-39.

An elite cottage with a fireplace, a gym, dressing rooms, a bathhouse and a swimming pool in Palitsy on Rublyovka can be purchased for 45 million rubles.

In total, the leader of the “brotherly” organized criminal group Vladimir Tyurin has four children: two sons from his first marriage (one of them is Dmitry) and also children from Maria Maksakova - a minor son Ilya and daughter Lyudmila. It is Vladimir Tyurin who is engaged in the upbringing of younger children. In July 2017, they celebrated Ilya's birthday on a yacht in Crimea.

At the end of October 2006, the high-profile trial of Mikhail Skripnik, who was accused of creating and leading an organized criminal community, ended in the Irkutsk Regional Court. In addition, Skrypnik and four of his accomplices were charged as part of a gang - a stable armed group - a lot of serious and especially serious crimes. Among them, the shooting in the center of Irkutsk of "authority" Pavel Kiselev, with whom seven of his companions lay down, the attempt on the life of the leader from Angarsk Alexei Berduta in the Solnechny microdistrict, when his bodyguard Maxim Telushchenko was killed under machine gun fire, extortion of one and a half million dollars from businessman Igor Svetlov and open abduction of his car, robbery attacks on drivers of foreign cars.

And although Judge Vyacheslav Popravko acquitted Skrypnik and the “brothers” subordinate to him under the main, 210th article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, recognizing the formation, in which high-profile crimes were committed, not by an organized community, but by an ordinary gang, the fraternal mafia still suffered significant damage: seasoned criminals received long sentences. Now, probably, you can not be afraid of machine-gun bursts on the streets of our cities. Unless, of course, law enforcement agencies do not allow a new one to grow in place of the severed head of this hydra - organized crime.

Where did the criminal Bratsk come from

The city of Komsomol glory acquired a dubious criminal reputation in the early 90s of the last century. At that time, a fierce war was going on in our area between Lavrushniks - Georgian thieves and local lads. The thief in law who won in it, “crowned” in 1993, managed in a few years to put together a powerful criminal community with a center in Bratsk, which soon spread its influence over the entire Irkutsk region. Using the forces of his militants, he managed to physically destroy the Lavrushniks and the Slavic competitors supporting them, and infiltrate large enterprises in the region. But that was only the beginning of his fast-paced career. The thief in law moved to the Mother See long ago, took his family and capital abroad, became a major legal businessman, who is reckoned with in power circles. However, this does not prevent him from leading the criminal community, which is still called Fraternal. Today it is one of the largest and most dangerous in Russia. Until recently, Vyacheslav Gamernik, who was shot dead in Moscow in July 2003, and Mikhail Skripnik, who was arrested a few months later, were considered the leaders of the main bandit formations in our area.

A man with a capital letter

Mikhail Skripnik has two nicknames: Skripa and Man. That's right - he was called Man with a capital letter by his subordinates. They said: "The man said", "The man ordered ..." In the criminal environment, he enjoyed unquestioned authority. They feared him and tried to imitate him. The world also had to reckon with him.

Investigators carefully filed eight references to the criminal case, given to Skrypnik at the place of his residence, study, work and "imprisonment". In addition to the paper signed by the administration of the Irkutsk pre-trial detention center, where the prisoner is called the leader of a negative orientation, who was placed in a punishment cell more than once for violating the regime of detention, all other characteristics draw a good boy who has grown into a competent specialist, a respectable citizen, a loving spouse, etc. Neighbors according to the house on Gogol Street in Irkutsk, where the defendant lived before his arrest, they mention that he “took an active part in public life and home improvement”. At Sunlight LLC, where Skripnik worked as a financial director, colleagues called him "a person of high moral character, balanced, responsive, correct." And in Baikal-Helios LLC, their general director was awarded the epithets "honest, decent, enjoying well-deserved authority." At the school of the Olympic reserve, the young man was remembered as a disciplined and gifted athlete, and in the fraternal vocational school-24, as a teenager, he established himself as an energetic, active leader of the youth.

Some of the flattering epithets listed here, the main person involved in the sensational criminal case, of course, deserved: you can’t refuse him energy, activity, and leadership qualities.

