38 Russian Mafia Members Arrested in Swoop on Crime Network -Dinaburgsky - Kordysh - Toronto Star -10Dec99
Stefan Lemieszewski
http://www.thestar.com/editorial/news/991210NEW01_CI-BUST10.html
December 10, 1999
38 held in swoop on crime network
Biggest arrest of East Europeans in N. America, police
claim
By Dale Anne Freed and Cal Millar
Toronto Star Staff Reporters
[ Photo: High-Profile Arrest: Yury
Dinaburgsky is taken into 32
Division after being arrested in his
Richmond Hill home by heavily
Armed RCMP.]
Police have fired the opening salvo in what
they say will be an all-out war against organized
crime in Ontario, targeting scores of people accused
of being members of an Eastern European
organized crime network.
In massive pre-dawn raids yesterday, more
than 300 police officers from agencies, including
the Toronto, Peel and York Region forces, the
RCMP and the OPP, arrested 38 people and
issued arrest warrants for 17 others.
It's the biggest arrest of its kind in North America, said RCMP
Superintendent Ben Soave, head of the Newmarket-based Combined
Forces Special Enforcement Unit, the multi-force agency that led the
raids
in Toronto, Windsor, Ottawa and Montreal.
The arrests, he added, are ``a wake-up call, a reality check that Canada
- and especially the GTA and the Golden Horseshoe - are becoming a
sanctuary for organized criminals and for organized criminal enterprise.''
The raids, which targeted 20 homes in Greater Toronto as well as eight
locations in the other cities, were the result of a two-year probe
known as
Project Osada II, which takes its name from the Russian word for ``under
siege.''
Police say the criminal network was centred in the Greater Toronto Area
and involved in a crime wave that swept four continents.
The network, police allege, was involved in credit-card fraud across
Ontario, importing the rave drug Ecstasy from the Netherlands, drug
trafficking from the Caribbean, immigration visa frauds in Eastern
Europe,
smuggling fake diamonds from the United States, casino frauds in
Mississippi, the Bahamas, Aruba and the Dominican Republic, and the
manufacture of counterfeit credit cards that were distributed through
the
United States, South America and Europe.
Project Osada II, police said, also led to the arrest of a gang member
who had links to two men - since arrested - who shot at a Niagara
Region police officer following a bank robbery four months ago in St.
Catharines.
RCMP Sergeant Glenn Hanna described the network as a domestic
organization operating in the Toronto area but committing offences
worldwide.
``We had crimes committed . . . in Russia, in the Ukraine, in the United
States and the Caribbean,'' Hanna said. ``The extent of their criminal
activity covers a big chunk of the world.''
Among those taken into custody following the early-morning raids across
Greater Toronto was a Richmond Hill man whom police allege is a
top-level boss in Eastern European organized crime.
The man, identified as Yury Dinaburgsky, 44, was arrested when a
heavily armed RCMP team burst into his Direzze Court home, in the
Major Mackenzie Dr. and Bathurst St. area.
Dinaburgsky faces charges of conspiring to possess and utter counterfeit
currency, conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, heroin and marijuana,
conspiracy to import and traffic in Ecstasy, and conspiracy to commit
fraud, forgery and uttering.
He is also charged, with seven others, with participating in the activities
of
a criminal organization.
The eight, police say, are the first people in the Greater Toronto Area
to
face this charge.
Dinaburgsky and his associates were taken to a North York police station
for fingerprinting and photographing before being transported to a
Scarborough court, where 17 were ordered held in custody until
Monday; 21 others were granted bail.
Most of the suspects arrested locally were picked up at addresses in
North York, Richmond Hill and Thornhill. The suspects arrested in
Windsor, Ottawa and Montreal were brought to Toronto on RCMP
planes for afternoon court appearances.
Project Osada II, the RCMP's Soave said, began two years ago, after
Russian crime boss Vyacheslav Sliva - the target of Project Osada I
-
was deported from Canada in 1997.
