The Russian mafia in the Netherlands
February 8, 2019

The Russian mafia in the Netherlands
Russian criminal gangs in Europe extort wealthy entrepreneurs, including drugs and arms trafficking, contract killings and money laundering. To what extent are they also active in the Netherlands?

In the paper edition of Panorama this week an extensive article by Hieke Jans about the Russian mafia.

Four networks
Jans distinguishes 4 Russian criminal networks that have been (or have been) active in the Netherlands since the nineties. 1. A Chechen gang from St. Petersburg. 2. The Podolskaya, a powerful criminal club, with Sergey Lalakin (photo), alias 'De Ui', as leader. 3. The Pushkinskaya from Moscow, who produces Stolichnaya vodka for Russia in the Netherlands. 4. The Tambovskaya, with Vladimir Barsukov, alias 'The Night', governor of St. Petersburg at the helm. Some members of a Georgian gang would sometimes also appear, who are used as relatively cheap hitmen.

BMK
The Russians in the Netherlands are engaged in extortion, money laundering and fraud. They also provide large loads of BMK, a raw material for the production of xtc. Its production is permitted in Russia - the export abroad is not. According to rumors Chinese criminals would take care of the transport to the Netherlands.

Bierman
The article also contains some examples of Russians who were murdered in the Netherlands, such as the Jewish-Russian Vadim Rozenbaoum, alias De Bierman. The entrepreneur earns good money after the fall of communism, but flees to the Netherlands when he gets the tip that the KGB has provided for him. He earns a lot of money here with the export of Dutch beer to Russia.

Capital villa
In 1995 there is one Konstantin at the door of the capital villa of Rozenbaoum in the Brabant Oirschot. He demands $ 1 million from the beer merchant, half of which is in cash. According to Konstantin, the money belongs to the KGB. Rozenbaoum refuses to pay, with fatal consequences. The father of Rozenbaoum is stabbed on the street in Moscow. Some time later a director of one of Rozenbaoum's Russian companies is shot dead. In the end Rozenbaoum himself also lives: at the end of July 1997 he is found dead in bed.

The case is never resolved.

https://www.crimesite.nl/de-russische-maffia-in-nederland/


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