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In 1995, the Official Kremlin International News Broadcast reported on a press briefing by the Interior Ministry about the Russian Mafia. Vladimir Ovichitsky, identified as a Russian “expert on organized crime busting” noted that, in terms of the ethnic dimensions of the problem,
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   "when mention is made of the Russian mafia in the United States,
    reference actually is made to the Jewish community on Brighton
    Beach." [OKINB]
In 1983 Mike Mallowe described the growing American problem in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He calls the Russian criminal elements “a new mafia,” and “Malina”:
“It is an international conspiracy that will engage in any crime for the
right price … In the early 1960s, according to one top secret FBI
analysis, members of the Malina began to emigrate from Russia to
Israel, where they re-established their criminal networks. Over the years
these Israeli hoods branched out from Tel Aviv to other cities, including
London, Paris, Antwerp, Vienna, Rome, New York, and Los Angeles.
Some members of the Malina brotherhood really are Russian Jews.
Others have merely purchased false identities of Russian Jews … Most
… are first class international criminals.” [ROSNER, p. 120]
 
“The Organizatsiya,” the Commissioner of U.S. Customs told Congress in 1996, “has been in operation in the United States since the middle 1970s with the first influx of Jewish émigrés from the FSU. The true structure, size, and operational components of the Organizatsiya are not entirely known since there is limited available intelligence, investigative and source information.” [WEISSE] In 1986 Daniel Burstein wrote in New York magazine about the home of the “Russian” mafia in America, Brighton Beach:
“Over 100,000 Soviets have come to the United States. The
overwhelming majority were Jews … By and large, the Russians
… favor … white-collar crimes like credit card fraud, counterfeiting, and
gas bootlegging.” [BURSTEIN, p. 40]

“One of the foundations on which the Russians are believed to have built their foreign operations,” noted London’s Independent in 1996, “are the old criminal structures run by mostly Jewish émigrés from the Soviet Union living among Russian communities in cities like Antwerp, New York and Tel Aviv.” [REEVES, p. 11]
 
Veiling the Jewish crime element, in 1982, United Press International reported that “spies and criminals” were flooding into the United States “disguised as Jewish immigrants.” [BARABAK] The New York Times noted that Jewish organizations were “angered by a police report speculating that the Kremlin was sending hardened criminals to the United States through abuse of the Soviet Jewish refugee quotas.” [NY TIMES, p. A14] This is one way to spare the Jewish community unwanted (but very merited) attention for their very serious share of this “Russian” Mafia problem (i.e., asserting that leading criminals living in the tightly-knit Russian Jewish community are somehow not Jewish). A 1996 investigation (co-sponsored by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force, the New York State Commission of Investigation, and the New Jersey
Commission of Investigation) dismissed popular myths that Russian officials had intentionally implanted criminals into the Jewish immigration rush to America, that the KGB had interests in sowing Jewish migration with non-Jewish Soviet criminals, or that “members of organized crime groups in Odessa, Ukraine, had smuggled themselves out of the country by assuming the identities of Soviet-Jews who were either dead or in jail.” As the report noted:
‘’ For several reasons, all of these explanations proved inadequate …
The actual number of known Russian-emigre criminals who entered
the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, either with or without the
consent of Soviet officials, was relatively small and, in general, their
crimes have been very localized… History has shown that the growth
of organized crime in any community is invariably linked to the recent
migration into that community by ethnic groups having weak ties to the
dominant political culture." [NEW YORK ORGANIZED CRIME TASK
FORCE, 1996, p. 183]
 
Another way to spare the Jewish community attention for its contribution to a new form of American crime network is to vaguely and generically call Brighton Beach, as one reporter did, simply an “ethnic neighborhood.” [GIBSON, p. A1] The old reliable standby too, is the American mass media’s blanket injunction against naming Jewish criminals who largely function within Jewish networks as Jewish criminals. Another way to guide public attention away from Jewish criminality was the way it was attempted in March 1997 when “Russian American leaders” in Los Angeles called a press conference to argue that there is no such thing as a “Russian mafia” and that it only reinforces negative stereotypes. Principal complainants included Si Frumkin, chairman of the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews, and Eugene Levin, President of the Association of Soviet Jewish Emigres. [GOLD, B13]
 
