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    alias Seva MoguilevichSemon Yudkovich PalagnyukSemen Yukovich TeleshSimeon MogilevitchSemjon MogilevcsShimon MakelwitshShimon MakhelwitschSergei Yurevich Schnaider



    |birth_place=Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union|nationality=Ukrainian, Russian, Israeli|family=    		cm=168|}}130lbs|}}|occupation=Russian mafia boss, confidence trickster, businessman, racketeer, crime lord, gangster|residence=Moscow, Russia
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    }}|children=At least 3|conviction=|conviction_penalty=|conviction_status=    		ACCESS-DATE=OCTOBER 6, 2019 LANGUAGE=EN-US, |caught_date=|remove_date=December 17, 2015|number=494|status=Removed}}Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich ( {{IPA-uk|seˈmÉ›n ˈjudkowɪtʃ moɦɪˈlÉ›wɪtʃ|}}; born June 30, 1946) is a Jewish Ukrainian-born Russian organized crime boss. He quickly built a highly structured criminal organization, in the mode of an American mafia family; many of the organization’s 250 members are his relatives.WEB, Friedman, Robert I., Robert I. Friedman, May 26, 1998, The Most Dangerous Mobster in the World,www.villagevoice.com/1998-05-26/news/the-most-dangerous-mobster-in-the-world/full/, January 22, 2008, The Village Voice, He is described by agencies in the European Union and United States as the “boss of all bosses” of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world,BOOK, Glenny, Misha,www.worldcat.org/oclc/162501937, McMafia : a journey through the global criminal underworld, 2008, Knopf Books, 978-1-4000-4411-5, 1st, New York, 72–73, 162501937, Misha Glenny, he is believed to direct a multibillion-dollar international criminal empire and is described by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as “the most powerful and dangerous gangster in the world,” with immense power and reach at a global scale, and connections to prominent government, military, and law enforcement officials, and powerful politicians around the world.BOOK, Goldman, Marshall I.,www.worldcat.org/oclc/646747869, Petrostate : Putin, power, and the new Russia, 2008, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-971257-1, Oxford, 646747869, He has been accused by the FBI of “weapons trafficking, contract murders, extortion, drug trafficking, and prostitution on an international scale.“WEB, Peters, Justin, August 5, 2013, This Obese Mob Boss Is Twice the Villain Whitey Bulger Ever Was,www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/08/05/semion_mogilevich_fbi_ten_most_wanted_list_this_obese_mob_boss_is_twice.html, April 4, 2014, Slate, Mogilevich’s nicknames include “Don Semyon” and “The Brainy Don” (because of his business acumen).WEB, AMW | Fugitives | Semion Mogilevich | Case,www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id%3D68944, dead,www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=68944," title="web.archive.org/web/20100316103215www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=68944,">web.archive.org/web/20100316103215www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=68944, March 16, 2010, November 9, 2010, According to US diplomatic cables, he controls RosUkrEnergo,According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko “we have no doubts whatsoever that the man named Mogilevich is behind the whole operation called RosUkrEnergo,” see The High Price of Gas by BBC News. He has denied through a lawyer any links to RosUkrEnergo, see Russia frees crime boss wanted by U.S. by Reuters. a company actively involved in Russia–Ukraine gas disputes, and is a partner of Ivan Gordiyenko.Mogilevich has three children and is closely associated with the Solntsevskaya crime group. He has alliances with political figures, including Yury Luzhkov, the former Mayor of Moscow, Dmytro Firtash, and Leonid Derkach, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine.Ukraine, Vanco Energy and the Russian Mob, Eurasia Daily Monitor, September 16, 2008.Rachkevych, Mark (December 3, 2010). “U.S. Official: Austrian Bank’s Ties to RosUkrEnergo Suspicious”. Kyiv Post. Retrieved December 14, 2010.NEWS, Weiss, Michael, Michael Weiss (journalist), 19 March 2014, Married to the Ukrainian Mob, Foreign Policy (magazine), Foreign Policy,foreignpolicy.com/2014/03/19/married-to-the-ukrainian-mob/, 18 November 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200711223009/https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/03/19/married-to-the-ukrainian-mob/, 11 July 2020, Oleksandr Turchynov, who was designated the acting President of Ukraine in February 2014, appeared in court in 2010 for allegedly destroying files pertaining to Mogilevich.WEB, Byrne, Peter, December 10, 2010, New and conflicting details emerge over Mogilevich’s alleged involvement in nation,www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/new-and-conflicting-details-emerge-over-mogilevich-92521.html, April 8, 2014, Kyiv Post, Shortly before his assassination, Russian FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko claimed Mogilevich had a “good relationship” with Vladimir Putin from the 1990s.Listen: Alexander Litvinenko’s apparent warning before his death By Lyndsey Telford, Edward Malnick and Claire Newell 12:00PM GMT 23 January 2015.WEB, Litvinenko Ties Putin to Crime Lord From Beyond Grave,www.occrp.org/en/daily/3608-litvinenko-ties-putin-to-crime-lord-from-beyond-grave, June 9, 2020, www.occrp.org, en, {{efn|In the Mykola Melnychenko recordings of 2000, Derkach, who is close to Mogilevich, states that Vladimir Putin is also very close to Mogilevich since Putin’s early days in Leningrad.NEWS, Sterbenz, Christina, December 1, 2014, The worst gangster most people have never heard of, Business Insider,www.businessinsider.com/semion-mogilevich-2014-11?op=1, October 22, 2020, NEWS, Kupchinsky, Roman, March 25, 2009, The Strange Ties between Semion Mogilevich and Vladimir Putin, 6, Eurasia Daily Monitor, Jamestown Foundation, 57,jamestown.org/program/the-strange-ties-between-semion-mogilevich-and-vladimir-putin/#.VHvc3aTF_pA, October 22, 2020, }}William S. Sessions, Director of the FBI from 1987 to 1993 during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, was Mogilevich’s attorney in the United States until Sessions’ death on June 12, 2020.BOOK, Unger, Craig,www.worldcat.org/oclc/1043342267, House of Trump, House of Putin : the untold story of Donald Trump and the Russian mafia, 2018, 978-1-5247-4350-5, New York, New York, 218, 1043342267, Craig Unger, NEWS, Heffernan, Virginia, Virginia Heffernan, January 14, 2018, Column: A close reading of Glenn Simpson’s Trump-Russia testimony, Los Angeles Times,www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-simpson-russia-testimony-20180114-story.html, January 25, 2021,

