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“Osya”, or Butorin Sergei Yuryevich, is a criminal authority and leader of Orekhovskaya

In 2011, the leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group was convicted and the punishment was imposed. The judicial authorities found Butorin guilty of the criminal acts charged to him, namely the organization and leadership of an organized criminal group, as well as the murder of 38 people.

A few biographical facts

Butorin was born in 1964 in the city of Ostashkov, located in the Tver region. Having reached conscription age, the guy went into the army, where he served in a sapper unit. The military unit was located in Odintsovo. Having served the required term, Butorin did not leave the service, but continued his military career. Thus, he rose to the rank of ensign. In his young and mature years, Osya became seriously interested in sports, in particular boxing. He repeatedly took part in various competitions and even received a rank in this sport.

However, in 1989, the future leader of the organized crime group retired from the military. His further work was to guard a small cafe called “The Scarlet Flower”. The location of this establishment was in the Koptevo area.

First crime

Sergei Butorin's younger brother, Alexander, was repeatedly convicted and used drugs. Perhaps it was thanks to him that Butorin connected his life with crime. So, it was together with Alexander that Osya, who did not yet have such a nickname, committed his first crime. This happened on July 27, 1990. At that time, Butorin was not yet a member of any criminal groups and did not communicate with any of the authorities in the criminal world. On that day, Sergei Butorin, Osya, and his brother robbed the apartment of Victor Magids, who was a well-known collector in certain circles.

The brothers received an order to rob this apartment from another antique lover, Yakov Feldman. The latter met Alexander Butorin in prison, where he was also serving his sentence. In addition to the brothers, an acquaintance from prison also took part in the crime. But besides this, Tokarev also previously worked in the internal affairs bodies. Preparations for the crime, that is, measures to search for weapons, were undertaken by Sergei Butorin. As a result of this robbery, the criminals caused damages amounting to more than nine million US dollars. Among the stolen items were a lot of jewelry, icons, ancient paintings, as well as various archaeological finds.

Yakov Feldman and Vladimir Stepanov

Vladimir Stepanov, who was an aspiring entrepreneur at that time, had to play a certain role in this crime. According to the plan developed by Feldman, Stepanov was supposed to stand in his car at a distance from the crime scene, and when the others had done their job, drive up to the entrance and take away the loot. But it was at that moment that an incident happened to Stepanov. At a certain time, he was unable to drive up to the appointed place, because he was overcome by sleep. Having woken up and arrived at Magids’ house, Vladimir Stepanov discovered that his accomplices were no longer there.

Four years later, Vladimir Stepanov turned to the internal affairs bodies, where he spoke about the crime committed and the persons involved in it. Police officers put the Butorins, Tokarev and Feldman on the wanted list. Some time later, Feldman was found hanged in the Belgian capital. He left there a week after the robbery; he lived in Brussels, in one of the hotels where he rented a room. Belgian police found no signs indicating that it was a violent death. Therefore, everyone decided that it was suicide. Feldman's corpse was sent to Moscow, where he was cremated.

Subsequent criminal career

Having completed the indicated robbery of the apartment, Osya realized that a period was coming during which he could rise well. It was then, with the collapse of the USSR, that the era of the cooperative movement began, and the criminal careers of many criminals took off. Taking such cooperator-entrepreneurs under one's protection ("protection") brought very large incomes. Of course, Butorin didn’t like working as a security guard for mere pennies, so he, his brother and a guy nicknamed Belok (Dmitry Belkin) decided to organize their own brigade. These events took place in Odintsovo. Having created a group, the criminals began to work - they extorted money from entrepreneurs, committed robberies and robberies.

Expansion of organized crime groups, unlike other gangs

Over time, the gang began to expand, and more and more territory came under its control. Their influence spread to the area from Odintsovo to Zvenigorod. Basically, the organized crime group was engaged in racketeering of entrepreneurs, but it also did not shy away from any other business for which it could make at least some profit.

The difference between Butorin’s organized crime group and other criminal organizations was that Axis subordinates did not commit murders on order, but generally just like that, perhaps even for pleasure. Such murders did not promise them any benefit, but the fact remains that people were killed for no apparent reason. So, at one time Butorin’s people were at enmity with the Golitsinskaya organized crime group. Subsequently, the Golitsyns surrendered, gave the Butorin group all their wealth and spheres of influence and did not lay claim to anything else. However, Butorin's people continued to kill them without stopping.

Criminal authority

By 1993, Butorin had gained a very significant authority in Odintsovo, other criminal groups began to listen to him, and his organized crime group became the only one holding Odintsovo.

Also in 1993, Alexander and Sergei Butorin met Grigory Gusyatinsky, at that time the leader of the latter was, in turn, the closest henchman of Sergei Timofeev, the current leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group. Gusyatinsky recognized in the Butorin brothers the people he needed and decided not to let them go far from him. Later he introduced them to Sergei Timofeev.

Then the distribution went as follows. Belkin was left in Odintsovo to control criminal activities there. Butorin Jr. became Gusyatinsky’s right hand; he was entrusted with various assignments that could not be entrusted to other people. Sergei Butorin joins the gang of Sergei Ananyevsky, nicknamed Kultik. After some time, he, as a member of the organized crime group, becomes the right hand (Sylvester).

