Spivakovsky Arnold Arnoldovich arrest in Spain. The Russian “mafioso” detained in Spain turned out to be a manager of AFK Sistema. An alleged member of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group was detained in Spain

According to the Dozhd TV channel, he previously headed the Moscow Cosmos hotel and was the chairman of the board of directors of the Intourist hotel association. Most recently he was a project manager at JSFC Sistema. According to the Kommersant FM radio station, on Thursday a Spanish court issued a decision on temporary imprisonment for four members of the group, the remaining seven were released on their own recognizance. Arnold Spivakovsky, also known as Arnold Tamm, was sent to prison - he is called in Spain “the leader of a criminal group”, “the boss of all bosses”, this is definitely the main detainee. In Spain he had several restaurants and the Dama de Noche golf club. During a search at his villa, the Spanish police found a large amount of cash, and Spivakovsky's property was also seized: computers, telephones, several luxury cars.

Spanish police claim that Arnold Tamm is associated with crime boss Semyon Mogilevich (who has been wanted since 2009) and, according to Spanish law enforcement, is one of the largest leaders of the Solntsevo criminal group.

In the database “Contour. Focus" lists two organizations in which Spivakovsky now holds high positions. In particular, he is the President of the Foundation for Legal and Economic Research, officially engaged in scientific research and development in the field of social sciences and humanities. Spivakovsky is also listed as president of another fund - Saltaya (a fund for the support and development of wildlife and agriculture in Altai and adjacent regions). This organization is officially engaged in the provision of “other financial services, except insurance and pension services, not included in other categories.”

The registration address of the Saltaya Foundation in Moscow coincides with the address of several companies included or controlled by the structure of AFK Sistema, including LLC Management Fund of Fund Real Estate, SBK Agro-Invest, JSC Business Real Estate, LLC Business -Park Development (controlled by Sistema through the Cyprus company Vainom Investments Ltd), RZ Agro (a joint venture of Sistema and agricultural trader Louis Dreyfus). The RBC agency, citing the press service of AFK Sistema, reports that Spivakovsky also works in a division of the Segezha Group holding, the Sokolsky DOK woodworking enterprise, which is part of the Sistema structure.

Coming from the “dashing 90s”

Not only Spanish security officials see Arnold Spivakovsky’s connection with criminals, but Russian experts do not exclude it either. According to the general of the Institute of Political Studies, Sergei Markov, Spivakovsky could be part of “a bloc that ensures security, and was taken there from circles close to criminal circles in order to ensure security, including through connections with criminal circles.” “The second version,” notes Markov, “is that perhaps Sistema’s managers began their own trajectory. Because it seems to them that AFK Sistema is close to collapse, that it has encountered too many problems, and that it has created too many of them both for the country’s leadership and for Rosneft. That is, it seems to them that the situation is no longer very good, and they start their own businesses.”

The expert also puts forward a third version, which is a superposition of the first two on top of each other. “Perhaps the person was taken from criminal or semi-criminal circles to ensure the security of the company, and now he has decided to take up his previous business,” explains Sergei Markov. - But, in principle, in any version, all this is bad news for AFK Sistema. They indicate a very large structural problem for ROS. In any case, the news about this arrest is a blow to the reputation of Sistema, because when it is associated with people from the “gangster nineties,” this is certainly a minus for the company’s reputation.”

"The Mafia is immortal"

The phrase of one of the heroes of the popular Soviet film “The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia” became a catchphrase and even today has not lost its relevance. Spanish security officials call the group of detained Russians the “Russian mafia.”

Actually, Sistema's business style is close to this definition. The company operates using methods of acquiring new assets that were widespread in the 1990s, but have long been abandoned in the past by large business structures that respect themselves and their partners.

Today, according to political scientist Abbas Gallyamov, who previously worked in the Russian government, “the point of view that Russian business entirely grew out of the gangster environment of the 90s is widespread.” “Now this topic has been forgotten, but when they do remember it, they remember it negatively,” the expert notes. - That is why any association with any bandit causes serious damage to the image of any campaign. It hits the most vulnerable spot. And AFK Sistema falls under this definition.”