    Biography

    Early life

    Mogilevich was born in 1946 to a Jewish family in Kyiv’s Podil neighborhood.Block, Alan A.; Weaver, Constance A. (2004) All Is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime. Greenwood Publishing Group: Westport. {{ISBN|0-275-98330-7}} p. 1. He graduated in economics from the University of Lviv.WEB, Могилевич, Семен Бизнесмен,lenta.ru/lib/14160436/, 2021-06-11, lenta.ru, His first significant fortune derived from scamming fellow Soviet Jews (mainly Ukrainian and Russian) eager to emigrate, including to Israel, the country where Mogilevich himself briefly lived in 1990. According to some reports, Mogilevich earned a considerable amount of money as an intermediary selling jewelry and artwork belonging to Jews who emigrated from Kyiv in the 1980s.WEB, Семен Могилевич. Венгерское досье Оперативная справка венгерских спецслужб в отношении Могилевича - Компромат.Ру / Compromat.Ru, http:www.compromat.ru/page_9970.htm, 2021-06-11, www.compromat.ru, Mogilevich made deals to purchase their assets, sell them for fair market value, and forward the proceeds. Instead he simply sold the assets and pocketed the proceeds. He served two terms in prison, of 3 and 4 years, for currency-dealing offenses.In the 1980s, according to the FBI, Mogilevich was the key money-laundering contact for the Solntsevskaya Bratva.MAGAZINE, Unger, Craig, Craig Unger, July 13, 2017, Trump’s Russian Laundromat; How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.,newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate, The New Republic, New Republic,web.archive.org/web/20170713121624/https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate, 2017-07-13, 2017-11-05,

