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Russian mafia's claws in Sydney property
Posted by : The Sun-Herald, 13/05/2001
on : mardi 15 mai 2001 а 16:14
The Russian mafia - the world's most feared crime organisation - is laundering its global racketeering profits by buying luxury Sydney homes and businesses.
Police believe Russian mobsters regard Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast as easy hiding places for their ill-gotten billions.
Fears over the extent of the infiltration have prompted NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan to send top detective and organised crime specialist Detective Inspector Terry Dalton to FBI headquarters in the US to learn all about the Russian mafia.
The Russian mafia, which does not hesitate to kill rivals, police or investigators, is suspected of being behind at least one street assassination in Australia.
Police say the mobsters are buying homes and businesses to launder the billions they make from worldwide racketeering - $200 billion a year in Europe alone, according to UK crime agencies.
One of the organisation's main money men, Semyon Mogilevich, 55 - dubbed the Brainy Don because he has a PhD in economics - operated a $15 billion global money-laundering operation.
Ready to torture and murder his opponents, Mogilevich is one of the world's top criminals, according to Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service.
Mr Ryan raised concerns about the Russian mafia before the Olympics and two foreign Olympic chiefs were banned from entering Australia because of alleged Russian mafia connections.
"I've been warning against this ever since I've been here, because I saw its effects in Europe and it is spreading inexorably in this direction," Mr Ryan said.
Drug trafficking, money laundering, arms deals, immigration scams and a vicious sex slave trade in which women are forced into prostitution are among the specialities of Russian mobsters.
In July last year Gennadi Bernovski, a wealthy 41-year-old former KGB colonel, was gunned down in the driveway of his luxury Gold Coast home.
He was putting out the garbage at 9.30pm when he was shot five times in the stomach. He crawled inside but died before his wife, Svetlana, 28, could summon help.
A witness saw two men and possibly a woman dressed in wetsuits running from the scene carrying what looked like guns, but police never found them.
Detective Sergeant Terry Winters, of Burleigh Heads CIB, said police believed it was a cold-blooded hit by the Russian mafia.
"There is no doubt it was a contract killing," he said. "The house was next to a canal and if these people were involved, they could have made their getaway by boat or even underwater."
Bernovski had been in Australia for seven years. His past is murky, but police learned he had been a colonel in an elite, SAS-style military unit of the KGB before coming to Australia. He had run into trouble with other Russian emigres who had lost about $1 million in a smallgoods company he set up.
One, Oleg Kouzmine, told a court in 1998 he had fled to Australia to escape the Russian mafia. He said the only time the mafia left somebody alone was when they were in the cemetery. Kouzmine flew back to Russia just days after Bernovski was killed and Queensland police have issued an arrest warrant for him.
Interpol is trying to extradite Kouzmine, but he is believed to be in prison in St Petersburg.
"We are finding it hard to get information from the Russian authorities and the Russian people living here are reluctant to talk to us," Sergeant Winters said.
"There is a lot of unexplained wealth among the Russians arriving here. A lot who had pretty menial jobs in Russia come here with millions of dollars and are buying up multimillion-dollar homes."
Queensland Crime Commission chief Superintendent Jan Lidicky said they were concerned about the ruthless methods of gangs from the former eastern bloc.
"While we haven't prosecuted anyone of Russian origin with serious crimes such as money laundering or fraud, it is an area of interest for us," he said.
The Gold Coast is attracting the most interest from mysteriously cashed-up Russians, but Mr Ryan expects Sydney will soon be a prime target with real estate and cash-rich ventures such as cafes and restaurants being sought.
Austrac, the body that monitors money transfers in and out of the country, has detected large movements of funds in accounts with links to Russian emigrants.
The Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence has given top-level briefing papers to the Government and senior police on the threat of the Russian mafia and the potential for damage to financial markets of the laundering of vast sums of money.
International crime consultant at Canberra's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre John McFarlane predicted the Russians could soon overtake Chinese triads as a threat to Australia.
"While the Chinese are into every type of crime such as drugs, human smuggling and counterfeit money, the Russians are more sophisticated, shifting billions of dollars around the world financial system," he said.
The scale and audacity of Russian mafia operations is stunning. It has even tried to sell a Russian navy submarine to Colombia's Cali cartel to smuggle 40 tonnes of drugs per trip into the US. The $10 million deal included a crew.
It came unstuck when the middleman, Russian emigrant and strip club owner Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg, bragged of it to an undercover FBI agent. Fainberg had already sold the Colombians 12 Russian military Mi-8 helicopters at $1 million apiece.
And in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach - known as "Little Odessa" because it is the centre of Russian mob activity in the US - police cornered mob boss Vyacheslav "Little Jap" Ivankov.
Ivankov, who had been kicked out of Russia by the mob because he killed so many people, later received 11 years' jail for his role in an $US11million ($21 million) extortion case.
One of America's leading experts on Russian crime, Lydia Rosner from John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, warns that Russian mobsters are looking for Australian locations to store profits and set up homes.
Meanwhile, Russian mobsters are pushing prostitution into Australia. Immigration officials recently found evidence that women from the former Soviet bloc were being enticed to Australia, but once here they become sex slaves forced to pay off huge debts.
Migration officials deported 67 prostitutes in just six months. One 32-year-old Ukraine woman told the officials she had been lured from her small town by promises of big money. Her Russian pimps threatened to harm her family back home if she tried to escape.
She was going to give evidence in return for residency, but suddenly refused to talk after she got a phone call at the detention centre. She was deported and never heard from again.