The probe uncovered evidence that individuals from Eastern Europe
had become involved in every facet of criminal activity after coming
to
Toronto, he said.
As well, investigators found, the gang had formed links with traditional
Mafia figures and Asian gangs.
The massive probe, which involved a host of agencies from Canada, the
U.S. and Russia, also shows police are working together to disrupt
and
dismantle organized criminal networks, Soave said.
The lengthy investigation included officers from the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, Toronto, York, Peel and Ontario Provincial Police
forces, Canada Immigration and the Criminal Intelligence Service of
Ontario.
Soave said police here also received co-operation from the U.S.
Customs Service, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI,
the
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Organized Crime
Division of the Russian Ministry of the Interior.
Project Osada II is one of the most significant investigations into
Eastern
European organized crime since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991,
and
shows the commitment that police agencies in Canada have to combatting
these criminals, he said.
Soave said yesterday's arrests signify and reconfirm the ``commitment
and relentless effort to challenge this organized crime enterprise.''
He credited his investigators, who put in thousands of extra hours without
pay, for smashing the ring.
During Project Osada I, police say, investigators learned Sliva had
established a criminal network in Toronto that had ties to top Russian
mobsters in New York, Tel Aviv and Moscow.
``This is a fallout of what Sliva came here to do,'' Soave said. ``He's
left a
legacy of organized crime in place.''
In the latest Osada probe, police say, investigators found an Eastern
European criminal kingpin had recruited a computer expert who
designed equipment capable of intercepting coded credit and debit card
information when transmitted from a customer at a store to a bank.
The criminal network then used the information to defraud banks and
credit card companies of millions of dollars, authorities say.
Among the seizures made by police yesterday was equipment capable of
recording confidential card information and secret personal identification
numbers.
``The allegations show the extent to which organized crime will go to
make a profit,'' Soave said.
According to police sources, the Eastern European organized criminals
also forged links with other mob groups to set up trafficking operations
involving heroin, cocaine and marijuana.
Among those arrested yesterday was a 32-year-old City of Toronto
computer programmer who police say built some of the high-tech
equipment the gang was using to obtain banking information to defraud
banks.
``Technical assistance and knowledge is essential to the criminal
organization's needs,'' the RCMP's Hanna noted.
A warrant was issued for Igor Kordysh, 36, an alleged member of the
criminal group who illegally remained in Canada after coming here on
a
visitor's visa last year.
Kordysh, who is from the Ukraine, was to be one of 13 or 14 members
of
a Ukrainian Tae Kwon Do team who entered a competition after seeing
an ad on the Internet in the summer of 1998, sources said.
polin
It must be a reason why the names of 35 arrested maffioso were not stipulated by the Toronto Press which is in Jewish hands.
Instead they "spilled" only three surnames :
- Dinagbursky
-Sliva
- Kordysh
To those who are not fluent in slavic nomology these surnames do not appear overtly Jewish but Dinagbursky and Sliva are typical Eastern Jewish names
Kordysh is more of Ukrainian last name.
However he is also most likely Jewish. About 70% of Eastern Jews and about 98% of Polish Jews slaviczied their surnames after 1945.
American press is more forthcoming on this matter. When "Russian" maffiosos are arested or kill each other their last names are listed and are almost exlusively in style like Rabinovitz, Zuroff, Zuckerman etc.
Polina
Boris
Kirillovich Ivankov are Jewish? Who is going to believe you.
polin <poli...@catskill.net> wrote in message news:385198A8...@catskill.net...
staten
polin <poli...@catskill.net> wrote:
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> I am surprised that Mr Lemiszewski an Ukrainian, used the politically
> correct term "Russian" maffia.
>
> It must be a reason why the names of 35 arrested maffioso were not
> stipulated by the Toronto Press which is in Jewish hands.