    Hungary

    In early 1991, Mogilevich moved to Hungary and married his Hungarian girlfriend Katalin Papp. He has at least three children: a daughter by ex-wife Tatiana Markova, a son with ex-wife Galina Grigorieva, and a son with Papp.WEB, Warnock, Caroline, 2021-01-26, Semion Mogilevich’s Wife & Kids: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know,heavy.com/entertainment/2020/08/semion-mogilevich-wife-kids/, live,archive.today/20211111050458/https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/08/semion-mogilevich-wife-kids/, 2021-11-11, 2021-11-11, Heavy (website), Heavy, Through his marriage to Papp, he obtained a Hungarian passport. Living in a fortified villa outside Budapest, he continued to invest in many enterprises; he bought a local armament factory, “Army Co-Op”, which produced anti-aircraft guns.WEB, 1999-09-01, Mogilevich: FBI behind Russia scandal,www.upi.com/Archives/1999/09/01/Mogilevich-FBI-behind-Russia-scandal/9798936158400/, 2022-12-02, UPI, en, In 1994, the Mogilevich group obtained control over Inkombank, one of the largest private banks in Russia,WEB, New York court document, 2000,russianlaw.org/Morgent1.htm, dead,russianlaw.org/Morgent1.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20070701095350russianlaw.org/Morgent1.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20070701095350russianlaw.org/Morgent1.htm, July 1, 2007, October 7, 2006, in a secret deal with bank chairman Vladimir Vinogradov, getting direct access to the world financial system. The bank collapsed in 1998 under suspicions of money laundering.NEWS, Moscow Telegraph on investigation of Inkombank management, Moscow Telegraph,moscowtelegraph.com/mt050801.htm, October 7, 2006, The Hungarian mafia is closely associated with People’s Republic of China mafia, especially from Fujian (Fuiying) () and Zhejiang (Zheiyang) ().NEWS, 19 July 2000, Оперативная справка венгерских спецслужб в отношении Могилевича (Могилевич Семен Юдкович: Венгерское досье), ru, Operational information from the Hungarian special services regarding Mogilevich (Mogilevich Yudkovich: Hungarian dossier), (:ru:Агентство федеральных расследований, FreeLance Bureau) (flb.ru),www.cifnet.com/~sherebon/friends/mogilevich/1.html, 29 June 2021,www.cifnet.com/~sherebon/friends/mogilevich/1.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20010826131935www.cifnet.com/~sherebon/friends/mogilevich/1.html,">web.archive.org/web/20010826131935www.cifnet.com/~sherebon/friends/mogilevich/1.html, 26 August 2001,

    Czech raid

    In May 1995, a meeting in Prague between Mogilevich and Sergei Mikhailov, head of the Solntsevskaya Bratva, was raided by Czech police. The occasion was a birthday party for one of the deputy Solntsevo mafiosi. Two hundred partygoers (including dozens of prostitutes) in the restaurant “U Holubů”, owned by Mogilevich, were detained and 30 expelled from the country.WEB, Journal of the Czech ministry of interior, article about Russian mafias,www.mvcr.cz/2003/casopisy/pol/0409/rusko_info.html, dead,www.mvcr.cz/2003/casopisy/pol/0409/rusko_info.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20070114193653www.mvcr.cz/2003/casopisy/pol/0409/rusko_info.html,">web.archive.org/web/20070114193653www.mvcr.cz/2003/casopisy/pol/0409/rusko_info.html, January 14, 2007, October 7, 2006, Czech, Police had been tipped off that the Solntsevo group intended to execute Mogilevich at the partyWEB, Biography of Mogilevich,www.volny.cz/vyber_cr/vyber2/pribeh_muze.html, dead,www.volny.cz/vyber_cr/vyber2/pribeh_muze.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20041109154007www.volny.cz/vyber_cr/vyber2/pribeh_muze.html,">web.archive.org/web/20041109154007www.volny.cz/vyber_cr/vyber2/pribeh_muze.html, November 9, 2004, October 7, 2006, Lidové Noviny, Czech, over a disputed payment of $5 million. But Mogilevich never arrived and it is believed that a senior figure in the Czech police, working with the Russian mafia, had warned him.Glenny (2008), pp 71–72. Soon after, the Czech Interior Ministry imposed a ten-year entry ban on him, while the Hungarian government declared him persona non grata and the British barred his entry into the UK, declaring him “one of the most dangerous men in the world.“Glenny (2008), pp 75.