Information about his turbulent youth today can only be found in the operational records and certificates of the department for combating organized crime. And the investigation tried to do it. But, since the court did not include this information, which is almost impossible to verify, in the evidence base, we will not go into details about the first career steps of Mikhail Skripnik.

In just a few years, he will become the largest shareholder, controlling leading enterprises, an authoritative businessman, dictating to banks where to direct their financial flows. And traces of the active - already legal - activities of a well-known entrepreneur are now found not in the operational information of detectives, but in abandoned materials and criminal cases, terminated for various reasons.

In 2002, Mikhail Skripnik managed to put Sibkhimmontazh OJSC under his control, which has branches in Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk and other cities. He became the owner of 25 percent of the shares of the enterprise, which he transformed into Sibkhimmontazh - Vostok, and became a member of the board of directors. As follows from the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case, the owners of the securities, as one, told the investigator that they had sold their shares to Skrypnik voluntarily. And, apparently, with pleasure, given that Y. himself bought shares at 25 rubles apiece, and gave Skripnik only ten kopecks. And, for example, S. parted with the shares after an attempt was made on him by unknown persons.

The strong grip of the businessman Skripnik can also be seen in the materials of the 1999 criminal case on the fact of causing large material damage to Helios CJSC as a result of the debt of the enterprise, a partner of Baikal-Helios, headed by Skripnik. A strange story happened in 2003, when Mikhail Skripnik headed Sunlight LLC. The money of the clients of the commercial bank "Dialogue-Optim" literally poured into the settlement account of the enterprise he manages. Moreover, the clients themselves for the time being did not even know about this leak. The charge was brought against the manager of the Irkutsk branch of the bank, who allegedly misused his official powers. At the same time, during the investigation, his connection with Skripnik was never found, who, moreover, did not repay the loan in the amount of 8 million and forgot to pledge real estate and equipment to the bank under the terms of the contract.

Mikhail Skrypnik, as the leader of the new wave, has not yet had a single criminal record. True, he was once brought to criminal responsibility. In 2000, he even spent a month and a half in custody on charges of hooliganism and bodily harm, but the court acquitted him. So he is, as they say, clean before the law.

The absence of a criminal record has so far allowed Skrypnik to enter into negotiations with the heads of large enterprises and organizations, to feel at home in their circle and be considered an honest businessman with no direct ties to the criminal world.

“It’s your fault that I want to eat…”

Now, not only operational information and materials of the criminal case, the investigation of which lasted a year and a half, but also proved by the court: a well-known businessman, owner of shares and enterprises, Mikhail Skripnik, is in fact the organizer of a gang of murderers and extortionists. At one of the first court hearings, after hearing the accusation brought against him by the prosecutor's office, the "authority" arrogantly stated that he did not understand the meaning of the terms "thief in law", "skripovtsy", and asked to be spared the dubious pleasure of solving such puzzles.

After that, more than 20 victims of the criminal case, about a dozen wives and mothers who buried their loved ones, who were killed by a gang organized by a respectable-looking businessman, went before the court.

Especially in this criminal case, the episodes of extortion of money from the merchant Svetlov and his death are shocking. These crimes were not connected either with the redistribution of spheres of criminal influence, as during the execution of the former officer of Irkutsk Kiselyov, or with revenge on a traitor suspected of killing a comrade-in-arms, as during the attempt on Berduta. The reprisal against Igor Svetlov can only be explained by the wolf laws of the criminal world, where, as in Krylov's fable, the weak is to blame for the fact that the predator wants to eat.

The 50-year-old businessman fell victim to the inhuman greed and cruelty of his criminal acquaintances, whom he mistook for civilized business people. In 1997, Svetlov became close friends with the chairman of the board of one of the banks, K., who asked him to introduce him to his partner Alex Martynov, the head of an American firm. The banker wanted to be helped to place money in US investment funds and acquire land for development in this country. Svetlov brought two businessmen together and considered his mission completed on this. However, when K., who had not fulfilled his obligations to his American partner, was not satisfied with the amount of profit received, it was the intermediary who turned out to be the last one. The missing amount of profit of 300 thousand dollars immediately turned into one and a half million greenbacks - it was first put “on the counter”, and then doubled. After that, an old friend of the banker, Skrypnik, took up the matter. Which is not surprising. According to operational information attached to the materials of the criminal case, K. is a close connection of Vladimir Tyurin, nicknamed Tyurik, an important person in the criminal world (he is currently on the international wanted list). They studied with him in the same class, and Tyurin called K. his brother (their mutual acquaintance told about this during the investigation). In Moscow, the "brothers" even bought apartments in the neighborhood. According to operational information provided by the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Irkutsk Region, the banker is the author and executor of the most profitable schemes for taking possession of property, the organizer of the bankruptcy of a number of the largest enterprises in the Irkutsk Region, including those with

