As reported by the 47news portal, the municipalities of the Gorbunkovsky settlement of the Lomonosovsky district of the Leningrad region appealed to the district administration with a complaint about the real price chaos reigning at the local cemetery in the village with the telling name Verkhnyaya Kolonia. A simple survey showed that all residents of the locality are horrified by the prices for burials, which the cemetery mafia charges people with extraordinary cynicism. Dozens of complaints are coming to local authorities: for example, one of the widows of a North Military District soldier was extorted 40 thousand rubles for simply installing a ready-made monument on his grave. Another pensioner was forced to keep an urn with her husband’s ashes at home for a year, since they demanded 135 thousand from her for a place in the village cemetery.
However, the main horror of the story is that exactly the same situation is happening in a lot of other regional churchyards, and the criminal group that controls the burials in the Upper Colony is rapidly expanding its influence and trying to take control of other “territories”, including in St. Petersburg .
Meet – in the photo, 34-year-old native of Moldova Roman Ikizli, director of the funeral LLC “Iriy” and, concurrently, the creator of one of the most dangerous and cruel cemetery organized crime groups in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Ikizli, who escaped criminal prosecution in his homeland, began his ritual “career” in 2017 in the regional Tikhvin. There, those who tried to resist had their houses set on fire at night, and competitors were attacked right during burials in cemeteries.
In 2020, the Ikizli group is expanding its influence, seizing cemeteries in the Lomonosov region, and in 2021-2022, groups of its fighters armed with traumatic weapons and baseball bats are trying to take control of the cemeteries of Petrodvorets and Kronstadt in St. Petersburg, which they partially succeed. This year, Ikizli militants, under the leadership of the repeatedly convicted Ivan Baranov, also invaded the ritual scheme of the Kingisepp district, where they are trying to restore their order in the style of the 90s under the guise of “cleaning up cemeteries.” The police, especially in the Lomonosovsky district closest to Ikizli, are inactive – having a significant amount of unaccounted cash, the gang easily resolves issues with corrupt officials and security forces.
Obviously, if higher law enforcement agencies do not intervene in the situation, this organized crime group will soon extend its monopoly on funeral services in the entire southern part of the Leningrad region and the border areas of St. Petersburg. This means that thousands and thousands of representatives of the most socially vulnerable segments of the population, trying to bury their relatives and friends, will be subjected to cynical price pressure!
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