Both domestic and foreign media wrote about the dubious style of work of the AFK. The EU Today publication even called the head of the AFK “the last hero” of the Luzhkov era. According to the publication, Vladimir Yevtushenkov made his fortune in the “dashing 90s” (methods of obtaining property ownership and profit in those years are well known). Then Yevtushenkov’s assets included the travel agency “Intourist”, a refinery, a city network of gas stations, and a chain of stores “Detsky Mir”. A little later, Yevtushenkov’s Moscow Committee on Science and Technology became the largest participant in the group that bought a majority stake in the Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS). During the year, Yevtushenkov’s company either withdrew from MGTS or replaced all the rest, mainly private investors, with controlled structures (they later became part of Sistema). Moreover, even the Moscow mayor's office practically lost its share - it was reduced from 22% to 3.6%.

Yevtushenkov is associated with the name of the former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov - the co-owner of AFK is allegedly married to the sister of Elena Baturina, the wife of the ex-mayor of the capital and, as is known, the richest woman in Russia living in the United Kingdom. With the resignation of Luzhkov in 2010 and with increasing demands on business from the state, it became much more difficult for Vladimir Yevtushenkov to conduct business, and he was even called the “last hero” of the 90s era.

Meanwhile, the “90s style” in the work of Sistema JSFC can still be traced today. A clear example is the acquisition of Bashneft. Vladimir Yevtushenkov followed the well-worn path and, through certain measures, applied an asset withdrawal scheme, as a result of which most of the value of the oil company was transferred to various Sistema holdings.

Let us recall that Operation Oligarch, directed against members of the Solntsevo and Izmailovo criminal groups, was carried out on September 26 in the Spanish cities of Mijas, Estepona, Marbella and Puerto Banus. According to the Civil Guard, members of the organized crime group developed a complex scheme to launder approximately €30 million through Marbella FC, the bottled water manufacturer Aguas Sierra de Mijas and the Dama de Noche golf club, located in Marbella. The owners of the Marbella football club, Alexander Grinberg, and the drinking water company Oleg Kuznetsov were also detained. The operation to detain the “Russian mafia” was prepared by the Spanish intelligence services for four years.

The former general director of the Cosmos Hotel, Arnold Spivakovsky, who was detained among 11 Russians in Spain on charges of participation in the Solntsevskaya organized crime group and money laundering, turned out to be the current top manager of the Russian investment group AFK Sistema. The CrimeRussia found out that the “criminal authority” of the 1990s, Tamm-Spivakovsky, represents the interests of the “Solntsevskys” in the structures of a company de jure controlled by billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov, holding senior positions in it for more than 15 years.

Of all the Russians detained at the end of September for money laundering in the province of Malaga, the Spanish Civil Guard is most proud of Arnold Arnoldovich Spivakovsky. The media call him “the most influential and largest “Russian mafioso” ever detained in Spain.” And in a country that has seen the high-profile arrests of the “Tambov-Malyshevskys” Gennady Petrov and Alexander Malyshev, the leader of the “Taganskaya” organized crime group Alexander Romanov, “thieves in law” Kakhaber Shushanashvili (Kakha Rustavsky), Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy) and a whole string of Russian “criminals” authorities” smaller, such an epithet means a lot.

The Spanish police consider Spivakovsky to be the third most influential leader of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, the existence of which its alleged leaders persistently deny. In Spain, the USA and a number of other countries, Solntsevskaya, at the instigation of the FBI and Interpol, is considered the most dangerous, numerous and influential Russian criminal group. And - what fundamentally distinguishes the point of view of Western law enforcement officers from Russian ones - is real and still exists.

In addition to Arnold Spivakovsky, 10 more Russians were detained during Operation Oligarch in the Andalusian cities of Mijas, Marbella, Estepona and Puerto Banus, but most of them were soon released under recognizance not to leave. During the investigation, the court arrested only four.

