Wednesday, April 23, 2008

FBI agents search for Russian mafia in Moscow

FBI agents have arrived in Moscow looking for Russian mafia members, who committed crimes on US territory, Russian website Lenta.ru reports. The FBI agents will start their work in close collaboration with Russian police on April 23.

According to the reports, the FBI agents are particularly interested in four Russian criminals. Americans have asked the Russian police to locate a quartet of Russian mafia bosses: Evgeni Dvoskin, Konstantin Ginzburg, Victor Vulf and Alexander Gribov.

Evgeni Dvoskin was born in the Ukrainian city Odessa but had been living in the USA since 1990. A Spokesman for the FBI said that Dvoskin had served a prison sentence in the same jail as the infamous Russian criminal Vyacheslav “Yaponchik” Ivankov. After their release they organized several financial schemes and illegally bought shares of four big US companies. Dvoskin was detained 15 times during 10 years of living in the USA.

Read full article: http://www.mosnews.com/world/2009/04/23/1266/