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Moving to the United States

Ivankov arrived in the United States in March 1992, despite having served a prison sentence of around ten years and a reputation as one of the fiercest and one of the most brutal criminals in Russia. Unlike the Cosa Nostra, where the boss gives out the orders, Ivankov used to go out and extort himself. He had arrived on a regular business visa stating that he would be working in the film industry. His reason for arriving in America was not initially clear. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs advised the FBI that Ivankov had come to “manage and control ROC [Russian Organized Crime] activities in this country”, advice that the FBI took on board. However Alexander Grant, editor for newspaper Novoye Russkoye Slovo said in 1994 Ivankov had left Russia because it was too dangerous for him there, since there are “new criminal entrepreneurs who don’t respect the likes of Yaponchik” and that he was not criminally active in the United States.[2] These sources are wrong however, since it became apparent that Ivankov was indeed criminally active in the United States. The actual scope of his activities is open for debate however, since conflicting sources describe his gang on Brighton Beach as around 100 members strong and being the “premier Russian crime group in Brooklyn” to something on the scale Lucky Luciano’s nationwide Mafia Commission many decades earlier. However there is no evidence to suggest that he systematically used violence or corruption or attempted to establish a monopoly on any criminal enterprise.
Ivankov was arrested by the FBI in June 1995, charged with the extortion of several million dollars from an investment advisory firm run by two Russian businessmen, and in June the next year was convicted along with two co-defendants. This causes further debate whether he was a big-time crime boss, since usually the criminal masterminds at the top are insulated from direct criminal activity by several layers. Furthermore, it was alleged that a murder of one of the victim’s fathers in Moscow was used as part of the threat, yet in tapped phone conversations Ivankov seems to be ignorant of such an event.
During interviews in prison, Ivankov accused the FBI of inventing the myth of the Russian mafia in order to prove the usefulness of their Russian division. He also stated that Russia “is one uninterrupted criminal swamp”, the main criminals being the Kremlin and the FSB and that anybody who thinks he is the leader of the so-called Russian Mafia is foolish.
[edit]Return to Russia

On July 13 2004 Ivankov was deported to Russia to face murder charges over two Turkish nationals who were shot in a Moscow restaurant following a heated argument in 1992. A third was seriously wounded in the alleged incident. The jury found him not guilty and he was acquitted the same day on July 18 2005. The witnesses, a police officer among them, claimed to have never have seen him in their lives.
Larisa Kislinskaya, a leading crime journalist with the tabloid Sovershenno Sekretno, thinks Ivankov will remain a relevant figure, if only because of his position as a thief-in-law with the criminal leaders who remain in prison. “Prison life is still run by the thieves’ law”, Kislinskaya said. “They may not have to respect him while they are free, but if they ever land in prison, they had better respect him. As long as there is a prison system, Ivankov will be an authority.”[citation needed]
[edit]2009 assassination

On July 28, 2009, at around 19:20 (1520 GMT), Ivankov was shot three times while leaving a restaurant on Khoroshevskoye Road in Moscow. A sniper rifle was found abandoned in a nearby parked vehicle.[3]
He died from his injuries on October 9, 2009

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