But if one of the so-called Tyurik brothers turned out to have a bright head, giving birth to ideas for taking over other people's money, then the other had long arms. Skrypnik told Svetlov: “There has never been a case that I have not been repaid my debts. If you don’t return the money, we will take care of your family and the American.” The businessman, who perfectly understands what serious people he is dealing with, rushed to borrow money from his partners. He managed to find and transfer 750 thousand dollars to the extortionist, but this did not save him. Skrypnik continued to threaten him and his family with murder, took away a Lexus car worth 50 thousand dollars. In the end, desperate, driven to a heart attack, Svetlov sent his wife with two children to America, and he turned to the prosecutor’s office with a statement: “I ask you to immediately take the most serious measures and protect me from extortion and encroachment on my life and the life of my family by Skripa” .

Law enforcement agencies were unable to save the condemned. The investigation was sluggish, the case was suspended several times. Only when Skripnik was arrested did the investigation seriously take up the banker. He categorically denied partnerships with Alex Martynov, acquaintance with Skrypnik, and extortion of money from Svetlov to transfer them to the Tyurin family in Spain, France and Switzerland, as well as to the foreign accounts of his "brotherly" friends. However, in the course of executing international investigative orders and conducting accounting expertise, the fact of transferring large sums from the account of the Complex Systems company, the recipients of which were people close to Vladimir Tyurin, was confirmed.

But all this was already after the death of Igor Svetlov, whose fate was a foregone conclusion: he was assigned the role of a guilty switchman in everything. In July 2002, Svetlov left his house in the village of Molodyozhny in his car and disappeared. His headless corpse was discovered almost two years later in a forest along the Goloustnensky tract. About 20 trainees of the training center at the regional police department cleared the area in the forest from snow and branches for several days, burned fires to thaw the ground at the place that the bandits themselves pointed out to the operatives when Skripnik's group was finally arrested.

The investigation charged the defendants with the murder of a businessman, but the court did not confirm this conclusion, recognizing the bandits only for the illegal deprivation of Svetlov's freedom. Be that as it may, the crime was thought out to the smallest detail. The plan included tracking the object, staging with checking documents on the road, for which uniform uniforms of traffic police inspectors were bought in advance and striped batons were made. Bandits parked Svetlov's car near the terminal building. According to the investigation, to create the appearance that he had flown out of the city. In court, the perpetrators stated that they thought they were only participating in car theft.

The businessman himself, who allegedly died of a heart attack on the way, was taken to the forest and buried. But first they cut off the head and hands of the corpse. They were neatly folded into a bag and buried separately. The criminals hoped that, thanks to such a precautionary measure, the body, even if found, would not be identified.

Indeed, in order to identify him, it was necessary to conduct a molecular genetic examination. The body of the entrepreneur did not rest soon. He was first buried as the corpse of an unidentified man No. 1355, then an exhumation was carried out to take biological samples and compare them with the blood of Svetlov's mother, establishing their relationship. DNA analysis with a probability of 99.84% showed that the remains under study belong, indeed, to the missing Igor Svetlov.

His wife had to suffer a lot during this time: the search for her husband, the identification of what was left of his body, the reburial of the remains are far from all the problems that suddenly fell on the woman. She, who had not previously known any special financial worries, now had to deal with the creditors of her husband, who borrowed large sums to save her and the children.

Judging by the documents received from the Central Spanish American Bank and attached to the materials of the criminal case, hundreds of thousands of dollars, for which Svetlov endangered his own life and the safety of his family, went to repair the house and buy furniture for the wife of Vladimir Tyurin.

