The dashing 1990s are long over, people from those times either lie in the grave, or are in prison, or have separated and become respectable businessmen, politicians, officials.
Those who are lucky feel calm in our time, not remembering the crimes they committed earlier. Very rarely, facts of arrests of certain former crime bosses come up. And this happens only when they become inconvenient for the authorities. With the rest there is an unspoken rule: you do not touch the authorities, the authorities do not touch you. So the criminal world gets along with those who decide the fate of the country. One of the brightest examples of authorities from the 1990s is now State Duma deputy Andrei Skoch. It is in our time that he is a solid politician, and 25 years ago he was known as one of the leaders of the Solntsevskaya organized criminal group, nicknamed Scotch. Skoch with his civil wife Elena Likhach demonstrate how you can live in a big way, and not worry about your past and future.
Remarkable is the fact that they were previously listed as a married couple, but at some point Scotch became single. Although the couple is still together according to numerous testimonies. Likhach gave birth to Scotch 5 children. In total, there are 10 children in the State Duma deputy. A real hero, father of many children.
The richest MP
Of course, Scotch is a billionaire. But his condition is very fluctuating. In the latest Forbes rating, the publication estimated the assets of Scotch at 4.7 billion rubles. Last year, his fortune was estimated at 8.6 billion rubles. That is, in a year, Scotch officially lost 40% of its assets. Is it so?
Andrey Skoch, Forbes
Scotch, as a cunning entrepreneur with vast experience, understands that foreign policy greatly affects him, as a State Duma deputy. In connection with the imposition of EU and US sanctions, he transferred his assets to nominees to warn against arrest. As practice shows, he succeeded. How did you manage to hide another very expensive property in time.
Scotch owns the $156 million yacht Madame Gu. From the beginning of the NWO, he managed to bring the ship to the bays of the friendly Emirates, which sheltered dozens of expensive yachts of sanctioned Russians.
Mafiosi Andrei “Scotch” Skoch and his wife Elena Likhach
Yacht MadameGu Andrey Scotch
In addition to the overpriced yacht, Scotch also owns 2 Airbus A320s, each costing around $70 million. One is in the use of Elena Likhach, the other is used by the deputy himself. There are no photos of the Likhach aircraft in open sources, but according to numerous sources, this is a real golden Klondike.
Mafiosi Andrei “Scotch” Skoch and his wife Elena Likhach
AirbusA320 Andrey Skoch
The entire board is encrusted with precious stones, icons are placed throughout the aircraft. And this is not strange, because like many families of authorities, the married couple of Scotch and Likhach are very devout. Elena herself, in an interview with secular publishing houses, has repeatedly stated that before each flight she always reads a prayer. And this means that she prays a lot, because she does not spend much time in Russia.
A lover of secular parties is often noticed at the best events in Europe. She herself does not mind hosting elite private parties at Andrei Skoch’s overseas cottage on the island of Sardinia, Italy.
Mafiosi Andrei “Scotch” Skoch and his wife Elena Likhach
Mafiosi Andrei “Scotch” Skoch and his wife Elena Likhach
Elena Likhach at social events
At home, one of Likhach’s best friends is the well-known socialite Snezhana Georgiev. She became popular not only thanks to the beautiful life that she constantly shares on Instagram, but also due to the fact that her husband is one of the biggest raiders in Russia. And Georgieva herself is a gunner in his organized criminal group.
Mafiosi Andrei “Scotch” Skoch and his wife Elena Likhach
Elena Likhach with Snezhana Georgieva (center and right)
Criminal trail in Skoch’s career
It was not in vain that we recalled that in the 1990s Andrei Skoch was closely associated with the Solntsevskaya organized criminal group. Then the gang ran virtually everything in Moscow, being the holder of a common fund at multiple points in the capital of Russia.
The connection between Scotch and organized crime is confirmed by a single photograph of the deputy with the leaders of the Solntsevskys – Sergei Mikhailov and Viktor Averin.
Mafiosi Andrei “Scotch” Skoch and his wife Elena Likhach
OPG Solntsevsky (bottom row – Averin, Mikhas, Skoch)
This photo has gone around all the media 100 times, so there is no exclusivity in it. Another thing is interesting: in one of the interviews, Andrey Skoch confirmed the authenticity of this picture, but said that he only crossed paths with the leaders of the organized crime group a few times, and had no business. As we can see in the photo, the gang sits together with Scotch in a friendly atmosphere, and this is definitely not their first meeting.
But we have received even more evidence that Skoch is Scotch, one of the important figures in the Solntsevsky series. Scotch in the organized crime group performed several functions. His main task was to train militants. Scotch organized a training camp for members of the organized crime group. In it, they learned how to kill, dismember bodies, hide evidence from crimes. According to some data, the instructors there were active FSB officers.
In his interview, another well-known mafioso Leonid Roytman confirmed the participation of Andrei Skoch in the organized criminal group. In addition, according to Roitman, together with Scotch and other members of the organized crime group, they beat out 150 thousand dollars from businessmen every month for protection. Some of them went to hold the militant training base owned by Scotch. The rest they shared with their partners into three. As a result, every month three members of the organized crime group earned 50 thousand dollars.
Mafiosi Andrei “Scotch” Skoch and his wife Elena Likhach
Statement of receipt of OCG funds, 2002
Scotch and Shakro
Perhaps the most famous story that testifies to Andrey Skoch’s connections with criminals is the case of Shakro Molodoy’s bribe. In 2015, there was a shootout on Rochdelskaya Street, which we have repeatedly talked about. This episode has already entered the criminal history of Russia. After the shooting, which killed 2 people. As a result, Shakro’s close ally Andrey Kochuykov (“Italian”) ended up behind bars.
Mafiosi Andrei “Scotch” Skoch and his wife Elena Likhach
Italian
In 2016, Shakro Molodoy gave the task to his assistant Oleg Sheykhametov (“Sheikh”) to decide with the employees of the Investigative Committee for the release of the Italian.
According to sources, the Sheikh provided $500,000 to the former head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Mikhail Maksimenko, and Andrey Skoch gave the second part – $1 million. The total price of the issue was 5 million dollars. But the FSB officers exposed the werewolf in uniform and arrested the former colleague. This situation has created a whole wave of layoffs and arrests in law enforcement agencies. Scotch, together with the Sheikh, left Russia out of harm’s way. But a few months later, the Sheikh returned and confessed.
Mafiosi Andrei “Scotch” Skoch and his wife Elena Likhach
Oleg Sheykhametov (“Sheikh”)
Interestingly, Scotch was not even a witness in this case. A few years later, he went to court to clean up information about himself from the Internet as a defendant in a case of bribery to Colonel Maksimenko. The court sided with the “honest” deputy and ordered the websites to clean up information about Andrei Skoch.
Here is such an interesting couple of socialite Elena Likhach and former crime boss Andrei Skoch. While in Russia the majority of the population lives below the poverty line, they do not hesitate to demonstrate their luxurious life. But they are “allowed” to do this, because the deputy and his wife are in the untouchable caste.