Meanwhile, also in 1997, the “Russian mafia” that doesn’t exist was creating such criminal havoc in Israel that an Israel Radio poll found that a third of the Israelis surveyed were “frightened” by Russian immigrants to Israel; 60% of those questioned even believed that further immigration from Russia should be discouraged. Natan Sharansky, former poster boy for American Jewish demands upon the Russian government to allow Jews to move to the Jewish state, called the poll “the saddest thing that’s happened to me in the ten years I’ve been in Israel.” [COHEN, A.] In 1996, the Israeli government “identified a list of 35 major crime bosses from Russia and Ukraine who had established a presence in Israel and were laundering the proceeds of their European operations.” [TRENDS IN ORGANIZED CRIME, SUMMER 1999]
 
Incessant Jewish strangleholds used to veil the profound Jewish significance in the “Russian” mafia and other organized crime in the western world may be discerned in an obscure 1986 news item when the President’s Commission on Organized Crime issued a 250 page document supposedly detailing “the full scope of organized crime in America.” [SANTOS] Both the UPI and Reuters wire services took note of an extraordinary crack in the Jewish lobby’s seams by half of the document’s creators, after the formal report was issued:
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   "In a departure, nine of the 18 commissioners issued a critical statement
   charging the commission's history 'is a saga of missed opportunity.' It
   criticized the commission for poor management of time, money, and
   staff and said it ignored many areas, including the roles of   American blacks and Jewish organizations in organized crime."
   [SANTOS]
A defender of this final report was the commission’s Jewish chairman: Irving Kaufman. [MOLDEA, p. 348]
As always, Jews – even here – are afforded a hiding place, at least partially, in the underclass Black man’s shadow. Why – and how – such an important issue as international Jewish crime (widespread crime even networked through distinctly Jewish religious institutions) was forcibly “ignored,” we can well understand. But it is amazing that the censorship was so great and meaningful that half the commissioners felt the moral need for this public complaint, however muffled, and little passed on.
 
This veiling of Jewish crime comes in various guises. In 1995 a Jewish author, Stephen Handelman, wrote a book about the Russian mafia. He concedes that “a number of prominent black marketeers and businessmen were Jewish and police found evidence tying international gem swindlers to joint ventures owned by Russians who had immigrated to Israel. A former Russian who became an Israeli citizen had signed the shipment of Colombian cocaine that was discovered at Vyborg in 1993 and, according to police, the ikon-smuggling trade was dominated by Russian Jewish émigrés in Vienna and Frankfurt.” [HANDELMAN, p. 301] But Handelman argues that most of the Russian mafia are Slavs, never addressing the Jewish prominence in the upper echelons of the Mafia and the fact of its enormous Jewish overrepresentation (Jews make up merely one percent of the Russian population). Handelman routinelydismisses the comments he garnered in an interview with former KGB official Aleksander Sterligov, an expert on the subject of Russian crime, one of the “senior experts in counterintelligence,” and chief investigator of “corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs,” as merely expressions of anti-Semitism:
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"General Sterligov told me that Jews were responsible for the corruption
 of local governments. 'They are always trying to push out the Russians
 and seeking the dominant positions ... Even an ancient Russian city like
 Nizhni Novogorod has been completely destroyed because it is run by
 a Jewish administration." [HANELMAN, p. 301]
 
“Is there a Russian(I think better word Jewish-Rusdian) mafia?” asked Lt. Robert Cook, commander of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s organized crime unit, in the article about Jewish complaints about Russian Jewish stereotypes in Los Angeles, “I think that’s been well documented.” [GOLD, B13] So well documented that eight months later the Los Angeles Times noted that “the Colombians are finding their most reliable drug partner in Europe is
the Russian mafia … ‘The Russian mafia has set itself up on the
Caribbean islands so as to be able to contact the Colombians,’ said
General Rosso Serrano, commander of the Colombian police … More
than two dozen Russian banks have offices on the island of Antiqua,
raising questions about why so many faraway financial institutions would
have so much interest in such a small island.” [DARLING, p.14]

The Jerusalem Post had this observation about Antigua in 1991:
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  "Take a small Caribbean island, add an unscrupulous Israeli adventurer
   with a melon farm, and sprinkle it with Israeli ex-army types, including
   a brigadier general. Have them take over the place by bribery and , then use the island to sell small arms to Colombian drug
   dealers. These are the embarrassing findings of the recently published
   Official Report of the Commission of Inquiry by the Governor General
   of Antigua and Barbuda, Sir Wilfred Jacobs." [MORGENSTERN]
 