Shooting plan overfulfilled

In the world of organized crime, the struggle for spheres of influence practically does not subside. One of the most high-profile crimes incriminated to Skrypnik and his “torpedoes”, the execution on December 14, 2002 in the center of Irkutsk, near the Sports Palace, of the former city officer Pavel Kiselyov and seven persons accompanying him, was connected precisely with the elimination of an objectionable competitor.

In the late 90s, when Kisel was listed as a gray, criminal, mayor of the regional center, and his position in certain circles was quite high, one of the most influential among the fraternal leaders, Vyacheslav Gamernik, nicknamed Gamera, had a close friendship with him. At that time, he had his own group, which, according to the information from the Organized Crime Control Department at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, was engaged in extortion, oversaw the criminal auto business and the supply of large quantities of heroin. Having accumulated capital on this, Vyacheslav Gamernik invested it in a legal business, becoming the head and owner of fairly large enterprises, a respected person who donates money to the disabled and orphans. At the same time, Gamera never forgot about the interests of the criminal community, without regret, he transferred large sums to the common fund. He never had conflicts with Skripnik.

Pavel Kiselev was not their field berry. When in February 2002, accused of murders, including with a grenade launcher, he received a verdict of not guilty by the regional court, the fraternal leaders met his return from the pre-trial detention center without enthusiasm and even put forward a number of demands. First of all, Kisel had to return to the obshchak a large amount of money spent on personal needs - in the thieves' environment such "pranks" are not forgiven. And besides, he was offered to go into the shadows altogether, to abandon attempts to influence the criminal situation in Irkutsk. While Kiselev was lying on his bunk in a pre-trial detention center, Gamernik actually took the place of the position of Irkutsk, transferring all the companies that paid tribute to his predecessor under his “roof”.

Kissel, of course, tried to defend his position. But he went from the wrong end and made mistakes that ultimately cost him his life. He began to gather around him leaders who were negatively disposed towards the "brotherly". And then he decided to enlist the support of the Lavrushnikov hated by Tyurin - he went to Sochi to meet with representatives of the Georgian thieves' clan in the hope of "crowning" with their help.

Only after this incident, Kiselyov went to Moscow for an audience with his thief in law. Only Gamernik was ahead of him. The officer languished in the waiting room of the crowned lady, waiting for an invitation, which never came. Some of Kiselev's entourage - they say, and he himself - understood then: such an inhospitable behavior of the thief could mean that he gave the go-ahead to the physical elimination of the "authority" who fell into disfavor.

However, preparations for the murder of Kiselyov, as the investigation found out and confirmed by the court, had already begun several months before. Skripnik unequivocally expressed his will to the foremen Pavel Bazhenov, nicknamed Bashka and Mikhail Zakharin, promising them a reward for Kisel's head - at least 100 thousand rubles. Terian zealously got down to business: they attracted Klabuk, Zyryanov and Bykov, who were verified in joint criminal activity in Bratsk, acquired radio stations, began to study the routes of movement of the future victim, his habits, and security.

Plans were swept aside one after another. Kiselev was going to be killed either from the territory of the kindergarten near his house, or in the Mayak bar, or at the exit from the nightclub. In the end, they tracked down when he went shopping with his wife at the Voyage shopping center. Klabuk radioed that the “object” got into a Toyota Mark 2 car, accompanied by two women and a teenager, and moved past the eastern stand of the Trud stadium. Next went the Zhiguli with three guards and a friend of Kiselyov. They didn't get far. The road to the motorcade of the former officer was blocked by a Nissan Sunny car with transit numbers and checkered taxis on the roof. Zyryanov was driving it. The most responsible - the execution of a person sentenced to death - was undertaken by Bazhenov and Zakharin, Skrypnik's close associates. They fired machine guns at the cars from both sides. Criminalists then counted 25 shots fired by Bazhenov from the Kalash. An automatic burst mowed down all those sitting in the Toyota on the spot: both Kiselyov and his wife, and the son of the murdered thief in law Soloma, 15-year-old Misha, whom the driver went for while the “authority” himself was in the store, and a young saleswoman who asked for regular customers throw it to a friend for gloves forgotten the day before. Zakharin, who fired from the AKM team at the Zhiguli, also did not miss. 16 shots hit the target: three young people - employees of the Grom security agency - died on the spot. Only a friend of Kiselyov escaped with minor injuries and the driver survived, who managed to get out of the car and hide under it.

