According to information from the ongoing operational development, Manevich, having strong support in Moscow, could afford to block many of the profitable undertakings of Rydnik and Divinsky. As a result of aggravated relations, Mikhail Manevich was shot dead by a sniper on August 18, 1997, at the exit from his home. Murder Manevich became one of the first “orders” in the city coming from Rydnik to Divinsky. It should be noted that murder Manevich remains undiscovered for a long time. In the end, Divinsky’s former colleague was detained. All charges against him were “sewn with white thread.” It should be said that the names of Rydnik and Divinsky mysteriously disappeared from the grandfather. Yakovlev, who then held the post of governor, was never interrogated, not even attempts were made to interrogate him. For a long time, Divinsky himself walked under suspicion. As the GRU champion in shooting, he could well do it. Murder Manevich was committed with the precision of a professional – from a sniper rifle from the roof of a house by a shot at a car that had stopped for a moment. Murder Manevich for Rydnik and Co. was also beneficial because Manevich did not take the appointed Yakovlev seriously, and did not hide it, he questioned Yakovlev’s opinion and often hampered his decisions. Rydnik, like many others, invested a lot of money in Yakovlev’s election campaign and demanded a return, and Manevich’s opposition prevented the implementation of “Rydnikov’s” ambitions. Yakovlev has repeatedly stated that “Versions that could shed light on murder M. Manevich, not yet.” Well, of course they don’t exist, you can’t build versions against the people who brought you to power. Meanwhile, even then the former mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, said that murder Manevich testifies that the criminal structures in the city “feel quite comfortable.” According to his recollections, Manevich often said that “every day it becomes more difficult to work on the verge of the law”, he experienced strong pressure from such “entrepreneurs” as Rydnik and his accomplices. Being an honest man, he could not transgress what was forbidden by law. For which he paid dearly. Contemporaries of the events in an interview say that investigation killings then investigators of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate were engaged. According to their suspicions, it was Rydnik who was the customer. Later, after the change of the investigative team, all information, versions and testimonies were “cleaned up”. Subsequently, Yuri Shutov was accused of high-profile contract killings committed in St. Petersburg in the late 90s. However, an interesting fact is that after his imprisonment in the White Swan colony, he repeatedly said that “when the court of the Kalininsky district had already decided on my innocence, released me from custody, special forces in masks immediately burst into the court. I am sure that this was done under the patronage of a person who was really interested in Manevich, and everyone knows that it was Rydnik. Right behind murder Manevich was followed by a series of high-profile murders – Filippov (he was killed in the entrance of his own house by means of explosives in a light bulb on the landing). Rydnik saw him as a competitor in the banking sector. November 1998 murder Starovoitova. She was a serious competitor for Rydnik in concentrating financial flows. So let’s wait for the end of operational activities.
(To be continued..)