- October 23rd, 2018
If you follow the criminal life of the separatist territories, you can see the pattern - nobody touches them there, thieves in law live at ease, arranging disassembly with each other, reshaping the areas of influence
The rector of the Abkhaz State University, Aliko Gvaramia, stated that Elena Khakhaleva, a judge of the Russian Krasnodar Regional Court, had never studied with them. Dotted in a two-year history with a fake diploma of a judge. but
A year ago, the story of Khahaleva surfaced after the grand wedding of her daughter, when there were reports that the judge had a fake diploma. Not even about the money spent on the wedding - $ 2 million, which the humble judge simply could not have. After the publication of a fake diploma, the procedure of pre-investigation check began, during which it turned out that Khakhaleva allegedly studied at the Abkhaz State University, and then transferred to the Sukhum branch of Tbilisi State University, which she allegedly graduated from in 1991. The author writes about this on the site “Crimea. Realities .
In this story there would be no continuation if it were not for the long criminal trail that reached after the scandal. It turned out that the father of his daughter Hahaleva married - Robert Hahalev, in the past Zilpimiani - has influence in criminal circles. Another hero of the story, the “thief in law” Rezo Bukhnikashvili, nicknamed “Pezo”, was detained on August 3 at the Ukrainian Boryspil airport. A longtime acquaintance of Helen and Robert Khakhalevs came to Ukraine on a fake passport several days after he was released from prison ahead of schedule, having served only two years out of 27 years by sentence. Photos appeared in the media in which Khakhaleva is with several criminal authorities, who most likely helped her to “organize” the Sukhumi diploma, turning the veterinarian by education into a lawyer and a judge.
This story is only a small detail in relations with the separatist territories, in the creation of which the crime has played and is playing an important role. It is enough to walk through the memorial cemeteries of those who fell in the separatist wars and read the names of the “liberator heroes”, some of which are buried under nicknames. So it was almost everywhere where the Russian military intelligence was working closely, working closely with other Russian special services that have archives from the criminal world. Of course, titled "thieves in law" were unlikely to be directly related to wars, but the criminal world is always there, where war and ruin are. The opportunity to profit by looting attracted a huge number of "romantics".
Donbass survived the onslaught of Russian crime in 2014–2015, when hundreds of shnirey and cormorants came as volunteers for easy money, believing that they could earn credibility. Igor Strelkov (Girkin) described the so-called “militia” simply - “crime, drunk, homeless, drug addicts and other trash”. Very similar characteristic of the militants at the Popular Front of Tajikistan, led in 1992 by the "cormorant" Sangak Safarov and his criminal comrades during the civil war initiated by Russia. So it was in Transnistria, Karabakh, in Abkhazia. The participation in the unlawful act put the "volunteers" in the category of criminals, they saved themselves from prosecution, only becoming "heroes" of the separatist wars, receiving awards from puppets and loyal attitude towards themselves from the Russian authorities.
If you follow the criminal life of the separatist territories, you can see the pattern - no one touches them there, thieves in law live at ease, arranging disassembly with each other, reshaping areas of influence. Thieves in law exert their influence by quietly cohabiting and being on friendly terms with the puppet authorities. Moreover, unlike politicians, crime has neither state borders nor lines of occupation. For example, the Moldovan “lawyer” Vladimir Moskalchuk, nicknamed “Makena”, is quite friendly with the Transdniestrian authorities from Tiraspol and Bender, engaging in “settling” the situation or jointly organizing an attempt on the part of businessmen who refused to pay. Since the beginning of the Transnistrian "independence" in the early 1990s, the gangs of "Lozinski", "Dale", "Karpo", "Pea",
In fact, there are several dozen criminal authorities only in Transnistria. A quarter of a century ago, Transnistria became a place of temporary refuge for criminal authorities, who were hiding from persecution in post-Soviet countries, primarily in Russia. In addition to them, Transnistria has become a refuge for people who have committed crimes against the state. According to the newspaper Diena, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Latvia raised suspicions of Vladimir Antyufeev about complicity in the murder during the 1991 putsch, he then commanded the Riga riot police. Then Antufeev’s subordinates in the center of Riga opened fire on a minibus, as a result of which the driver was killed and one passenger was seriously injured. In September 1991, Antyufeev left the territory of Latvia and found himself in Transnistria, changing his name to Vadim Shevtsov, after a few months he headed the KGB of Transnistria. In 2008, during the war in "South Ossetia", he was appointed special representative of Transnistria to interact with the Abkhaz and South Ossetian separatists. Since 2014, he participated in the annexation of the Crimea; on July 10, 2014, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the “Council of Ministers of the DPR”.
