Until recently, it seemed that officials, security forces and bandits had long ago divided the country among themselves into non-overlapping rows. However, recently the patriarchs of the criminal world, such as Ivankov (Yaponchik), have suddenly begun to be “killed”, which means that the calm is still far away - new showdowns, bloody redistribution of property and gangster-cop wars are coming. At the same time, the latest high-profile assassination attempt in the center of Moscow, on Tverskaya, only adds to the alarm: not everyone could order a criminal figure of such a level as Usoyan (Ded Khasan). Novaya learned some unknown details that preceded this attempt on the life of the criminal general, and at the same time studied the biography of Ded Hasan.
Biography.
Let's start with the official biography. Aslan Rashidovich (Rashoevich) Usoyan was born on February 27, 1937 in Tbilisi. He graduated from school and at the age of 19 received his first sentence for resisting police officers - convicted under Art. 75 part 2, 72 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the GSSR to 1 year and 6 months of imprisonment. Then the Supreme Court of the GSSR on January 30, 56 reclassified the criminal case under Art. 75 part 1, 2 of the Criminal Code of the GSSR, and Usoyan was released “after serving his term with credit for working days.” However, he did not walk for long. On January 15, 1959, the Stalin District Court of Tbilisi sentenced Usoyan to 5 years in prison for robbery (released on parole).
On December 28, 1966, Aslan Usoyan again found himself in the dock. Now the Oktyabrsky District Court of Tbilisi sentenced him under Art. 19-153 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the GSSR to 3 (speculation) years of imprisonment. In the zone he was crowned a thief in law and on June 24, 1968 he was released on parole by order of the people's court of the Tsulukidze district of Georgia.
On August 3, 1984, citizen Usoyan again appeared before the Supreme Court of the GSSR under Art. 252 part 2, 214, 17-129 of the Criminal Code of Georgia - for selling counterfeit gold coins to natives of Uzbekistan - and was sentenced to 15 years in prison (the term was served in Sverdlovsk region, where he acquired his main connections in the criminal world). By decision of the Nizhny Tagil court, on December 28, 1991 he was released on parole.
According to the “police biography”, during the Soviet era, Usoyan headed a criminal group that imposed tribute on guild workers, underground entrepreneurs and thimble makers. Having become a thief in law, Usoyan gained control over shadow businesses in almost all regions of Russia. And since then he has extensive connections among corrupt officials, FSB and Ministry of Internal Affairs employees. He is registered operationally in Depur (criminal investigation department) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (formerly in the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation).
On May 30, 1995, in Moscow, as part of criminal case No. 30010, Usoyan was detained by employees of the RUBOP of St. Petersburg and the Department of Operations of the Ministry of Water. During a search at the place of residence, operatives seized about two kilograms of gold and 380 thousand US dollars.
In turn, Usoyan himself has repeatedly stated that he is a simple pensioner and is not involved in criminal matters.
Family.
While Grandfather Hassan was serving prison terms, his common-law wife, Dulsha Avdoeva (born in 1937), was waiting for him at home. She gave birth to Usoyan two children - Nodari (1962), who previously worked as the director of the Stolichny supermarket and is the founder of several commercial structures, and daughter Nunu (1960).
Among the closest relatives, it is worth noting the nephews: Oku Khatoeva (Oko, born 1965, native of Tbilisi, lives in Moscow), Tengiz Mikhoyeva (Tengiz, born 02/15/1954, lives in Moscow and has a house in Gelendzhik) and Temuri Mirzoeva (Timur Tbilissky, born 05/07/1957, lives in Sochi, was put on the federal wanted list in 1997, detained after a meeting in Tuapse and escorted to a pre-trial detention center in Kurgan).
Despite his “prison” upbringing, Grandfather Hassan is very picky in everyday life and loves beautiful things. Several years ago, the famous designer and artist Boris K. did a European-quality renovation in Grandfather’s Moscow apartment. Considering the client’s background, the designer did not show off too much and decorated the apartment in predominantly dark colors. Hasan did not like this, and instead of a fee, he demanded to pay a fine of 60 thousand dollars. Boris K. was helped to fight off Hassan by the Solntsevo authority Shepovalov (Shepoval), who in 1994 was the organizer of the famous thieves’ gathering in the Butyrka pre-trial detention center.
Wars of Hassan.
As he ascended to the thieves' Olympus, the authoritative pensioner Usoyan participated in many criminal wars. And how many times it was ordered or uncrowned is beyond counting.
The loudest order happened on August 8, 1998, when two masked men entered the Sochi cafe “Rubin” and opened fire from a Kalashnikov assault rifle. As a result of the execution, the Unoev brothers and the authority of Chachanidze were killed, and five visitors were seriously injured. Khasan was lucky, because five minutes before the killers appeared, he left for home (according to the preliminary version, Khasan was ordered by thief in law Oganov, nicknamed Rudik).
Along the way (allegedly for “deviating from thieves’ traditions” and “machinations with the thieves’ common fund”), thieves in law tried to debunk Usoyan Boris Petrushin (Borya Bryansky, Baryga) - killed in 2002, Ilya Simonia (Makho) - convicted in 2010, Soslambek Apaev (Mexican) - debunked and died, and Ker-Ogly Mamedov (Karo) - convicted. The latter questioned Hasan’s authority due to the fact that he is allegedly involved in drug deliveries from Uzbekistan and controls the trade in industrial alcohol for the production of illegal vodka, from which “common workers are dying in the thousands,” which together represents “zapadlo.”
Many questions remained after the disappearance in 1993 of the oldest thief in law Givi Beradze (Givi Rezany), who helped with weapons and finances Georgian side in conflict with Abkhazia. Early in the morning Givi said goodbye to his wife and went to his office at the Intourist Hotel. Soon, people in police uniform called the apartment, gave his wife the keys to Givi’s car and left. Since then, no one has seen Beradze. In turn, it is well known that Ded Hassan provided great financial assistance to the Abkhaz militias.
Conflict with the Oganov brothers
Particularly bloody thieves' wars happened in the mid-90s, when no less authoritative thieves in law, the Oganov brothers - Rudik and Vachikos - declared Usoyan a “spender of the thieves’ common fund.”
The formal reason was Rudik’s information that Hasan allegedly embezzled 850 thousand dollars, which Armenian authorities living in Uzbekistan sent to Moscow. Along the way, another presentation was made to Usoyan: they say, he began to hold coronations (stampings) of businessmen and former athletes who do not have a criminal record. Usoyan was invited to thieves' gatherings three times, but never showed up.
In fact, under this “ideological” guise, Usoyan and the Oganovs shared Krasnodar region. The division was reminiscent of combat reports. In 1995, Aram Yuzbashev (a supporter of the Oganovs) was killed near a kebab shop in the Moscow Ring Road area. On April 15, 1996, an attempt was made on the Oganov brothers in Pyatigorsk; by a lucky coincidence, both survived. In the same year, Eduard Avakyan, a citizen of Panama, an oil trader and supporter of the Oganovs, was shot near the Pomodor restaurant in the capital. Gagik Shatvaryan, who was investigating this murder privately, was soon also shot. According to the operatives, the murder of Shatvaryan was committed at a high professional level. For example, in the entrance on the first floor, the locks of the doors blocking the approach to the hall from the flights of stairs were changed in advance, and one of the killers led the killer out with a command via the radio station. Together with Shatvaryan, random witnesses - pensioners Feigin and Labzina - fell under the bullets of professionals (both were killed).
The reverse action was also impressive. In 1997 he was kidnapped and after the most severe torture Vanik Karakozyan (Vanik), who confessed to the attempt on Rudik’s life, was concreted into the wall of a dacha near Moscow in the village of Tuchkovo. According to operational information, Karakozyan’s kidnapping was organized by Konstantin M., an employee of the South Administrative District Internal Affairs Directorate. He was allegedly paid twenty thousand dollars for his services and was given a BMW car (he is now part of the management of the Support Fund former employees Ministry of Internal Affairs and FSB). In the same year, thief in law Artur Kulbyakov (Beard) and two members of his brigade (supporters of Usoyan) were killed near the Moscow cafe “Santa Fe”. In 1998, on the way from Vnukovo airport, people with security clearances stopped a BMW car in which Harutyun Rostomyan (Arut), supporting Usoyan, was located - no one saw Harut again.
And on October 17, 1998, in the Naro-Fominsk district of the Moscow region, a second attempt was made on Oganov. As a result, relative calm came when, in 1999, in a cafe near the Moscow Ring Road, first Rudik was shot (the killer was paid 50 thousand dollars), and then his brother Vachikos, who vowed revenge on Usoyan. IN total During this war, more than one hundred and fifty people were killed (only in the area Mineralnye Vody 37 authorities were shot or blown up).
In most of the especially daring murders of supporters of the Oganov brothers, Vladimir Volkov, nicknamed Volchara, or Volodya-Shlepnoga, who is on the federal wanted list (escaped from Penitentiary Colony No. 2 in Tatarstan in 1991), is suspected. According to the police and security service files, he is listed as “Ded Hasan’s full-time killer.” IN operational information addresses are listed in Eastern Europe, where he could be hiding, as well as the numbers of fake passports of Serbia, the Czech Republic and Poland (Rudik was willing to pay 30 thousand dollars just for a clear photo of Volchara and his location). So it is possible that the last order for Hassan could have come from a bloodline who had been patiently waiting all these years for an opportunity.
