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The Most Dangerous Mobster in the World | |
by Robert I. Friedman
editor@villagevoice.com "Szeva bacsi" A rare photo of Semion Mogilevich taken from Hungarian TV3 interview. In Hungary Mogilevich is known as "Szeva bacsi" (Uncle Szeva). The enigmatic leader of the Red Mafia is a 52-year-old Ukrainian-born Jew named Semion Mogilevich. He is a shadowy figure known as the "Brainy Don" — he holds an economics degree from the University of Lvov — and until now, he has never been exposed by the media. But the Voice has obtained hundreds of pages of classified FBI and Israeli intelligence documents from August 1996, and these documents — as well as recent interviews with a key criminal associate and with dozens of law enforcement sources here and abroad — describe him as someone who has become a grave threat to the stability of Israel and Eastern Europe. According to the FBI and Israeli Intelligence, Semion Mogilevich Rules Over an Arms-Trafficking, Money-Laundering, Drug-Running, and Art-Smuggling "Red Mafia". |
Semion Mogilevich's Croatian citizenship and two officialy issued passports on fake names Source: Nacional, Croatian weekly On February 15, 1997, Semen Mogilievich, born June 30, 1946 in Kiev, Ukraina, (father: Udko, Mother: Genia Schepelskaja) has got a Croatian citizenship, and then, on February 27, 1997 his family name was officialy "corrected" to Teles. |
On February 25, 1997, just one day after he has got a Croatian passport as Semen Teles, Semen Mogilievich has got (once again) a Croatian citizenship, but this time under the fake name of Igor Lev Fisherman "the American citizen from Philadelphia, USA" (born June 30, 1952) and, of course, another "legaly issued" Croatian passport. |
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! The Intelligence Officer Palmer's Global Bulletin New York Times writer Raymond Bonner's fine article, Russian Gangsters Exploit Capitalism to Increase Profits, (July 24) was the latest public awareness package meant to illustrate that Russian criminals have assumed leadership in both the criminal and legitimate worlds. According to Raymond Bonner, British intelligence and law enforcement agencies began investigating the money-laundering activities of Russian organized crime in the mid-1990s. They were stunned to find the target of their analysis, Semyon Yukovich Mogilevich, was a man who had more than $100 million dollars to spend with a guaranteed backup source of revenue. By the time British authorities had focused on Mogilevich, he was already laundering his cash through a most willing London bank. The fact that his cash flow came from extortion, prostitution, arms dealing and drug trafficking, was not part of the financial need-to-know. A large number of Palmer's bulletin articles from past years have been placed in the back room archives of his website. |
INFORMATION IS MONEY
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SEARCHING MONEY
INVESTING MONEY SCANDALOUS MONEY DIRTY MONEY |