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'Red Mafia' move on Scots underworld
RUSSIAN mafia gangsters are operating a multi-million pound smuggling ring in Scotland, using a cell led by a Lithuanian living in Glasgow's affluent west end.
Working with Scottish criminal gangs, the Russian syndicate headed by the 30-year-old Lithuanian is now being monitored by MI5, MI6, Special Branch and Customs and Excise intelligence officers.
It is thought that, in less than, a year the gang have made up to #30 million from trading in illicit cigarettes and alcohol.
The operations were spotted by a network of MI5, MI6, Special Branch and Customs and Excise agents. A number of containers, filled with smuggled cigarettes, were intercepted in the west of Scotland in one of the Customs and Excise department's most successful operations. One lorry alone held goods worth #1 million. However, intelligence reports say at least 19 other lorry-loads have been imported.
John McGowan, head of the Customs and Excise Fraud Unit which investigates all bootlegging and smuggling crime in Scotland, said: "We know the Russian mafia are in Scotland and involved in organised crime.
"We know that some are based here. Others are visiting the country for short periods to establish contact with the Scottish criminal community. Scottish criminals are also travelling to countries such as Lithuania to meet Russian mafia contacts."
McGowan said that operations were now in place to monitor the movement of foreign nationals to Scotland from the former eastern bloc.
The Russian crime cell is thought to be linked to the Solntsevo gang, the largest, richest and most deadly of Moscow's 15 "mafiya" groups. It is led by Sergei Mikhailov - known as Mikhas to the assassins and racketeers in his pay - who has masterminded the Russian mafia's expansion into western Europe.
Mikhailov placed the cell in Scotland nine months ago, in the charge of a lieutenant who is still at large. The Glasgow-based syndicate's Lithuanian boss is married to a Scots woman by whom he fathered a child in order to avoid deportation. He cannot be identified for legal reasons. Three of his gang - all Scots underworld figures - are currently on bail awaiting related charges.
Using a series of aliases, Mikhas' Lithuanian lieutenant rented fake office premises in Glasgow as a cover for his smuggling business. From there he faxed orders for massive consignments of cigarettes and alcohol around the world, and often returned to Lithuania to put the final touches to deals. On one occasion when officers arrested him, he was carrying #150,000 in cash.
Customs intelligence officers describe him as the Russian mafia's "business fixer in residence in Glasgow". When part of the contraband he was smuggling to Scotland was intercepted, his superiors back in Moscow - believing they had been double-crossed - demonstrated their brutality by kidnapping his mother.
He was told she "would be sent back in pieces" unless he paid back the losses. He vanished from Scotland for almost a week, raised the cash overseas and his mother was returned safely to her home in Vilnius. His reputation with his senior bosses was also restored.
At least seven Russian mafia cells are operating throughout the UK in cities including Glasgow, London and Birmingham. MI5 sources say that the Russian mafia are now controlling most of the organised crime in Britain. Their expertise in business, their access to guns, drugs and money-laundering, together with their connections to politicians and banks have allowed them to move into the UK crime scene and effectively take over.
They have smuggled goods worth more than #150m into the UK, and earned an extra #50m in extortion, fraud, prostitution and piracy. One MI5 source said: "The Russian mafia are placing a whole new tier of organised crime on top of the organised crime we already have."
Most of the smuggled goods are shipped from St Petersburg or Moscow, via the border town of Kaliningrad, to ports in Britain such as Felixstowe, Hull or Dover. Once there, containers are shipped to safe houses and broken up for distribution by British gangsters working for the Russians.
McGowan, acclaimed for his work in taking on organised crime, seized #3.7m worth of smuggled alcohol and cigarettes last year, but says he is still only retrieving a fraction of the bootlegged goods smuggled into Scotland.
Dr Mark Galeotti, foreign office adviser on international organised crime and director of the Organised Russian Crime Research Unit at Keele University, said: "The Russian mafia is made up of hosts of freelance specialists. One of their key roles is as a service provider to Britain's criminals. Hitmen, computer hackers, pornographers - whatever a British gangster needs, the Russian mafia can supply it."
Mikhas is the brains behind the Russian mafia's western expansion. He was arrested in Switzerland in 1996 in connection with organised crime but eventually released. For professional criminals like his Glasgow lieutenant, the most common smuggling ploy is the use of fake tax stamps. High quality brands, like Marlboro or Smirnoff, are placed on container lorries in Moscow or St Petersburg and taken to Kaliningrad, a Baltic port a few miles from the Polish border.
