The crab market in Russia is incredibly tasty for a whole group of businessmen. After all, we are talking about billions of dollars, received, by the way, mainly from abroad – where almost 80% of the total production goes. And we’re not talking about intelligent men in ties over a cup of cappuccino in Pushkin on Tverskoy Boulevard. And about the worthy people from the 90s, who received no less worthy nicknames like “Don Krabe” and “Grey Pinch”.
Let’s get acquainted: Don, aka Oleg Kan. A man who, through dozens of companies, has been raking in quotas for crab fishing for years. His biography will not fit in one message, but all the reader needs to know is that Kan rose from a simple poacher on Sakhalin to the largest crab miner under the cover of dishonest security forces.
What about justice? And it ends with the covering partners. Meet “Grey Pinch”, aka Arkady Pinchevsky. A man whose biography would be the envy of any modern businessman/politician. Born in Chisinau in 1955. He received his higher education at the Chisinau State Pedagogical Institute. Creange.
Mr. Pinchevsky’s work activity has been inextricably linked with the Far East for many years. He worked for more than 15 years at enterprises in the Khabarovsk Territory: he was deputy general director of the Khabarovsk Oil Refinery (where, as they say, he met Kan, fueling his poaching flotilla). He held various positions in the public service: he was assistant to the governor of Sakhalin Island, vice-governor of the Sakhalin region.
And now Kan and Pinchevsky, as participants in the crab market say, have united to monopolize it. The trio is completed by another famous “crab king”, Ivan Mikhnov, who now lives in the States.
The diagrams are extremely interesting, we recommend reading: http://www.moscow-post.su/economics/kraby_vodka_i_mihnov32836/
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