    Toronto exchange

    In 1997 and 1998, the presence of Mogilevich, Mikhailov and others associated with the Russian Mafia behind a public company trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), YBM Magnex International Inc., was exposed by Canadian journalists. On May 13, 1998, dozens of agents for the FBI and several other U.S. government agencies raided YBM’s headquarters in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Shares in the public company, which had been valued at $1 billion on the TSX, became worthless overnight.NEWS, BBC Panorama’s “The Billion Dollar Don”, BBC News,news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/panorama/transcripts/transcript_06_12_99.txt, September 15, 2007,

    Toxic waste scheme with Italian American Mafia

    In 1998, an FBI informant told the bureau that one of Mogilevich’s chief lieutenants in Los Angeles met two Russians from New York City with Genovese crime family ties to broker a scheme to dump American toxic waste in Russia or Ukraine. Mogilevich’s man from L.A. said the Red Mafia would dispose of the toxic waste in the Chernobyl region (Ukraine) “probably through payoffs to the decontamination there,” says a classified FBI report.

    Money laundering and tax evasion

    Until 1998, Inkombank and Bank Menatep participated in a US$10 billion money laundering scheme through the Bank of New York.WEB, Overview of the money laundering schemes,www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/3516.html##4, dead,www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/3516.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20061005054117www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/3516.html,">web.archive.org/web/20061005054117www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/3516.html, October 5, 2006, October 7, 2006, The Wall Street Journal, September 5, 1999: “A Scheme for Ducking Taxes May Be a Key In Russia Money Probe“WEB, Testimony of Thomas Renyi, CEO of the bank, 1999,financialservices.house.gov/banking/92299ren.htm,financialservices.house.gov/banking/92299ren.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20060929094324financialservices.house.gov/banking/92299ren.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20060929094324financialservices.house.gov/banking/92299ren.htm, September 29, 2006, October 7, 2006, WEB, Senior manager of BoNY indicted, 2001,russianlaw.org/bridge3.htm, dead,russianlaw.org/bridge3.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20070814044808russianlaw.org/bridge3.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20070814044808russianlaw.org/bridge3.htm, August 14, 2007, October 7, 2006, Mogilevich was also suspected of participation in large-scale tax fraud, where untaxed heating oil was sold as highly taxed car fuel – one of the greatest scandals that broke around 1990–1991.Estimates are that up to one-third of fuels sold went through this scheme, resulting in massive tax losses for various countries of Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland).WEB, Overview of fuels scandal,web.volny.cz/noviny/zdomova/clanek/~volny/IDC/124259/volby-by-nyni-vyhrala-cssd.html, October 7, 2006, Lidové Noviny, Czech, In the Czech Republic the scandal is estimated to have cost the taxpayers around 100 billion CZK (≈US$5 billion)Podvody s LTO zÅ™ejmÄ› pÅ™iÅ¡ly stát na 100 miliard (Czech) and involved, besides others, murders and the attempted assassination of a journalist writing about the problem.Nelegální obchody s LTO pÅ™inesly daňové úniky i vraždy (Czech)In 2003, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation placed Mogilevich on the “Wanted List” for participation in the scheme to defraud investors in Canadian company YBM Magnex International Inc. Frustrated by their previous unsuccessful efforts to charge him for arms trafficking and prostitution, they had now settled on the large-scale fraud charges as their best hope of running him to ground. He was considered to be the most powerful Russian mobster alive.Glenny (2008), pg 77. In a 2006 interview, former Clinton administration anti-organized-crime czar Jon Winer said: “I can tell you that Semion Mogilevich is as serious an organized criminal as I have ever encountered and I am confident that he is responsible for contract killings.“Mogilevich was arrested in Moscow on January 24, 2008, for suspected tax evasion.NEWS, Guy Faulconbridge, January 25, 2008, Russia detains crime boss wanted by FBI, Reuters,www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL2537376820080125, March 29, 2014, WEB, 25 January 2008, Semyon Mogilevich, the ‘East European mafia boss’, captured in Moscow,www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3253243.ece, dead,www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3253243.ece," title="web.archive.org/web/20080724143050www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3253243.ece,">web.archive.org/web/20080724143050www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3253243.ece, 24 July 2008, Times, His bail was placed, and he was released on July 24, 2009. On his release, the Russian interior ministry stated that he was released because the charges against him “are not of a particularly grave nature”.Russia frees crime boss wanted by U.S., Reuters (July 27, 2009)Ivan Fursin has been closely linked to Mogilevich.WEB, Betsy Woodruff, November 2, 2017, Mueller Reveals New Manafort Link to Organized Crime,www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-reveals-new-manafort-link-to-organized-crime, November 5, 2017, The Daily Beast,