Detention of accomplices

Later, in 1994, Alexander Butorin, Evgeny Tokarev, as well as the head of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group Grigory Gusyatinsky were detained in a completely different case. The criminals rented a dacha from a famous academician in the Moscow region, where they were detained by police officers. During a search of the dacha, detectives found a whole warehouse of firearms and ammunition. There were twenty Makarov pistols alone in the cache. It was subsequently found out that these pistols were stolen from a fire school located in the Irkutsk region. During the theft of these pistols, a school watchman was killed.

Sergei Butorin was saved from arrest on that ill-fated day for the rest only by the fact that, having learned about the detention of the rest of his accomplices, he managed to hide. Later, the criminals' lawyers managed to get the court to release all detainees on bail.

Release and re-arrest

After their release, the trio was met by the entire “brotherhood” that made up the organized criminal group. But not only their criminal comrades were waiting for them, but also a special police detachment. The latter’s fighters arrested the newly released criminals, as well as everyone who met them. Then the detainees were taken to the police department, where they “rolled off their fingers,” made a video recording, and then released them. But Alexander Butorin and Evgeniy Tokarev were not released, but were sent to the capital. There, the criminals were charged with the robbery they committed against the collector Magids.

After this incident, Gusyatinsky quickly left for Kyiv, but was killed there by a killer hired by his own people, who decided that he was no longer needed.

Investigation into the case of apartment robbery

After the arrest of Tokarev and Alexander Butorin, they were interrogated several times, but the criminals denied all accusations, without admitting to anything. The investigative authorities, however, also did not sit still. They carried out a number of investigative actions, including the identification of the criminals by the victim Victor Magids. The latter easily identified everyone. Measures to show the suspects to the victim were carried out right in the hospital where Magids was being treated. In addition to identification by Magids, Stepanov gave testimony against Tokarev and A. Butorin. But the evidence base against the criminals was not limited to this. A hair belonging to the criminal was found and seized from the collector's robbed apartment. Later, a forensic examination was carried out and it was determined that this hair belonged to Butorin.

Thus, the guilt of the detainees was fully confirmed by the evidence found.

Search for stolen antiques

But at the same time, investigators were worried about one more question: where was the stolen property? Of the stolen paintings, only one was found in the capital, which the police seized from Butorin literally a couple of months before his arrest. The arrest at that time was for possession of a firearm that was found in the trunk of a vehicle. There, along with the machine gun, was a painting, which was confiscated in abundance. Later the case was closed, but the stolen painting remained lying somewhere in the police department.

When conducting a new investigation, the investigators remembered this recent case, picked it up, found the painting, which was returned to the owner. After some time, Interpol officers discovered six more stolen paintings, which they wanted to sell through Sotheby's auction. Victor Magids independently went to the UK, where he took property belonging to him. However, then he still sold the paintings through this auction.

The victim, Victor Magids, died in 1995; the trial of the thieves of his property never began, so he did not have time to see the criminals being sent to prison.

The trials in the criminal case in which Evgeniy Tokarev and Alexander Butorin were accused lasted about a year and a half. Before the court was to pronounce its verdict, the main witness, Vladimir Stepanov, was killed. He was shot right at his entrance; the crime weapon was a pistol.

Denouement

A few years later, more precisely in 2011, it turned out that Stepanov was killed on the order of Sergei Butorin, and the murder was carried out by Marat Polyansky, who at that time worked for Butorin as his bodyguard. Despite this, Stepanov managed to give all the testimony necessary to the investigation, so his murder did not affect the court verdict.

Sergei Butorin’s brother was sentenced to 9 years in prison, but Evgeniy Tokarev was sent to a psychiatric clinic for treatment. Later, Tokarev escaped from this hospital; they could not find him. Sergei Butorin, as already mentioned, received life imprisonment.

Not all people know where Sergei Butorin is imprisoned, why he was imprisoned, what crimes he committed, but some time ago he gave an interview to one information publication, in which he spoke about his atrocities, about his attitude to life at that time, which was not so distant time.

These people were neither “thieves in law”, nor even “authorities”, but at their very mention the most notorious scumbag bandits were horrified. Using the methods of the special services, they pitted powerful groups in the capital against each other, and therefore they managed to remain in the shadows for a long time. The Axis gang was only brought down this year in what is perhaps the biggest successful investigation in many years.

Career

By the mid-90s, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had quite a wealth of information about the Solntsevo, Koptev, Orekhov and other Moscow groups. However, at some point, several powerful figures appeared in the capital, keeping in the shadow of these communities.

If in 1996 one of the “authorities” had been asked who Osya was, he would probably have answered: “Yes, punks, he rubbed around Sylvester” (criminal leader Sergei Timofeev). Today the name of Sergei Butorin, known by this nickname, is already surrounded by legends. They say that he is a former special forces soldier, an employee of one of the special services. In fact, Butorin is a former warrant officer of a construction battalion from Odintsovo near Moscow. At the end of the 80s, he retired from the army and, since he was successfully involved in boxing there, he and his brother Alexander (Zomb) got a job as a bouncer in the Scarlet Flower cafe in Koptevo. Butorin, who showed himself well in brutal tavern fights, became friends with serious bandits and already in 1990, as part of a criminal group, he robbed the famous collector Vladimir Magids - the stolen valuables amounted to $9 million.