The same freedom of life is at the hands of criminals in Abkhazia and “South Ossetia”, and sometimes it seems that power in Sukhumi largely depends on the disposition of thieves in law. To understand the social and political life of Abkhazia, you can see only three sites - the "President of Abkhazia", primecrime.ru and "Criminal Russia". Sometimes they compete with each other in terms of events, discussions and appointments. It seems that there is no need to expect any changes from the government or officials, as they depend on the Russian budget, the criminal world of Abkhazia does not depend on anyone, he lives his free life, arranging fights, shootouts and discussing his own hierarchy and its behavior.
“Former Minister of Internal Affairs” Leonid Dzapshba on November 24, 2010, in an interview with the state newspaper “Republic of Abkhazia”, promised that there would be no more so-called thieves in the country, and spoke about the measures taken by his department against criminal authorities. Two years later, the thief in law Astamur Guliah, brought there with multiple gunshot wounds, died in the Sukhumi hospital. It turned out that the thieves did not disappear anywhere, they both lived and live their thieves in Abkhazia, and Raul Bartzba (“Pyza”) and two of his young partners, Alhas Avidzba (Hasik) and Astamur Shamba (“ Astik "). In total, there are more than 40 thieves in law in Abkhazia, who periodically leave for Russia to settle their problems - in Abkhazia they can live peacefully, if they do not arrange conflicts between themselves.
The “Sukhumi” mafia once occupied the top echelons of the underworld of the USSR, being considered one of the four main factions. The other three are Kutaisi, Tbilisi and Mingrelian, but these were ousted after the “revolution of roses” from Georgia to Moscow, and the “Abkhazians” live in their native land and earn considerable money on Abkhaz and Sochi tourism. The famous “Grandpa Khassan” (Hassan Usoyan) once lived in Gagra and from there directed crime throughout Russia. Another type of criminal activity is the illegal transportation of people across the border. A whole staff of such smugglers is feeding around the border crossing of Psou. Transportation of a person is worth a lot of money, in difficult cases the amount doubles. That is, if you need to escape from Russia, then the easiest way is to Abkhazia. It is not clear who these illegal immigrants, but the fact is that they take a little for the service,
Since the authorities are afraid to quarrel with the crime, on which the well-being of the authorities and the calmness in the society largely depend, the penalties look very ridiculous. If a person commits murder, then he can be tried and sent to prison in Dranda, but there is a practice to release prisoners to relatives.
Formally, a person seems to be in prison, but in reality he lives in some mountain village and only does not go to the city, so as not to “burn the office”. Partly for this reason, the prison here is not very much afraid. Compared to Abkhazia, in “South Ossetia” there is grace, there are no thieves in the law in this tiny territory, since there are no economic reasons to profit by something or to control something. Theft is basically a state privilege when government officials like the brother of the former "president" Edward Kakoyty are robbed - Robert, accused of embezzling 28 million rubles. There was also a gang of killers, which was created by counterintelligence officer Oleg Gagiyev, known by the nickname "Bote" back in 2007. The group consisted of more than 30 people, including two police officers and one employee of the prosecutor's office. Many of the participants took part in the armed conflict in Georgia in 1992. The gang performed a variety of contract killings in Russia, the killers bought weapons in South Ossetia.
The story of Elena Khakhaleva, the wife and girlfriend of the thieves' authorities, is just a small episode in the richest criminal life of the separatist territories. Many political scientists and experts involved in political predictions for the future pay little attention to the fact that in the event of the resolution of separatist conflicts and the return of territories they will have to face a completely different, uncontrollable criminal world that has learned to be not only useful to the separatist government, but also in many ways to influence the population. In Georgia, it was possible to solve this problem fundamentally after the “revolution of roses”, but are the authorities of Moldova and Ukraine ready to realize the impending danger?