Part one. Servant.
21 years ago, the consul of India applied to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
“He came to us at the beginning of March 2001 with a whole delegation of Indians, – says a direct participant investigationsemployee of the 2nd slaughter department of the Office of the Special Police Service (USSM) – He said that a major Indian businessman disappeared without a trace. He is not at work. There is no home either. So that he would not go to work, such a thing never happened, there was panic in the company, they sounded the alarm.
Subarau Varakanti, a businessman from India, has been working in Russia since the days of the Soviet Union. A graduate of the Institute of Friendship of Peoples, he was engaged in large deliveries of tobacco and tobacco products. The company he headed had tobacco warehouses throughout the Union. He was a very wealthy businessman, even by Russian standards, not to mention Indian ones. He lived in a large apartment in the center of St. Petersburg, at 30 Mayakovskogo Street, and had an office near the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station.
On one of his trips to his homeland, he brought a servant from there, Srinivasa Vadthawatha. “He found this servant in the garbage heap, – says our commentator, – in the literal sense of the word. I saw some beggar, approached, asked what is your name? But he did not know his first name, or his last name, or how old he was. Subarau took pity on him, gave him a name and made a passport. For understanding, in India, not all residents have passports at all. It’s kind of a privilege.”.
So Srinivas Vadthawatha got a golden chance by the standards of India. He was a servant of the “big master”, was well-fed, dressed and shod, received a salary and lived abroad. In the spring of 2001, it was time for his master to get married. Since marriage in India is not easy, Subarau Varakanti bride, as expected, was picked up by her parents. The businessman flew to his homeland, celebrated a magnificent wedding and brought his young wife to Moscow.
“He drove it around the city, showed it to his Moscow friends, says the operative – showed her the Institute of Friendship of Peoples, where he studied. Then they went to Peter.
At the station he was met by a servant in a car. Varakanti had 4 Zhiguli models. When they arrived home, an ambush was waiting for them.”
Part two. General’s sons.
Any ethnic diaspora sticks to its roots and countrymen. Where the citizens of India Gill Sukhbiandar Singh, Parviz Mohammed Akhetesham, Gill Harpindar with accomplices caught the servant of Srinivasa Vadthavatha – history is silent. The fact is that when they met, they beat him hard and he betrayed both the place of residence of his master and his financial situation.
The raiders were not easy.
In the criminal case murder Indian businessman Subarau Warakanti, passed by five young Indians. These are former students of the Mechnikov Academy. Children of high-ranking officials of India.
“These are the same generals’ sons that we meetsays our commentator, – one of them was actually the son of the chief tax inspector of India. They lived here, studied for a fee. Parents paid 500 dollars for study, sent money for life. The children led a wild life. Everything is as usual”.
While the parents cherished sweet dreams of a career as respected Aesculapius for their offspring, they were expelled and expelled from the Mechnikov Academy for poor progress. The money that the ancestors sent was not enough, they wanted to live better, so they began to “shoe” their own, catching whoever they could.
“These devils caught our servant, beat him, learned everything they could, – the operative continues his story, – and sat in ambush.
When Subarau Warakanti returned home with his wife, a gang of villains attacked him. Beaten, tortured and strangled. Got all accounts and passwords. After that they cleaned the apartment. They took away savings books, credit cards, jewelry and things worth more than 2 million rubles. The amount was enormous at the time. (Recall that in 2001 the dollar exchange rate was 28 rubles).
But there was one catch. To withdraw money from some accounts, Mr. Varakanti could only personally or by proxy. Then, the rascals engaged in “creativity.” One of the accomplices was changed, touched up, made up and taken to to the notary on the Lesnaya metro station, near the campus. The defendant posed as Varakanti by presenting a residence permit in his name. The notary issued a power of attorney in the name of the servant, allegedly from Subarau Varakanti, to issue money from savings books and accounts.
True, according to our source, the notary quickly “saw the light”, realized that he was being fooled, but did not show off, but simply entered into a share with the scoundrels. With the stolen money, the Indians hung themselves and each other with gold, bought themselves watches and expensive perfumes.
An Indian businessman and his wife were stuffed into suitcases and taken to a parking lot on the Robespierre embankment.
“He and his wife were short,The operative says so they put them in suitcases. Journalists write that they were strangled. This is not true. When they were brought to the parking lot, they were still alive. They suffocated in those leather suitcases with straps. These guys, they were Sikhs. These are very militant religious Indians. Hard-hearted.”
Part three. Chase.
“The first thing we did, we punched the servant, says our source – they punched through transport, and this Vadthavatha is already sitting in Sheremetyevo on an airplane to Delhi. Our operas had a friend there, we rushed to him. Get the bad guy out of the plane. And he tells me – I can’t, the plane is already the territory of India. We ran to draw up papers.
According to a participant in the events, he rushed to the prosecutor’s office of the Central District, where they were urgently issued a warrant for arrest. A couple of hours later, the opera had already landed in Moscow and handcuffed the suspect.
“We started working with him in St. Petersburg. And this servant, he really can neither write nor read. And chatting in some Indian dialect, – explains the operative. I had to call an interpreter from the Peoples’ Friendship Institute. But we were lucky with an employee of the late businessman. His name was Homen. He scratched well in Russian “.
At first, only a couple of the five raiders were caught. But in order to get evidence, the operatives had to go to the trick. They introduced Homen as a high-ranking Indian police officer. He started the interrogation.
“He snarled so realistically in the style of the Indian policemen, and intimidated them so much that they immediately fell down.” The operative notes – everything about everything took us a week. That’s how we controlled them.”
The rest of the killers and robbers were caught only years later. They ran and hid. In February 2015, after 13 years, on the territory of the Tver region were caught Gill Sukhbiandar Singh and Parviz Mohammed Akhetesham. All of them received lengthy prison terms. A few months ago, at the beginning of 2022, the last defendant in this high-profile case was caught – Gill Harpindar. On May 6, the court sentenced him to 10 years in a strict regime colony and 3 million rubles in favor of the parents of the murdered spouses.
“They called me when they took the last one, – says the employee of the 2nd slaughter, – it turns out that all these years he hid here, in St. Petersburg, lived, as they say, on grazing. A terrible story indeed.”
According to the operative, when the case murder businessman was discovered, his father flew to St. Petersburg. Thanks to all the staff of the 2nd department. He offered the whole department to go to him on vacation in India, with accommodation and the entire tourist program.
“Elephants offered as a gift, – as I remember now – adds an operative. – In all seriousness. Of course we laughed. Where are we in St. Petersburg with elephants? But for many years the company of the deceased businessman brought us whole boxes of real Indian tea for the holidays. We then distributed it throughout the Administration.