Currently in the prison of the city of Alhaurin de la Torre are the owner of the Marbella football club Alexander Grinberg and the main shareholder of the water production plant in Mijas Aguas Sierra de Mijas Oleg Kuznetsov, whom the Civil Guard suspects of mass laundering of criminally obtained funds through legal business, and one of the managers of Aguas Sierra de Mijas, Sergei Dozhdev - according to the CrimeRussia, a partner in the legal and shadow business of the former “supervisor” of Volgograd, Vladimir Kadin, who was shot dead in 2011. And, of course, Arnold Spivakovsky, who was arrested by the Marbella court without the right to release on bail.

Detention of Alexander Grinberg, Oleg Kuznetsov and Sergei Dozhdev

Moreover, there is reason to believe that the “Oligarch” operation itself was timed by the Malaga gendarmes precisely to coincide with the arrival of an “auditor” from Russian organized crime groups, 30 million euros of which, according to investigators, were laundered by entrepreneurs over the past few years.

According to the Spanish press, the Civil Guard of Spain monitored the active activities of Russian businessmen on the Costa del Sol for 4 years, collecting materials for a criminal case, but arrested them only now, when Greenberg and Kuznetsov, who had not appeared in the country, arrived in Spain to check the transactions one and a half years Arnold Spivakovsky. After allowing him to indulge in luxury and the company of business partners and many women for a week, law enforcement officers arrested all the participants in the criminal scheme and several managers of their business structures.

Seized during searches of detainees on the Costa del Sol

Shadow of Mogilevich

A number of Russian media mistakenly call the Spanish Operation Oligarch a continuation of another high-profile police “cleansing” of the “Russian mafia,” known as Operation Troika, when Gennady Petrov and Alexander Malyshev were detained in Malaga in 2008, but this is not so.

In fact, “Oligarch” became the “second series” of Operation Clotilde, which the Civil Guard carried out in 2013 in another Spanish resort - in the Catalan Costa Brava. Then law enforcement officers detained businessman Andrei Petrov associated with the Solntsevskaya gang.

Andrey Petrov

Along with him, his father, suspected of taking bribes from Solntsevsky, the former mayor of Lloret de Mar and member of the Catalan Parliament Javier Crespo, and the president of the city hockey club Juan Perarnau were arrested. The case was handled by the Spanish Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.

Javier Crespo

Petrov, from whom a Kalashnikov assault rifle was seized during the search, was accused of having connections with the Solntsevskys, and in particular of laundering large funds coming from offshore companies through his construction company Diagnostic Development Company (DDC) and a local hockey club. At the same time, the newspaper El Mundo wrote that Semyon Mogilevich, one of the 10 most wanted criminals by the FBI, is directly related to the Spanish “laundry” of the Solntsevskys. His invisible participation in a more recent laundering scheme in Malaga, which was supervised by Tamm-Spivakovsky, is savored by the Spanish press even today. And indeed, there are grounds to suspect Mogilevich, known for his sophisticated financial schemes, in a close connection with Spivakovsky, who was in charge of the Solntsevskys’ finances and banking operations.

In both cases in Spain, the Russians used standard laundering schemes - sports clubs and construction businesses, lobbying their interests through representatives of local authorities (for Alexander Grinberg, who was detained in Marbella, according to the police, developing connections with officials was one of the main priorities). In addition, the name of Arnold Tamm (Spivakovsky used to have this last name) in connection with Mogilevich repeatedly appeared in Interpol and FBI documents after he was put on the wanted list in the late 1990s for fraud amounting to $150 million with shares of YBM Magenex International .

Semyon Mogilevich

One of the meetings between Mogilevich and Tamm is mentioned, in particular, in the book of memoirs of one of the CIA “gurus” Larry Kolb, “Night America,” published in 2007. The True Story of Two CIA Werewolf Agents, National Security Failures, Dirty Money, and a Conspiracy Surrounding the 2004 Presidential Election,” in which the author, who had access to various kinds of operational materials as part of his job, refers to a secret FBI report.