The weapons of the crime - a Nissan disguised as a taxi, and two machine guns - were abandoned by the pro-killers not far from the scene, and they themselves fled in a car that was waiting for them, driven by Bykov.

At the beginning of the investigation, the suspects confessed. They also talked about the murder of Kiselyov, explaining that they could not refuse to complete the task received "from above". Orders in this organization were carried out without discussion. None of the performers, however, regretted the lives lost in addition, beyond the plan. Like, what can you do, the costs of the craft. At the first meeting of the court, the bandits had to be present at the interrogations of the mothers of the murdered guards. “I don’t know what sentence you will be given,” one of them said, “but even your death will not suit me.” Then it turned out that the saleswoman Sveta, who had forgotten her gloves, was killed for company with her buyer, she was raising a child alone. The 13-year-old boy now lives with his grandmother, who looked at the murderers of her daughter without tears and angry words - she no longer had the strength for this.

Order for a "fireman"

The last murder committed by Skripnik's gang before they ended up on the bunk also had a huge public outcry. It was committed again in a crowded place (near the trolleybus stop "Dental Clinic" in the Solnechny microdistrict), and in the middle of broad daylight - at 12 o'clock on September 5, 2003. The car "Toyota-Mark 2" was shot by automatic bursts and, having lost control, crashed into a tree near the bus stop. Maxim Telushchenko, who was driving, riddled with bullets, died on the spot. The boss, whose bodyguard and driver he was, the leader of the Angarsk criminal group "Firefighters" Alexei Berduto, was not even injured.

The motive for this high-profile crime, as in the execution of Kisel, was again associated with the name of Vyacheslav Gamernik. Only Pavel Kiselev Skrypnik had to get out of the way so as not to interfere with his friend's criminal career, and Aleksey Berduto was sentenced to death as a suspect in the murder of an "authority": on July 19, Vyacheslav Gamernik was shot dead in Moscow.

The Berduty group was called “firefighters” because the gym in the fire station was the meeting place for its members. In this gym, in training, the leader got close to Gamernik, who, although he was five years younger than him and inferior to him in the boxing ring, enjoyed much greater authority in the criminal community and even the favor of the thief in law himself. It is known, for example, that he trusted Gamera with large funds from the common fund for investing in legal business.

Vyacheslav Gamernik came to Angarsk for permanent residence in 1995. Berduto soon became one of his bodyguards and confidants. It was the leader of the “Firefighters” that Gamera secured responsible for the main direction of his criminal business by 2000: the theft of fuel and lubricants from the territory of the ANHK. Berduto had to ensure complete control in this area, cutting off all competitors. Thanks to the patronage of Gamernik, his friend and bodyguard coped with the task brilliantly. The flow of funds to the common fund of the Brotherly criminal community has increased significantly. And at the same time, both Gamernik's authority and Berduta's influence in the criminal environment grew.

Only the leader of the "Firefighters", apparently, eventually got tired of being in the shadow of his patron. It became known that Berdut was also in the capital at the same time as Gamera, and on the night of the murder, there was no bodyguard next to the chief. Berduto returned to Irkutsk with the coffin of his patron. No one believed in his clumsy attempts to “get rid of” involvement in the crime. He explained that he went to Moscow alone on his personal business and allegedly ended up with Gamera by accident in the same hotel, witnessing his death.

The role of the direct executors of the order for the murder of Berduta, Skrypnik assigned, according to the investigation, to the killers - the most experienced and closest to him, Alexander Antonov and Andrey Alexandrov. All the same Pashka Bazhenov, who communicated directly with the boss, called his battle-tested criminal brigade from Bratsk - Zakharin, Zyryanov and Klabuk. Each of them knew his function: who should follow Berduta, who should drive the car from which the shooting should be carried out (it was again disguised as a taxi), who should ensure the escape of the killers.

Later it was found that Antonov fired at least 14 shots at Berduta’s car from a Chinese machine gun, Alexandrov fired 7 from a Kalashnikov. All the bullets went to Maxim Telushchenko, a bodyguard with a law college diploma. His boss, who was fond of boxing, had a good reaction: he managed to duck down, instantly sensing danger.