>
> Instead they "spilled" only three surnames :
>
> - Dinagbursky
>
> -Sliva
>
> - Kordysh
>
> To those who are not fluent in slavic nomology these surnames do not
> appear overtly Jewish but Dinagbursky and Sliva are typical Eastern
> Jewish names
>
> Kordysh is more of Ukrainian last name.
>
> However he is also most likely Jewish. About 70% of Eastern Jews and
> about 98% of Polish Jews slaviczied their surnames after 1945.
>
> American press is more forthcoming on this matter. When "Russian"
> maffiosos are arested or kill each other their last names are listed
and
> are almost exlusively in style like Rabinovitz, Zuroff, Zuckerman etc.
>
> Polina
>
one certainly might think that Russians are just incapable of any
wrongdoings and traditionally all troubles come exclusevely from Jews.
Hence Toronto Press "in Jewish hands" , "slavization of Jewish
surnames" and all other imaginable sins "caracteristic" of Jews.
However, American press, in contrast to racist swines like Polina,
doesn't make any difference between nationalities and their dirty
deeds. So, when numerous Ivankovs , Voloshins, Brainins, Lushtaks,
Chernoguzes or other top criminals from Russia arise on the
international criminal horisonts American press writes about them as
well as about Jewish , Italian or Japanise mobsters without resorting
to pathetic “researches” trying to prove that black is white.
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Before you buy.
Irina Guilman
> > However he is also most likely Jewish. About 70% of Eastern Jews and
> > about 98% of Polish Jews slaviczied their surnames after 1945.
> >
> > American press is more forthcoming on this matter. When "Russian"
> > maffiosos are arested or kill each other their last names are listed
> and
> > are almost exlusively in style like Rabinovitz, Zuroff, Zuckerman etc.
> >
> > Polina
> >
Po Polininoy logike i Isakievskiy sobor v Pitere sinagoga...
IG
DontBStupid
>
> > >
> > > However he is also most likely Jewish. About 70% of Eastern Jews and
> > > about 98% of Polish Jews slaviczied their surnames after 1945.
> > >
> > > American press is more forthcoming on this matter. When "Russian"
> > > maffiosos are arested or kill each other their last names are listed
> > and
> > > are almost exlusively in style like Rabinovitz, Zuroff, Zuckerman etc.
> > >
> > > Polina
> > >
>
seem that most, or at least, a lot, of russian mafiosi are jews.
>
> IG
DontBStupid
>
> In article <385198A8...@catskill.net>,
> polin <poli...@catskill.net> wrote:
> >
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> > correct term "Russian" maffia.
> >
> > It must be a reason why the names of 35 arrested maffioso were not
> > stipulated by the Toronto Press which is in Jewish hands.
> >
> > Instead they "spilled" only three surnames :
> >
> > - Dinagbursky
> >
> > -Sliva
> >
> > - Kordysh
> >
> > To those who are not fluent in slavic nomology these surnames do not
> > appear overtly Jewish but Dinagbursky and Sliva are typical Eastern
> > Jewish names
> >
> > Kordysh is more of Ukrainian last name.
> >
> > However he is also most likely Jewish. About 70% of Eastern Jews and
> > about 98% of Polish Jews slaviczied their surnames after 1945.
> >
> > American press is more forthcoming on this matter. When "Russian"
> > maffiosos are arested or kill each other their last names are listed
> and
> > are almost exlusively in style like Rabinovitz, Zuroff, Zuckerman etc.
> >
> > Polina
> >
> one certainly might think that Russians are just incapable of any
> wrongdoings and traditionally all troubles come exclusevely from Jews.
> Hence Toronto Press "in Jewish hands" , "slavization of Jewish
> surnames" and all other imaginable sins "caracteristic" of Jews.
