Operatives of the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan detained Nikolai Kazaev. He is called the founder and leader of the organized crime group “Kazaevsky”, which became famous for the bloody murders in Yudino. The group, founded in the 80s, protected the merchants until the end of the 2000s, the founder of the organized crime group was assassinated several times, and the end of the gang came in 2013. The participants have already received terms, but Kazaev managed to escape. About how they got on his trail, where they caught him and for what sins he now has to answer – in the material “BUSINESS Online”.
How the leader of the organized crime group “Kazaevsky” was caught
Nikolai Kazaev, the founder and leader of the eponymous organized criminal group “Kazaevskie”, which kept the village of Yudino at bay, was put on the federal wanted list on July 5, 2014. A year before, operatives of the Organized Crime Control Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan were just detaining members of the group. But someone leaked information about the upcoming purge to Kazaev. And he managed to escape.
He was in hiding for almost nine years: they managed to put him on the international wanted list, arrest him in absentia, and the former “subordinates” heard the sentence – more than 120 years in prison for six members of the organized criminal group. In their case, 14 episodes and 5 victims were counted, four of whom were members of the gang themselves.
The way on the will of the fugitive Kazaev ended at the cemetery in Yudino. His son Taras Kazaev is buried there. He died on May 13, 2014, a couple of months before his father was put on the wanted list.
According to BUSINESS Online sources, the operatives of the organized crime department received information – for four years now Kazaev has been visiting his son’s grave on the anniversary of his death. When these data began to be checked, the security forces learned that the leader of the organized criminal group was brought to his small homeland under the cover of night, he was in Yudino no more than a couple of days. And spent the night in a bathhouse, which belongs to one of his relatives. Where he hid the rest of the time, it was not possible to find out.
But this was not required, because the insider was 100% confirmed. On the night of May 12-13, Kazaev really appeared in that very bathhouse. However, the building was already surrounded, and security forces broke into it. After interrogations, he was sent to a pre-trial detention center.
The court, where Kazaev’s detention was extended, was provided with a video of the detention of the alleged leader of the organized criminal group. There, under the sapphires of night cameras and in handcuffs, he names his personal data, and then answers the standard questions: he has no weapons with him, he has not used drugs and alcohol, he is of sound mind. The expression on Kazaev’s face unambiguously conveys that the detention is a shock for him. Since May 15, he has been in one of the Kazan pre-trial detention centers. According to our information, the investigation committee has already charged him with the murders. However, he categorically does not admit his guilt.
How did the “Kazaevsky”
Yudino can be safely called a village of railway workers, there is a large railway junction and a railway technical school. Day and night, you can hear the rumble of the coupling of wagons, the rumble of trains and their signals. And in the 90s, this noise was interrupted by the shots of the showdowns of local groupings.
Back in the 80s, several groups were born and rallied here. One of them, presumably the “center” was formed around the then young Kazaev (Kazai). The main income, as it was established in court, is racketeering, protecting local “comers”. Sometimes the sphere of influence of the organized crime group went beyond the boundaries of the village. Merchants were intimidated, threatened to keep quiet, and continued to collect tribute. In addition to Kazaev, the “Yudin” Dmitry Bikbulatov (Rotten) and Igor Saparin actively participated in the development of the group. By 1991, the trinity, according to the prosecution, was the top of the gang. Their authority was unshakable, but it only seemed so.
For example, one of the “Kazaevsky” was a relative of the chairman of the trade union of the locomotive depot and could buy VAZ cars that were in short supply at that time. The groupers gave their “colleague” money for a car, but he squandered it. As a result, on October 23, 1991, the “reveler” was lured into the forest, where they were beaten to death with hammers. The body was left there, pelted with branches. According to the prosecution, voiced at the trial, Kazai himself took part in the massacre.
Six years later, in the summer of 1997, Panych, a member of the gang, decided to take money from his own people and attacked the “Kazaevsky”, who collected a “common fund” from shops and cafes. The punishment did not wait long: Panych was easily figured out, on August 5 he was kidnapped, pushed into the trunk, taken to a private house and thrown into the cellar. There Panych was shot in the leg and strangled. Then the “Kazaevs” tied up the body, put the corpse on a jet ski and took it to the Volga fairway. Railroad pads were tied to Panych’s legs and the body was drowned.
Schism and detention
Soon, the disassembly within the group reached a new level. In 1998, a split occurred already in the “top”. One side was taken by Kazaev, the other by Bikbulatov (Rotten). In the struggle for power, the latter decided to eliminate the founder of the organized crime group. “Bikbulatov, pursuing the goal of physically eliminating Kazaev and those close to him, took measures to arm the group he led with firearms, ammunition and explosive devices, thereby creating a stable armed group,” the indictment in the case said. He “got” a TT pistol and an AKS-74 assault rifle. OCG members Parshenkov, Morozov, Gogolev and Koshkin went over to the side of Bikbulatov. Gogolev prepared an explosive device, Parshenkov installed it under the car in which Kazaev was supposed to move. But one of the TNT bombs did not work, it saved the life of the leader of the gang and his accomplices Sadykov, Tarasov and Saparin. A week later, the surviving bandits dealt with Parshenkov, who was planting the bomb.
Witnesses claimed that they tried to eliminate Kazaev three times, but only once the explosive device went off. After that, Kazaev formally decided to retire, putting Saparin at the helm instead of himself, but he was soon shot dead. At the trial, Bikbulatov and Co. claimed that Saparin was liquidated by members of another organized criminal group, and he did not fall a victim of internecine squabbles.
In 2012, according to investigators, the last murder committed by members of the organized criminal group took place. Then Bikbulatov Sr., together with his sons Alexander and Sergey, killed a local resident near their house. The victim Konstantin Petrov, together with an accomplice, allegedly tried to take a metal tank worth 2,000 rubles from Bikbulatov’s yard. The man was beaten with a shovel, and the body was thrown into the Volga. They also drowned the boat on which the corpse was taken out. Petrov’s assistant was a little more fortunate. The man escaped with a chest injury, fractures and an IOU for 50 thousand rubles.
There was another “mokruha” on the account of the organized crime group. For example, a member of the group, Albert Koshkin, shot a married couple at the beginning of the 2000s because their dog allegedly attacked his dog. Then a pregnant woman died, having received a bullet in the head. Koshkin was tried alone and sentenced to 24.5 years in prison.
Members of the group began to be detained after the murder of Petrov in 2012. The investigation “took” six “Kazaev”, including the Bikbulatov family. The verdict was passed by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan, it took two days to announce the decision: Dmitry Bikbulatov was sentenced to 24.5 years in prison with the first 10 years in prison (then he will be knocked off for six months), Alexei Tarasov to 24 years in a colony with the first 10 years in prison , Albert Koshkin to 24.5 years in prison, Andrey Morozov to 14 years, Alexander Bikbulatov to 18 years and Sergey Bikbulatov to 17.5 years in prison.
Kazaev, depending on the charges brought, may face up to life imprisonment.
