We are talking here not even about “cash-out” by an organized group, but about a stable working criminal community with Maxim Kazantsev at the head. A little over three years ago, the very fact of being at the head of an organized crime group became a very serious crime, the “ceiling” for which is a life sentence, and in an “ordinary” case we can talk about dozens of years in prison and an almost unlimited period of time in a pre-trial detention center. A striking example is the former head of the Summa holding, Ziya Magomedov, who has been in Lefortovo for five years.
The difference between Magomedov and Kazantsev, in essence, is only that Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, are not lessening their attention to the former’s case, and Kazantsev’s case is now at the disposal of the capital’s police investigation. The restraint of the employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow can be understood: an accusation of criminal activity is always a big noise and media interest. However, the egregious situation has matured to the point of transferring Kazantsev’s organized crime group under the personal control of Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, and even better – the top officials of the Investigative Committee and the FSB.
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On the afternoon of September 23, the employees of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, who had seen a lot in their lifetime, were puzzled by the extraordinary picture. Two dozen lawyers came to the meeting to select a preventive measure for a little-known native of Chelyabinsk, Maxim Kazantsev.
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