After some time, Osya led Sylvester’s brigade of militants and met the “Kurgan residents” Andrei Koligov, Oleg Nelyubin, Vasily Ignatov and Alexander Solonik, who had moved to the capital. True, at that time they were all just “Sylvester punks.” At the same time, Andrei Pylev, aka Dwarf, a protégé of the “authority” Grigory Gusyatinsky, who was killed in 1994 in Kyiv, appeared next to Osya.

Gradually, the backbone of the future legendary group was formed. In 1996, Pylev’s brother Oleg was a member of the Medvedkov group, Andrei Pylev himself and Osya were members of the Orekhov group. They worked together, but on the “arrows” Osya represented either the Orekhovskys or Solntsevskys, and the Pylevs represented the Medvedkovskys.

After the death of Sylvester (he was blown up in 1994 on Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street), a redistribution began in the Orekhov group. One after another, its leaders were killed: Kultik, Dragon, Vitokha and others. It later turned out that it was Axis who gave the orders for their liquidation. At the same time, he regularly went to the funerals of his comrades, swore revenge and gave orders for financial assistance to the families of the victims. By the way, by this time Butorin himself was officially listed as dead, and a tombstone appeared at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery indicating that he left this world in 1995.

Sasha the Soldier

The main “dirty” work in Butorin’s group was done by a certain Alexander Pustovalov, known as Sasha the Soldier. After graduating from vocational school, he worked at the Rubin plant and, in addition, practiced judo and even played the piano. In the army, he was a Marine - he served in an elite special forces unit. By the end of his service he received the rank of sergeant major.

Once, after demobilization, Pustovalov was sitting in a cafe, where he came in full dress - in a black Marine uniform, which he was very proud of. As often happens, a fight broke out, and Alexander quickly “knocked out” all the participants. Among the fighters were several Orekhovskys, who invited the dashing marine to continue serving with them. So Osya got one of the best executioners. Later, during interrogations, Sasha the Soldier calmly admitted to committing many murders. He did not panic, did not hide behind the backs of his accomplices, and when asked why he killed, he answered: “I am a soldier, this is my job.” The operatives note that Pustovalov is “a very erudite person and soon you somehow involuntarily develop sympathy for him.” It is significant that Sasha the Soldier was adored by Moscow prostitutes - for his generosity and decency. Pustovalov told some that he worked as a killer, but the young ladies took it as a joke - how could such a charming guy with a fashionable “Leninist” beard kill someone! But Sasha could , and how. Here are just a few of his victims: Alexander Solonik (it was the Soldier who strangled him in Greece), the Koptev authority Kutepa, the leaders of the Assyrian group Alik-Bidjamo and Gennady Utkin and about a dozen other businessmen and criminal "authorities". But this is only what has been proven so far. Unlike Solonik, who “took upon himself” all the high-profile liquidations, Pustovalov tells the operatives - “what you prove is mine.” The detectives, talking about Solonik, who became famous throughout the country for the murders of thieves and authorities, they believe that he “didn’t even stand next to Pustovalov.”

Kurgan trace

By 1997, after the execution of the Koptev “authority” Vasily Naumov under the windows of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the patience of the Murovites came to an end. Soon the closest friends of the Axis were behind bars - the Kurgan bandits Koligov, Zelyanin, Nelyubin and several other militants. Investigators claim that these were the people who ordered the murders committed by Solonik. At that time, publications appeared in the press about a bloody gang of Kurgan residents who shot almost half of Moscow. In fact, the leak of information about the “Kurgan case” was planned by Osei and his people in the police structures. The hype around the Kurgan, according to the calculations of Axis and Pylev, was supposed to divert the attention of the police from their group. However, the MUR drew attention to the fact that even after the detention of the Kurgan liquidators, contract killings, distinguished by professional execution, continue to occur both in the capital and abroad. The investigation has information that Pylev’s people in Hungary were even preparing an assassination attempt on the “authoritative” businessman Sergei Mikhailov, to whom one of the Osin financiers owed $10 million. The money that revolved around Butorin’s group was comparable to the budgets of the largest companies in Russia.

Shadow economy

At the very beginning of his criminal career, Sergei Timofeev took under his wing one of the most experienced and successful shadow criminals, Grigory Lerner. However, Sylvester himself, whom Lerner called only Ivanovich, always emphasized that they were partners, and not “a businessman and a roof.” When Timofeev died, his entire financial empire passed into the hands of the Axis gang. He, however, did not appreciate this and began by actually kidnapping Lerner in France.

The scope of Lerner’s business is characterized by an extract from criminal case No. 145055. “From the testimony it follows that $10 million was contributed by Lerner to the authorized capital of the company PRIFC he created, $46 million was used to increase the authorized capital of the Independent Trade Union Bank in the territory of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, after which it was issued to as loans to Lerner-owned companies." True, the name Butorin is not in these documents. Osya traveled abroad using several fake passports - like Isakhim Karsliev, Vladimir Shcherbakov or Stepan Pishchenko.