In addition to Tamm and Mogilevich, Sergei Mikhailov, Viktor Averin, Vadim Rabinovich, Leonid Bilunov were present at the “gathering” of criminal authorities in Tel Aviv in October 1995. The meeting took place in Boris Birshtein’s office in the diamond exchange building in Ramat Gan; the “authorities” divided spheres of influence in Ukraine, the former intelligence officer writes in his book.

Russian mass media called Tamm an “adjutant” of Solntsevsky leader Sergei Mikhailov (Mikhas). According to some reports, as soon as Mikhas was arrested in Switzerland, it was Arnold Tamm who hurriedly flew to Geneva to supervise his business projects. He also met Mikhas at the Moscow airport when he returned to Moscow, having won a victory over Swiss justice and personally over the country's prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.

The media already knew about the leadership role of Arnold Tamm in the Solntsevskaya organized crime group from leaks to the press of reports from Moscow Organized Crime Control Department operatives and reports within the framework of the Interpol Millennium project.

The Millennium Project to combat trans-Eurasian organized crime (mainly from CIS countries) was established by the Interpol General Secretariat in 1996 to exchange operational information about individuals involved in organized crime among law enforcement agencies of participating countries. The main objectives of the project are to identify cross-border criminal connections, collect important information in order to prevent and suppress the illegal activities of members of organized criminal groups, “criminal authorities” and “thieves in law”. According to the head of the Interpol NCB of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Police Major General Prokopchuk, 43 states are participating in the project. The main tool of the project is the use of a special notification system in relation to suspects.

From the Millennium documents, in particular, it followed that Arnold Tamm was one of the eight leaders of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, along with Evgeny Lyustarnov, Alexander Averin, Gennady Shapovalov, Sergei Rusakov and Semyon Mogilevich. According to Interpol, in the mid-1990s, in the Solntsevsky hierarchy, Arnold Tamm occupied third place after Sergei Mikhailov (Mikhas) and Viktor Averin (Avera Sr.). It was reported that Arnold Tamm was directly subordinate to about 10 “brigades”, one of which at that time was led by now State Duma deputy and billionaire Andrei Skoch, to whom not so long ago the Investigative Committee had a number of questions regarding the case of high-ranking employees of the Investigative Committee accused of receiving bribes from thief in law Shakro Molodoy.

In the top row - Vladimir Gurchenkov (Chief), Arnold Tamm (Arnosha), Alexander Averin (Avera Jr.), Lev Kvetnoy, below (from left to right) - Victor Averin (Avera Sr.), Sergei Mikhailov, Andrey Skoch

Meanwhile, the 90s were drawing to a close, and the era of banditry in Russia was gradually being replaced by the era of legal entrepreneurship. And along with other Solntsevsky leaders, Arnold Tamm made a number of serious attempts to get rid of the negative trail, first of all abandoning the surname of his father - translator from Estonian and former editor-in-chief of the publishing house "Soviet Writer" Arnold Osvaldovich Tamm. Under it, the "authority" was too good known to Interpol, and had to travel abroad frequently on Solntsevsky matters. Then there was the experience of legal work as deputy general director of Eksa LLC and public relations adviser to the secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus Pavel Borodin.

In 2001–2002, already established as a manager, Arnold Arnoldovich Spivakovsky was listed as deputy general director for legal issues of the largest customs terminal in Moscow at that time, Irbis OJSC. Not a bad career, considering that Tamm-Spivakovsky did not yet have a higher education at that time. However, he filled this gap in his biography quite quickly, already in 2003 he graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy with a degree in Jurisprudence, and 2 years later he defended his Ph.D. thesis. At the same time, Arnold Spivakovsky became the hero of gossip columns as a regular at elite parties and a philanderer, and even gave an interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda as the common-law husband of singer Lolita Milyavskaya. In a word, “life was getting better,” and the career of an entrepreneur and manager was rapidly going uphill.

Arnold Spivakovsky and Lolita Milyavskaya

However, everything was almost ruined by the high-profile “cocaine” case, when in 2002 Arnold Tamm-Spivakovsky, who had successfully avoided criminal liability several times earlier, thanks to powerful connections in the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate and the prosecutor’s office, almost ended up behind bars. And in the case, not directly connected with the Solntsevskys.

