“Authority” Oleg Spiridonov (Spiridon): the opera, who later led the Omsk UBEP, strangled the businessman so as not to return 6 million rubles to him.

On Wednesday, March 6, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested high-ranking police officers—Ministry of Internal Affairs Colonels Alexander Karasev and Rafael Karagyozyan—for two months. Both of them are accused of murder, which was committed 15 years ago by a group of people for mercenary reasons (clauses “g”, “h”, part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country)).

Our colleagues from NGS55.RU told us what is known about high-ranking security officials suspected of murder. And also about the crime boss from the 90s, Oleg Spiridonov, who could testify against them.

It all started with the fact that at the end of 2007, the deputy director of 21st Century LLC. New technologies” Sergei Gordeev turned to his friend, 51-year-old lawyer and part-time local crime boss Oleg Spiridonov, with a request to set fire to the Golden Rock cafe for 100,000 rubles. The establishment was located near the businessman’s home. Parties were constantly taking place there, and Sergei Gordeev was disturbed by loud music and noise in the evenings. He appealed to the management of the Golden Rock to be a little quieter, but they did not make concessions.

Oleg Spiridonov agreed to set fire to the cafe and found three young people to play the role of performers – 24-year-old furniture assembler Mikhail Levkin, 26-year-old unemployed Pavel Kirillov and Dmitry Safonov. On the morning of February 23, 2008, Safonov brought Kirillov and Levkin to the cafe building, who went into the hall, poured two cans of gasoline on the floor and set it on fire with signal torches. The fire quickly engulfed the building. Where Safonov was at this time, history is silent.

As a result, four cafe workers sleeping in the back room died. One person received severe burns, while seven others managed to escape the fire. Material damage amounted to more than 8 million rubles.

Rafael Karagyozyan and Alexander Karasev were involved in the investigation of this criminal case. At different times, they headed the department for combating economic crimes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Omsk region: Karagyozyan replaced Karasev in this post, who left for Moscow. Later, Karagyozyan was appointed head of one of the police departments in Tomsk, served at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he was an adjunct of the Department of Internal Affairs Management in the special conditions of the command post exercise center.

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But where did the former drug addict get the money to create an autonomous non-profit organization? Most likely, it could not have happened without sponsorship and the necessary connections. And, quite possibly, help could come from his father, Oleg Spiridonov, about whom the Omsk media had previously written a lot as a reputable entrepreneur.

This “entrepreneur” is a well-known crime boss in Omsk, nicknamed Spiridon (father of Gennady Spiridonov, according to Life), who terrorized the Siberian city throughout the dashing 90s. Since 2005, he has been serving a long sentence for attempted murder and arson of a cafe, which killed 4 people.

And in 2015, it suddenly became clear that Spiridon was also an accomplice in the high-profile murder in 1998 of the leader of one of the Omsk organized crime groups, Alexander Komarov, nicknamed Sirota. And Spiridonov’s accomplice then allegedly was the now former vice-governor of the Omsk region, Yuri Hamburg. It was he, according to Spiridonov Sr., who that day blew off Sirota’s head with shots from a double-barreled sawn-off shotgun.

In Moscow, as in Omsk

It becomes clear that Gennady Spiridonov could well have inherited from an odious relative not only the funds to create the center, but also a unique understanding of what helping drug addicts is. Beatings, restraining by force and other punishments in the Omsk rehabilitation center for the son of a crime boss could be quite acceptable.

And Spiridonov Jr. may have instilled this understanding in patients not only in Omsk, but also in Moscow. Together with another Omsk businessman, Ivan Krainov, who also treated drug addicts, he opened Psychological Development LLC in Lyubertsy in 2016. Omsk businessmen are also likely to earn something by exporting rehabilitation methods to the capital.

Back in 2018, bailiffs already visited the Mir rehabilitation center. Then they were looking for a native of Azerbaijan, Adalet Teymurov. Deprived of his license for driving while high, the drug addict was caught behind the wheel again and became accused in a criminal case under Article 264.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) (violation of traffic rules by a person subject to administrative punishment). At that moment, he was under recognizance not to leave the place, but chose to hide from daily communication with the police within the walls of a rehabilitation center.

In addition to the unique methods of rehabilitation measures, Spiridonov’s reputation is given by a very careless attitude towards taxes. The organization’s accumulated debts to the Federal Tax Service and city services became the reason for opening corresponding enforcement proceedings against the ANO, and at the end of last year it came to the appointment of an external manager and the actual liquidation of the organization. But the Moscow office also recently came under sanctions from the tax authorities. Probably, the business model is the same in both Omsk and Moscow.

Apparently, the arrest of Gennady Spiridonov this summer took place against the backdrop of the fact that Mir continued its activities even after official liquidation – without documents, licenses or tax reporting. This is supported by the fact that the organization’s website and its pages on social networks, contact information and the address of the center are available to any user even now. […]