In 1989, a Colombian presidential candidate, Luis Carlos Gallin, was assassinated by members of the Medellin drug ring. Only months earlier the Colombian government had lodged protests to the Israeli government about Israeli Yair Klein, who had been found to be training the drug cartel in paramilitary techniques. The Colombian government, notes the Jerusalem Post, “could not have imagined that, as they were making the complaints, a plot was being hatched to supply 100 Uzis, 400 Galil rifles, and 200,000 rounds of ammunition to the drug cartels [by the Israeli Military Industries (IMG) company – the commercial wing of Israel’s Defense Ministry].” [MORGENSTERN] An August 1989 Reuters report noted that
“Colombian drug traffickers … declared ‘total’ war on the Bogota
government Thursday and blew up the offices of the country’s two main
political parties in the drug capital, Medellin. As the group known as the
‘Extraditables’ also threatened journalists, judges, business and trade
union leaders, Israel Thursday dissociated itself from its citizens,
reported to be working for the Medellin drug cartel.” [KARP]
 
The president of the Russian Jewish Congress, Vladimir Gusinksy, also owner of another prominent Russian bank called Most, is widely reported (even in Israel) [COHEN, A.] to have likely Russian crime connections. [Gusinsky is also a major Russian media tycoon and will be further discussed in a later section]. The chairman of the board of Gusinsky’s bank is Boris Hait, who is also a vice-president of the Russian Jewish Congress. (In 2001, another deputy of the Russian Jewish Congress, Mikhail Mirlashvili, was “arrested in St. Petersburg and charged with kidnapping two people.”) [COCKBURN, P., 1-25-01] Mikhail Friedman, chairman of Russia’s Alpha Bank and Vitali Malkin, president of the Rossiiski Kredit Bank, are Russian Jewish Congress vice-presidents. Andrei Rappoport, chairman of Alpha Bank, is also an RJC board member. Of these RJC officials, Gusinsky, Khait, Friedman, and Malkin were listed in 1995 by a Moscow newspaper as among the twenty richestmen in Russia. [KRICHEVSKY, Around, p. 1] Other Jewish bankers and financiers at the very top of Russian society include Mikhail Khodorovsky and Pyotr Aven, among others. With the fall of communism and the resultant struggles for power, the nature of the banking business in Russia is extremely precarious, deeply embedded in organized crime. Over a four year period in the 1990s there were assassination attempts upon 116 bankers; 79 were killed and 36 wounded. [HOFFMAN, D., Russian, p. A1] Gusinsky alone has a 1,000-man “private security force,” directed by a former general in the KGB. [COHLER-ESSES, p. 13]
 
In 1999 Mogilevech turned up again in the news. The International Monetary Fund was embroiled in controversy when it was discovered that billions of dollars lent to the Russian government had been laundered into private hands. The Wall Street Journal called it “one of the biggest money-laundering schemes to be uncovered in the United States.” [WSJ, 8-30-99, p. 8] The Jewish-centered scandal (never publicly named as such) broke at the Bank of New York where Lucy Edwards (originally named Ludmilla Pritzker; married to Jewish Russian banker Peter Berlin, a “reputed Mogilevech lieutenant” [GOLDBERG, JJ, 9-3-99]) and Natasha Garfinkel Kagalovsky were placed “on unpaid leave while investigations continued. Both women are beloved to work in the bank’s Eastern Europe department and are married to Russians. The central character in the investigation [is] Mogilevech.” [GARTH, A.]
“The IMF,” notes Jonathan Steele, “found itself pouring millions into Russia simply to protect the value of the ruble and western banks … Konstanin Kagalovsky [also Jewish] served from 1992 to 1995 as the link man [for the Russian government] to the IMF. Now vice-president of Yukos oil, he has been in the news this month because it was through the accounts which his wife managed at the Bank of New York that millions of dollars from Russia flowed.” [STEELE, p. 8] Kagalovsky was a former executive at Bank Menatep, “one of Russia’s largest banks.” This bank was controlled by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, also Jewish (whose “internet bank” based in Antigua was called by some regulators “a scam”). [O’BRIEN/BONNER, 8-18-96, p. 32]
Mogilevich, noted the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, is “the central suspect in an international bank-fraud that investigators term the biggest in money-laundering history. … Mogilevich’s mob is said to be the largest and most dangerous criminal organization to emerge from the backdrop of the Soviet Union … Most of its members are Jewish … Cash movements began just before the August 1998 ruble devaluation that led to Russian financial crisis … Others whose names have surfaced in the mushrooming probe include several so-called ‘oligarchs,’ the business tycoons, many of them Jewish, who control much of post-communist Russia’s privatized industry.” [GOLDBERG, JJ, 9-3-99] (Those noted by the Journal were Jewish tycoons Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berezovsky, and Vladimir Goussinsky. More about them, their links to the “Russian mafia,” and their influence in the Russian mass media, in the Mass Media chapter. In 1998, Berezovsky’s daughter Yelizaveta was arested for cocaine possession St. Petersburg). [BADKHEN, A., 5-15-98] (In 2002, Catya Sassoon, daughter of famous Jewish hair mogul Vidal Sassoon, “died of a suspected drug overdose after a New Year’s Eve party.”) [AKBAR, A., 1-5-02]