For Lerner, arrest in Israel and detention became a guarantee of saving his life. The Murovites who investigated the case have every reason to believe that Osya “sentenced” Lerner and was waiting for an opportunity to carry out the sentence. The state of relations between the “partners” can be judged from Lerner’s letter.

“If your goal was to scare me, you achieved it (Lerner addresses Butorin and Pylev. - “Money”) . If your goal was to humiliate me, you achieved it - for the first time “Sylvester’s children” dared to speak in such a tone, for the first time they staged a performance with the doors locked, with a six in the corner, with a cord noose in a visible place. Have you confused me with anyone? You were still working for the communists in the armies when the swindlers in the zone tried to burn me in the forge. You still hadn’t heard Ivanovich’s name when I was sitting under a Chechen knife. You haven’t yet earned a criminal ruble when in 1988 I gave Ivanovich, not him (he never took a penny from me), but the boys 100 thousand rubles a month. Never... I never worked with Sylvester for "I'm afraid" or paid for "I'm afraid." And I won’t, even if you put four more snoops in the corners. Neither Dima, nor Yura, nor Misha, nor Kultik, nor Dragon allowed themselves to arrange such meetings with me. You insulted me to the very heart, and S.I. (Sergey Ivanovich Timofeev. - “Money”) Indeed, yesterday I was spinning in my grave, both Kultik and Dragon... I am not a prostitute who passes from hand to hand from pimp to pimp. I have worked and am working with only one person - with Ivanovich, and I answer only to his memory...”

It is interesting that Lerner's business is just part of what Osya and his people had at their disposal. As the investigation showed, this group completely controlled a number of the capital’s largest markets, including Mitinsky and Dorogomilovsky, several banks, private security companies and a modeling agency.

Interview with Lerner, incl. regarding the "attack" on him, see "Dr. Lerner"

For more information about Lerner, see: Grigory Lerner, Grisha the impostor, Lerner in Israel

Meeting with the Motherland

Interrogations of Kurgan militants showed that they carried out many liquidations on someone else’s orders, and were not involved at all in many of those attributed to them. It can be assumed that someone from Kurgan called Butorin’s name, and Murov’s search engine began working at full capacity. Sensing danger, Osya, together with Andrei Pylev, left for Spain. Informants in the police structures told him that the Kurgan people were “singing.” The result of this betrayal was the murder of Nelyubin and Zelyanin in prison. The first was beaten to death by fellow inmates, and the second died from a drug overdose. However, by this time Butorin had already been put on the international wanted list. In February of this year, it became known where Osya was hiding, and employees of the MUR and the FSB went to Spain. Representatives of Interpol and the Spanish police took part in the operation along with them. Osya was caught near a brothel, and Andrei Pylev was also caught there. The latter, however, was not long ago released on a large cash bail and a written undertaking not to leave the place. Butorin is awaiting a decision on extradition. It is expected that he will be extradited in early January, at which time the trial of the Axis group will begin in the Moscow City Court.

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May 19, 2004. Today, the Moscow City Court sentenced members of the Orekhovskaya criminal group, led by Sergei Butorin (nickname Osya) and the Polyansky brothers. Since 1995, bandits have committed more than 20 murders in Moscow.

In 1998-2000, employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department neutralized the criminal group. Marat Polyansky and Butorin tried to hide in Spain, but were detained there during a joint operation of the Spanish criminal police and MUR officers. During their arrest, their weapons were confiscated; they are currently serving their sentences in a Spanish prison. The remaining members of the criminal group were detained in Moscow.

By a court decision, one of the group members, Alexander Vasilchenko, was sentenced to life imprisonment, others - Alexander Pustovalov (nickname Sasha Soldier) received 22 years in prison, Dmitry Kulikov and Sergei Filatov - 18 years each, Vitaly Alexandrov, Vladimir Kamenetsky, Ivan Sausarais, Oleg Pronin and Ruslan Polyansky - 17 years each, Alexander Kravchenko - 8 years, Yakov Yakushev and Dmitry Usalev - 8 years suspended.

Another member of the group, Viktor Sidorov, received 5 years and was released in the courtroom along with Yakushev and Usalev.

August 17, 2005. The Moscow City Court sentenced 11 members of the so-called “Orekhovo-Medvedkovskaya” group, which operated in Moscow in the early 90s. The defendants, who are responsible for 18 murders and other serious crimes, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 4 to 24 years. The gang leader Oleg Pylev received the longest sentence (24 years in a maximum security colony). Oleg Gusev, found guilty of murdering killer Alexander Solonik, was sentenced to 10 years.

The trial was held with the participation of jurors, who returned a guilty verdict in the case of the Orekhovo-Medvedkovskaya criminal group. The state prosecutor asked to find the defendants guilty on almost all charges. The jury agreed that they did not deserve leniency.

