Key political allies of Russian President

 

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   The Tambov Gang now includes several hundred active members.

   In August 2001, Interior Minister of Russia Boris Gryzlov said that the Tambov Gang controlled up to 100 industrial enterprises in Saint Petersburg, including PTK, the leading fuel retailing operator in the city, as well as four main sea ports of Northwestern Russia, Saint Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk.^[1][5]

On 16 January 2007 the Prosecutor General of Russia Yury Chaika announced that the Tambov Gang had recently forcefully taken over 13 large enterprises in Saint Petersburg and was being investigated.^[6][7]

   On June 13, 2008 Spanish police arrested 20 members of the organization's Spanish branch.^[8] In connection with the raid Russian politician Vladislav Reznik was investigated^{[9]   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambovskaya_Bratva}

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Vladimir Putin's allies are alleged to have ties to Russian organised crime boss Gennady Petrov(Getty Images)

   Key political allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin helped Russian mafia operate in Spain for more than a decade, prosecutors in Madrid said.  Members of the St Petersburg Tambov crime syndicate began money laundering operations in Spain in 1996, while Putin was deputy-mayor of the Russian city, prosecutors Juan Carrau and Jose Grinda claimed in a petition to Spain's Central Court obtained by Bloomberg. 

   The report is the product of a decade-long investigation into the spread of Russian organised crime gangs into Spain and the alleged complicity of Putin officials.  It contains evidence from thousands of wiretaps, bank transfers and property deals.  It calls for 27 people to be charged with crimes including fraud and money laundering.

  Prosecutors claim that Tambov boss Gennady Petrov's contacts in the Russian government include some of Putin's oldest allies.  It names Alexander Bastrykin, who runs Russia's Investigative Committee, which oversees major criminal inquiries; Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak; and Gazprom president Viktor Zubkov as being involved with Petrov. Another alleged key government contact is Victor Ivanov, now head of Russia's Federal Narcotics Service.  Putin is mentioned three times in the document, including in a transcribed wiretapped conversation between Petrov associates in Spain.

   Vladislav Resnik, a member of Putin's ruling United Russia party and deputy head of the finance committee in Russia's lower house of parliament, is accused of helping Petrov's associates to be appointed to key positions government positions in Russia in exchange for bribes, including Spanish properties.  https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vladmir-putin-allies-named-key-allies-russian-gangsters-by-spanish-prosecutors-1508620