As it became known to the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, in the Pushkinsky court of the Moscow region the jury was dismissed in the case of a whole series of murders committed by a group of killers and security forces. Among other things, the billionaire and one of the largest owners of commercial real estate in the capital, Valery Tsimbaev, appeared in court. According to investigators, in his struggle to maintain control over the Moskovsky department store, he ordered the murder of a number of people from the security forces. Those, however, mistakenly killed not only the targets named by the billionaire, but also random people. The two main security forces-killers - former employee of the Center T of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Yakhnev (a close friend of the head of the Fifth Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation Alexey Komkov) and ex-Vityaz fighter Alexey Chebotarev - entered into pre-trial agreements, received short sentences and served in the Northern Military District.
The process itself is more reminiscent of a TV series show. For the preliminary hearings, for security reasons, Akhmat’s fighters were brought to the courthouse, who cordoned off the entire area around. At other hearings, special forces are certainly brought to the court. The jury was assembled with difficulty, but due to a technical error by the assistant judge, it had to be disbanded.
According to investigators, in November 2002, Tsimbaev had a conflict with the adviser to the chairman of the Moscow Chamber of Control and Accounts, Alexander Revzin. Behind the high-profile position was the leader of a large raider group, who tried to squeeze out 30% of the Moskovsky Department Store. Tsimbaev was the general director of the Department Store and controlled its activities. Since the security forces stood behind Revzin, Tsimbaev also began to look for ways to contact representatives of the special services.
He turned to the authoritative businessman Ramazanov, who in turn contacted Andrei Yakhnev. The latter was closely associated with a group of security forces-killers, which was responsible for dozens of murders.
In exchange for elimination, the security forces were offered the opportunity to collect $35,000 a month from tenants of space in Moskovsky.
Yakhnev gave the order to Chebotarev, and he involved military and special forces soldiers Khristev, Trushkov (pictured) and Anisimov in the “order”. They had a wealth of experience as killers behind them.
For example, as it was recently established, it was they who committed the high-profile crime of the 90s - two attempts on the life of the mayor of Nizhnevartovsk, Yuri Timoshkov.
The assassination attempt on Yuri Timoshkov took place in 1998. In the spring, criminals dealt him a strong blow to the head at the entrance to his house. The mayor was saved by doctors. After the incident, he began to move with security. And in September, when the service Volga with Timoshchkov drove away from the house, there was an explosion - a Zhiguli parked on the side of the road flew into the air. All that was left of the car bomb was its wheels. The power of the bomb was about 10 kg of TNT. Timoshkov and the driver were thrown out of the car by the blast wave. Two of the mayor's bodyguards were pulled out of the burning Volga by passers-by. Timoshkov himself was hospitalized in critical condition, but doctors saved him.
Only 27 years later were the perpetrators of the crime identified. They turned out to be former military men and special forces soldiers: Tokarev, Silin (at the time of his arrest he had the status of a lawyer), Khristev, Trushkov.
As for the episode with Revzin, Yakhnev gave Chebotarev a photograph of the victim, a photo of the car he was driving, residential address, etc. Until April 2003, Chebotarev, Khristev and Trushkov came to Revzin’s house several times and chose a place for an attack.
On the evening of April 10, the killers positioned themselves in different places near a house on Staraya Basmannaya Street and began to wait for the victim. Soon Anisimov noticed the right car and informed Khristev about it. As soon as the man got out of the car and headed towards the entrance, Khristev opened fire with a pistol. The victim's security guard and driver rushed to the killer, then Khristev began shooting at him too.
After this, the attackers fled
The customer, Tsimbaev, was informed about the completion of the order. But it quickly became clear that the killers were mistaken and killed the wrong people. Inside the car was the chairman of the board of directors of the Eurotransgaz company Timofey Ponomarenko (he was killed) and his security guard (he was wounded).