The so-called “Orekhovo-Medvedkovskaya” group was created in Moscow more than 10 years ago. Subsequently, the gang split into two parts: “Orekhovskaya” and “Medvedkovskaya”. The defendants were accused of 14 counts of premeditated murder, which resulted in the death of 18 people, including the famous crime boss Alexander Solonik, as well as of creating a criminal community, banditry and a number of extortions.

The jury reached a verdict within two days. In total, the discussion, voting on the questionnaire and announcement took 15 hours. As state prosecutor Anton Karetnikov told reporters after the verdict was announced, the prosecutor's office is satisfied with the completion of the case of the Orekhovo-Medvedkovskaya criminal group. “The verdict almost completely coincides with the indictment; the jury agreed with the state prosecution in almost everything and found the defendants guilty,” the prosecutor said.

Currently, nine of the eleven convicts are in custody, and two are under recognizance not to leave. 7 defendants pleaded guilty. Several other defendants in the case partially agreed with the verdict. As for the leader of the group, Oleg Pylev, he completely rejected the charges brought against him.

After the death of the leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group, Sergei Timofeev, a fierce struggle for power began within the group. As a result, having arranged a series of “contract” murders of those who had even the slightest opportunity to lay claim to the role of gang leader, the vacant position of manager was taken by Sergei Butorin, better known in the criminal community as Osya.

Brothers

The future leader of an armed criminal group was born into an ordinary, ordinary family in the Tver region in 1964. Sergei was the eldest son in the family, and as he grew older he was in good standing. All the hopes and aspirations of the parents were pinned on him, because... Their youngest son, Alexander, established himself as a “lost” person almost from a young age.
While Sergei, having served in the sapper unit, decides to stay in the service, Alexander is sliding downhill, having received several criminal records and bad habits, in particular, he begins to take drugs. Nevertheless, the brothers were friendly with each other and did not lose contact.
In 1989, holding the rank of ensign, Butorin Sr. retired from the army, and, not finding a better use for himself, got a job with his brother as a security guard in a cafe with the fabulous name “The Scarlet Flower”.

First thing

By this time, Butorin Jr. already had some connections with the world of crime, unlike his older brother. He receives information from a speculator and smuggler Yakov Feldman, a prison acquaintance, about the famous collector Victor Magids, whose apartment is simply “filled” with valuable art objects. The idea of ​​quick profit voiced by his brother appealed to Sergei Butorin, and he, using his remaining working connections, took upon himself the supply of weapons to the resulting company. The third to join the case was former police officer E. Tokarev, a cellmate of Butorin Jr.
The robbery was more than successful. The total value of the stolen goods amounted to more than $9 million. Paintings by famous artists, archaeological finds, jewelry, ancient icons - everything passed into the hands of the robbers.

“Odintsovo” organized crime group, the beginning.

Sergei Butorin, inspired by the successful operation, understands that this is an area where he can finally make decent money. Having weapons in his hands, he decides to organize a group that will engage in robbery and racketeering. His younger brother and good friend Dm became his partners. Belkin (Belok). This is how the “Odintsovo” group appeared, named after the place where the gang was formed - the city of Odintsovo, near Moscow.
Having ousted the “Golitsinskys,” who once controlled the territory of Odintsovo, Butorin’s group became the main one, moving towards Zvenigorod. Over time, the members of the Golitsinskaya organized crime group were completely eliminated. Butorin dealt with everyone who had anything to do with her.

Taking it to the next level

By 1993, Butorin already had a certain weight in the criminal environment. Gradually, he begins to make contacts with members of influential gangs in the capital. In particular, acquaintance with the leader of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group Grigory Gusyatinsky, in turn, brings Butorin into the circle of associates of the most important person in the “shadow” side of Moscow - Sergei Timofeev (Sylvester).
So, in 1994, together with Gusyatinsky, Butorin organized a crime, “ordering” an influential businessman, a competitor of S. Timofeev, Otari Kvantrishvili.

Power struggle

Without attracting much attention, Butorin also becomes close to Andrei Pylev (Karlik), a member of the Medvedkovsky gang. The “on their own” attitude, characteristic of both, contributed to their unification to achieve joint ambitious plans within the framework of the “Orekhovsky” community.
In the same 1994, Timofeev’s car was blown up a couple of minutes after the authority got into it. The Orekhovskaya group was left without leadership. After this, Butorin showed himself, emerging from the shadows.
In 1995, teaming up with Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik) and Yuri Volodin (Dragon), Butorin organized a conspiracy against one of the main contenders for the post of head of the Orekhovskaya gang, Yuri Bachurin (Usatii). As a result, Bachurin and his bodyguard were shot dead.
Not much time passed before S. Ananievsky, Yu. Volodin and G. Gusyatinsky were killed, and Butorin headed the Orekhovskaya organized crime group. In parallel with this, Andrei Pylev and his brother headed the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group. Soon the gangs united and took control of all major objects of the capital.
Among other things, Butorin and Pylev did not want to lose Timofeev’s assets, the supervision of which was once transferred by authority to the talented financial fraudster Gr. Lerner. If Timofeev (Sylvester) maintained a partnership with Lerner, then Butorin tried to “put pressure” on the financier, but to no avail. Lerner did not cooperate. It did not go unnoticed by them how persistently Butorin and Pylev tried to seize control of the deceased’s funds, which involuntarily suggested the initiators of the murder of the Orekhovsky leader.
Only in 1996 would Lerner change his mind and make contact with the leaders of the Orekhovskaya gang, but as a result, all their joint endeavors would fail.

