Posted on 06/03/2026 11:52:01 AM PDT by DFG
A crew of Uzbek wannabe mobsters was busted Wednesday for swiping $4.5 million of cigarettes, high-end cheese and other goodies from warehouses across the Northeast — in a scheme straight out of “Goodfellas,” The Post has learned.
Crew leader Murad Khasanov and his cronies allegedly used a modern twist on an old-school mob heist — hacking into computer networks and creating forged invoices to convince warehouse workers to simply hand them the haul without ever needing to point a gun, law enforcement sources said.
When they weren’t hitting the road in trucks full of cigarettes, seafood, pricey cheese, meat and copper wires, Khasanov and his partners allegedly lived the high life in ocean-view digs in Brighton Beach and Coney Island, Brooklyn, driving luxury cars and flashing wads of cash at clubs, the sources said.
“These guys acted like they watched every mob movie ever made and emulated American gangsters — the Hollywood version,” one law enforcement source said. “The great American dream, Cosa Nostra-style.”
Cops busted a “surprised” Khasanov early Wednesday after raiding his Surf Avenue high-rise apartment, which boasts a balcony overlooking the Coney Island Boardwalk, sources said.
Officers seized boxes of records, a computer and phones, the sources said.
Two other alleged members of the crew were arrested as well, and all three will be charged with first-degree grand larceny and conspiracy as part of a joint probe by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Port Authority Police and the NYPD.
Khasanov and his alleged crew entered the US illegally during the Biden administration, and do not speak English, one law enforcement source said.
“These guys can’t speak English. Who knows how they got their [commercial driving] license, but they are right out of central casting,” the source said.
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Cheese?..................
I want all of their organs in other people.
This I did not know!
“These guys can’t speak English. Who knows how they got their [commercial driving] license, but they are right out of central casting,” the source said.
Yeah - about that whole CDL thing...I bet somebody knows how they got them and who made it happen. Be nice to find out.
Good cheeses, especially the imported European types, are very expensive even in better economic times.
Just Biden Pets doing what Biden Pets do. If these poor fellows had only known what they were doing was not OK with everyone here!
I just got out of the shower…what did I miss?
That’s a gouda....................
Only the Democrat Party knows. As long as the gang kicks
back some loot to the Democrat Party no one will ask
about their commercial driving licenses. You have to beleive
somebody in the state government knows about this.
“Don’t give them money or matches”.....
They are the weak link in The Great Chain of Socialism.
CECOT. Then deport from there after their time in jail is up. .
Fumunda Cheese...
Venezuelan beaver cheese, 2000 lb wheels.
Well done...
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