Founder of pro-Kremlin youth groups is linked to gang
My prediction: nothing will happen.Vasily Yakemenko, founder of pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi who now oversees the state’s youth policy, may have had links to a vicious Tatarstan mafia ring that cut off people’s heads and hands in the 1990s, Vedomosti reported Monday.
Yakemenko was listed in a state business database as a co-founder of the firm Akbars in 1994, along with five convicted gangsters, the newspaper said.
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Akbars’ founders - Nail Nuriakhmetov, Alexander Vlasov, Yury Yeryomenko, Rosil Rakhmatullin and Adygan Salyakhov - were members of the Complex 29 criminal group in Naberezhniye Chelny, described by Vedomosti as one of the country’s cruelest mafia gangs.
Complex 29 started off in 1993 with racketeering and was known to mutilate or behead recalcitrant vendors at a local market, Izvestia reported. In its heyday, the group had 1,000 members and controlled several Tatarstan companies, and even attempted to seize KamAZ, Vedomosti reported. It later expanded to Moscow.
Police eventually busted the gang. Ringleaders Salyakhov and Yeryomenko were jailed for 25 years and life, respectively, while 23 other members were also handed prison terms by Tatarstan’s Supreme Court in 2006. In total, the group received more than 400 years in jail, Vedomosti reported, citing a copy of the verdict.