FBI: Mobster 'more powerful than a John Gotti'

Maybe he was in the 1990"s but not anymore.

They all work for KGB now anyway...

Hey, speaking of the mob:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090729/155660354.h...
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20091009/156409551.h...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/world/europ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Vycheslav Ivancov, aka Yaponchik was a big figure. Bigger then Mogilevich, I should think. I believe his assasination was organized by another boss, Tariel Oniani, an ethnic Georgian Thief in Law, whose clan has been at war with that of Aslan Usoyan, known as 'Grampa Hasan', another Thief in Law, also from Georgia, but ethnic Kurd, and head of, according to Russian media, largest criminal syndicate in our country. Usoyan organized the grand funeral ceremony for Yaponchik, who was a very close friend and ally of his, and the final prayer was read, personally, by Vissarion, Patriarch of the Abkhaz Orthodox Church (Yaponchik was from Abkhazia). Hundreds of people, mostly fellow mobsters, attended the funeral.

They work for the KGB? Putin and others might now some shady people because many KGB officers after USSR collapsed decided to earn money by some shady methods.