The fate of Butorin Jr., continuation of the collector robbery case

In 1994, a certain Vladimir Stepanov approached the security forces, saying that he was directly related to the case of the theft of Magids antiques. It turned out that Stepanov was the personal driver of Yakov Feldman and at a certain point in time had to drive the car to load the stolen things. But from fatigue, he fell asleep and slept through the crucial moment.
This valuable information became sufficient grounds for putting the Butorin brothers, Ya. Feldman and Tokarev, on the wanted list. I didn't have to search for long, because... shortly before this, the younger Butorin and Tokarev were detained at one of the dachas near Moscow, which they used as a warehouse for weapons stolen from a fire-technical school in the Irkutsk region.
Butorin Sr. managed to hide in time, thereby avoiding arrest. But the “traitor” Stepanov was found and punished. Literally on the eve of the sentencing, the main witness was shot on the “order” of S. Butorin. Subsequently, in 2011, this will be proven in court.
As a result, Alexander Butorin received 9 years in prison. Tokarev was sent to a psychiatric clinic, from where he soon safely escaped and “dissolved.”
Feldman moved to Brussels after the robbery. Feldman's body was soon discovered hanging from a chandelier hook in the hotel room he stayed in upon arrival. According to investigators, there were no signs of violent death.

Butorin's arrest

In 1995-1996, Butorin eliminated virtually all the leaders of the groups closest to him: “Assyrian”, “Sokolniki”, “Kuntsevo”. The victims will also include the famous killer Alexander Solonik, whom Butorin did not trust and decided to eliminate for his safety.
Butorin himself, together with Marat Polyansky, his bodyguard, will move to Spain, a place of comfortable and relatively safe life for many members of criminal gangs. Before leaving for his homeland, Butorin faked his death and even took care of the burial place. To this day, in one of the Moscow cemeteries, supposedly his grave has been preserved, with his first and last name and a personal portrait.
In 2001, Butorin and Polyansky were detained and arrested near Barcelona during an operation organized by the Spanish police, Interpol and domestic operatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB. The criminals were armed and tried to resist, but in vain.
Initially, Butorin and Polyansky were sentenced by a Spanish court to 8.5 years in prison for weapons possession. It was only in 2010 that both were extradited to their homeland to serve sentences for other crimes.
A Russian court sentenced Butorin to life imprisonment for organizing an armed criminal group, organizing the murders of more than 30 people, as well as robbery and banditry.

The Moscow City Court sentenced one of the leaders of the Orekhovskaya criminal group, Sergei Butorin, nicknamed Osya. For 29 murders he received a life sentence. However, Osya has not yet answered for all his victims. Now operatives are collecting evidence that he is involved in the liquidation of the head of the Orekhovskaya gang, Sergei Timofeev, and the bombing of a car carrying businessman Boris Berezovsky.

Hearings of the case against Sergei Butorin and his bodyguard Marat Polyansky began in the Moscow City Court in May 2011. Osya was charged with the murder of 29 people, Polyansky - four. The most notorious crimes are the elimination of the head of the Social Protection Fund for Athletes Otari Kvantrishvili and the killer Alexander Solonik.

Marat Polyansky fully admitted his guilt and cooperated with the investigation, so the prosecutor demanded 15 years in prison for him. Butorin stated that he was not involved in any of the murders. A representative of the prosecutor's office asked him to be sentenced to life imprisonment. Osya himself believes that he will not live long in the colony. Today he said that he is worried about his safety because he has so many “influential enemies.”

Sergey Butorin (Osya), photo st-news.info

Investigators and MUR employees managed to collect a large dossier on this man. According to investigators, Osya began his criminal career in 1990. Then Sergei and his brother Alexander received an order from antiquities lover Yakov Feldman for the collection of the famous collector Victor Magids. The attackers broke into Magids' apartment in Moscow, tied up the unfortunate man and took away icons, paintings and miniatures.

However, the “customer” never received these items. He was soon found hanged in Belgium. When Osya decided to sell the antiques himself, he met the leader of the Orekhovskaya group, Sergei Timofeev, nicknamed Sylvester. A little later, Butorin entered this organized crime group, although at first he played a secondary role.

In 1994, Timofeev had a conflict with the head of the Athletes Social Protection Fund, Otari Kvantrishvili. Two well-known people in the criminal world could not divide the Tuapse oil refinery.

According to investigators, the elimination of Kvantrishvili was entrusted to the regular killer of the Orekhovskaya gang, Alexey Sherstobitov, nicknamed Lesha Soldat, and it was Osya who helped him in this. On April 3, 1994, Osya and another authority - Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik) - met Sherstobitov at a residential building in Moscow, from where the exit from the Krasnopresnensky baths was visible, where Kvantrishvili was steaming at that moment. When the “friend of the athletes” went out into the street, Lesha the Soldier shot him with a sniper rifle.

