The Sun (UK) reports:
“PUTIN’S PAL Russia’s most notorious gangster FREED from jail early for ‘helping Putin recruit convicts for Ukraine meatgrinder war’
“Putin allegedly uses his criminal pal to meddle in Georgia’s politics.
RUSSIA’S most notorious mafia king has been quietly released from prison four years earlier as an alleged gesture of goodwill from Putin.
Crime boss Shakro Molodoy, 71, was freed from the maximum security colony after reportedly not ordering prisoners to boycott’s Putin’s war…
… Shakro - a citizen of the former Soviet republic of Georgia - was also sentenced in absentia to 18 years in prison for murder in Tbilisi.
The underworld boss was also allegedly in charge of a “criminal congress” with 150 delegates in the Armenian capital of Yerevan in January 2015.
“This was the largest congress of leaders of the criminal world in the last 20 years,” said an official source.
Molodoy may have been released early in a Putin attempt to meddle in the politics of Georgia, claimed former president Mikheil Saakashvili”