Romance with cocaine

A challenge to the corruption system that had been established in the previous decade, thanks to which the Moscow police covered up, feared and even protected the Solntsevskys, was thrown by the investigator of the regional Main Department of Internal Affairs, Evgenia Nenakhova, who led the case of the theft of 10 million dollars from the Stupino Metallurgical Plant.

The main suspects were co-owners of the Union Development Bank Anton Dremlyuga and Evgeny Suvorov. During searches in their offices in connection with a theft case, investigators unexpectedly discovered bags of cocaine in quite large quantities, and wiretapping of telephone conversations led the investigation to Spivakovsky, who was a neighbor of both bankers in Rublyovka and often spent time with them in the then most prestigious strip club "Dolls." After a search there, 171.6 grams of cocaine were confiscated from club manager Maria Izarova. Then, despite the serious resistance of the deputy regional prosecutor Pyotr Vilkov, as MK journalist Alexander Khinshtein wrote in 2002, permission was obtained to search the house of Arnold Spivakovsky and the art director of the club Voropaev. As a result of operational activities, 9.33 grams of cocaine were seized from Spivakovsky, and 42.28 from Voropaev.

Arrest of Arnold Spivakovsky in 2002 for drug possession

And here the invisible forces behind Arnold Spivakovsky, at that time already the deputy director of the Beijing hotel complex, intervened. The “cocaine case” went down in history as unprecedented in terms of the degree of pressure on the investigation from the regional prosecutor’s office and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

The operatives were not allowed into the Lobnensky detention center, where Spivakovsky was located, under the pretext of quarantine, and were not allowed to take drug tests, and Sklif doctors refused to issue any conclusions on the examination. Investigator Nenakhova was called “on the carpet” by high-ranking officers of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate and the prosecutor’s office in general’s uniform, demanding an explanation. Spivakovsky was first released - three days had passed since his arrest, and as soon as she entered her entrance, a grenade was thrown into the car of investigator Nenakhova - for the purpose of intimidation. As a result, Spivakovsky was arrested when Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov personally intervened in the scandal and summoned Nenakhova to report. In September 2002, the court of the city of Odintsovo sentenced him to 3 years and 3 months of suspended imprisonment, but soon acquitted him. And this is a considerable merit of lawyer Dmitry Yakubovsky, better known under the nickname “General Dima,” who has been closely associated with the Solntsevskys since the 1990s.

Defending the interests of Spivakovsky in 2002, lawyer Yakubovsky successfully used the same plot as Sergei Mikhailov (Mikhas), nipping in the bud conversations about his client’s involvement in a “non-existent organized crime group.” By the way, having recently stated at a press conference regarding a defamation claim against Alexei Navalny and FBK that “the Solntsevskaya organized crime group does not exist, since it is not registered anywhere,” Mikhas “tested” this defensive stance in Swiss justice back in 1998 year. According to The CrimeRussia, the author of this famous Solntsevsky tactics was the legally savvy “General Dima.”

General Dima

Lawyer, one-time TV presenter, and now a multimillionaire, owner of the Swiss holding Engelberg Industrial Group AG (the business magazine Bilanz estimated his fortune at 800 million Swiss francs) Dmitry Yakubovsky is a very remarkable figure.

Dmitry Yakubovsky

Known for his penchant for adventure and vigorous activity, Yakubovsky simultaneously managed to work as an official lawyer of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate and defend the interests of the Solntsevskys. So, in the 1990s, he was a confidant of Sergei Mikhailov (Mikhas), who, according to an almost 50-page agreement, assigned Yakubovsky the right to dispose of all his property in Russia.

Once, when Mikhailov was detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the director of the Valerie casino, Valery Vlasov, Yakubovsky, waving this document, illegally opened Mikhas’s Moscow apartment, sealed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, in the presence of a local police officer, Arnold Tamm, another “Solntsevsky authority” Lyustarnov and two security guards , armed with Stechkin pistols.

