Godfather goes down

[MeMyselfAndI]

http://rustavi2.com/news/news_text.php?id_news=37921&pg=1&im=main&ct=0&wth

Georgian crime boss sent to prison for 15 years
19.07.10 12:29

Tariel Oniani, an ethnic Georgian with a reputation as one of the most powerful crime bosses in the Soviet Union, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Moscow court today. Oniani was charged with kidnapping and money extortion of one of the Russian businessman and his family.
Oniani denies the charges. His attorney, Nikoloz Mdinaradze said he was in a different place in the moment when the crime occurred and therefore, he has no ties with it.
According to the investigation, Tariel Oniani together with his companions kidnapped a businessman from the Smolensk Square on March 18, 2009. The kidnappers took the hostage to a restaurant and beat him up with baseball bats. They contacted the family of the hostage and demanded 500,000-dollar ransom. The gang released the hostage after extorting 218,000 from the family. Afterwards, the gang demanded the rest of the money from the businessman`s family, who applied to the militia for help. The suspects were detained soon, Tariel Oniani among them.

He is not just a 'crime boss'. As it says there, Oniani, who also goes by Tariel Mulukhov, is one of two men (other is one Aslan Usoyan) who are fighting to become the Tsar of the Underworld of the former Soviet Union.

That war has claimed so many lives. Like one in Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariel_Oniani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aslan_Usoyan

[Michael]

http://rustavi2.com/news/news_text.php?id_news=37921&pg=1&im=main&ct=0&wth



He is not just a 'crime boss'. As it says there, Oniani, who also goes by Tariel Mulukhov, is one of two men (other is one Aslan Usoyan) who are fighting to become the Tsar of the Underworld of the former Soviet Union.

That war has claimed so many lives. Like one in Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariel_Oniani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aslan_Usoyan
Such colorful characters! :erm:

Anyway, I do note that the news-article says that the victim's family applied to the militia for help and got it! That is interesting.

[MeMyselfAndI]

Such colorful characters! :erm:

Anyway, I do note that the news-article says that the victim's family applied to the militia for help and got it! That is interesting.

'Militia' ('Militsya') is police in Russia.

[Michael]

'Militia' ('Militsya') is police in Russia.

Doubly interesting! :lol:

[Non Sequitur]

'Militia' ('Militsya') is police in Russia.

yeah that is really interesting. That word has completely different connotations in English

[MeMyselfAndI]

yeah that is really interesting. That word has completely different connotations in English

Well, the name goes back to Soviet times. Before, under the Tsars, we actually had a Department of Police, as well as a Corps of Gendarmes, and also the Okhranka/Okhrannoe Otdelenie (Security Division), the Tsar's KGB.

The Bolsheviks wanted to do away with the old, monarchist ways, and names. The new police force was supposed to be a force of the people that acts for the people. Thus Militsya.

Many people today want to bring back the Gendarmes, actually. It just sounds so... romantic, you know :D

[MeMyselfAndI]

Russian Imperial Police gorodovoi (city patrollman) in Moscow:
http://www.mvd.ru/images/history/396.jpg

Russian Gendarmes:
http://dic.academic.ru/pictures/wiki/files/82/Russian_Gendarmes_1890.jpg

Okhranka agents at a meeting in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg):
http://dic.academic.ru/pictures/wiki/files/79/Okhranka_group_photo.jpg

Soviet Militsya:
http://homeland.su/uploads/posts/2009-06/1244988059_homeland.su-4.jpg

Modern Militsya:
http://www.flamber.ru/files/photos/1211922554/1213727241_o.jpg

Internal Troops:
http://ruprom-image.s3.amazonaws.com/311648_w640_h640_kopiya_imgp1808.jpg

OMON (Paramilitary police):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/OMON.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Tambov_OMON_in_Nizhny_Novogord.jpg

[MeMyselfAndI]

Conclusion:

A man believed to be one of the most influential figures in the Russian criminal world died on Thursday after he was shot in downtown Moscow, police sources in the Russian capital said.
Aslan Usoyan, better known as Grandpa Hassan, died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital.
One of the law-enforcement sources said the suspected crime boss was shot three times in the stomach with a Makarov pistol. He added that the attack occurred at around 20:00 Moscow time (16:00 GMT) when Usoyan left the entrance of his apartment building on Moscow's main Tverskaya Street.
The source said there was one assailant.
Another source said a body was found at the scene of the attack.
Usoyan was born in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, on February 27, 1937. Many of the Caucasian criminal groups in Russia were said to obey him, especially in the Urals and the south. He was also believed to command strong influence in Moscow, St. Petersburg and central Russia, as well as in some CIS countries and further abroad.
His murder comes two months after another suspected criminal boss, the similarly well-known Tariel Oniani, or Taro, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for kidnapping and extortion.
Taro and Grandpa Hassan were believed to be rivals and some reports said their criminal empires had been engaged in a turf war since 2006.
Usoyan was close to another alleged crime boss, Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Yaponchik or Little Japanese. He was shot on October 9, 2009, on leaving a restaurant in Moscow and died some time later at a city hospital.
MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti)


http://en.beta.rian.ru/crime/20100916/160616125.html

That was either Oniani or maybe the government decided to end this once and for all. Either way, one less pain in the ass for the country.

[WFCY]

I want a bicycle like that guy. Would make my torso look 4 times longer than my legs, fuckin awesome!