In meetings with Russian Interior Ministry officials, the agents from Washington are discussing the whereabouts of four fugitives, including Konstantin Ginzburg, whom they regard as the leader of the Russian mafia in the United States, the government newspaper said, citing a source in the Interior Ministry.
A ministry spokesman said that he could not comment on the report. A U.S. Embassy spokesman also refused to comment. The embassy's legal attache is the FBI's official representative in the country.
The FBI is also interested in locating reputed mobster Yevgeny Dvoskin, wanted since 2003 when a New York court indicted him on charges of securities fraud and laundering $2.3 million, according to earlier media reports.
In 1995, Dvoskin shared a U.S. prison cell with Vyacheslav Ivankov, one of the country's most notorious reputed crime bosses, better known as "Yaponchik," the Rosbalt.ru news site reported.
Dvoskin, a native of Ukraine, was arrested last summer in Monaco and was involved in a "shady banking business in Russia," the report said. Currently, he is a witness in a multibillion-dollar money-laundering case, Rosbalt.ru and Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported.
The only publicly known money-laundering case of such dimensions is the Russian government's $22.5 billion lawsuit against the Bank of New York Mellon, which is currently being heard by a Moscow court.
Ginzburg, who is 37 and goes under the nickname "Gizya," is believed to be the leader of organized crime groups from former Soviet countries in the United States, a position once claimed by Ivankov, the reports said.
"The FBI hopes to get detailed information about all of Ginzburg's connections and to establish how dangerous he is for the U.S.," both reports said, citing no one.
Two other suspects sought by the FBI, Viktor Vulf and Alexander Gribov, are suspected of defrauding U.S. citizens of millions of dollars. Vulf (posing as Wolf) has been accused of setting up fraudulent firms together with his wife, Natalya, and making off with $50 million, the news reports said.
US Authorities now suspect the Wolf's were fronts for Russian organized crime. The elaborate scheme fooled retirees, seasoned real estate agents and big companies alike. The list of alleged victims grows daily. Allegations include:
- Forged deeds and sold more than $1M n worth of property it didn't own.
- millions of dollars taken for land without turning over the property to the buyers.
- Referred buyers to a fake title company secretly managed by Natalia Wolf to close land deals.
- Took money for new homes it never built or never finished.
The Wolfs slipped out of the United States in October 2006, leaving more than 100 fraud victims and taking more than $20 million from fraudulent transactions, the Florida-based St. Petersburg Times reported in December of that year.
Gribov was linked to a ruse where a fake mail-order pharmacy claimed insurance payments in New Jersey and New York for psychiatric treatments that never happened. He and a suspected accomplice, Boris Sokh, are thought to have collected more than $2.5 million before the scheme was uncovered in 2006. The reports said Sokh was arrested and Gribov fled the country.
The FBI's chances of getting hold of the suspects were unclear. Russia has in the past regularly refused to extradite its citizens on the grounds that the Constitution forbids it.
The diplos pulled this off smoothly for decades. Many of the diplos skipped town when the heat was on. They may have had official help----for a price. These are NY Sen Chuck Schumer's constituents. L/E needs to determine if Sen Schumer benefited from this fraud----and determine the ways he may have facilitated fraud.
<><> Are the diplos hiding large amounts of assets from the courts adjudicating these cases?
<><> Did Schumer use tax-paid offices to help facilitate felonies?
<><> Were tax dollars allocated to Schumer's constituents, collected under several identities?
<><> Were hefty bundles of tax dollars wired offshore?
<><> Many of the diplos skipped town when the heat was on. Did they stiff US banks for fraudulent sub-prime mtges (which we taxpayers have to bailout).
Are Schumer's constituents hiding large amounts of assets from the courts adjudicating the welfare cases?
<><> Did Schumer use tax-paid offices to help facilitate felonies?
<><> Were tax dollars allocated to Schumer's constituents, collected under several identities?
<><> Were hefty bundles of tax dollars wired offshore?
<><> Did they stiff US banks for fraudulent sub-prime mtges (which we taxpayers have to bailout).
How many ways are Schumer's constituents riding the US gravy train. Are they receiving:
UI, SSI, Workmen's Comp,
TANF (temporary assistance to needy families),
WICS (food assistance),
subsidized Section 8 shelter,
ObamaPhone subsidies,
Utility Assistance subsidies,
$5000 a year EITC checks per identity,
hefty monthly "asylum" checks from SS ....
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<><> Did any of these diplos give Schumer campaign contributions?
<><>Did they donate to Schumer using their own names ---or the names of others?
<><> Did any of these people illegally vote for Schumer?
<><> Did Schumer use his tax-paid Senate offices to aid abet felonies?
<><> Do any of these diplos receive EITC refunds?
<><> Did Chuckie use his govt offices and US govt resources to setup other freebies for these criminals?
<><> Did they receive welfare, food stamps, SSI, free medical care, Section 8 housing, UI, Workmen's comp under several identities?
<><> Did they falsify US govt documents to unlawfully receive, monthly SS checks, claiming "asylum?"
<><> Does they obtain sub-prime mortgages by falsifying bank documents?
<><> Did they make false claims on IRS forms to get EITC refunds?
<><> Do they have legal drivers' license?
<><> Do they have valid passports?
<><> Is there a paper trail of money wire-transferred to offshore accounts?
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SAMPLE LETTER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Taxpayers are urged to notify the FBI now.
FBI TIPS PAGE https://tips.fbi.gov
SUBJECT: Collusion, conspiracy, and bribery
IN RE: financial irregularities
REFERENCE: govt fraud, falsified documents, wire transfers, accounting fraud, etc.
NARRATIVE Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of multiple conspiracies by government insiders to collude in sub rosa deals to personally profit. Could be prosecuted under the Bank Secrecy ACT, RICO, and the Hobbs Act.
OF INTEREST TO LAW ENFORCEMENT Based on Sen Schumer's stated approval of the use of stolen SS numbers and multiple identities to defraud, the FBI should interrogate individuals for evidence of multiple schemes to falsify documents to further insider schemes. The FBI should investigate any and all official documents submitted by Schumer's constituents.
Crimes might include---conspiracy. collusion, falsifying offical documents (a felony), money laundering, tax evasion, extorting taxpayers, theft of govt monies, misuse of public office and government positions.