In the summer of 1994, Timofeev began to conflict with Boris Berezovsky. Businessman Grigory Lerner, controlled by Sylvester, organized a scam, as a result of which the All-Russian Automobile Alliance, owned by the oligarch, lost 1 billion rubles. Berezovsky's security service figured out who was behind the fraud, and the businessman had a very unpleasant conversation with Timofeev. And on June 7, 1994, a car with Berezovsky was blown up near the office of his brainchild, Logovaz. The businessman himself received minor injuries at the time. Operatives suspect that in this case, too, Osya organized the assassination attempt on Sylvester’s orders. However, the corresponding charges have not yet been brought against him.

In 1994, Sergei Timofeev was blown up in the center of Moscow. Officially, this crime has not yet been solved, but operatives are sure that it was organized by the same Osya. According to detectives, Butorin feared that he would have to answer for numerous attacks on famous people, organized on Sylvester’s orders. If Timofeev is removed, then the victims will think that revenge has taken place. In addition, Osa was tired of being on the sidelines in the group, and Timofeev did not want to promote him up the Orekhovsky hierarchical ladder.

After the death of Sylvester, Osya literally began to make his way over corpses to leadership in the organized crime group. According to operatives, in a short period, on his orders, the authorities of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group Kultik, Dragon, Vitokha, etc. were killed. It is worth noting that it became Butorin’s rule to eliminate his own people for the slightest offense, as a result of which most of his victims were members of the same “Orekhovskaya organized crime group.”

So, in February 1995, Osya and his closest partner Oleg Pylev suspected that the “authority” Yuri Bachurin (Usatii) was laying claim to leadership in the group. They gave the order to the militants Makhalin, Gusev and Kondratyev to deal with their competitor. They invited Usatii and his bodyguard Alexei Sadovnikov (Bathhouse attendant) to take a steam bath in the bathhouse located in Putevy Proezd. There, the gangsters brutally beat Bachurin and Sadovnikov and then strangled them. Later, Kondratyev took the corpses to a vacant lot, doused them with gasoline and set them on fire.

Instead of the killed bandits, Osya surrounded himself with former athletes and special forces from the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, who helped him wage a “war” with other criminal clans. Only in 1995-1996 did the Axis team eliminate the entire top of the Kuntsevo, Sokolniki, Assyrian and Odintsovo groups, as well as the heads of the companies associated with them. In total, according to investigators, 57 murders were committed during such “showdowns”.

When in 1996, MUR employees got on the trail of the Orekhovskys, Osya faked his death; in one of the capital’s cemeteries there is still a grave with a slab on which hangs a photograph of the “authority.” He himself, according to investigators, had plastic surgery and went to Greece, where he lived on the passport of a certain Yakim Krasliev.

There at that moment there was “killer No. 1,” Alexander Solonik, who had escaped from the “Matrosskaya Tishina” pre-trial detention center, who liked to talk about his desire to become the leader of the group, which Butorin really did not like. After some time, Solonik was strangled in his villa. Osya went to Spain and from there waged a war with his competitors, during which several businessmen and members of the Izmailovskaya organized crime group were killed.

Having calculated Osya's location from calls from a mobile phone, MUR officers flew to the suburbs of Barcelona, ​​where in 2001, together with local police officers, they detained Osya while leaving a nightclub. A Spanish court sentenced the “authority” to a long term for illegally carrying weapons, after serving which Butorin was extradited to Russia.

The leader of the Orekhovskaya gang, Sergei Butorin, received a life sentence

The leader of one of the most famous groups of the 1990s, the Orekhovskaya gang, Sergei Butorin, accused of murdering 36 people, was sentenced to life imprisonment. He did not admit his guilt and refused to testify. His bodyguard Marat Polyansky, who confessed to the crimes, received 17 years in a maximum security colony. His wife came from Spain to attend the announcement of the court decision.

On Tuesday, the Moscow City Court announced the verdict of the alleged leader of the Orekhovskaya criminal group, Sergei Butorin (known by the nickname Osya) and his bodyguard Marat Polyansky. Many journalists, including television crews, gathered for the last meeting of the trial.

On the side of the defendants there was only Polyansky’s wife, who came from Spain, along with a translator. She refused to answer questions from journalists. The defendants themselves appeared in the same clothes they wore to the first hearing: Butorin in a denim suit, and Polyansky in a tracksuit. During the announcement of the verdict, both, as before, periodically communicated with each other and smiled. Sometimes, having fallen silent, Butorin sadly fiddled with his fingers.

Judge Sergei Podoprigorov found Butorin guilty of 36 murders and attempted murder of nine people. The court also established Polyansky’s guilt in the murder of 6 people and the attempt on the lives of three.

According to investigators, Butorin led the so-called Orekhovskaya organized crime group from 1994 to 1999. He was charged with 29 counts of murder and three attempted murders. The most notorious of these crimes are the murders of the famous killer Alexander Solonik (Sasha the Makedonsky) and the head of the Social Protection Fund for Athletes Otari Kvantrishvili. Bodyguard Polyansky, according to investigators, was involved in four episodes of murder and one attempted murder.

The verdict was announced for almost five hours.