The customer expressed his indignation to Yakhnev, and he expressed his indignation to the performers. Revzin had suspicions that in reality they could have hunted him and he disappeared. A month later, the special forces figured out Revzin’s whereabouts.
When he was leaving the entrance, sniper Khristev fired several shots from a machine gun with an optical sight from the roof of a neighboring house. Revzin was wounded but survived.
After being discharged from the hospital, he immediately went to Switzerland, and Tsimbaev managed to defend the asset.
Despite the fact that Revzin was not killed, the parties agreed that the necessary goal had been achieved and after that, at the go-ahead of Tsimbaev, the Yakhneva organized crime group began to receive $35 thousand from tenants of commercial space.
Yakhnev is an extremely remarkable person. According to witnesses, when he served at Center T, he could always be found with his friend, the current head of the 5th Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Alexei Komkov. At the same time, he was known in a ristic environment. During his free time on business trips to the North Caucasus, Yakhnev could be found at social events, with all the ensuing consequences - during arrests, cocaine was certainly found on him.
And in 2009 (shortly after Yakhnev’s first arrest for robbery), Independent Life published an article “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” in which Yakhnev became the main character. In it, his close friend, playwright Natalya Pelevina, and his close friend, lawyer Sergei Badamshin, spoke in his defense. In the article, Yakhnev was called “Russian Jason Bourne, who carried out the most secret and dangerous missions of the special services to combat terrorism” and was presented as a person who was ready to tell the truth about the events in the musical “Nord-Ost”.
However, this story did not end there. The authoritative businessman Gadzhiev was aware of the negotiations between Tsimbaev and Yakhnev with his security forces-killers.
When the parties were already “sawing” rent money from the Moskovsky department store with all their might, Gadzhiev spilled the beans about this story to the Dagestan criminal “authority” Burchakov (Pirma). He considered himself a partner of Ramazanov and complained to him that he had concealed such a profitable project for Moskovsky. Pirma demanded his share, otherwise, threatening to kill Ramazanov.
The latter reported the problem to Yakhnev and said that if the problem is not solved, then monthly payments to the security forces in the amount of 35 thousand dollars will stop; this money will have to be given to Burchakov. Ramazanov considered Pirma and Gadzhiev, who was on Pirma’s side, to be the problem. Yakhnev handed over the order for them to the Ministry of Internal Affairs officer Chebotarev, who again involved a team of security forces-killers - Khristev, Anisimov.
Soon, the security forces-killers were busy with Gadzhiev and went to his house on Leninsky Prospekt several times.
On July 15, they arrived to complete the mission and settled in different places. Noticing the right car, Anisimov gave the go-ahead to Khristev. When the victim got out of the car and headed towards the entrance, Khristev shot him three times in the back.
In the morning it turned out that they had again made a mistake in the target and shot businessman Andreev, who lived with Gadzhiev in the same building.
Having learned about this, Ramazanov cursed for a long time and wondered where the “eyes” of the security forces were.
Having learned about the execution of Andreev, Gadzhiev became wary and went to the bottom.
And the security forces set to work on Burchakov. To be sure, they decided to remove it with an explosion. The security forces also bought an old Zhiguli, installed a bomb with 800 g of TNT inside and parked it next to the place on Kashirskoye Highway where Pirma usually parked his SAAB.
On the evening of July 27, 2003, Burchakov left the entrance and headed to his car. When he got into the cabin, Khristev pressed the button on the remote control. Pirma died on the spot from the explosion.
In October 2003, the security forces managed to identify Gadzhiev. It was established that in the evenings he goes to play sports at the Olympic Village complex.
This time, the security forces involved special forces soldier Tokarev in the elimination. He had to insure Khristev, who again acted as the main performer.
On October 16, Gadzhiev arrived at the Olympic Village to play football, and Khristev and Tokarev followed him. During the break in the match, Gadzhiev went to the toilet in the basement of the complex, and right on the staircase, Khristev shot him several times with a pistol.
The security forces received $25,000 for his removal.