It is necessary to mention one more episode when Grandfather Hassan was two steps away from death. On July 28, 1999, an accident occurred in the Gelendzhik region, as a result of which Usoyan received a fracture of the bones of his right forearm, a hematoma of the right frontal-superciliary region and was taken to intensive care. Brought from the capital the best doctors, and they came out to Grandfather.
Conversation on Shabolovka.
Among other things, the old thieves reprimanded Hasan several times for allegedly collaborating with cops and faces (FSB officers - slang). In turn, Grandfather himself and his entourage categorically rejected such rumors.
However, Novaya came into possession of an interesting document. He appeared after the arrest of Usoyan in 1998 “with drugs in his pocket” (see the report of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate) - then the whole criminal world was laughing because they found ecstasy, and not some heroin: “Grandfather was going to a disco ...”
According to the late deputy head of the special forces of the GUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Roman Shvets, “they planted ecstasy in order to get Hassan to talk about helping to free the presidential envoy in Chechnya Vlasov (now the Russian Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan) and to talk about the war between him and Rudik.” The intelligence interrogation was conducted by the then head of the GUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mikhail Vanichkin, now an assistant to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Nurgaliev. Who initiated the arrest of Hassan and who the report was intended for remains a mystery. We quote excerpts:
“...Based on the instructions you gave, I asked Usoyan a question about the kidnapping of the presidential representative, Vlasov, in Ingushetia by unknown persons. Usoyan stated that he is ready to hold meetings in order to obtain information about the possible whereabouts of Vlasov and, if the situation develops positively, even provide all possible assistance in his release. However, Usoyan emphasized that he could not promise anything in this case. Usoyan must inform me about the results of his efforts by phone...”
“...Next, Usoyan showed indignation at the behavior of thieves in law - Caucasians who are now flooding Moscow (he constantly called them “scabies”). These persons, according to Usoyan, pose the greatest danger to society, since they do not recognize any laws, neither thieves’ nor state. They, they say, consider money to be the only value in life and, in the fight for it, are capable of committing the most serious crimes. Khasan claims that young thieves calmly decide to kill not only thieves, but also employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, and allow their children and wives to be taken hostage for the purpose of intimidation...”
“...At the same time, Usoyan was forced to admit that in this moment he and his entourage are not able to stop the chaos emanating from “scabies”, and he doubts that the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be able to do this. When I asked how we could get out of this situation, Usoyan replied that the only way out could be the return to Russia of the thief in law Yaponchik (Ivankov), who is currently serving a criminal sentence in the United States. According to Usoyan, Ivankov can become the figure in the criminal world who will put an end to lawlessness, and primarily in Moscow and the Moscow region. Usoyan made it clear that he had already discussed this issue with senior law enforcement officials. Usoyan refused to name specific persons with whom this issue had already been discussed. At the end of the conversation, Usoyan made it clear that they were ready for dialogue with law enforcement agencies, but, naturally, within certain limits. The fact that in this dialogue the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB should take a dominant position was not disputed by Usoyan and was taken for granted...”
As you know, on May 1, 1998, Plenipotentiary Vlasov was released from captivity. According to the official version, not a penny was paid for his release.
As for Ded Hasan’s testimony, it can be interpreted in any way you like. However, it is well known that half of Usoyan’s “colleagues” are secret agents in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Drug Control and the FSB, and some also give their curators the benefit of the doubt.
Report from the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate.
At 20.30 at Sheremetyevo airport, citizen Aslan Rashidovich Usoyan, born in 1937, was detained. Tbilisi, residential St. Petersburg, Danube Ave., *-***, who, during a personal search in the premises of the Regional Department of Organized Crime Control at the address: st. Shabolovka, 6, the narcotic substance MDMA (ecstasy) in an amount of more than 0.02 grams was seized. Usoyan was transferred to the 2nd r/m.”
Conflict with Oniani.
Another version of the assassination attempt on Aslan Usoyan is connected with a long-standing conflict with Tariel Oniani over the division of the criminal empire of another thief in law Kalashov (Shakro-young), now convicted in Spain.
For reference: Oniani Tariel Guramovich (Taro, Onik), aka Greek citizen Onianidis Tasos, aka David Mulukhov - born June 2, 1958 in Georgian city Buji. According to police files, he is identified as a thief in law and the leader of the organized crime group “Svans”: the number is about one hundred people, the main core consists of dismissed employees of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB.
Oniani is on criminal records in Russia, Austria, Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium and France. In 1996, by order of the German authorities, it was deregistered. Then Taro lived in Paris at the address: Paris, 10 Av. J. Gireaudoux. According to Belgian authorities, Oniani was suspected of involvement in the abduction of Georgian native Chikashvili in Antwerp, as well as in the murder of David Sanikidze, committed in Vienna. In October 1998, Taro was sentenced to eight years in prison.
In Russia, in addition to Hassan, Taro has bloodlines from the family of thief in law Avtandil Chikhladze (Kvezho), who was shot dead in 1994 in Moscow (at the same time, the killers killed his wife and seriously wounded his 10-year-old son). In the criminal world, many believe that it was Oniani who ordered Kvezho.
Nowadays, the conflict between Usoyan and Oniani from the stage of “bazaars” and “graters” quickly escalated into bloody battles on an international scale. And this is not surprising: at stake are half a billion dollars invested in real estate throughout Europe, as well as control over illegal financial flows from Russia (mainly the shadow income of high-ranking officials and security forces).
First, according to information from an FSB agent, a gathering of thieves supporting Oniani was dispersed at the Pirogovskoye Reservoir (footages of authorities floating in the water are still shown with pleasure on TV).
Then the shooting began. On November 17, 2008, Gela Tsertsvadze (a supporter of Oniani) received gunshot wounds. In February 2008, Alik Minoyan (Alik Sochinsky) was killed in Moscow, and in May Andrei Golubev (Skif) - supporters of Ded Hassan. On July 28, 2009, Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik), a personal friend and companion of Usoyan, was mortally wounded near the Thai Elephant restaurant in Moscow. In the same year, Oniani-Mulukhov himself was arrested in the elite village of Gorki-2 for the theft and extortion of five hundred thousand dollars from businessman Monogadze (in July 2010, the Khamovnichesky Court sentenced Taro to ten years of strict regime). On March 18, 2010, thief in law Vladimir Danashia (Lado), a supporter of Oniani, was killed in France. On May 10, 46-year-old Malkhaz Kitia (Makhonia), a close associate of Oniani, was killed in Greece. In Thessaloniki, 35-year-old Lavrentiy Cholakidis (Leva the Greek), an associate of Usoyan, died under very strange circumstances.
And now it’s Hassan’s turn. Interestingly, the apartment on Tverskaya from which the killer shot at Hasan and his bodyguard belongs to the famous Moscow artist Mikhail Gurvich and his daughter.
The Usoyan clan openly declares that Oniani’s closest associate, thief in law Merab Dzhangveladze (Merab Sukhumsky), organized the assassination attempt.
"Old wagon"
However, according to the third version, Usoyan could have been ordered by a very high-ranking official or security officer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the FSB, since Grandfather had financial interests in almost all areas National economy. Quite often, Hasan was invited to be an arbiter in financial disputes between large merchants and bankers, or he supported one of the parties in conflicts. As a rule, “shooters” and “graters” took place in the capital’s restaurant “Old Kibitka,” where Chekist Day and the birthdays of employees of two departments from Lubyanka are also celebrated.
For example, shortly before the assassination attempt, Usoyan, at the request of an adviser to the head of a large state corporation, “withdrew” 500 billion rubles from a commercial bank, which was mentioned in the murder of the deputy chairman of the Central Bank Kozlov. He was helped in this by two now convicted colonels from the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Tselyakov and Nosenko.
In another case, Usoyan resolved a financial conflict in a well-known company, where there were three “roofs” at once: a security officer and two gangsters. During the negotiations, Usoyan, Dagestan thief in law Ziyautdin Abdulkhalikov (Zyava) and several other people were sitting at the table. In the midst of the controversy, special forces soldiers from the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, employees of the MUR, and the 3rd department of the FSB for Moscow and the region burst into Kibitka and put everyone face to face on the floor. They immediately apologized to Usoyan and his bodyguard and released him, but Zyava was “unexpectedly” found to have hashish (27.6 g). Zyava was soon sentenced to five and a half years, and the financial conflict between Usoyan and the faces was resolved amicably.
For the last few months, Usoyan has been living in Abkhazia, where he is accepted as his own. However, he recently appeared in Moscow again and held several meetings with “brothers” and “undercover” businessmen. And a lot of questions have accumulated: a possible change of power in Moscow, problems with the illegal gambling business, which were “squeezed out” by the Department of Economic Crimes and the prosecutor’s office, division of land of the former Cherkizovsky market, construction kickbacks in Sochi, non-repayment of bank debts due to the financial crisis, etc. .
I once had to talk with a businessman who had been “lying” under Hasan’s structures for many years. Of course, I asked about the roof.
“You know,” the businessman answered, “at least Grandfather doesn’t cheat people like cops or security officers, hiding behind ksivs.” And he can solve problems by connecting his connections at any level.
