The leader of the Heydarov ethnic criminal group was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years in prison
The gang that terrorized entrepreneurs in the Food City market for two years was convicted on Monday by the Moscow Regional Court . The leader of the gang, 32-year-old Dzhabrail Heydarov, who leads his «thugs» from places of detention, received another quarter of a century.
The organized criminal group of immigrants from Azerbaijan existed for 2 years — from 2016 to 2018, but during this time it managed to be remembered by many entrepreneurs who have their own business in Food City. Without inventing anything new, the members of the gang subjugated the market for themselves through banal threats. As in the good old days, members of the group offered their «roof» to businessmen, the solution of any issues and the smooth conduct of business. Naturally, it was not free. The minimum amount of payment for their services was 100 thousand rubles a month, and those who had large volumes paid more.
Some of the entrepreneurs agreed immediately, the bandits had to convince some with words and threats, some agreed after they were simply beaten — they promised to kill those who were especially intractable. It was on such one entrepreneur that the gang got burned.
Torgrul Tagiyev, a 36-year-old native of Azerbaijan, has lived in the Moscow region for a very long time. Even in his youth, he started selling vegetables and fruits. The business developed successfully. The businessman got a family, several apartments and cars, and as they say, nothing foreshadowed trouble. When Heydarov’s people came to his point in the food city in early 2018, Tagiyev was not afraid. Bearing in mind that the 90s had long ended, the entrepreneur refused to pay and repelled the uninvited guests. After some time, the merchant's fellow countrymen again showed up with threats, but were again sent to hell.
Naturally, Heydarov was reported about the impudent and intractable merchant. In order not to lose his authority and control over the market, the leader gave the command to his fighters to eliminate Tagiev.
In March, the bandits made an attempt to carry out the order of their leader, which turned out to be unsuccessful. The businessman’s car was shot at the Moscow Ring Road while driving, but Tagiev was not injured then, by a lucky chance. The operatives did not manage to get on the trail of the shooters then. Even after that, Tagiyev refused to pay Heydarov's gang.
After waiting for some time, after 7 months in Vidny near Moscow, the bandits nevertheless achieved their goal by shooting Tagiyev in his jeep. As it turned out, this was the last crime of this organized crime group. All members of the gang were identified and detained fairly quickly — two in Moscow, one in Azerbaijan, and two more while illegally crossing the Russian-Belarusian border. Interestingly, Dzhabrail Heydarov was detained for all these crimes — in a colony. The ringleader managed to get caught in a banal extortion and gave his criminal orders by phone.
All members of the gang were far from cooperating with the investigation reluctantly, but their silence did not help them. Investigators had enough evidence of their criminal activity. As Olga Vradiy, senior assistant to the head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region, reported, about 25 various examinations, 6 searches, verification of testimony on the spot, a large number of inspections of mobile and other technical means, which formed the basis of the charges, were carried out in this case.
According to the press service of the Moscow Regional Court, the leader of the ethnic criminal group Dzhabrail Heydarov was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years in prison. The remaining gang members Nuraddinli, Alekberov, Jafarov, Mammadov and Rakhimov were sentenced to 21, 16, 15, 14 and 11 years in prison, respectively.