Yakubovsky received his nickname “General Dima” well deservedly, because in 1990 he actually almost became a general at the age of 28. Then a little-known ex-employee of the USSR Prosecutor's Office, Gossnab and the Moscow Bar Association, far from being a senior executive, who received a law degree in absentia, was suddenly appointed head of the working group of the USSR Ministry of Defense in the Western Group of Forces (Germany) and immediately received the military rank of colonel, although after the military department he was only a lieutenant in the reserve.

According to some reports, Yakubovsky called the USSR Minister of Defense Yazov directly via telephone and presented him with a plan for the sale of military department property in Germany. The idea of ​​awarding him the rank of general was already discussed at the top, but soon Yakubovsky was removed from his post at the request of the German authorities - they say he was too active in registering the ownership rights of real estate liberated by the Soviet military to the Soviet Union.

Later, after serving 4 years on charges of stealing valuable books from the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, Yakubovsky made a name for himself in the legal profession, defending many famous people, and in particular State Duma deputy, Anatoly Sobchak’s widow Lyudmila Narusova.

Having started doing business in the early 2000s, Yakubovsky became a millionaire almost instantly, and according to some sources, also not without the financial help of the Solntsevskys. In 2007, as an entrepreneur-developer, he sold 75% of the Gorki-8 cottage community that he owned for $170 million, after which he concentrated on Swiss business and triumphantly returned to the Russian market in order to promote the Swiss innovative technology of Thermission, creating a joint venture with OJSC "KAMAZ". It is noteworthy that Yakubovsky sold the village on Rublyovka, which turned out to be “golden,” to the Sistema-Hals company, a subsidiary of AFK Sistema.

Man of the "System"

At the end of September, it became known that Arnold Spivakovsky, who was detained in Spain, was a current employee of the same company.

This was first reported by the Dozhd TV channel, drawing attention to a letter dated September 17, 2017, published on the website of the Russian Children's Fund. In it, Arnold Spivakovsky congratulates the head of the organization, Albert Likhanov, on his birthday, signing himself “project manager of AFK Sistema.”

Then the company’s press service confirmed this information to RBC, saying that Spivakovsky works at the Sokolsky DOK woodworking enterprise, which is part of the Segezha Group holding controlled by AFK Sistema. According to the company's help desk, Spivakovsky's workplace is located at the Moscow address st. Spiridonovka, 20. In the same place, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, only in building 2, AFK-Service LLC and private security company AFK-Security, also part of AFK, are registered.

One of the charitable foundations, the president of which is Spivakovsky, is also registered at Spiridonovka, 20.

As The CrimeRussia found out, the executive director of the Foundation for Legal and Economic Research headed by Arnold Spivakovsky is Oksana Sergeevna Chentsova, who is also one of the founders of TKF LLC "HOUSE OF FURNITURE" along with entrepreneurs Sergei Mikhailov (Mikhas) and Viktor Averin (Avera Sr.) .

The Russian PJSFC Sistema, which has recently become widely known due to its corporate conflict with Rosneft, was created in 1993. The financial corporation is a large private investor in the real sector of the Russian economy and one of the largest taxpayers in the Russian Federation (from 2013 to 2016, about 290 billion rubles were transferred to the budgets and extra-budgetary funds of the Sistema enterprise). More than 150 thousand people work at AFK enterprises. Sistema's investment portfolio consists primarily of Russian companies in various sectors of the economy, including telecommunications, high technology, banking services, timber processing, agriculture, real estate, tourism and much more. AFK Sistema controls the leading telecommunications operator in the CIS countries PJSC MTS, the timber industry holding Segezha Group, the Detsky Mir chain of stores, the federal private network of medical institutions Medsi, the defense electronics holding OJSC RTI, JSC Agroholding Step, JSC Binnopharm, PJSC MTS Bank, the Cosmos Group hotel chain, as well as a number of other companies and several investment funds. In most of its projects, Sistema JSFC owns a controlling stake. 64.1843% of the shares belong to the head of the company’s board of directors, Vladimir Yevtushenkov (30th place in the Forbes ranking in 2017 with $3.5 billion).