As soon as Hasan came to his senses after the operation, he handed over the “nuclear suitcase” to his closest friend - thief in law Lasha Shushanashvili (Lasha Rustavsky, Shanash, criminal record: 1979 - under Article 243 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (6 months of imprisonment), in 1980 under Article 252 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (2 years of imprisonment), in 1982 under Article 252 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (8 years of imprisonment).
Grandfather's enemies.
Home version assassination attempt, which is voiced by the capital's operatives and criminal underlings: Usoyan fell victim to the same mafia war in which Yaponchik died. According to this version, the criminal duo Usoyan-Ivankov shared the inheritance of the famous thief Shakro-Young with another thief in law Tariel Oniani, also known as Taro. For several years now, Shakro has been sitting in a Spanish prison, and the dispute has been about the future of his cashing and money laundering channels. Newsweek wrote about this in detail in issue 47 in 2009.
The Georgian thief Lasha Shushanashvili laid claim to Shakro the Young’s inheritance; under Shakro he was sort of the property manager. These claims were disputed by another Georgian thief, Mirab Dzhangveladze. Lasha enlisted the support of Ded Khasan and Yaponchik. Mirab connected the Tarot. Thus began a war of thieves between the clan, headed by a triumvirate - Ded Hasan (president), Yaponchik ( spiritual leader), Lasha Shushanashvili (finance), - and supporters of the Oniani-Dzhangveladze tandem.
In 2008, Oniani’s supporters decided to hold a meeting at the Klyazma Reservoir. Its participants were detained by riot police, and some thieves received real sentences. In the Oniani camp they believe that it was Grandfather who handed over the gangway to the police. Then, apparently in retaliation, there was an attempt on Yaponchik’s life. By this time, Lasha Shushanashvili had already been deported from Russia, and Oniani was arrested and sentenced to ten years for kidnapping. A response to the murder of Yaponchik soon followed: this spring, two thieves from Taro’s entourage were killed in France and Greece.
The assassination attempt on Ded Hasan is just another link in the conflict. This opinion is shared, for example, by some guests of Matrosskaya Tishina, who actively discussed the criminal emergency on the night after the assassination attempt. One of the participants in these discussions told Newsweek that it was Merab Dzhangveladze who most likely acted as the customer - after main enemy Hasan, Tariel Oniani, was arrested, he became the eldest.
Grandfather's Arbitration.
The war with Oniani is not the only thing Hasan has been involved in recently. With his fame and authority in the underworld, he became an arbiter in business and criminal conflicts. They turned to him to put an end to the dispute. After this, the party that won the arbitration, as a rule, replenished the common fund.
Newsweek is aware, for example, of Usoyan’s participation in resolving a dispute between two businessmen: the top manager of the largest cardboard and paper manufacturer of the Serpukhov Voskhod factory, Alexander Shchukin, and Evgeny Vasiliev from the Orion construction company. They were unable to agree on the disputed $12 million and turned to mediators. Vasiliev enlisted the help of his acquaintances - former security officials from the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Shchukin called Ded Khasan and Yaponchik to one of the arrows.
This year, criminal cases against both sides of the conflict reached the court almost simultaneously. Vasiliev accuses Shchukin of extorting $12 million. Shchukin claims that Vasiliev’s friends, former high-ranking security officials and their accomplices, extorted $8 million from him. The former chairman of the Judo Federation for Moscow and the Moscow Region, Mikhail Sinyakin-Mambuta, who allegedly helped the security forces, fled abroad, and his criminal case was transferred to separate proceedings.
Grandfather Hasan did not deny that he was once present at a conversation between businessmen, but in the criminal case he appears not as an accused, but as a witness. Usoyan told the investigation that the son of the Deputy Minister of Defense Industry of the USSR, Alexander Shchukin, invited him to a restaurant, where he discussed something with Evgeny Vasiliev. Usoyan’s acquaintance Vyacheslav Ivankov ended up there quite by accident. Having met, the criminal authorities, according to Usoyan, did not delve into the essence of the conflict and left the restaurant together. Usoyan, who had already been operated on twice by last Friday, does not want to help the investigation now. On the morning before the second operation, they tried to interrogate him, but the thief in law replied that he did not know who tried to kill him and why.
Grandfather's inheritance.
Regardless of whether the investigation or Hasan himself finds the orderers and perpetrators of the assassination attempt, serious unrest awaits the world of thieves. There is simply no figure equal to Grandfather Hasan in the modern criminal world. He can only be compared with Valerian Kuchuloria, nicknamed Peso, who, in addition to being the “chief thief of the Soviet Union,” was also an unofficial consultant and advisor to the Chairman of the KGB of the USSR, Yuri Andropov.
For ten years now, Grandfather Hassan has been considered an unquestioned authority throughout the entire post-Soviet space, including the diasporas in the USA and Israel. Usoyan built relationships between thieves Central Russia, Siberia, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. In recent years, he managed to slow down the practice of trading in thieves' titles, and he actively returned to the criminal environment the internationalist ideas characteristic of the Russian criminals of the mid-twentieth century. Without him, the world of thieves may experience a kind of ideological collapse.
If Usoyan dies, the various thieves' clans will undoubtedly begin to feud over his assets. The authority had many interests: Olympic construction in Sochi and gambling business in Azov City, a large-scale network of cashing and transferring money abroad, legal business, including shares in shopping centers and restaurants, control over the inexhaustible funds of the All-Russian thieves' common fund. Usoyan could compete for a place in the top hundred of Russian rich people according to Forbes magazine.
But the main object of the redistribution, says a Newsweek interlocutor close to the criminal world of the capital, will be the Moscow business of Ded Hassan. Usoyan, according to him, was involved in a number of projects of billionaire Telman Ismailov from the inner circle of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Version of Newsweek's interlocutor: the underworld quickly responded to the political situation of the moment. Anticipating Luzhkov's imminent resignation, Usoyan's rivals decided that now was the time to deal with the capital's main thief.
And one last thing.
It’s in vain that someone thinks that all these hasans, simony, and merabs of Sukhumi are somewhere far away and, they say, this has nothing to do with us. Firstly, during their showdowns, innocent people die. And secondly, for every liter of gasoline, loaf of sausage or loaf of bread, we are forced to overpay 15% more. Because this “tag” is not only the official’s share, but also the gangster’s share.
Today it became known that in the center of Moscow on Povarskaya Street an attempt was made on the life of one of the main authorities criminal Russia Aslan Usoyan, nicknamed Grandfather Hassan.
Many media outlets recalled a similar story that occurred in 2010. Then absolutely the entire press reported the death of Usoyan and his bodyguard. Later it became known that Ded Hasan was only wounded and for a long time was in the hospital under the protection of special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Aslan Usoyan- thief in law, Russian crime boss. Born on February 27, 1937 in Tbilisi. By nationality - Yezidi Kurd. Also known by the nickname Grandfather Hassan. Russian media called him the leader of the largest criminal community.
He was first arrested on January 15, 1959. The Stalin District Court of Tbilisi sentenced Aslan Usoyan to 5 years in prison for robbery, but he was later released on parole.
In 1966, Ded Hassan was arrested for profiteering for 3 years. It was here that he was crowned thief in law. The “appointment” was carried out by David Shaumyansky and Mehrach “Fartovy”. On June 24, 1968, he was released on parole by order of the people's court of the Tsulukidze region of the Georgian SSR.
It took Tbilisi Kurdish Usoyan more than ten years to build a vertical power structure. In the mid-1990s, another ethnic feud was going on in the thieves’ community. Then the Georgian thieves, who are called “peaks,” took over. About a third of the Slavs, to whom Yaponchik belonged, remained.
Since 1996, according to media reports, Usoyan has been in conflict with thief in law, representative of the Armenian organized crime group Rudolf Oganov (Rudik Bakinsky), who decided to redistribute spheres of influence and take control of business in the Krasnodar region.
In 1997, Ded Hasan was deprived of his status as a thief in law at a thieves' meeting in the Moscow region.
The war of criminal clans ended with the murder of Oganov - in February 1999, more than 40 bullets were fired at him in a roadside cafe near the Moscow Ring Road.
Grandfather Hasan defeated many Caucasian thieves, and then Tariel Oniani stood in his way.
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War with Tariel Oniani
In 2006, Usoyan had a conflict with a criminal clan led by Tariel Oniani, known as Taro. The subject of the dispute was the enterprises of thief in law Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy), who was arrested in the UAE and extradited to Spain.
Usoyan took the position that thief in law Lasha Shushanashvili (Lasha Rustavsky) should become the interim manager. However, the Oniani clan was against it.
By that time, Usoyan had gathered around himself a real international thieves and subjugated the most authoritative Slavic thieves.
On May 2, 2008, according to media reports, Aslan Usoyan held a gathering of authoritative representatives of the criminal world. At the meeting, issues of control of funds allocated for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi were discussed. In the dispute over the division of spheres of influence, Vyacheslav Ivankov, better known as Yaponchik, sided with Usoyan.
Then the thieves decided to entrust control over the preparations for the Olympics to Grandfather Hasan. The main argument was that the Krasnodar region has been considered his patrimony since the 90s.
Grandfather Hasan and Tariel Oniani
In turn, Oniani proposed his business plan for the Olympics. However, the criminal world supported Hassan, citing the fact that he adheres to the old thieves’ traditions, contributes to the common fund, and deductions from business at the Olympics can replenish him with hundreds of millions of dollars.