However, the brave leader of the criminal gang, who terrified competitors in Angarsk, was seriously frightened, apparently guessing who ordered it. Even when Skripnik landed in a pre-trial detention center along with his militants (only the killers Aleksandrov and Antonov managed to disappear, in respect of which the case was separated into a separate proceeding), a sound sleep did not return to Berdut. Hiding from the operatives who caught him as the main defendant in another criminal case, he was much more afraid of Skripa's long arms. He even thought of handing over a video cassette with a statement through a lawyer to the Organized Crime Control Department, in which he asks to stop the criminal prosecution against those detained for the attempt on him: supposedly he knows them well and they could not wish him death.

But at least Aleksey Berduto is alive today. In the regional court, the consideration of the criminal case on charges of organizing a criminal community, banditry and many murders is nearing completion.

However, not all participants in the high-profile crime in Solnechny managed to live to see the court verdict. On the night of February 4, 2004, the corpse of Pavel Bazhenov with a noose around his neck was found in the solitary confinement cell of the pre-trial detention center. Before that, he confessed, because of which he was very worried. During the interrogation, he stated that the operatives put pressure on him, but during a covert interrogation using a hidden video camera, the prisoner said doomedly: “For me, testifying against Skripnik is ...” and ran his finger along his neck, making it clear what exactly should follow this . And so it happened.

To each according to work

Skripnik's gang was distinguished by strict discipline and devotion to the leader. It gathered tough guys who were quite professional in their duties. It was not easy to get into this group, created on the basis of compatriot ties. The gangster corps consisted of young people who had known each other from school, such as Bazhenov, Zyryanov and Klabuk, or from joint criminal activities in fraternal groups. Baska at the preliminary investigation said: "The skripnik asked me to find reliable guys to carry out his tasks." Reliable guys were called from Bratsk to Irkutsk, where Bashka placed them in rented apartments, gave out money for food and, of course, everything necessary for the performance of their functional duties: cars, weapons, radios, money to buy uniforms, rent garages, etc.

But if it was difficult to enter a gang, then voluntarily leaving it was simply impossible. At the preliminary investigation, Zyryanov, talking about the murder of Kiselyov and his entourage, said that since he got into Skrypnik's group, he had no other choice but to participate in the crime, since not following Skripnik's instructions meant death. Only death, as in the case of Bazhenov, or a serious injury, as in the case of Prudnikov, who crashed in a car, could free voluntary recruits from the bandit share.

However, they did not consider her unhappy. For their work they were supposed to be rewarded - each in accordance with his contribution to the common cause. According to the testimony of the same Zyryanov, he and Zakharin received 50,000 rubles each from Skrypnik for participating in the execution of Kisel. Klabuk, according to him, was given out for this crime only 10 thousand.

The bandit formation had a four-level structure. The man, as the ordinary “employees” of the organizer of their “enterprise” Skrypnik called, with his unquestioned authority occupied a dominant position - he led the armed group without going directly to ordinary members. Operational command was entrusted to Pavel Bazhenov and Mikhail Zakharin. Skripnik was especially close with Baska, they even walked together at Tyurin's birthday party. The foremen planned crimes, prepared them, distributed roles among ordinary soldiers, monitored discipline, handing out cuffs to petty violators. “We were forbidden to drink alcohol,” Klabuk said during the investigation, and when this happened, Bazhenov and Zakharin beat us, but not much. Klabuk himself and his friend Prudnikov were listed as privates in the group - infantry, who were instructed to follow the intended victim, drive the car to the garage, etc. Zyryanov and Bykov were tougher. Their privileged position is associated with a long record of "work" with Skrypnik. These veterans of the organization have already managed to leave a legacy in Bratsk. In 1996, they, together with Bashka, were brought to justice for the fact that, while dealing with the guy who crashed Skripnik's Mercedes, they tried to take away his apartment for debts. But this case was successfully dismissed, as well as another, in which Zyryanov and Bazhenov were detained for rape of minors.

Skrypnik through Baska paid for the services of each. For this, there was a special monetary fund, which he disposed of. The salary depended not only on the position, but also on the quality of work. When, for example, the militants killed his bodyguard Telushchenko instead of Berduta, their bonus, as they say, was covered.

