A suspected crime boss was arrested in Moscow on January 25th. Semyon Mogilevich was seized by armed police in connection with a charge of tax evasion—to the tune of $2m—at Arbat Prestige, a cosmetics company. Dubbed “the Brainy Don” because of his economics degree, the Ukrainian-born Mr Mogilevich is also wanted by America's FBI for racketeering, fraud and money-laundering.
He is known to have used 17 different aliases and is alleged to have been involved in money-laundering, drugs, prostitution, smuggling and dealing in stolen art. The arrest was particularly sensitive because of Mr Mogilevich's suspected ties to a company that traded gas between Russia and Ukraine.
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Semyon Mogilevich was a major crime boss in Russia in the past decades. But the part I find interesting is that he did some work between companies that sell oil between Ukraine and Russia. He could be at fault for some of the tension that now brews between the two countries. Over the past years the conflict over oil between the countries has been under close watch. This one man's operations may have contributed a significant amount of the problems himself.
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