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>From http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4380923,00.html
>>>Bear in mind folks that a large number of these same kinds of people are being
either enticed or kidnapped to the Holey Land to repopulate said locale. Remember
that there Ruskie guy (Kruschev?) told the world they were going to take over the
United States without even firing a shot ("Ve vill berry you!". The easiest way to do
this is to effect the transfer of THEIR problem children to the U.S. or countries
favoured by the U.S. (Canada, Israel (!), and others) to put a stranglehold (!) on
resources. This "nice guy" immigration crap is gonna have to stop. A<>E<>R <<<
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Russian mobsters tighten their grip on LA
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Monday March 25, 2002
The Guardian
Four bodies pulled from a reservoir in California are believed to be the latest victims
of a huge organised crime network run by mobsters from the former Soviet Union.
What is now surfacing, along with the corpses, is a picture of a highly intelligent
criminal organisation that far outstrips in numbers and sophistication the traditional
Italian mafia and any other such group in the US.
The bodies are believed to be those of two businessmen, a bookkeeper, and one of
their associates. All four were from the former Soviet Union and had settled in Los
Angeles. They are believed to have been kidnapped, held for ransom, killed and their
bodies dumped in the water.
A fifth body was found floating in the reservoir in October.
The discoveries have been followed by the arrest of four men, also from the former
Soviet Union, who are alleged to have kidnapped one of the victims, Alexander
Umansky, the president of Advanced Mobile Technologies in Hollywood and held
him for a $250,000 (£175,000) ransom.
Two of the suspects are alleged to have kidnapped another victim, George Safiev,
president of a film production company, Matador Media, and held him for a $5m
ransom. Two other Russians have been charged with receiving ransom money.
The three other bodies found were those of Matador Media's chief executive officer,
Nick Kharabadze; the bookkeeper Rita Pekler, 39, one of whose clients was Safiev;
and the property developer Myer Muscatel.
Kharabadze, the son of the Georgian actress Ruiko Kiknadze, was well known in
Hollywood's film community. His family contacted the Georgian president, Eduard
Shevardnadze, to ask him to enlist President Bush's help after last year's kidnapping.
The abductions focused attention on the enormous growth in the US of organised
crime groups from eastern Europe, and specifically the former Soviet Union.
Anthony Colannino, deputy district attorney for LA, who specialises in Russian
organised crime, said that between 1970 and 1985 about 300,000 legal Soviet
immigrants entered the US, of whom 5,000-10,000 were "hardened criminals".
There are now, he says, tens of thousands entering the US every year illegally, many
crossing the Mexican border and going to LA. "They include ex-KGB officers, former
special forces and government officers. They're very good at computer crime,
electronic balance fraud, insurance fraud, pimping, narcotics, loan sharking,
racketeering."
They preferred to avoid violent crime, if possible, Mr Colannino said, "but they'll
kill
you if they have to".
"Unlike the old Italian mob, who would send flowers to your wife after they'd killed
you, they'll kill you, your wife, your children, your uncle, your cousins, your
neighbours. They're bloody ruthless, they really are."
Mr Colannino said that mobsters from the former Soviet Union now constituted the
largest ethnically based crime group in the US.
"The Italian mob have got fat and lazy like the rest of us Americans, but they [from
the former Soviet Union] are used to hardship. You throw them in prison, they're
living better than they were before."
The growth of crime run by immigrants from the former Soviet Union is also
penetrating the public consciousness.
In the film Training Day it is the Russian mafia who appear at the end of the film,
cackling as they riddle Denzil Washington's bent LA cop with bullets.
Italian-American groups protest that they have been unfairly stereotyped for too long
as criminals in movies.
Now they may be handing the mantle on to the Russians.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2002
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