With an Oriental face, it is difficult to connect with the fierce gangster boss, but he is indeed one of the top ten evil people in the world on the Forbes Wicked List, and the Russian underworld father - Arimjan Toktakhonov, who was wanted by the United States for allegedly manipulating the results of the Olympic Games.
Arimjian
In the 1990s, he was the king of Russia's underworld. The Tomahawk gangs under its control smuggle arms, human trafficking, money laundering, drug trafficking, and everything they can. French criminologists say, "He leads the black bag with the highest degree of organization in the world." ”
At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Canada, who performed perfectly in the double figure skating final, lost to the Russians, who made a clear mistake. The result of being the runner-up is highly controversial. The investigation revealed that the French referee in the refereeing team was coerced before the match, thus casting a crucial vote to make Russia win the championship.
Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
It was supposed to be a sports scandal, but the Italian police released a shocking news, and in the process of spying on the mafia leader, they found a call that showed that the Russian gang leader Arimjan Toktakhonov had manipulated the game.
As soon as the news came out, public opinion was in an uproar, and the United States, as the host of the game, was furious and issued a wanted order. In August 2002, Ali Mujian was arrested in Italy, but he denied manipulating the game, and the court held that the recording alone could not justify the crime. Rejecting the U.S. request for extradition, Arim returned to Russia with a big swing and gave an interview to the U.S. media, which was quite a bit of a mockery of the U.S. government.
Arrogant Arim Room
Who is this old man? Why can't the United States take him?
Arimjan, born in 1949 in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan under Soviet rule, is an ancient city of dozens of ethnic groups, so it is not surprising that he has an oriental face. When he was a child, he did not love to study, loved sports, was a professional bridge player, and played in a local amateur team.
In the 1970s, he wandered to Sochi, a Tourist Resort in the Soviet Union, where he joined the Local Russian Gangster Tomahawk and gambled in hotels with the money of tourists, and was imprisoned twice in 1972 and 1980. After his release from prison, he began to do the business of smuggling electrical appliances, accumulated original capital, and his position in Tomahawk continued to increase.
battle-axe
The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s affected not only the world order, but also many people's lives.
At this time, Ali Mujian chose to go abroad to Italy to develop, and with his underworld background, he quickly established a relationship with the Italian mafia and became a successful businessman, but no one knows what kind of business he did. Italian police suspected him of laundering money for the oligarchs after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but there was no substantial evidence.
The restless Arimjian returned to Russia two years later, and as a rich and returnee, coupled with the appearance of a guest of honor of the Italian mafia, he gradually became the leader of the Tomahawk. Taking advantage of the chaos after the collapse of the Soviet Union, he colluded with unscrupulous politicians, embezzled state-owned assets, transferred mineral and oil companies to his own name at low prices, and had his own industrial companies, and the huge arsenal left behind after the collapse of the Soviet Union became a gold mine for politicians.
Mafia
They sold their weapons to Arimjian, who sold them to the whole world, rocket launchers, anti-tank missiles, nuclear materials, and anything else. During this period, Arimujian absorbed a lot of unemployed Kgebert workers, special forces, police and other talents, rich, gun, talented Arimjian led the Tomahawk gang to control more than 80% of the illegal trade in Russia in just a few years, but he was not satisfied.
He once again set his sights on the international market, reaching out to more than 20 countries such as Australia, the United States, and Israel, cooperating with his old friend the Italian mafia to launder money, selling weapons to war-torn african countries, selling drugs with Colombian drug lords, and engaging in the international pornography industry with Yakuza of Japan, and with more than 20 people, he dared to open up the American market and export Russian beauties to the United States.
Interestingly, arim's nest in the United States is located in Trump Tower, New York. In addition, he also has a nickname of "the godfather of Russian sports", and many famous athletes such as Saffin, Kurnikova, etc. have openly stated that they are friends of Arimjian.
Trump Tower
Just when he was overjoyed, the oligarch terminator, gangster nemesis, judo champion, kgb's excellent agent - Putin, appeared. When Putin officially became president of Russia in 2000, he set a three-step route of first eliminating oligarchs, then fighting corruption, and finally cleaning up the gangs.
Putin
After many years of service in the KGB, Putin knew the ins and outs of Russian gangsters, and after cleaning up the seven oligarchs, the Russian economy began to recover and the finances gradually became more abundant, and Putin freed his hands to fight the gangs.
Russian "oligarchs"
At first, Arim insisted that he didn't care, thinking that Putin was just doing things and talking. Unexpectedly, Putin was so fierce that he not only issued a wanted warrant, but also ordered the National Security Agency to arrest gangsters everywhere, and he had no intention of stopping. After observing for a while, Arimjian finally understood that his golden age had passed, and Putin's Russia would not let him act arbitrarily as before, and he chose to disappear and hide in a Western European country.
As the saying goes, gangsters came out of chaos, and the turmoil after the collapse of the Soviet Union bred well-organized and blatant Russian gangsters, and today's Political Stability in Russia, gangsters can only hide in the shadows.