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IN Kazan businessmen involved in organizing a contract killing in 1999 were detained. Then two entrepreneurs hired on the case of killers from an organized crime group “Hadi Taktash“

The performers had to deal with the ill-wisher for 4 thousand dollars. On January 28, 1999, having clarified all the terms of the deal, the killers shot a man in Kazan. Then the people who ordered the murder could not be found. Their identities were established only in the fall of 2024.

As a result, the 50-year-old deputy general director was detained “Avtodora” and his 49-year-old subordinate. Their company is engaged in the transportation of goods. The businessmen are now under investigation and charged. It is known that in the past both were brought to justice for episodes of fraud.

The names of the customers were handed over by the main killer of the organized crime group “Hadi Taktash”

Rinat Farkhutdinov, known as Ritnik and currently serving a life sentence in the Black Dolphin colony, made a statement in a high-profile case 25 years ago. The main killer of the organized crime group “Hadi Taktash” handed over the people who ordered the massacre to the security forces.

Ritnik said that he and another member of the organized crime group Alexander Novitsky hired by Kazan businessmen Vadim Soshnikov and Rafail Khamdeev. The bandits had to get rid of local businessman Oleg Palutin. Kazan killers waited for the man and shot him from Makarov pistol.

The motive for the murder, as indicated by the official representative Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volkbecame a debt. In 1998, Soshnikov and Khamdeev went to Palutin for money. Later, when the time came to repay the amount, they decided to get rid of the borrower.

As far as we know, by actively assisting in solving a 25-year-old case, Ritnik hopes to reduce his life sentence to 25 years. Thus, he wants to have time to apply for parole. His accomplice Alexander Novitsky, for example, was released from prison in 2016. At the same time, being free, he was unable to defeat tuberculosis.

“Hadi Taktash” was the most famous gang in Kazan in the 1990s

The gang appeared in 1982. Its name comes from a Kazan street named after the Tatar poet Khadi Taktash.
The organized crime group was engaged in fraud, reprisals and other illegal activities. How countsfor the residents of Kazan it was a real nightmare of the 90s.

Ritnik was the main killer of the organized crime group. Participated in many gang affairs. In particular, he dealt with the husband of his ex-wife Yulia Gavrilova. His victim, Nikita Vozdvizhensky, was once a member of the Khadi Taktash organized crime group, but could not stand local politics and later left the group. Vozdvizhensky and Gavrilova got married when Ritnik was in prison.

At the end of the summer of 1998, Vozdvizhensky was shot near his car. The killer punctured the car’s tire and took advantage of the fact that the victim was squatting down while looking at the car. It is known that Gavrilova, who was sitting in the passenger seat, saw the killer. It turned out to be Novitsky.

By January 2002, law enforcement officers had already collected 32 volumes of the criminal case against members of the Khadi Taktash gang. The 17 witnesses were carefully hidden: they were brought to the meetings with guards and placed in one of the rooms. The citizens themselves entered the meeting room with their faces covered and sat under thick blankets. Against the backdrop of the investigation into the Khadishevsky cases, a witness protection program was applied for the first time in Russian history.