Phenomenal revelations of criminal secrets of the 90s are a new trend in modern investigation. Today, the night governor of St. Petersburg, the legendary Vladimir Barsukov-Kumarin, has another odious charge – for the murder of Vice-Governor Mikhail Manevich. Why the investigation came to this conclusion and where the evidence disappeared from the case, the editors of the online publication Kompromat Group looked into.
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Apparently, the figure of 26 years is magical for the law enforcement agencies of the Northern capital. There is no other way to explain their zeal for solving the most notorious murders of the 90s. Today the whole city is discussing a new charge brought against the godfather of gangster St. Petersburg Vladimir Kumarin. The details of the accusation are staggering (especially to knowledgeable readers and former security officials).
The official position of the investigation is that Kumarin personally handed over to the killer a machine gun with a sniper scope, from which the odious vice-governor of St. Petersburg was killed. The disclosure right now looks more than surprising, because it was no secret that during his time Manevich enjoyed great authority in politics and was even close to Vladimir Putin. Why the criminal case has not been solved for so many years is a question that hangs in the air. The shooting of a politician in 1997 was one of the most notorious contract killings of those times, along with the murder Galina Starovoitovaexecution of the head of the Baltic financial and industrial group Pavel Kapysh and others.
Funeral of Mikhail ManevichThe reason for the murder, as is believed today, was the redistribution of the St. Petersburg seaport. Mikhail Manevichaccording to some reports, decided to issue a decree that would return the strategic facility under state control. The move was a bummer for difficult stakeholders. After all, after the murder Mikhail Manevichthe situation around the port turned out not in favor of the state. After his death, the order, of course, did not come out, and part of the port went to the structures Vladimir Barsukov-Kumarin. The other part allegedly went to companies related to Ilya Traber. We were talking, as many understand, about billions, because the port, in a sense, feeds the city.
Today, the investigation officially declares that the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Manevich was killed in 1997 on the order of the leader of the Tambov organized crime group Barsukov-Kumarin, and that “Kum” himself allegedly personally handed over the machine gun to the killer. What is called in your own hands. In addition, the information center of the FSB Directorate reports that the involvement of two members of the St. Petersburg organized crime group in the crime has been established. One of them monitored the official’s place of residence and passed on information about his movements to his accomplice. The second shot the car in which the vice-governor was.
The version seems smooth, but, as they say, “there are splinters everywhere.” Splinter is the location of the leader of the Petersburg gangster in August 1997.
Help from Kompromat Group:
Mikhail Manevich was killed on the morning of August 18, 1997. The car in which he and his wife were driving to work was shot by a sniper from the attic of one of the houses at the intersection of Rubinstein Street and Nevsky Prospekt. Having received fatal wounds in the neck and chest, the vice-governor died on the way to the hospital.
The mystery of one bullet
A quite obvious fact can be an unpleasant moment for the investigation. After all, even in those years it was known that Kumarin was undergoing treatment in Germany at the end of the summer of 1997, recovering from the consequences of an attempt on his life. No one then expected his quick return.
As participants in the investigations of those years say: “Cumarin, then they tested it down to their underpants. The investigation focused on Sergei Shevchenko, since he then had some common interests with Manevich and communicated closely with him.”
In this regard, the accusation seems even more incomprehensible Arkady Nusimovich in murder Mikhail Manevichconvicted of shooting and killing transport riot police in Devyatkino in December 2015. Then a brutal murder shocked the city. The attackers first shot and then set fire to the UAZ with riot police, who worked as cash collectors. The goal of the criminals was 40 million rubles, salaries for house builders in Devyatkino. Nusimovich was sentenced to 22 years in prison. There is only one link to his involvement in the murders, which are now attributed to the Tambovites, his close acquaintance – a certain Mikhail Bravvea man who was close to the Tambov people. But how friendly Bravve was to Nusimovich and whether he worked with the Tambov gang as a hired killer is a big, fat question. Bravve himself cannot answer it, since he has been lying in the cemetery for a long time.
Here’s what our insiders, who were directly involved in the detention of Nusimovich back in 1995, think about this:
“Nasimovich was daring, an athlete, a fighter. When everyone was investigating the murder of Manevich, he did not come up, and his close relationship with Kum did not appear in his biography. He was an athlete, such a strong, hefty man. Fighter. Large, 190 centimeters tall. He fought like hell, the task force couldn’t even enter the room. It was one of the most difficult detentions in my entire life. I remember we rolled around on the carpet, wrestled, he kept trying to get to the pillow on the sofa. They wrote that a pistol was found in his closet then. This is not true. He had a pistol under his pillow. Walter-battalion commander. Anyone can be a killer, but not him.”