The judge recalled that the Orekhovskaya organized crime group was created in 1991 by crime boss Sergei Timofeev (Sylvester). According to the indictment, gang members extorted money from businessmen in exchange for criminal patronage and eliminated rival groups. In addition, the Orekhovskys also killed members of their gang who in any way aroused their distrust. In 1997, gang members, the Ivanov brothers, were killed.

According to the materials that the judge read out, the leaders of the organized crime group received information that the Ivanovs were divulging information about the group’s activities and drinking. The operation to eliminate them was led by Polyansky. The Ivanovs, together with other gang members, went to the forest near the village of Lipki, Odintsovo district, Moscow region.

In the forest they began to dig a hole - as was supposed to be for the next corpses that were to be brought. After some time, Polyansky drove up, threw work clothes at Ivanov and ordered him to change clothes, supposedly for the sake of conspiracy. When the brothers undressed, Polyansky opened fire on them, and their corpses were thrown into the hole they had just dug.

They also did not tolerate drug addicts in their midst. According to one of the episodes imputed to Butorin, among Orekhov’s men there was a certain Goryushkin, who regularly used drugs, which aroused hostility among the gang leaders. On July 16, 1996, one of the conspirators called Goryushkin out of the apartment under a minor pretext, the judge read.

He was taken by car to the forest near the village of Gryaz, Moscow Region. Goryushkin was thrown to the ground, his hands and feet were tied with tape and tied to a tree. Having dug a hole, the gang members began to choke him one by one. Then Alexander Pustovalov (the famous killer nicknamed Sasha the Soldier) cut his neck, dismembered the corpse and threw it into a pit.

In the same month, a certain Mingazov, who was involved in selling drugs, including to gang members, was also killed. On July 29, 1996, the killer, wearing a wig and glasses, approached him and shot him at least six times. Another gang member and drug addict Meshchenko was killed on August 21, 1996. Under the pretext of a meeting, his comrades brought him to a Moscow apartment, where they all began drinking alcohol together. Suddenly, Pustovalov approached Meshchenko from behind and began to choke him. The killer then carried the corpse into the bathroom and dismembered it. The remains were placed in two bags and taken by car to the Moscow region.

By 1995, the group merged with the Medvedkovsky bandits. Some of the Orekhovskys were led by Butorin, and the Medvedkovskys were led by brothers Andrei and Oleg Pylev, who are now convicted and serving their sentences in Russian colonies. According to investigators, after Timofeev’s death in 1994, Butorin became the leader of the gang.

In this regard, Butorin is charged with “co-perpetrator” of the crimes for which the Pylevs were convicted, the judge explained.

Investigators were on the trail of Butorin back in 1999, but he left for Spain, staging his own funeral and undergoing plastic surgery. In February 2001, he and Polyansky were detained in the city of Castelldefels and received eight years each for possession of firearms. After the expiration of their prison terms, in early March 2010, Butorin and Polyansky were transferred by the Spanish authorities to Russian law enforcement agencies.

The trial began on May 10, 2011, during which time former members of the Orekhovskaya, Medvedkovskaya and Solntsevo organized crime groups were called to the court to testify. Most of them are in prison, some have already been released on parole (those who collaborated with the investigation received relatively short sentences at one time). In particular, the Pylevs’ bodyguard Vladimir Gribkov, killers Alexander Pustovalov and Alexey Sherstobitov, as well as Polyansky’s brother, who was also part of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group, were called to court. During the debate, the prosecutor asked for Butorin a life sentence, and for Polyansky 15 years in prison.

Butorin did not admit his guilt and refused to testify. Polyansky, on the contrary, confessed to everything.

According to his testimony, he met Butorin in 1995. He was introduced to him as a businessman, and he did not immediately understand who he was dealing with. Only after hiring him as a bodyguard did he realize the nature of his work. At first, Polyansky was only involved in ensuring the safety of Butorin, and then he began to receive orders for murder. According to him, the second person in the gang was a certain Belkin. Butorin could have called from abroad and said that they needed to help Belkin, who had already given instructions. However, Butorin’s consent had to be obtained for the murder.

Butorin's defense asked the court to exclude a number of criminal episodes from the indictment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. But the judge did not agree with her. In his opinion, Butorin still poses a public danger. Also, four claims from victims - relatives of the victims - were sent to the court. Their amount was more than 10 million rubles.

The judge satisfied the claims in the amount of 2 million rubles, which should be recovered from Butorin.

During the break, Butorin, in a conversation with his lawyer, recalled Vladimir Lukovsky, who was recently acquitted by a jury of murder 17 years ago. “He has a verdict on Friday. Has he been released yet? - he turned to the escort police and received a negative answer.

The court sentenced Butorin to life imprisonment to be served in a special regime correctional colony. Polyansky received 17 years in a maximum security penal colony.

- Do you understand the verdict? — the judge asked Butorin.

“Yes, it’s much clearer,” he said.

His lawyer Olga Tarasova intends to appeal the decision. “In my opinion, the evidence collected cannot be considered reliable, because the testimony was given by people interested in shifting part of their guilt to Butorin,” she explained to a Gazeta.Ru correspondent.