On July 8, 2008, Oniani held a general meeting on a ship at the Pirogovskoye Reservoir. He also invited Ded Khasan and Yaponchik, but they didn’t show up. But special forces from the Ministry of Internal Affairs landed on the ship from a helicopter. More than 30 thieves were detained. Most were soon released, but some were found to be in possession of drugs. They were given short but realistic sentences.
The murder of Usoyan’s business partner, thief in law Andrei Golubev, nicknamed “Skif,” and crime boss Korsakov, nicknamed “Korsak,” provoked new serious clashes between Usoyan’s people and the rival Oniani clan. As a consequence of this, the media call the attempted murder of Yaponchik, which happened on July 28, 2009 in Moscow. In October of the same year, Ivankov died from his wounds in the hospital.
Yaponchik-Ivankov
After the death of Yaponchik, Grandfather Hassan vowed to avenge him.
The thieves themselves have repeatedly accused Hassan and Oniani’s entourage of collaborating with the authorities.
Yaponchik-Ivankov was Ded Hassan’s most successful acquisition. Usoyan warmed him up in 2005 - immediately after Yaponchik was released. Usoyan transferred control over one of the business centers in the very center of Moscow to Yaponchik.
In 2004, Ded Khasan won an important battle for the Urals with Uralmash. Deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma Alexander Khabarov, who was considered the leader of the Uralmash, was arrested, and a month later he was found hanged in his cell. Newsweek's interlocutors claim that shortly before this, a thieves' “run” (instructions) passed through the prisons, sentencing Khabarov to death.
Alexander Khabarov. Last lifetime photo
The longest conflict between Ded Hassan and Tariel Oniani has not yet ended. Investigators believe that the murder that occurred on January 16, 2013 was the work of Oniani
Assassination attempts
On April 27, 2010, Ded Hasan was detained in Kyiv while trying to enter the territory of Ukraine using forged documents.
On the evening of September 16 of the same year, a second attempt was made on Aslan Usoyan on Tverskaya Street in Moscow. He received three gunshot wounds to the stomach.
It was initially stated that Ded Hasan and his bodyguard were killed. According to a source in law enforcement agencies, information about Usoyan’s death came from operatives and was disseminated for operational reasons, but was later refuted.
According to information as of 11:48 pm on September 16, 2010, they are both alive and are in the Botkin hospital under heavy guard from special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
There are already two versions of this assassination attempt.
According to one of them, the attempt on the life of 73-year-old Ded Khasan was committed in an apartment on Tverskaya Street.
According to another, Usoyan was shot from a Makarov pistol as he was leaving the entrance of a house on Tverskaya Street.
This assassination attempt was considered a consequence of the conflict between Usoyan and Tariel Oniani. However, according to other sources, at one of the gatherings of criminal leaders, Ded Hasan stated that the assassination attempt on him was ordered by a thief in law from Azerbaijan, Rovshan Dzhaniev (Rovshan Lenkoransky), and the perpetrator was a team of killers from the extremist Islamic group Askhab.
Family
From his common-law wife Dulsha Avdoeva, Usoyan has a daughter, Nuna, and a son, Nodari, who for some time worked as the director of the Stolichny supermarket. The son’s wife is one of the founders of CJSC Dionysus and K, LLC Hair and LLC Yes-Avia.
According to the police files, one of the nephews of Grandfather Hasan Oko Khatoev is identified as a thief in law, nicknamed Oko, another nephew, Tengiz Mikhoyev, is identified as a thief in law Tengiz, and another nephew, Temuri Mirzoev, nicknamed Timur Tbilissky, is the leader of the “Blue” organized crime group.
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This story seems incredible, but it is a fact.
Veniamin Borisovich Vaisman, aka Trakhtenberg, aka Rabinovich, aka Zilberstein, as well as Venya Zhitomirsky, (1914-1969) - a Soviet swindler who deceived 26 Stalinist people's commissars in 1946-1947. He went to the ministries, introduced himself as a fellow soldier of Vasily Stalin and extorted money, clothes, housing and other benefits.
Weissman was arrested in June 1947 in the building of the Ministry of Heavy Engineering while trying to receive cash benefits. For 24 years, from the age of 9 until the day of his arrest, he was engaged in petty and then major thefts. He was tried 10 times and sentenced to various terms of detention in camps, and escaped from prison 8 times.
In 1944, Vaisman suffered frostbite while escaping from a camp in the Vologda region, as a result of which both legs were amputated. In those years, justice was very lenient towards criminals - it was believed that thieves and revolutionaries came from the same poor environment, so Vaisman, with his stumps instead of legs, was simply released from the camp to go home. Having received the first group of disability and returning to freedom in October 1945, his professional activity, i.e. he could no longer engage in theft, so he was forced to switch to new level- fraud. To do this, he fabricated an award book for a twice Hero of the Soviet Union (the two hero stars were made by counterfeiters), attached stripes with seven orders and three medals to his jacket, and in this form visited various ministries of the Soviet Union, where he sought receptions from ministers and deputy ministers and, thanks to his talent for manipulating people, he received large cash benefits and scarce goods from them.
Vaisman began his series of defrauding major officials of the Soviet Union with the Minister of River Fleet of the USSR Shashkov, from whom the swindler managed to lure out 4,300 rubles, two Boston cuts, 7 meters of satin, a men's suit, shoes and underwear. Shashkov was followed by the Minister of Forestry Saltykov, whom Vaisman “shod” for 2,500 rubles, a piece of Boston, two astrakhan coats, two ladies’ jackets and other manufactured goods valuable at that time. Then followed the minister Food Industry Zotov and his deputy Bystrov, Minister of Chemical Industry Pervukhin (who distinguished himself by giving the legless Vaisman, among other things, 4 pairs of felt boots), Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry Kuzminykh, Minister of Coal Industry of the Western Regions of the USSR Onik, Minister of Finance Zverev, Minister of Agricultural Machinery Goremykin, Minister of Construction Materials Industry Gvozdarev, Secretary of the Moscow Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Popov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Patolichev and many others.
The disability and the orders that adorned Vaisman’s chest, of course, served as passes for him to open the doors of the highest circles of power, but besides this, the swindler carried out intellectual work. As Vaisman showed during the investigation, in order to penetrate into the next Ministry, he carefully prepared in advance: he studied the peripheral enterprises of the Ministry on the ground, got acquainted with the directors of factories and combines, collected certificates and documents from them about his “combat merits” (at the same time , often, enterprise directors wrote these certificates under the dictation of Vaisman himself). After such preparation, he returned to Moscow. In the Ministries, by presenting these documents and mentioning the names of directors of peripheral enterprises, Vaisman created the appearance that before the war he was an employee of the Ministry system and thus ingratiated himself with the confidence of the largest Soviet functionaries.
One of outstanding certificates, issued to Vaisman, there was a letter of recommendation from two main academicians of the Soviet Union - the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician Vavilov and the Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician Bardin. In a letter addressed to the director of the prosthetic institute, Professor Chaklin, it was written: “Guard captain of the tank corps of Colonel General Katukov Vaisman V.B., born in 1913, lost both legs during the capture of Berlin in May last year. V.B. Weissman more than a year spent in hospitals, mainly in the hospital of the Central Group of Inter-Allied Occupation Forces in Berlin. Currently V.B. Vaisman is located in Moscow (Moscow Hotel, number 43). We kindly ask you to accept V.B. Vaisman for a personal consultation, admit him to a prosthetic institute and provide him with high-quality prosthetics based on Efremov’s models. MP Supreme Council USSR academician S.I. Vavilov, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, academician I.P. Bardin."
Vaisman collected 35 thousand rubles from ministers, deputy ministers and secretaries of the Central Committee alone, and received 20 thousand worth of manufactured goods from the State Bank alone.
Vaisman was married to citizen Osmon from Orekhovo-Zuevo, as well as to Sheburshova, who worked as an attendant at the Orekhovo station (with her help, Vaisman even managed to steal a carriage with goods), with whom he had a child.
The difficulty in catching the trickster was that he, having no personal property, traveled all over the country, constantly changing locations. Vaisman was arrested while trying to “show off” the USSR Minister of Heavy Industry Alexander Efremov, since Stalin personally intervened in the matter (by that time he had heard rumors about a legless “war hero” who specialized in defrauding big officials). In connection with this, relevant directives were sent to the Ministries describing the characteristics of the fraudster.
Weissman was sentenced to 9 years in prison. After serving his sentence, he personally came to the MUR and stated that he was not going to steal anymore. He kept his promise. Investigators helped Weissman get a job at the Home for the Invalids in Orenburg region, where he ended his life, simultaneously imprisoning the leadership of the House for fraud.
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR Ivan Serov personally reported on the investigation of the crimes of this swindler to Joseph Stalin. And the materials of this unusual and high-profile case were kept under the heading “Top Secret” for many years. Of course, the crippled swindler Veniamin Vaisman deceived not just anyone, but more than two dozen Stalinist ministers!
Mikhail Pavlov, Justice, writes about a swindler on a national scale.
A man with several surnames
Veniamin Borisovich Vaisman, who was born in Zhitomir in 1914, had many surnames: Trakhtenberg, Rabinovich, Oslon, Zilbershtein... For 24 of his 55 years he was engaged in theft. He started with small ones, then moved on to large ones: he even kidnapped entire trains loaded with all kinds of goods. From the age of nine, Veniamin was sent to children's colonies nine times (!), but the clever guy always escaped from there.