Another non-profit structure where Spivakovsky is listed as president is the Saltai Foundation for the support and development of wildlife and agriculture of Altai and adjacent regions, registered at Moscow, Milyutinsky Lane, 13, building 1. JSC, which is part of AFK Sistema, is registered at the same address "Business Real Estate", controlled by AFK through the Cyprus offshore Vainom Investments Ltd LLC "Business Park Development", JV "Sistema" and the Louis Dreyfus agricultural trader company "RZ Agro", as well as managed by AFK "Sistema" SBK Agro-Invest and LLC "UK Stock Real Estate".

The CrimeRussia has established that Arnold Spivakovsky’s collaboration with the structures of AFK Sistema began long before he became a respectable businessman and manager and was better known to FSB and Ministry of Internal Affairs operatives as Solntsevo’s “authority” and “Mikhas’s adjutant.”

According to Interpol, when Sergei Mikhailov ended up in a Swiss prison, Arnold Spivakovsky took over leadership functions in the organized crime group, receiving instructions from the boss from prison through lawyers Ralph Eisenger and Avner Kandov. As the Kommersant newspaper wrote in 1998, at that moment a large-scale project was being carried out for the reconstruction of the sewerage system in Moscow and the construction of the Turkmenistan-Ukraine gas pipeline, over which Mikhas exercised control. To implement these contracts with a total value of $350 million with AFK Sistema and the Ukrainian company Itera, several companies were created in the canton of Vaud - Plamosa Management & Finance, East LineSA, Cougar Distribution SA and SCFI.

The media have been writing for several years now that the owner of AFK Sistema, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, is well acquainted with Sergei Mikhailov (Mikhas). They say that they were introduced by the former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, who has been a patron of Yevtushenkov's corporation since its creation. It was reported that in 1993, Sistema, through the structure of IVK International, became a shareholder of the SV Holding company, which is indirectly owned by Mikhailov.

Yuri Luzhkov and Vladimir Yevtushenkov

Mikhasya Spivakovsky, a close associate, began working as deputy general director of the Beijing hotel complex in 2001 - almost immediately after its director Konstantin Georgiev (Kostya Osetin) was shot. The mastermind behind the murder was never found, but on the eve of Georgiev’s death, an agreement was reached with the Moscow government on a large-scale reconstruction project for the Civil Code, worth $200 million, financed from the city budget. Meanwhile, when Arnold Spivakovsky was taken to the Lobny temporary detention center in 2002 on charges of drug possession, Moskovsky Komsomolets wrote, the Ministry of Internal Affairs received operational information that the organizer of the murder of the head of the Beijing Hotel had been detained.

Place of murder of Konstantin Georgiev (Kostya Osetin)

In 2003, according to a decree of the Moscow government, Beijing-Invest OJSC, owned by AFK Sistema, became the investor in the hotel reconstruction project, after which the share capital of the hotel complex gradually passed to structures controlled by AFK.

Next is a simple comparison of events and facts. In 2004, the Moscow mayor's office transferred one of the city's largest hotel complexes, Cosmos, to VAO Intourist, due to which the value of Intourist, which is 90% owned by AFK Sistema, increased by $30 million. And in 2005, Arnold Spivakovsky was elected chairman of the board of directors of OJSC GC Kosmos, a year later he became its general director, and in 2013 he was elected chairman of the board of directors of Intourist, affiliated with AFK.

Do criminal authorities work at the AFK Sistema corporation?

Singer Lolita Milyavskaya made a statement about the death of her ex-man, 51-year-old businessman Arnold Spivakovsky.

It is known that the man was 51 years old; there is no information about the details and cause of his death. Lolita was in a relationship with Spivakovsky after a difficult break with producer Tsekalo. The businessman helped her get through a difficult stage in her life.

In 2002, an entrepreneur who worked in the hotel business became involved in a criminal case for possession of narcotic substances on an especially large scale - cocaine was found in his apartment. Spivakovsky's lawyers then stated that the search procedure was carried out in violation of the law, and the witnesses did not confirm the fact of the discovery of a narcotic substance. He was later acquitted.