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/f
Russian mafia's claws in Sydney property
Posted by : The Sun-Herald, 13/05/2001
on : mardi 15 mai 2001 а 16:14
The Russian mafia - the world's most feared crime organisation - is laundering its global racketeering profits by buying luxury Sydney homes and businesses.
Police believe Russian mobsters regard Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast as easy hiding places for their ill-gotten billions.
Fears over the extent of the infiltration have prompted NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan to send top detective and organised crime specialist Detective Inspector Terry Dalton to FBI headquarters in the US to learn all about the Russian mafia.
The Russian mafia, which does not hesitate to kill rivals, police or investigators, is suspected of being behind at least one street assassination in Australia.
Police say the mobsters are buying homes and businesses to launder the billions they make from worldwide racketeering - $200 billion a year in Europe alone, according to UK crime agencies.
One of the organisation's main money men, Semyon Mogilevich, 55 - dubbed the Brainy Don because he has a PhD in economics - operated a $15 billion global money-laundering operation.
Ready to torture and murder his opponents, Mogilevich is one of the world's top criminals, according to Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service.
Mr Ryan raised concerns about the Russian mafia before the Olympics and two foreign Olympic chiefs were banned from entering Australia because of alleged Russian mafia connections.
"I've been warning against this ever since I've been here, because I saw its effects in Europe and it is spreading inexorably in this direction," Mr Ryan said.
Drug trafficking, money laundering, arms deals, immigration scams and a vicious sex slave trade in which women are forced into prostitution are among the specialities of Russian mobsters.
In July last year Gennadi Bernovski, a wealthy 41-year-old former KGB colonel, was gunned down in the driveway of his luxury Gold Coast home.
He was putting out the garbage at 9.30pm when he was shot five times in the stomach. He crawled inside but died before his wife, Svetlana, 28, could summon help.
A witness saw two men and possibly a woman dressed in wetsuits running from the scene carrying what looked like guns, but police never found them.
Detective Sergeant Terry Winters, of Burleigh Heads CIB, said police believed it was a cold-blooded hit by the Russian mafia.
"There is no doubt it was a contract killing," he said. "The house was next to a canal and if these people were involved, they could have made their getaway by boat or even underwater."
Bernovski had been in Australia for seven years. His past is murky, but police learned he had been a colonel in an elite, SAS-style military unit of the KGB before coming to Australia. He had run into trouble with other Russian emigres who had lost about $1 million in a smallgoods company he set up.
One, Oleg Kouzmine, told a court in 1998 he had fled to Australia to escape the Russian mafia. He said the only time the mafia left somebody alone was when they were in the cemetery. Kouzmine flew back to Russia just days after Bernovski was killed and Queensland police have issued an arrest warrant for him.
Interpol is trying to extradite Kouzmine, but he is believed to be in prison in St Petersburg.
"We are finding it hard to get information from the Russian authorities and the Russian people living here are reluctant to talk to us," Sergeant Winters said.
"There is a lot of unexplained wealth among the Russians arriving here. A lot who had pretty menial jobs in Russia come here with millions of dollars and are buying up multimillion-dollar homes."
Queensland Crime Commission chief Superintendent Jan Lidicky said they were concerned about the ruthless methods of gangs from the former eastern bloc.
"While we haven't prosecuted anyone of Russian origin with serious crimes such as money laundering or fraud, it is an area of interest for us," he said.
The Gold Coast is attracting the most interest from mysteriously cashed-up Russians, but Mr Ryan expects Sydney will soon be a prime target with real estate and cash-rich ventures such as cafes and restaurants being sought.
Austrac, the body that monitors money transfers in and out of the country, has detected large movements of funds in accounts with links to Russian emigrants.
The Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence has given top-level briefing papers to the Government and senior police on the threat of the Russian mafia and the potential for damage to financial markets of the laundering of vast sums of money.
International crime consultant at Canberra's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre John McFarlane predicted the Russians could soon overtake Chinese triads as a threat to Australia.
"While the Chinese are into every type of crime such as drugs, human smuggling and counterfeit money, the Russians are more sophisticated, shifting billions of dollars around the world financial system," he said.
The scale and audacity of Russian mafia operations is stunning. It has even tried to sell a Russian navy submarine to Colombia's Cali cartel to smuggle 40 tonnes of drugs per trip into the US. The $10 million deal included a crew.
It came unstuck when the middleman, Russian emigrant and strip club owner Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg, bragged of it to an undercover FBI agent. Fainberg had already sold the Colombians 12 Russian military Mi-8 helicopters at $1 million apiece.
And in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach - known as "Little Odessa" because it is the centre of Russian mob activity in the US - police cornered mob boss Vyacheslav "Little Jap" Ivankov.
Ivankov, who had been kicked out of Russia by the mob because he killed so many people, later received 11 years' jail for his role in an $US11million ($21 million) extortion case.
One of America's leading experts on Russian crime, Lydia Rosner from John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, warns that Russian mobsters are looking for Australian locations to store profits and set up homes.
Meanwhile, Russian mobsters are pushing prostitution into Australia. Immigration officials recently found evidence that women from the former Soviet bloc were being enticed to Australia, but once here they become sex slaves forced to pay off huge debts.
Migration officials deported 67 prostitutes in just six months. One 32-year-old Ukraine woman told the officials she had been lured from her small town by promises of big money. Her Russian pimps threatened to harm her family back home if she tried to escape.
She was going to give evidence in return for residency, but suddenly refused to talk after she got a phone call at the detention centre. She was deported and never heard from again.