He was punished “like an adult” five times, sentenced to prison terms of different durations. In a word, Weissman’s life was eventful...
The criminal space of the fraudster was the entire territory of the Soviet Union. He often had a lot of money, which he immediately spent playing cards, generously gave to his friends and, as a result, was left with nothing. Veniamin married a simple Russian girl, Anna, from the Moscow region, and lived with her for quite a few years, if staying in not so remote places can be classified as length of family life.
According to Vaisman's relative Inna Oslon, when Veniamin met Anna and learned how poorly her family lived, he bought her for relatives at home. His wife bore him two sons. The children grew up and together with their mother began to persuade their father to come to his senses and take the righteous path. Weissman agreed, got a job at the factory and very quickly became a first-class turner. By the way, he made good money. The portrait is on the honor board. But in the end, nothing came of it...
Northern Odyssey
“Risk,” recalls Inna Oslon, “was a vital vitamin for Veniamin, and he decided for himself that it was enough to polish the details, it was time to polish the next thing.” And again, as they say, off we go...
In his last escape, Vaisman independently rushed in the winter of 1944 from a camp in the Vologda region. It is difficult to say what prompted the prisoner to undertake this extremely dangerous adventure.
Perhaps Veniamin thought that in the severe frost and snowstorm the guard dogs would lose track of him. Again, in winter it was easier to walk through swamps and rivers that were frozen solid.
The shepherds really didn't find him. But Weissman himself got lost, having experienced a real northern odyssey worthy of the pen of Jack London.
The fugitive wandered for several days through snowy forests in forty-degree frost, until he finally came to some God-forsaken village. A local paramedic, saving Veniamin’s life, amputated both of his frostbitten legs and his left hand, where gangrene had already begun.
The minister will not offend the hero
After receiving treatment, Vaisman moved to Moscow. Being a cripple, he could no longer practice his former craft. And then the thief decides to change his role. In 1945, for several months, he traveled around the vast territory of the Soviet Union, carefully studying the nature of the core work of ministries, their departments and main enterprises. In addition, the swindler remembered the names (and through the clerks even learned about personal preferences) of managers and responsible employees.
For 20 thousand rubles, Vaisman got hold of an award book for being twice a Hero of the Soviet Union, and attached straps with seven orders and three medals to his jacket. And turned into... “guard captain tank troops"and, taking into account his physical condition, - "a disabled person of the Great Patriotic War."
According to "legend", Weissman stormed Berlin as part of the famous tank army General Mikhail Katukov. And so, literally on the eve of Victory, his “thirty-four” was knocked out with Faust cartridges. And the young “captain” was left without legs and arms. Well, who is she? Touching story will leave you indifferent?
Well, the repeat offender has created ideal starting positions for starting fraudulent activities. The scam that Veniamin Vaisman perpetrated had no precedents in the criminal environment. After all, its victims were not just anyone, but ministers of the USSR and even members of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)! In those years, high authorities were obliged to receive ordinary citizens in person. The scammer took advantage of this. In the offices of power he was greeted warmly. And how can one refuse a visit to such a “deserved person”?
The criminal scheme was tested in March 1946. Then Veniamin Borisovich visited the Minister of River Fleet of the USSR Zosima Shashkov. However, he came to the official not only as a “hero” and a “disabled person,” but also as a “former motorman of the Amur River Shipping Company.” After a heart-to-heart conversation with the minister, the swindler returned home with 2,300 rubles in his pocket, two Boston cuts and seven meters of satin. And later he received from Shashkov another 2,000 rubles, a men’s suit, shoes and underwear...
Since then, on the personal orders of senior Soviet officials and party bosses, money and scarce goods flowed into the hands of the “twice Hero Captain Weissman” (and at that time, as we know, almost everything was in short supply).
The newly minted “son of Lieutenant Schmidt” was an excellent artist. He convincingly introduced himself to the Minister of Forestry as a former “tractor driver of the timber industry enterprise”, to the Minister of Food Industry as a “livestock specialist at the state farm named after the 28th anniversary of the October Revolution”, to the Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry as a “meat-processing plant worker”. The swindler’s imagination was in full swing: he acted either as a “coal mine fixer”, or as a “gas-electric welder”, or as a “driver of the Kyiv city office of the State Bank”.
So Vaisman bypassed about twenty ministries, covering almost the entire Soviet industry with his adventure. Officials were baffled by the appearance of a disabled hero. Both compassionate ministers and their deputies ordered to give the unfortunate one and a half, where two, and where even four thousand rubles, to measure out textiles, to ship products.
In November 1946, “Guard Captain of the Tank Army” Veniamin Borisovich Vaisman visited the President of the Academy of Sciences Sergei Vavilov. Having told him about his military exploits, the fraudster left his office with a letter of recommendation addressed to the director of the prosthetic institute, Professor Vasily Chaklin:
“Guard captain of the tank army, Colonel General Katukov, Vaisman V.B., born in 1914, lost both legs and an arm during the storming of Berlin. We kindly ask you to accept V.B. Weissman for a personal consultation, admit him to a prosthetic institute and provide him with high-quality prosthetics.
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Academician S.I. Vavilov, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Academician I.P. Bardin.”
Having obtained new prosthetics, the “veteran hero” decided to rest and spent the entire winter spending the money he had extorted from compassionate ministers in Moscow restaurants. Again he went “hunting” only in February 1947, deciding this time to “get caught” in the offices of senior party officials.
“Provide an apartment in the capital of Ukraine...”
Real luck smiled on the swindler in March of the same year at a reception at the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. After Veniamin Borisovich visited the Central Committee of the Party, the head of the leadership department of the Central Committee called the Kiev regional committee of the CPSU (b) and asked “to provide the hero of the Patriotic War Vaisman with an apartment in the capital of Ukraine and provide him with regular treatment.”
There, at the Central Committee, the “veteran” was given money to buy a plane ticket to Kyiv. However, having pulled off such a brilliant adventure, the fraudster did not stop there. They gave you an apartment, but who will furnish it? And Veniamin Borisovich went to see another official.
Within a few days, the Minister of Forestry Industry of the Union, Georgy Orlov, gave Vaisman a note addressed to the Minister of Forestry Industry of the Ukrainian SSR, Philipp Samuylenko:
“The Guard captain of the tank forces... is leaving for permanent residence in Kyiv, and therefore he needs to be provided with furniture for his apartment at the expense of the ministry, and provide one-time cash assistance in the amount of 2,500 rubles.”
The scammer’s Kiev apartment was located on Khreshchatyk, near the capital’s Central Department Store
Needless to say, based on this note, Veniamin Borisovich bought his goods in full.
Here he should calm down and lie low. After all, then Weissman had already received benefits that were unimaginable for many disabled people and real heroes. You see, he would have taken advantage of the stolen glory, the undeserved veteran's pension and free treatment, and would have lived out in a Kyiv apartment, located in one of the houses on Khreshchatyk near the Central Department Store, to a ripe old age. But the fraer, as always, was ruined by greed.
In the Ukrainian capital, the scammer quickly got tired of it - it was not on the same scale. Within a few days he arrives in Moscow. The “hero” on crutches is again seen in ministerial reception rooms. Veniamin Borisovich visits the ministers of trade, ferrous metallurgy, transport engineering, automotive industry, geology, power plants... And he never leaves them empty-handed.
By the way, some manufactured goods that were generously given to the swindler could - subject to a careful study of the applicant's problems - cause surprise. For example, why does the legless Weissman need a dozen pairs of shoes - from children's boots and women's shoes to galoshes and felt boots? And what were the ministers thinking when they ordered the “tank captain” four ladies’ autumn coats, two astrakhan coats, two ladies’ jackets and a seal coat?
Got it from the cash register
Veniamin Borisovich was detained at the end of June 1947, when he came to an appointment with the USSR Minister of Heavy Engineering, Alexander Efremov. A year before, the “former electric welder of Uralmash” had already received 1,200 rubles from the Deputy Minister of Mechanical Engineering. This trick didn't work the second time. The classic Stalinist People's Commissar Alexander Illarionovich Efremov communicated a lot with the working class, so he was well versed in all the intricacies of proletarian nature. Weissman, who had lost his vigilance due to his impunity, probably overplayed his hand somewhere.
Be that as it may, the minister sensed something was wrong and, as soon as the “captain” left his office (however, still with a paper for issuing 2,000 rubles), Efremov dialed the security number on the internal phone. The fraudster was detained at the cash register and taken to the police. By the way, during the arrest, a combat pistol with two clips was confiscated from the swindler. The hero was “punched through the card index.” His old affairs immediately surfaced, and Veniamin Borisovich did not object to the new ones.
The investigation found that the largest amount Vaisman received it from the Ministry of Food Industry, immediately becoming rich by nine and a half thousand rubles. In total, in 1946-1947, the swindler extracted 56,000 rubles and a bunch of scarce manufactured goods from ministries and other government institutions: Boston, carpet, silk, more than twenty pairs of leather shoes and other valuables.
It’s interesting, but for some reason the results of the investigation about Weissman’s accomplices were lost in the archival jungle. Who helped him become a hero? To whom did he sell the “manufacture” received from the ministers? How did you learn about the “subtle emotional strings” of party officials, which you then played so skillfully?
By the way, the report to Stalin does not contain any information about the swindler’s accomplices. Perhaps Veniamin Borisovich took everything upon himself, rightly believing that in prison this would give him authority.