    U.S. efforts to apprehend

    (File:FBI_Wanted_Poster_for_Semion_Mogilevich.pdf|thumb|A poster with photographs and identifying information of Semion Mogilevich, released by the FBI on 6 April 2022)On October 22, 2009, the FBI named Mogilevich as the 494th fugitive to be placed on the Ten Most Wanted list.WEB, FBI — New Top Ten - Global Con Artist,www.fbi.gov/page2/oct09/mogilevich_102109.html, dead,www.fbi.gov/page2/oct09/mogilevich_102109.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20101008000445www.fbi.gov/page2/oct09/mogilevich_102109.html,">web.archive.org/web/20101008000445www.fbi.gov/page2/oct09/mogilevich_102109.html, October 8, 2010, FBI, The Bureau removed him from the list in December 2015, indicating that he no longer met list criteria, for reasons relating to living in a country with which the United States does not maintain an extradition treaty.Babay, Emily (December 17, 2015) Philly fugitive bumped off FBI ‘Most Wanted’ list Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved January 16, 2016.According to FBI reports, Mogilevich had alliances with the Camorra, in particular with Salvatore De Falco, a lower-echelon member of the Giuliano clan. Mogilevich and DeFalco would have held meetings in Prague in 1993.BOOK, Federal Bureau of Investigation,archive.org/details/SEMIONMOGILEVICH1996, SEMION MOGILEVICH ORGANIZATION EURASIAN ORGANIZED CRIME (1996), 1996, BOOK, C. Williams, Robert, Useful Assets, January 30, 2019, Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc., 25, Mogilevich lives freely in Moscow, according to the FBI.WEB, MOST WANTED — SEMION MOGILEVICH,www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/semion-mogilevich/view, FBI, As to Mogilevich himself, government law enforcement agencies from throughout the world had by then been trying to prosecute him for over 10 years. But he had, in the words of one journalist, “a knack for never being in the wrong place at the wrong time”.Glenny (2008), pg 76.Both Mogilevich and his associate Mikhailov ceased to travel to the West in the late 1990s.On April 6, 2022, the Bureau refreshed its effort to apprehend Mogilevich, working in tandem with United States Department of State. The State Department’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program now offers a reward of up to $5 million for information “leading to the arrest and/or conviction” of Mogilevich.WEB, FBI, State Department Announce $5 Million Reward for Fugitive Semion Mogilevich,www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-state-department-announce-5-million-reward-for-fugitive-semion-mogilevich, 2022-04-14, Federal Bureau of Investigation, en-us, WEB, SEMION MOGILEVICH,www.fbi.gov/wanted/cei/semion-mogilevich, 2022-04-14, Federal Bureau of Investigation, en-us, WEB, Department of State Offers Reward for Information to Bring Transnational Criminal to Justice,www.state.gov/department-of-state-offers-reward-for-information-to-bring-transnational-criminal-to-justice/, 2022-04-14, United States Department of State, en,

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