Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov

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Vyacheslav Kirillowitsch Iwankow ( Russian Вячесла́в Кири́ллович Иванько́в ; born January 2, 1940 in the Soviet Union ; died October 9, 2009 in Moscow , Russian Federation ) was an active in Russia and the USA boss of the Russian mafia and one of the most famous law bosses . His nickname Japontschik (“Little Japanese”) is attributed to his Asian-looking facial features, but could also be related to his experience in martial arts.

biography

There are many legends about the life of Ivankov. He is said to have been born in Georgia and grew up in a troubled family in Moscow. His father was an alcoholic. In order to counteract his weak health, he practiced boxing and martial arts in school. At the age of 14 he first committed theft, later he sold goods on the black market and founded his own gang. In the early 1970s he was arrested and convicted of various crimes. In 1974, while imprisoned in Butyrka prison, he was included in law by fellow prisoners as a thief .

In 1992 he moved to the USA and settled in Brighton Beach . He became the boss of the Russian Mafia in New York . He was arrested by the FBI in June 1995 and sentenced to nine years in prison in 1997 for extortion. After his imprisonment expired, he was deported to Russia in 2005 . He was arrested in Moscow following a violent confrontation in which two Turks were shot in 1992 and a third was seriously injured. But in July 2005 he was acquitted by a bribed judge.

At the end of July 2009, Vyacheslav Ivankov was shot from a Dragunov sniper rifle while leaving a restaurant in Moscow , presumably in connection with a gang conflict. He died of peritonitis two and a half months later . Hundreds of mafiosi attended his funeral. The funeral wreaths came from all over the ex-Soviet Union, they bore inscriptions such as “From Brothers from Sochi” or “From the Brotherhood in Kazakhstan”. Ivankov was buried in the Wagankowo Cemetery .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alan A. Block, Constance A. Weaver: All is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime , Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 9780275983307 , p. 154.
  2. ↑ Christian Esch: The long death of the "Japanese". Frankfurter Rundschau , October 12, 2009, accessed on August 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ "Grandpa Hassan" was once considered dead Julia Smirnova in: Die Welt, January 18, 2013
  4. ↑ For a Departed Mobster, Wreaths and Roses but No Tears Michael Schwirtz in: The New York Times , October 13, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Ivankov, Vyacheslav Kirillovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Иваньков, Вячеслав Кириллович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mafia boss
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1940
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2009
Place of death Moscow , Russian Federation