The leader of the gang, as both the investigation and the court admitted, turned out to be a good organizer. In his group, for example, there was an excellent conspiracy. All the Skripovites had a permanent residence permit in Bratsk, and they visited Irkutsk only at the call of the brigadier when a business was planned. After the "business trip" they returned to their native land. And the life of the police was complicated, and an alibi in case of a trial was at hand.

In secret apartments, the fighters lived in accordance with the position they occupied in the gang: the privates were separate from the foremen.

As for the cars needed to monitor future victims, hide from crime scenes, block the passage of those sentenced to death, the court counted eight foreign cars and at least five domestic cars in the gang. Moreover, all the cars turned out to be either issued to nominees, or registered to the previous owners, with whom the bandits did not fully pay off, or were previously stolen. They hid them in specially rented garages.

Moreover, the members of the gang, as the court established, were engaged in robbery for expensive foreign cars and on their own, without the blessing of Skripnik. Outsiders were sometimes invited to help. The court considered three such episodes. In each of them, the drivers were not only threatened with a gun, but also beaten, taking away their jeeps, for which the hunt was announced.

End of the gang

And yet - despite the brilliant conspiracy, clear discipline and organization - Skripnik's gang came to an end. This happened at a time when the reputation of the Skripovites, or, as they are also called fraternal, was just on the rise. In criminal circles they were afraid, in business circles they were considered. And ordinary citizens, looking at lawlessness, mass executions in the city, for which no one is responsible, lost their last confidence in law enforcement agencies.

Under investigation, tough bandits gave confessions, which were the basis of the verdict by the court. Later, in the trial, all the accused, as usual, retracted their words, stated that they had slandered themselves and their accomplices under the pressure of the operatives, the physical and mental influence of the cellmates specially planted next to them. Their statements were checked by the court, but did not find confirmation.

The attempt to save the position of the defendants with the help of false alibis also failed. Although, it must be admitted, the lawyers did a huge job. About two hundred additional witnesses were invited to the court hearings, who assured, for example, that on the day of the execution of Kiselyov, Skrypnik was hunting, and during the preparation for it, Zakharin was in Bratsk, where he participated in cross-country skiing. Zyryanov at that time allegedly carried out a cultural program - he watched the film "Die, but not now" at the "Chaika" cinema together with a girl who, after the session, took him to her place. Bykov, on the other hand, was being treated for such an illness that he was not up to Kiselyov. During interrogations, Skripnik's well-wishers naturally got confused, contradicted each other and themselves. The court was critical of both their "good" intentions and the assurances of accomplices that they had slandered themselves during the investigation. It was the testimony that the defendants gave during the investigation that aroused more confidence, since they were obtained in accordance with procedural norms, are stable and do not contradict the totality of the evidence presented.

We should pay tribute to the operatives of the department for the disclosure of contract killings of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the region, who managed to unravel the crimes of the Skripovites, who had been listed as “grouses” for years, to obtain material evidence that allowed the bandits to sit in the dock.

A colossal work was carried out by the investigative team, created from seven experienced employees specifically to work on the Skripnik case. The division was headed by Vladimir Bukin, head of the regional prosecutor's office. By the way, according to the results of last year, he was recognized as the winner in the competition “The Best Investigator of the Irkutsk Region” announced by the governor. Previously suspended criminal cases, in which the Skripovites were involved, were merged into one, which by the end of the investigation had swelled to 63 volumes.

State prosecutors Sergei Plahotniuk and Lyudmila Inyutina from the regional prosecutor's office, who during the trial managed to break up numerous false alibis of the defendants, asked for life imprisonment for the leader of the gang, Mikhail Skrypnyk, and his main, most active assistant, Mikhail Zakharin.

The court sentenced Mikhail Skripnik, guilty of creating and leading a gang, premeditated murder, extortion and robbery, to 23 years in prison in a strict regime colony. Mikhail Zakharin, who participated in the murder of nine people, received a life sentence, which he will serve in a special regime colony. Artyom Klabuk was sentenced by the court to 21 years, Oleg Zyryanov - 20, Alexei Bykov -15 years in correctional institutions of strict regime. Aleksey Tishchenko and Denis Komissarov, who are not members of the gang, received 7.5 and 7 years, respectively, for participating in robbery attacks.