A famous Russian Presenter in the 1990s she had sought out a hit man and offered a $20,000 reward to kill her powerful “godfather” mafia.
Investigative journalism website The Insider reports that the Vladimir Salaviov he wanted to be assassinated Otari Kvandrisvili, a powerful factor in the Russian underworld. As the website in question writes, Salafiov in the early 1990s he was engaged in business activities. In November 1993 Salaviov met him Sergey Astasinwho at that time studied at the Security Academy of Russia (now FSB Academy) at the military counterintelligence school. Astasin then had friendly relations with him Kirill Raykovwho according to Astasin, was working on behalf of Salaviov as a distributor of the products they were trading.
The acquaintance was made after Raikov asked Astasin to check for bedbugs in Salaviov’s office. “I got the equipment, went to the office and found bed bugs. All the time I was working Salaviov sat wearing a long black cashmere coat. I remember that he was wearing a Swiss watch, and when he saw the watch I was wearing he said to me “what a cheap thing that is”. The watch I was wearing was given to me and four other colleagues as a reward. Solovyov paid me 200 dollars,” Astasin describes that incident.
The order
After a few days Salaviov turned to Astasin once more and asked him to find a “shooter” to kill Otari Kvdrisvili. For the murder he was willing to pay $20,000.
After the discussion that took place the former FSB agent wrote a relevant report about the incident to the head of the year of the school he attended Vychislav Kabanov, but no criminal case followed. Astasin speculates that Salaviov may have been recruited by the FSB to cover his attempt to negotiate a death contract.
“The fact that the agency may have had him under their protection is 100% certain. You’d have to be a complete idiot to pass up such an opportunity. See for yourself how many bright stars there were on television at that time. Where are they now? But he is still powerful,” Astasin said, adding that a detailed report on his meeting with Salafiov is kept in his personal file at the FSB Academy.
The funeral of the criminal Kvdrisvili
The website The Insider reminds that the godfather of the underworld Otari Kvdrisvili was murdered in 1994 by three shots from a German-made small caliber Anschutz rifle purchased in Estonia. THE Alexey Sherstobitovknown as “Lesha-Soldat”, executor of the criminal organization Menvedkovskafia and Orekhovskaya was found guilty of murdering Kvdrisvili. In 2008 he was sentenced to 23 years in a maximum security prison colony. Sherstobitov has at least 12 proven murders to his credit.
In Kvartrisvili’s funeral attended the then mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov, the president of the National Sports Foundation Shamil Tarpichev, the assistant of the vice president of the Russian government Alexander Rutskoi, Andrei Sidelnikov, the then owner of the NTV television channel Vladimir Gusinsky, the deputy of the State Duma and singer Iosif Gabzon, Alexander Rosenbaum, as well as famous athletes and art personalities. The Russian president Boris Yeltsin according to the website sent condolences to the relatives of the murdered.
Source: News Beast
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