A long bloody trail stretches behind the “well-wishers” of Alexander Lishchenko.
During the investigation of the attempt, committed in the summer of 2018, on the life of the 52-year-old vice-president of the Kiev Boxing Federation Alexandra Lishchenko (pictured), known as a crime boss nicknamed Licha, law enforcement officers combined the materials of two high-profile criminal cases on high-profile crimes in the Kiev region. As writes detective infoinformation about this is available in the court register.
According to them, at the end of December 2020, the investigation raised the issue of combining into one case the episodes about the shooting of a foreign car Lishchenko and robbery on the house of Kyivoblenergo board chairman Ivan Polyvyany.
Recall: on the evening of September 24, 2017, a quartet of intruders entered the estate of the family of a top manager of an energy company in the village of Belogorodka, Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district, Kiev region. They tied up the owner and his wife, after which they began to beat the spouses, demanding information about the location of the safe with valuables. As a result, jewelry became the prey of the bandits, and Ivan Polyvyany himself died on the spot from his injuries.
(Ivan Polyvyanny and the house where he was daringly attacked in the fall of 2017)
On the possible connection of the robbers who attacked the house of the top manager of Kyivoblenergo with the bandits involved in the attempted murder of the ex-deputy of the Kyiv City Council Lishchenko, who in the turbulent 1990s was part of a powerful organized crime group led by Valery Pryshchik (aka Pimple) , law enforcement officers came out thanks to the analysis of telephone traffic of a certain circle of people.
This analysis was carried out during the investigation loud history about the execution on the night of June 4, 2018 in the village of Gorenichi, Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky district, of a Range Rover car, in which Licha traveled together with the driver Maxim Kovtunenko. Then, at the intersection of Voyennaya and Olkhova streets, the attackers ambushed Lishchenko, firing about 30 bullets from a Scorpion submachine gun towards his vehicle.
(Alexander Lishchenko and the shot car Range Rover)
As a result of this attack, the driver Kovtunenko died on the spot, and the vice-president of the Moscow Boxing Federation fled unharmed. As for the likely killers, the investigation was actively working out their connection with the appearance in the country of one guest from the sunny Caucasus.
According to some reports, the investigators found the biological material of this man in the cabin of the Audi, on which the would-be killers of Lishchenko could move. Moreover, the corresponding DNA profile was already in the database of the Kiev NIEKTs, where it allegedly got during the investigation of another high-profile crime.
We are talking about the murder of a native of Donetsk region Elbrus Askerov – confidant of a thief in law Nadira Salifova (Guli, aka Lotu Guli). The body of 29-year-old Askerov with three gunshot wounds was found near a reservoir on the side of the Obukhov highway.
Elbrus Askerov together with the Salifov brothers – thieves in law Guli and Namik
As the investigation will later establish, a trio of men were involved in the liquidation of Askerov “on the basis of established hostile relations”. The immediate killer, a native of the Azerbaijani city of Kurdamir, was soon declared suspected by law enforcement officers in absentia. However, to this day there is no information about his detention and further prosecution in the materials of the court register.
Let us add that shortly after the discovery of Askerov’s corpse, some media promoted a version regarding the probable connection between the motives of this crime and the violent confrontation between the two ethnic groups. According to this interpretation, Elbrus Salman-Ogly could become another victim in the conflict that escalated in the summer of 2018 between the co-founder of the NGO “Congress of Kiev Azerbaijanis”, “authoritative” businessman Oleg Krapivin (aka Oleg Bakinsky), and the clan of the aforementioned thief in law Lotu Guli.
Supporters of this version noted that the execution of a confidant Nadir Salifov near Kiev was a response to the murder committed on July 3, 2018 near the Dolma restaurant on Antonovicha Street in Kiev. Then the victim of the killers was the Azerbaijani Davud Agayev, who had previously been prosecuted and was a close associate of Oleg Bakinsky.
murder site of Davud Agayev
Be that as it may, law enforcement officers managed to establish Agayev involved in the murder. This is his compatriot with a sports background, Yasin Gasanov, who is still on the wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the summer of 2020, the Azerbaijani media reported on Hasanov’s detention in Baku. Local journalists wrote that the detainee Gasanov explained the “liquidation” of Agaev by a long-term conflict between Caucasian criminals.
Yasin Gasanov