Surprisingly, he was sentenced to only ten years.
Empty grave
His grave is located in one of the Kyiv cemeteries, where Boris Natanovich and Polina Markovna Vaisman are buried behind the same fence. There is also a sign on which it is written: “V.B. Weissman. 1914-1969". This is their son, well-known in criminal and police circles. However, the intrigue is that there is not a pinch of his ashes in the grave. That's why he was a fraudster, so that even after his death he could outsmart everyone.
The solution to this strange situation lies in the circumstances of the death of a “state-scale swindler.” The fact is that Vaisman died alone, in a home for disabled tuberculosis patients in the North Caucasus, located in the city of Grozny.
“When the telegram arrived about Veniamin’s death,” recalls Inna Oslon, “my grandmother, his sister, feared for her sick heart, and my mother went to pick up the body. At the establishment she was told that she had arrived late, that corpses were not stored there for so long, and that the body of the disabled Vaisman had already been given to science - for anatomical studies. And my grandmother’s mother said that she buried her.”
This is how a strange sign appeared in one of the Kyiv cemeteries. It looks like there is a grave, but no one is buried in it...
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S. Buntman: At 23- year.
A. Kuznetsov- Yes. And from that moment it began... Well, so what? The height of the NEP. What would you like? The demand for gold watches has increased again. From this moment begins his, I don’t know, odyssey, ananabasis, in general, through various types of correctional institutions. At first, he repeatedly ends up in various security institutions for children and adolescents. Runs from there. We all who have read at least the same Makarenko can perfectly imagine how easy it was to escape from all these numerous and, as a rule, rather poorly organized shelters and orphanages. Well, and then gradually, when he becomes an adult, at the age of 19 he receives his first real adult sentence. As for the number of these very terms, there is quite a lot of disagreement. For example, there is such a certificate that was published, one might say, by the departmental newspaper “Petrovka, 38”, and it is unlikely that they made it up. Naturally, it was taken from the MUR Museum, where an entire exhibition is dedicated to Weissman. I quote: “In the period from 1933 to 1944, he was convicted 13 times, escaped from places of detention 13 times - apparently, he was actually convicted for escapes - in 1944 he was transferred to the Pechersk camps, from where he escaped, walked forest and got lost, froze his legs and arms, was taken to the central isolation ward of the Pechersk camps, where his left arm and two legs were amputated.” And yet, despite the fact that this official certificate, published in a completely serious publication, there are questions about this version, because... The fact is that, firstly, somewhere in the 2nd half of the 30s he started a family. This means that somehow he found himself free for some time and met a woman. Amazingly, her maiden name is Schmidt. Naturally, not a single publication or documentary has avoided the topic of Lieutenant Schmidt’s children. Now you will understand why. Here. And he managed to at least conceive 2 sons with her. Perhaps they were twins. I don't know. But, one way or another, this does not work out in 10 years, 13 escapes.
S. Buntman- This will take some time. Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- Of course. Yes. And 2nd - there is no help with this certificate... Why else... One reason why there is no trust, it means he lost his left hand. Indeed, one certificate, which I will quote today, signed by a highly senior person, states that his hand was amputated. But there is a photograph of Weissman. By the way, our site workers have now put a fragment of this particular photograph as a screensaver in the network viewer. Here is this photo in full size, it is half-length. You can clearly see that he has both hands. This is not a prosthesis. It looks like his little finger is missing on his left hand. That is, he apparently got frostbite on his hand, but this did not lead to such severe consequences. And he really doesn’t have 2 legs, they are really amputated above the knee. This is also clearly visible in the other photo. One way or another, he is a person with a very specific thieves specialty. He is a master of the pocket pull. He is a pickpocket, that is, a pickpocket. This is a profession that is quite highly respected in the criminal world, requiring, of course, not only skill, but also a certain composure and the ability to choose an object, and select the appropriate environment, and, of course, certain psychological skills, let’s say, it requires. Yes? But he is apparently not very lucky. He actually got caught many times. According to another version that I came across, over these 10 years he was caught 5 times. It could be. The fact is that pickpockets at that time, well, they weren’t given long sentences. Just remember the wonderful film “The meeting place cannot be changed.” Yes? Like Gleb Zhiglov, pickpocket Kirpich is naturally a repeat offender, what does he tell him?
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- “You will get 2 years for your little one and fly to your home as a white swan.” Yes? Here is petty theft, it is from 1 to 3 really. Therefore, he could easily get in and out, yes? – there, anything spent in pre-trial detention was counted as 2, and so on. But nevertheless, he is such a classic thief. This is evidenced by the tattoo that he had on his chest, so all over... almost all over his torso, indicating a fairly strong position among lawyers, and so on, and so on. And indeed in 1944, during the escape, the escape, in my opinion, well, of course, I don’t know the circumstances, but the escape was completely stupid. Winter in the Komi SSR...
S. Buntman- Wow!
A. Kuznetsov- ... he ran alone. Well, who runs in winter, so to speak, in these latitudes? Apparently, he hoped that the rivers would freeze, so it would be easier for him to escape. And, perhaps, he expected that the convoy would not be very diligent... diligent in catching up with him in such weather. But in any case, he was mistaken and froze. The convoy eventually found him. And so the matter ended with amputation. He naturally goes back to his own Pechorlag, but in the fall of 1945 he is released. Apparently, he falls under the July amnesty of 1945. There it was quite wide in connection with the victory. And, apparently, as a person who had served a significant part of his sentence and was also disabled, he was released accordingly. He returned to his family and got a job at a factory. And then, in fact, his main epic begins. Later, during the investigation, he himself will describe in this way what pushed him and gave him the idea to do what he did. Allegedly, he witnessed such a scene when he saw a legless front-line soldier. In general there were a lot of them. More than 2 and a half million people returned severely disabled from the war. For people who lost their legs there was even such a cynical slang name among the people, they were called samovars.
S. Buntman- Samovars.
A. Kuznetsov- Yes. Well, here they are on these same carts. Many did not have prosthetics, or the amputations were so severe that prosthetics were no longer possible. So he saw a man in a military uniform with orders, who, therefore, was begging for alms. And he himself... Apparently, the idea crept into him to do the same. And he, on his prosthetics, approached some kind of car in which, apparently, a rather important boss was sitting. But the driver roughly pushed him away and he fell. And so, it means that the insult allegedly gave him the idea of \u200b\u200brevenge Soviet power That means, in the way that we will now talk about. To be honest, I don't really believe this story. Although in principle, of course...
S. Buntman- No, but the story itself, why? Could have been.
A. Kuznetsov- Nothing impossible - yes, no.
S. Buntman- And I could push him away. But how main reason especially such a person...
A. Kuznetsov- This is generally such a typical thieves...
S. Buntman- This is the story. Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- ... the story - yes, - is about that, where the thief shows himself as a person, although he breaks the law, but for a certain idea, - yes? - for some noble cause.
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- The thieves have such tales in any, as they say, color and size. In any case... Yes, something else doesn’t fit with this. He begins little by little... This is the first time he will pretend to be a disabled front-line soldier in order to... Well, or one of the first times in order to get a ton of peat and a carload of firewood for his family from some timber industry enterprise. On some collective farm there he was given a bag of potatoes and half a bag of flour.
S. Buntman- Well, that’s quite enough. Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- That is, he tries, as they say, as the musicians say, he tries the frets.
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- In addition, he needs time, because a collective farm or a timber industry enterprise is one thing, and another thing is what he set his sights on - the union and republican ministries. Why this particular choice? Well, firstly, it was possible to make money there; the scale was completely different. And besides, in one of documentaries... 4 documentaries are dedicated to this man, made on our television by different channels. In one of the documentaries, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs museum expresses such an idea, which, it seems to me, is quite probable and possible. High-ranking officials of the rank of department head, deputy minister, minister, they were not at the front. They were all armored. And when a disabled person appeared in front of them, plus he was decorated to the fullest, I’ll tell you about it now, they apparently had some kind of subconscious feeling of guilt and irritation at the fact that they themselves could not maintain a conversation, so to speak, in the trenches , and they wanted to somehow sell it as quickly as possible and give it away as much as possible. At least, purely psychologically, this sounds quite reasonable. Through his friends, for quite a lot of money, he named 20 thousand rubles, now I will give some price scale, but this is a lot of money, which means he received fake documents, an order book, a passport. He... A counterfeiter he knew made him a very High Quality two medals “Golden Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union”. He sewed somewhere and stole, it’s hard to say, an officer’s uniform with captain’s shoulder straps. Somewhere he bought a gun Czech production, on which, again, a familiar engraver stuck a sign on him, meaning that he was carrying out command assignments. In a couple of films it is said that there was a phrase to such and such, he introduced himself with the surname Kuznetsov, which means from Vasily Stalin. Actually this is not true. There is a photo of this pistol. There’s just this standard formulation, in my opinion, for exemplary execution of command assignments and so on. A completely different story will be associated with Vasily Stalin. And in all this splendor he begins to appear to various high-ranking people. And here, probably, the most reliable thing is to quote a certificate that was drawn up in the name of Stalin by the then Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, the famous Ivan Serov, regarding this case, apparently right on the heels, literally during the arrest, as they say, because there are certain inaccuracies that, apparently, simply have not yet surfaced. “The Moscow police arrested the thief-swindler Vaisman Veniamin Borukhovich, aka Trakhtenberg, aka Rabinovich, aka Oslon, aka Zilbershtein, by nationality Jewish, 33 years old, a native of the city, in the building of the Ministry of Heavy Engineering while trying to get a cash benefit. Zhitomir, lived in Orekhovo-Zuevo. Weisman had both legs and a hand amputated due to frostbite during his escape from a northern camp in 1944. During his arrest, Vaisman's pistol was taken away. When interrogated, Vaisman testified that from the age of 9 until the day of his arrest he was involved in petty and then major thefts. Over the course of 24 years, while engaged in thefts, he was placed in children's colonies 9 times, ran away from there, and was sentenced 5 times to various terms of detention in camps. In 1944, during the escape...” And so on. Yes. And here's what he, strictly speaking, managed to acquire. I won't read everything. Help in small print on one and a half pages short description his exploits. I will name only a few. “In June 1946, this is his first high-profile case, by order of the Minister of River Fleet, Comrade Shashkov, and his deputy, Comrade Cherevko, Vaisman as a “former motor mechanic...”
