If the decision of the Ust-Labinsk court to release Zakhar Kalashov for health reasons is not appealed (the likelihood of this is almost zero), then Shakro will be released on March 23. And a grandiose banquet will await him, which will combine three events: actually, liberation; Kalashov’s birthday (he will turn 71 on March 20) and the birthday of “acting thief in law No. 1” Badri Koguashvili (on March 22 he will turn 60 years old). Shakro’s former headquarters was located in the building of the Golden Palace casino, but all the premises there were rented out after Kalashov’s “landing”. Presumably, the new headquarters of thief in law No. 1 will be in the Match Point entertainment center on Novy Arbat. This is an object close to a “criminal general.”
Kalashov will have no problems with his “controlled” and “protected” business structures, as well as with his “militants” after leaving. In recent years, two “authorities” have monitored the observance of his interests in all areas – Martin Babakekhyan and Alexander Zakharov. The first is responsible for all of Shakro’s business interests, and the second is for the “power bloc.” Previously, the functions of consigliere under Shakro were performed by the “authority” Andrei Kochuykov (Italian). But he sat down a little earlier than Shakro, and all Kalashov’s attempts to release him ahead of schedule were unsuccessful. Now Martin and Sandro have become such. Although, of course, after his release the Italian will have an honorable place in Kalashov’s hierarchy. 
Recently, all representatives of the mafia and business community knew Martin and Sandro as representatives of Shakro and his most trusted persons. The story of the relationship is very interesting.
In 2011, the Moscow City Court issued a verdict in the case of the murder of the governor of the Magadan region, Valentin Tsvetkov, committed in October 2002. They shot him, Martin Babakekhyan received 19 years of strict regime, Alexander Zakharov – 17 years. The person who ordered the murder and the motives were never established. Martin and Sandro categorically refused to testify on this matter.
They ended up in the Russian Federation after they were arrested on July 7, 2006 in the Spanish resort of Marbella, and then Spain handed them over to the Russian Federation.
Kalashov was deported from Spain much later, in 2014, when Martin and Sandro were already serving long sentences. It was never even mentioned that they were somehow connected.
However, according to the Cheka-OGPU, in Spain Martin and Sandro were part of Shakro’s inner circle. Immediately after his forced return to Moscow in 2014, Kalashov said that he was ready to pay “any money” for the release of Martin and Sandro. It was not possible to free them, but Kalashov managed to ensure that they served their sentences in comfortable colonies and conditions.
And Martin and Sandro were released after Shakro himself was arrested and convicted of extortion, but much earlier than they were supposed to serve. And again, in the criminal world they are sure that Kalashov “had a hand” in their release, since Martin Babakekhyan and Alexander Zakharov “received almost 20 for him” and did not surrender. To put it simply, it was Shakro who ordered the murder of Tsvetkov.
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