“All told, Mogilevich’s mob may have looted as much as $15 billion from the Russian economy in the last few years.” [GOLDBERG, JJ, 9-3-99]
 
Another Jewish link in the gigantic economic bleeding of Russia is Israeli-born Bruce Rappaport. As the New York Times noted,
“At the intersection of illicit Russian money and the Bank of New York
is Bruce Rappaport, a Swiss banker who has had brushes with
governmental investigators in the past … Most recently, Mr. Rappaport’s
bank [Bank of New York-Inter Maritime] was sued by the Justice
Department in 1997, to recover proceeds that the Government asserted
was from drug sales that had been deposited in the Bank of New York-
Maritime in the Caribbean Island of Antigua by a known money-launderer
… Rappaport … was recently appointed Antigua’s Ambassador to Russia.
Antigua … has been a major center of Russian money-laundering for
years.” [O’BRIEN/BONNER, 8-22-99]
 
Central involvement in the spectacular theft of vast sums of Russia government money was not a first for Jewish swindlers, even in the 1990s. The Jerusalem Report, in 1993, noted that “A Jewish businessman, an alleged spy [for Israel], is in the middle of a scandal that is shaking Moscow’s fragile regime.” The man in question was Boris Yosefovich Birshtein, head of the Seabeko Group. As the Israeli journal noted:
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 "Seabeko, according to a KGB report obtained by the Jerusalem Report,
 was used by leaders of the former Soviet Union as a conduit to steal
 millions." [LESSER, A., 9-23-93]
Stolen money was deposited in Switzerland accounts. Past Bershtein business partners included Jewish Americans David Katz and David Tzebel. Among Bershtein’s more recent associates was Dmitry Yakubovsky, also Jewish, who lives today in a $5.2 million home in suburban Toronto. Israeli Binyamin Keret, the head of a company called Trade Links, was also a Birshtein partner. “Birshtein, according to the KGB report, is a Mossad [Israeli spy] agent, as was Keret … Diplomatic sources quote government officials as saying he was being run on the Russian side by Mikhail Poltoranin, one of [Russian prime minister Boris] Yeltsin’s closest aides.” [LESSER, A., 9-23-93]
 
Moving along, in 1987, Israelis Moshe Shtrowise, Ishack Ferman, and Asher Sivan were arrested for smuggling drugs into England. [HUNTER, LINK, p. 6] In 1995, Barry Rider, a Jew, the dean of England’s Jesus College at Cambridge University, and “an academic who has been involved for the last ten years in crime research,” presented a controversial “anti-Semitic” paper to Great Britain’s Houses of Parliament. The (Jewish) Forward noted that the report
“highlighted a rising tide of organized crime among Britain’s Jewish
community – much of it connected with Israelis living in Britain.
According to the report, English Jews are helping to launder Mafia
money. It also claims that some Jews are involved in racketeering and
protection rackets and that they are ready to resort to criminal violence.
Many observers are coming to accept that there is a growing class of
Jewish criminals in Britain, particularly among the 27,000 Israelis now
settled in the country … Israeli drug gangs … have carved out a large slice
of the narcotics trade … in recent years.” [SHAMASH, p. 2]
 
An unnamed senior government prosecutor told the Forward that “some of the biggest drug dealers in Britain are Israelis based at London’s most prestigious addresses” and are involved “in importing millions of pounds of heroin and cocaine.” [SHAMASH, p. 2] In 2001, on another front, Philip Lyons and Abraham Israel were charged in London with “money-laundering charges, including the handling of proceeds from drug trafficking.” [ROCKER, S., 3-9-01]
 