S. Buntman- Shashkov? Zosima Shashkov?
A. Kuznetsov― Zosima Shashkov. Yes. Absolutely right. “Vaisman as a former...” These are the names we have here now... “... as a “former motorman of the Amur River Shipping Company” received 2,300 rubles, 2 Boston cuts and 7 meters of satin. In the same Ministry in May 1947 - he returned 11 months later. Yes? Insolent! - he received 2,000 rubles, a men’s suit, shoes and underwear; in 1946, by order of the former Minister of Forestry of the USSR, Comrade Saltykov, as a “timber industry mechanic” Vaisman received 2 and a half thousand rubles, a piece of Boston, two astrakhan coats, two ladies’ jackets, two dresses and other manufactured goods; in 1947, the Deputy Minister of Forestry Industry, Comrade Varaksin, had 2,000 rubles, 10 meters of carpet and 29 meters of satin; in 1946, by order of the Minister of Food Industry of the USSR, Comrade Zotov, as “animal technician of the state farm 28th anniversary of the October Revolution” Vaisman - one and a half thousand rubles, 2 pieces of wool and other manufactured goods, in addition, the Deputy Minister, Comrade Bystrova - 500 rubles of money.” He reached the Academy of Sciences. I quote...
S. Buntman- So!
A. Kuznetsov― ... document, letter signed by the President of the Academy of Sciences Sergei Vavilov, as well as Academician Bardin: “Guard captain of the tank corps of Colonel General Katukov Vaisman V.B., born in the 13th year, lost both legs in May last year during the capture of Berlin . Weissman spent more than a year in hospitals, mainly in the hospital of the Central Group of Inter-Allied Occupation Forces in Berlin. Currently, Vaisman is in Moscow (Moscow Hotel, number 43). We kindly ask you to accept him for a personal consultation, admit him to a prosthetic institute and provide him with high-quality prostheses based on Efremov’s models. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Academician Vavilov, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Academician Bardin.” So, let’s summarize, because you can, I say, quote all this for a very long time, but in summary it looks like this: money in total 53,100 rubles, cotton fabrics - 301 meters, woolen fabrics - 156.7 meters, silk fabrics - 66 meters, ladies' and men's coats - 22 pieces, ladies' and men's suits - 18 pieces, dresses and other wearables - 29 pieces, men's shirts and other wearables - 28 pieces, ladies' and men's shoes - legless disabled person, yes ? – 14 pairs, children’s shoes – 15 pairs, galoshes and rubber boots – 21 pairs, felt boots – 5 pairs, ladies’ and men’s underwear – 44 pairs, stockings – 26 pairs, blankets – 3 pieces, chairs and sofas – 7 pieces. This certificate did not yet include an apartment in the city of Kyiv, which was naturally allocated to him free of charge as a disabled person and a war veteran. But he, the impudent one, begged chairs and sofas from the Ministry of Forestry Industry of the Ukrainian SSR exclusively for a new apartment.
S. Buntman- Yes. We'll be back in 5 minutes.
S. Buntman- We continue. But now I would like to tell you who got tickets to the Kaspersky festival, to Geek Picnic, a wonderful science festival. And there will be a lot of extremely interesting things on the 17th and 18th. And now they can go, now I say: Ruslan... Rusla... Where is my Ruslan? Ruslan - 394th SMS. 397th SMS – this is Ella with us. Pavel - 398th and 399th - this is Katya. Katya, 399th text message. We invite everyone who didn’t get tickets. I think it will be very, very interesting. Well, we return to what is, in general, a very dreary, but understandable matter in this matter.
A. Kuznetsov- Well, yes. And here you go, the Kiev episode that was discussed before the break. Yes. So I’ll just quote again: “In the month of March, this is the 47th year. Yes? “Vaisman was at a reception at the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks with Comrade Patolichev,” many probably remember this name...
S. Buntman- ABOUT! Yes Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- ... absolutely eternal minister foreign trade THE USSR. They say that when Pyotr Aven became this deputy and sat down in a chair in the high-rise building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he uttered a historical phrase: “What am I now, Patolichev, or what?” - he says... said...
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- This name has grown together so well. Yes. So: “... from Comrade Patolichev, who instructed the head of the management personnel department, Comrade Ivanov, to assist Vaisman. Ivanov telephoned the secretary of the Kyiv regional party committee, Comrade Serdyuk, and asked him to provide an apartment and provide regular treatment for the “hero of the Patriotic War”; Administrator Stepanov provided Vaisman with a plane ticket to Kyiv; - in April 1947, Vaisman, while at a reception with the Minister of Forestry Industry Orlov, received a note addressed to the Minister of Forestry Industry of the Ukrainian SSR Samuylenko that the “guard captain of tank forces” Vaisman was leaving for permanent residence in the city of Kyiv, and therefore it is necessary to provide him with free furniture for the apartment at the expense of the Ministry, to provide one-time assistance in the amount of 2 and a half thousand rubles and give out 28 sets from among the American gifts; According to this note, Weissman received everything that was indicated.”
S. Buntman- Nobody checked anything.
A. Kuznetsov- Nobody checked anything. And what kind of people he was dealing with! In this list, by the way, is the Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy, Comrade Tevosyan, who was deceived.
S. Buntman- Yes!
A. Kuznetsov- Minister of Transport Engineering, Comrade Malyshev, Minister of Aviation Industry, Comrade Khrunichev. So to him, just for some reason, behind some demon, Vaisman blurted out, so he moved away from his tank legend, and blurted out that he was a combat pilot, and that he was a fellow soldier of Vasily Iosifovich Stalin, and that Vasily Iosifovich even like -I once saved his life in a battle there, and so on. And Khrunichev either specially called Stalin Vasily, with whom they were well acquainted, or according to another version, a few days later they were traveling together to some meeting, and said: “Here, by the way, greetings to you from such and such " And Vasily said: “I don’t even know that.” And so on. It seems that this spurred the whole thing. And that’s why Serov himself will report directly to Stalin on the progress of the entire investigation. What is he on...
S. Buntman- How did he get to these people?
A. Kuznetsov- You know…
S. Buntman- How did he get to the top officials of the ministries?
A. Kuznetsov- In some cases, for example, with Zosima Shashkov, they say that he simply entered the reception room, jingling his awards, and, so to speak, passed through the secretary, opening the door and so on. In some cases, he made an appointment. You see, in every ministry he pretended that before the war he worked somewhere in their system and from there he volunteered for the war. That is, they still sort of carried it out as support for their veterans...
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- ... departmental. Here. And significant police forces were already looking for him, as all this began to take on completely grotesque proportions. Several times he was quite clever, apparently his instinct told him, he simply did not appear in places where ambushes were set up, did not appear at his family’s in Orekhovo-Zuyevo. But he was ruined by his impudence, which consisted in the fact that he went around the 2nd circle.
S. Buntman- This…
A. Kuznetsov- Despite the fact that in Kyiv he was completely wealthy, as if in chocolate, but, you see, the city was quite deserted as a result of all the events of the war. Apparently, it was impossible for him to turn around there, and, apparently, he understood that he was much more visible there and it was much more difficult to get lost there than in Moscow. In general, when they left an ambush in his Kyiv apartment, he himself no longer appeared there, but appeared there on the 7th - or what? - the day a burglar thief who discovered that the apartment was clearly closed, no one was using it, and decided to profit. That means they took him. Here. He, apparently, was preparing for his visits. He found out from the newspapers or somewhere else what the name of the minister was, what the names of the key deputies were. In some cases, I met some employees there. Apparently, he mostly skipped things and money. He, however, said that he gave alms to some veterans, like disabled people like him. Well, he didn’t spend a lot of money on his family there. Well, of course, I gave them some of the things. And so basically he was playing truant. He is such a person, apparently quite thoughtless. So he went around the 2nd circle. They were already waiting for him at one of the industrial ministries. As a matter of fact, circulars with his description, with his signs, and so on, and so on, have already been distributed to the ministries. By the way, among famous names minister navy Petr Petrovich Shirshov.
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov: 1- I Soviet station North Pole – 1. Yes? Here he is... I think the Institute of Oceanography is now named after him, right? - if I am not mistaken. Here. Well, in the end, they took him. And, you know, in general, opportunities... Well, formally at this time the death penalty canceled in 1947.
