Article on suspicion of money laundering through Wadan Yards in Germany, 2015, taken down from Focus magazine

Translation: The Wadan Yards Group from Wismar has often dealt with dubious millions in payments and dubious owners. The former owner Andrei Burlakov – an entrepreneur with ties to the Russian mafia – died from the bullets of a contract killer. He had previously sold the ailing Wadan shipyard to Igor Yusufov, ex-minister and Gazprom …

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Indictment of “Troika” (Tambovskaya gang) case and Gennady Petrov in Spain, May 2015

Dated of May 29, 2015. See also Russian translation. In 2007, Spanish Special Anticorruption Prosecutor’s office started to investigate the activity of Russian members of Tambov-Malyshev (Tambovsko-Malyshevskaya, Tambovskaya) gang settled in Spain since 1998. Three main suspects, Gennady Petrov, Alexander Malyshev and Sergey Kuzmin, were targeted. Sergey Kuzmin escaped the arrest in Spain, while Petrov …

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Spanish Russian mafia Troika case: press release of the court on “uneconomic” transcations of the defendants

“However strange, uneconomic or unconventional were the commercial operations in which the defendants invested, if the origin of the acquired, converted, transmitted or concealed property is not proven of beeing from criminal activity, there is no money-laundering offence, “explains the Chamber (translation of the last paragraph of the press release on the sentence in Troika …

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