In 1997, the French Montreal La Presse newspaper, attracted Canadian Jewish Congress and B’nai B’rith Canada condemnation, cries of anti-Semitism, and a demand for an apology when the paper ran a headline stating" “RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] strike a Deadly Blow to a Jewish Criminal Organization.” The Jewish lobbying organizations argued that it was inappropriate to note criminals by ethnicity (although the common nomer, “Russian mafia,” garners little complaint from anyone), and that only seven of 31 arrested members of the gang smuggling drugs were Jewish. Claude Masson, the assistant publisher of La Presse, noted in response to the Jewish attack that all the leaders of the criminal group had been identified by police as Jews, and added: “I think we’re playing with words a bit. I think we should be careful about being so politically correct that we can no longer say what is happening in our society.” [EISENTHAL, p. 4] (In 2001, Jacob Cohen-Shiri was arrested in Montreal for a drug-related murder. A year earlier he had pleaded guilty to a case of armed-robbery). [CHERRY, P., 5-8-01]
 
In 2001, the Jewish Chronicle noted another Jewish drug story in Australia:
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"Sydney's Jewish community has been embarrassed about publicity in the city's
 two major newspapers about gang warfare to control the drug trade in the
 Eastern Suburbs, where the majority of Sydney's Jewish population live.
 In a dawn raid last week, 40 police swooped on homes across the city, taking
 in for questioning youths who were later charged with kidnapping, extortion
 and robbery. The victims were described in the Sydney Morning Herald
 and the Daily Telegraph as being members of wealthy Jewish families. The
 leader of one of the gangs is also Jewish ... Stephen Rothman, president
 of Sydney's Board of Deputies, told the JC: 'We've told both papers
 that we are totally against ethnic labelling of any kind. The Herald removed
 the Jewish tag in later editions, but the Telegraph persisted and we will
 be taking this up with the paper." [BENJAMIN, H., 4-20-01]
 
In Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1995 Boris Dekanidze was arrested for the murder of a journalist who consistently exposed a local arms smuggling, drug dealing, and money laundering ring called the Vilnius Brigade. “It was a political trial,” Dekanidze told the state television network about his eventual death sentence, “It’s a clear attack on the Jewish businessman.” [KAMINSKI, p. IV] “The government,” noted the London Financial Times, “… although sensitive to charges of anti-Semitism, … says Boris Dekanidze has a criminal past and proven contacts with shadowy figures among the émigré community in the U.S., Europe, and Israel … But a recent terrorist threat against the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Ignalina, in the east corner of Lithuania – German intelligence received a tip that the plant might be bombed if Boris Dekanidze was not released – casts doubt on who truly governs the country.” [KAMINSKI, p. IV]
 
In 1998 and 1999, Ukraine reversed the usual “Jews flee to Israel” scenario by kicking two prominent Jewish businessmen/racketeers out of the country. First, Leonid Vulf, a Ukrainian with Israeli citizenship, was banned from entry into the former Russian republic because he is “an alleged leader of a gang suspected of contract killings in Ukraine.” [KRICHEVSKY, L., 6-30-99, p. 11] A few months later, yet another Ukrainian Jew, Vadim Rabinovich, also possessing Israeli citizenship and also with known ties to the Russian mafia, was banned too from Ukraine for five years for causing “considerable damage to Ukraine’s economy.” Given the fact that one of Rabinovich’s harshest critics is the Chief Rabbi of the Ukraine, Ya’akov Bleich, it was difficult to completely dismiss his case as one of irrational anti-Semitism. Rabinovich, noted the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, with “assets of $1 billion, mak [es] him one of the wealthiest men in the former Soviet Republic,” and a member of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma’s “inner circle.” [KRICHEVSKY, L., 6-30-99, p. 11]
 
In 1994, 23 people were arrested in a drug laundering gang that included Borough Park (New York) rabbis Alexander Schwartz and Menashe Leifer, lawyers Harvey Weinig and Robert Hirsch, policeman Michael Kalanz, retired fireman Richard Spence, a Swiss banker, and the Honorary Consul in New York for Bulgaria. “The key destination for the cocaine money was Zurich,” noted the (London) Daily Telegraph, “where it was allegedly fed into Swiss accounts by husband and wife bankers Leon and Rachel Weinmann.” [LAURENCE, p. 19] The New York Times noted that the ring was “one of the biggest drug-money laundering operations the authorities had ever uncovered in New York.” Rabbi Schwartz was captured with $267,830 in cash stuffed inside a money vest in San Juan, Puerto Rico. [TREASTER, J., 12-1-94, p. B1]
 
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