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- But the possibility of giving him 25 years in the camps - purely technically there were no problems, because although the terms for fraud at that time were quite small. Here I can quote the Criminal Code of the 26th year with amendments and additions for the 45th year, Article 169: “Breach of trust or deception in order to obtain property or the right to property or other personal benefits (fraud), - imprisonment for up to two years. Fraud resulting in loss to government or public institution, - imprisonment for a term of up to five years with confiscation of all or part of the property.” But there was a decree of August 7, 1932, decree 7.8. But it didn’t cost the Soviet Themis anything to deduce theft by fraud. And taking into account especially large sizes... But, apparently, they decided to let this matter go quietly, as they say. And it wasn’t even the court that tried him, although there was more than enough evidence. But I specifically looked, in 1945, after the war, there was another document giving instructions on the so-called special meetings - a special meeting at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which had the right to give, well, during the war even execution, and then after the war up to 25 years old, and who considered cases in absentia, without the participation of the parties, without debate, without anything else.
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- So there was some limitation. It was said that it means that now only those cases are sent for consideration at a special meeting that - there is a very vague wording there - are impossible or impractical to resolve in court. It was clearly completely decided that it was inappropriate to resolve his case in court, because imagine the announcement of this list.
S. Buntman- Well, yes. But in general, what publicity there was about this case was completely...
A. Kuznetsov- None.
S. Buntman- None at all?
A. Kuznetsov- No publicity. Only what is called a narrow circle of limited people will know about this matter. The fact is that while he was in prison, he will serve this term in full. He was given 9 years. He served these 9 years. By the way, he did not fall under Beria’s amnesty in the summer of ’53, although according to formal indicators, as I understand it, he had already served two-thirds of his sentence. At the same time, criminals were released. Yes?
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- But he was convicted not by a court, but by a special meeting. They were not included in the amnesty precisely because they were all sorts of slippery matters, as they say. Meanwhile, changes were taking place in the country, and during his lifetime this man, while still in prison, was awarded a separate stand in the MUR museum. But the MUR Museum... Now you can get there, but, however, only with a guided tour, so to speak, only by prior request, but you can get there ordinary people. Yes? You just need to get organized and do it in advance. And then this holy of holies. Only police officers, organized groups, and so on went there. In 1956, I think, at the Kursky station, the following incident occurred: in the hall... In the restaurant hall they were selling beer. But you could only get there by presenting a ticket stating that you were leaving. Two young men, they really wanted beer, they didn’t have tickets, and then a legless invalid came up and offered to show them around. And again, chest with pads forward, he pushed the woman who was on duty, they passed, got their beer. He refused beer and said: “Guys, I’m a thief. That's why I'm not allowed beer. Give me 210 rubles.” Well, these are old, pre-reform ones. Not 210. Lied. 21 rubles, of course. “Please give me some for a bottle.” So, I bought myself a bottle of vodka and drank something. They gave him some more small money. He was moved and hugged someone there. And a few minutes later this drinking companion of his discovered that 450 pre-reform, or 45 after the reform, rubles had disappeared from his pocket. And a scandal arose. This means that he started yelling that, on the contrary, he, a disabled person, had been robbed. A policeman, a foreman, grabbed him and deceived him. There seems to be no money with him. He continues to whine that an attack is about to take place on the veteran’s life. Well, in general, the foreman took all three of them to the duty unit, and the major, who was on duty there, looked at him, looked, and said: “And you are Veniamin Borisovich Vaisman.” He was on an excursion to the Moscow Mural Museum and remembered this story.
S. Buntman- That's how useful it is.
Svetlana Rostovtseva- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- Here. Well, he immediately, in general, confessed. Quite quickly, these 450 rubles were found in his prosthesis. This is his last job. Here he was already tried by an ordinary railway court. At that time, the railway was a completely separate empire. It had its own police, its own prosecutor's office.
S. Buntman- Yes Yes.
A. Kuznetsov - And they also had their own courts. And this is the railway court that tried him. And on November 12, 1956, the Linear Court of the Moscow-Kursk-Donbass Railway, consisting of a chairman and two people's assessors. Weissman pleaded guilty and asked for leniency due to the fact that he has two children and is disabled. They listened to him and gave him only 3 years, although he was threatened with up to 6 years under the recent Decree “On strengthening the protection of personal property of citizens.” He received his 3 years and served them in full. And then there’s an interesting psychological story: after leaving the camp, after a while he appears at the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. I talked to him there... In particular, in the series “The Investigation Conducted...”, in the documentary series with Konevsky, there is this interview, look. By the way, this is the most qualified of the 4 films about Weisman, namely NTVashny. There is an interview with a legend, an absolute legend of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, Sofia Fainstein, a famous forensic expert, a woman who played one of the key roles in the capture of Ionesyan, the Mosgaz case, and in many other cases. She was still quite a young woman then, although she also went through the war. She was born on the 24th, I think. So she talked to him for an hour and a half, as she said, and said that he made a great impression on her. Here. And what exactly did he come with? The family didn't need him. Well, actually he wasn’t too involved with this family. The children grew up and so on. He compromised them, of course. In general, he had nowhere in particular to live, plus he naturally developed tuberculosis from all his ordeals in the camps, and he asked the MUR staff to help him decide on treatment in some institution. He was placed in a specialized nursing home with medical treatment in the Orenburg region, where he died in 69, having lived a rather short life, in general. Well, what's there? A little over 50 years old. It's true? He lived to be 55 years old. A legend will arise... I think it’s a legend, but it’s floating around on the Internet that while already a patient in this nursing home, he discovered the director’s machinations there, and, therefore, with his help, this director was sent to the bunk. Why do I think this is a legend? In addition to general aesthetic considerations, the criminal world loves to tell tales of daring, but besides, practically, he is a thief. He is tired of cooperating with the authorities. Yes? And, so to speak, to hand over even if not a thieve, but to hand over this big-eared fratern to the investigative authorities, means to cover up. Therefore, I think that these are just such vignettes on his already more than dashing biography.
S. Buntman- Yes. Here we have one remark from Dima, in my opinion. Here. “Prosthetics are also worn.” Since he was knocking out his dentures here...
A. Kuznetsov- No, well, of course. But I mean...
S. Buntman- Yes. And a plus for the family, of course...
A. Kuznetsov- For the family, for women... for the wife there. He apparently sang smoothly to the point of impossibility. And, apparently, he really senses from the situation what is here, what he can profit from here... For example, another whale of the Stalinist government - People's Commissar of Finance Zverev. Yes?
S. Buntman- My God!
A. Kuznetsov― I ordered my deputy, the former driver of the Kyiv city office of the State Bank, to issue, at the expense of the Ministry, 3 pieces of Boston, 6 silk shirts, 20 meters of Japanese, 2 pieces of crepe de Chine, 4 pairs of men's shoes and other manufactured goods for total amount over 20,000 rubles. To deceive Zverev! Can you imagine? The man who deceived the whole country with the reform of 1947...
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- But this man is like this.
S. Buntman- Yes. Harsh. Let's go to the land of finance.
A. Kuznetsov- Yes, let's go. After that it is logical to do it.
S. Buntman- Finances, cheese, - yes, - well, hours...
A. Kuznetsov- Cheese, watches, chocolate.
S. Buntman- Started with the clock...
A. Kuznetsov- Yes, yes, he started with the clock.
S. Buntman- ... Weissman. Here. Swiss crimes of all centuries and all cantons.
A. Kuznetsov- Yes.
S. Buntman― The trial of Miguel Servette, a philosopher who denied the Trinity and an opponent of Calvin.
A. Kuznetsov- Yes.
S. Buntman- Yes. This is Geneva, 1546. Extremely interesting.
A. Kuznetsov: B 3- This is the first time we are proposing this process.
S. Buntman― The trial of Major Davel, leader of the Vaudoise uprising against Berne. This is the canton of Vaud.
A. Kuznetsov- Yes.
S. Buntman- Yes. 1723
A. Kuznetsov- This is it difficult process formation of the Swiss Confederation. Yes?
S. Buntman- Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- Which has already been formed as a result of the 30-year war, but there are all sorts of separatist...
S. Buntman- ... extensively. Yes.
A. Kuznetsov- Yes. And there are all sorts of separatist sentiments fermenting there.
A. Kuznetsov― The Last Witch Europe. This set phrase. Last woman, executed for witchcraft.
S. Buntman- 1782.
A. Kuznetsov- Yes. In the continental...
S. Buntman- The United States has already been practically created.
A. Kuznetsov- Yeah almost. Almost. And yes, witches are executed.
S. Buntman- Yes. The trial of Hans Vollenweider, robber and police killer. This is Lucerne, another canton.
A. Kuznetsov- This is pure criminality. And I propose this case simply so that there is some diversity not only in the cantons, but also in the types of crimes.
S. Buntman- Yes. This is the 40th year, one thousand nine hundred. And the trial of Bernard Kornfeld on charges of financial fraud.
A. Kuznetsov- But this is a classic of the genre.
S. Buntman- Yes. Then over Bernard Kornfeld, because this is the canton of Geneva.
A. Kuznetsov― Bernard Kornfeld. Yes, apparently that's correct.
S. Buntman- Yes. Yes. Here. 1979 Here we have another fraudster as the heir to today's affairs.
S. Buntman- Yes please. All the best! Until next Sunday!