Two years ago, the Russian press wrote that Spivakovsky was detained in Spain, where he was suspected of connections with the criminal world and money laundering.

Arnold Spivakovsky - biography

Hotel business director Spivakovsky, who managed the legendary Moscow Beijing Hotel, was Lolita's common-law spouse in the late 90s and played a significant role in her career. The media mentioned the businessman’s numerous connections with the criminal business. At the beginning of the 2000s, Spivakovsky was accused of drug possession, and two years ago a man was detained in Spain on suspicion of financial fraud. The cause of Spivakovsky's death is not yet known. The businessman was 51 years old.

Arrested in Spain 4 months ago on suspicion of money laundering, Arnold Arnoldovich Spivakovsky (Tamm) is a well-known hotel manager in Russia, former general director of the Cosmos Group of Companies and chairman of the board of directors of Intourist.

Currently, he is a top manager at Segezha Group, part of AFK Sistema.

The court of the province of Malaga decided to release Russian citizen Arnold Spivakovsky (Tamm), known to Interpol as one of the leaders of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, on bail of 750 thousand euros, El Espanol reports.

At the end of September, Spivakovsky was detained by Spanish law enforcement officers on the Costa del Sol, among 11 Russians, on suspicion of money laundering and connections with the Solntsevskaya and Izmailovskaya organized crime groups. Spivakovsky, who permanently resides in Russia, was at that moment in Spain on a week-long vacation.

In early October, together with the owner of the Marbella football club Alexander Grinberg, the shareholder of the Aguas Sierra de Mijas drinking water plant Oleg Kuznetsov and the manager of the same company Sergei Dozhdev, the Marbella court sent him under arrest. Moreover, Arnold Spivakovsky, whom Spanish law enforcement officers consider one of the leaders of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, directly connected with Semyon Mogilevich, who is wanted by the FBI, was denied the right to release on bail.

However, 4 months later, Arnold Spivakovsky’s defense, led by lawyer Carlos Dominguez, protested the court’s decision, calling the accusations against Spivakovsky unsubstantiated and describing their client as “a respected top manager who has been repeatedly awarded by the Russian government.”

It is reported that bail for Spivakovsky in the amount of 750 thousand euros has already been paid, but during the judicial investigation he is prohibited from leaving Spain. In addition, the suspect must testify in court twice a month.

Thus, the confidence of another alleged Solntsevsky leader, businessman Sergei Mikhailov (Mikhas), that Spivakovsky will soon be free due to lack of evidence, was confirmed. Mikhas expressed it shortly after the arrest of Arnold Spivakovsky in Malaga.

The fate of the other three arrested as part of the September Civil Guard operation codenamed “Oligarch” is still unknown. However, in December, as The CrimeRussia reported, the defense of the owner of FC Marbella, Alexander Grinberg, also filed an appeal against the arrest.

Arnold Arnoldovich Spivakovsky (former surname Tamm) - according to Interpol and operational information of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs of the 1990s - a “criminal authority” who was part of the leading “eight” of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, occupying a place in its hierarchy immediately after the Averin brothers, Sergei Mikhailov and Semyon Mogilevich.

Since the mid-1990s, Spivakovsky has become a “legal” businessman and executive officer of a number of companies. He held the positions of deputy general director of the Irbis customs terminal, public relations adviser to the secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus Pavel Borodin, deputy general director of the Beijing Hotel, chairman of the board of directors of OJSC GC Kosmos, head of the board of directors of VAO Intourist. Currently, Arnold Arnoldovich Spivakovsky is a top manager of the Segezha Group, part of AFK Sistema. Spivakovsky was never convicted, although he was repeatedly detained along with other Solntsevo “authorities”, as well as in a high-profile case of cocaine trafficking in the Moscow club “Dolls”. In the capital's operational circles, there was a version of Spivakovsky's involvement in the murder of the director of the Beijing Hotel, Konstantin Georgiev (Kostya Osetin).