The strange death of a crime boss in Odessa
Sometimes people die so “timely” that even natural causes confirmed by proper authorities raise involuntary suspicions. Especially if these people are not ordinary people, but “authoritative businessmen,” as we have been accustomed to call criminal leaders since perestroika.
So the sudden death of Alexander Nikolaevsky, known throughout the city under the nickname “Bacillus,” became a reason for fairly well-founded doubts. Judge for yourself - a 64-year-old healthy man, who has been involved in sports all his life, and even in his declining years “pulled iron”, pressing a barbell of 180 kg from his chest, without giving up training, suddenly dies of “acute cardiovascular failure.”
It doesn’t happen to anyone, skeptics can say, you never know - maybe he just didn’t calculate the strength and load, and the blood clot broke... Yes, but only when a person known for his serious informal influence on politics in Odessa suddenly takes for himself, yes and dies less than a week before the presidential election, this still raises certain bad thoughts. But who was the deceased?
Nikolaevsky’s “star” rose on the local horizon in the 90s, when this swindler, known for his dashing escapades, who had more than one “travel” in the zone behind him, first became one of the closest assistants to the criminal authority Karabas (aka Viktor Pavlovich Kulevar), and after his execution, which was suspected, not without reason, of Chechen bandits warmed up by the then mayor Gurvits - with the right hand of Alexander Angert, nicknamed “Angel,” who replaced him as the local “overseer.” And even then, having rallied around himself a cool brigade of muscle-building athletes, “Bacilla” managed to survive a deadly conflict with Hurwitz, with whom Angel, who had previously supported him, sharply disagreed in the 1998 elections, and the no less turbulent times of redistribution of spheres of influence and tough showdowns that followed .
The late “Karabas”.
Characteristically, Nikolaevsky never rushed to the top roles and did not strive to become a thief in law, preferring to combine criminal activities with more or less legal business. Moreover, over the years, especially after his senior partner Angert left the border, he gradually transferred the center of his activities to an area that was apparently quite legal.
As a result, smart, charming and outwardly quite intelligent and handsome, Nikolaevsky clearly took the position of one of the shadow leaders of Odessa. A completely legitimate port brokerage business, import-export operations with grain and other marketable goods. And - participation in very dubious, but outwardly legal scams with the development of the city with new buildings by the Alliance company, which ended in the ruin of gullible investors and complete impunity for the schemers... At the same time - the role of the founder of the security structure of the same name, also called "Alliance", and which allowed on outwardly legal grounds “protect” a fair portion of the city’s residential areas with their trade, both overt and secret...
As far as we know, Bacillus did not break ties with the Angel and was not in conflict with him, while at the same time maintaining a certain autonomy of action. It is also known that after the 2013-14 coup, he managed to establish cooperation with the new owners of the country.
Alexander Nikolaevsky (“Bacillus”).
And about a year ago something completely strange happened to him. A daring raid was carried out on his apartment, as a result of which the “authority” himself was severely beaten and then treated for a long time, a fair amount of money and valuable property was stolen, including an expensive carbine, and... complete silence. This is unprecedented!
Moreover, it was not made public then. Nothing is known about the capture of the criminals. Or - about the harsh, but completely fair reprisal against them by the “brothers”, because such lawlessness was always punished as cruelly as possible and information about the punishment was specially brought to the attention of the media. May it be discouraging!
...This sad story can be assessed in two ways. Either some of the same “thieves in law” gave their former comrade-in-arms a “shaft hint” about his unacceptable actions, or - all this was organized by quite “respectable” gentlemen for reasons in order to obtain from the fairly rational Nikolaevsky certain, from his point of view, dangerous actions.
Whether this is true or not, we don’t know and most likely won’t find out. But the sudden death of a strong and experienced person, who in our city had undoubted opportunities to informally influence the electoral process literally a few days before the elections, makes us think...
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