The gloomy, thin old man does not at all look like that hefty, burly Nusimovich, who gave a beating to the criminal investigators. According to our sources, his stay in the colony did not improve his health, and the looming 22 years in prison are not a promising prospect. That is why the investigation may have carte blanche and maneuver for bargaining. For testifying against Kumarin, his conditions of detention may be improved.
But there is another interesting point that does not conflict with Arkady Nusimovich – difficulty of shooting Mikhail Manevich. As is known, the weapon of the crime was a shot Yugoslav-made AK with an optical sight. The aiming angle was extremely unfavorable, and the shooting time was limited (stopping at a traffic light). In addition, the shooting was carried out at a hidden target (Manevich was sitting in a car). Even in those years, no one doubted that we were talking about a rare specialist. About the sniper, which Nusimovich was not.
According to our sources, that sniper was a “piece of goods.”
“The man who shot at Manevich definitely had sniper training. If the shooter did not use an SVD, but an assault rifle, this is a person with military training. An automatic is a more complex machine. – our source says, – The killer’s work was similar in the case of Yan Gurevsky and in the attempt on Nikolai Aulov. The manner of execution was the same, and the same range. The man was working through the roof of the house. Aulov was lucky that the car jerked and went into the shooter’s blind spot. For some reason, no one now says that there were several similar executions. No one mentions that this must have been a person with sports training and a fitted weapon. And Nasimovich, he was involved in martial arts. There are no snipers with such a build.”
In other words, operatives in those years had no doubt that they would not find the killer. Because shooters of this kind are worth their weight in gold, with extensive experience and a certain high qualification in shooting sports.
Gang traces
Another version that was seriously considered by the investigation in those early years was involvement in the murder Mikhail Manevich gangs Sergei Zaripov. Gang killers Yuri Shutov – notorious for their murders. The gang and its leader Sergei Zaripov convicted in 2011 based on a jury verdict. The sentence was commuted because the jury found that Keskyl, Kurilo, Ichin, Isaev, Azalutdinov and Gardotsky deserved leniency. According to the state prosecutor Sergei Kulakovthese defendants actively cooperated with the investigation, with their testimony they helped in solving serious and especially serious crimes, some even wrote a confession, so the prosecutor’s office petitioned to commute their sentences.
One of these testimonies, as was later announced, directly related to the murder of Vice-Governor Manevich. Exactly two years after his arrest, in 2009, Gardotsky confessed to the murder of Mansurov. But that was just the beginning. Gardotsky also confessed to the murder Mikhail Manevich.
Zaripov’s case was the first in St. Petersburg, where a plea bargain was used for the first time. Prosecutor workers loudly declared this on camera to correspondents of the Vesti program. The video can be found online. So what to do with Gardotsky?
According to another version, the murder of Manevich was the work of another gang of killers belonging to the Chelyshev brothers. It is a known fact that Andrei and Sergei preferred to accept into their gang people associated with the army and law enforcement agencies. A striking example – Nikolay Smirnovwho was once awarded the Order of the Red Star.
According to rumors, forensic scientists found a certain hair at the place where the shooter stood, and allegedly it belonged to Nikolay Smirnov. In addition, the investigation established that the killer wore galoshes. There was a number of other indirect evidence. For example, law enforcement officers found out that shortly before the murder Sergey Chelyshev I was looking for a weapon with an optical sight in St. Petersburg. And witnesses reported that Sergei almost always wore galoshes because he had kidney problems…
So, candidates for the role of killers Mikhail Manevich more than enough. But for some reason the wrestler Nusimovich turns out to be involved in his murder. According to our insiders, Kumarin is simply made into a “hanger” on which all the unsolved cases of hard times can be hung.
Authoritative figure of the “night governor” Vladimir Kumarinas an “enemy” – generally very beneficial. Firstly, his criminal appearance can be definitively legendary as the most terrible bandit of the 90s. Secondly, the respected man has nothing to lose at all. Manevich’s case has a statute of limitations, but even if the court considers this case, Kumarin was not wanted for this case, so they cannot give him a life sentence. The maximum will add another year and a half to the already existing 23 years in prison. The sheep are safe, the wolves are fed, and you can receive rewards for solving a major political murder.