> However, American press, in contrast to racist swines like Polina,
> doesn't make any difference between nationalities and their dirty
> deeds. So, when numerous Ivankovs , Voloshins, Brainins, Lushtaks,
> Chernoguzes or other top criminals from Russia arise on the
> international criminal horisonts American press writes about them as
> well as about Jewish , Italian or Japanise mobsters without resorting
> to pathetic ⌠researches■ trying to prove that black is white.
Igor S.
Irina Guilman wrote in message <83j838$6aj$1...@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>...
>> >
>> > However he is also most likely Jewish. About 70% of Eastern Jews and
>> > about 98% of Polish Jews slaviczied their surnames after 1945.
>> >
>> > American press is more forthcoming on this matter. When "Russian"
>> > maffiosos are arested or kill each other their last names are listed
>> and
>> > are almost exlusively in style like Rabinovitz, Zuroff, Zuckerman etc.
>> >
>> > Polina
>> >
>
Where did you see the logic? :)
>
>IG
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Jack Daniel
>In article <385198A8...@catskill.net>,
> polin <poli...@catskill.net> wrote:
>>
>> --------------DDE04B67485271A12EE20576
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>>
>> correct term "Russian" maffia.
>>
>> It must be a reason why the names of 35 arrested maffioso were not
>> stipulated by the Toronto Press which is in Jewish hands.
>>
>> Instead they "spilled" only three surnames :
>>
>> - Dinagbursky
>>
>> -Sliva
>>
>> - Kordysh
>>
>> To those who are not fluent in slavic nomology these surnames do not
>> appear overtly Jewish but Dinagbursky and Sliva are typical Eastern
>> Jewish names
>>
>> Kordysh is more of Ukrainian last name.
>>
>> However he is also most likely Jewish. About 70% of Eastern Jews and
>> about 98% of Polish Jews slaviczied their surnames after 1945.
>>
>> American press is more forthcoming on this matter. When "Russian"
>> maffiosos are arested or kill each other their last names are listed
>and
>> are almost exlusively in style like Rabinovitz, Zuroff, Zuckerman etc.
>>
>> Polina
>>
>one certainly might think that Russians are just incapable of any
>wrongdoings and traditionally all troubles come exclusevely from Jews.
>Hence Toronto Press "in Jewish hands" , "slavization of Jewish
>surnames" and all other imaginable sins "caracteristic" of Jews.
>However, American press, in contrast to racist swines like Polina,
>doesn't make any difference between nationalities and their dirty
>deeds. So, when numerous Ivankovs , Voloshins, Brainins, Lushtaks,
>Chernoguzes or other top criminals from Russia arise on the
>international criminal horisonts American press writes about them as
>well as about Jewish , Italian or Japanise mobsters without resorting
>to pathetic “researches” trying to prove that black is white.
>
Michael
DontBStupid <assalam...@filthybutt.gov> wrote in message
news:385D5571...@filthybutt.gov...
> Irina Guilman wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > However he is also most likely Jewish. About 70% of Eastern Jews
and
> > > > about 98% of Polish Jews slaviczied their surnames after 1945.
> > > >
> > > > American press is more forthcoming on this matter. When "Russian"
> > > > maffiosos are arested or kill each other their last names are listed
> > > and
> > > > are almost exlusively in style like Rabinovitz, Zuroff, Zuckerman
etc.
> > > >
> > > > Polina
> > > >
> >
> seem that most, or at least, a lot, of russian mafiosi are jews.
Do you mean who are "managers" or simple soldiers?:)
Igor S.
Jack Daniel wrote in message <83jmc1$jg$1...@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
>staten wrote in message <83j71b$g8q$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>>In article <385198A8...@catskill.net>,
>> polin <poli...@catskill.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> --------------DDE04B67485271A12EE20576
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>>
>>> correct term "Russian" maffia.
>>>
>>> It must be a reason why the names of 35 arrested maffioso were not
>>> stipulated by the Toronto Press which is in Jewish hands.
>>>
>>> Instead they "spilled" only three surnames :
>>>
>>> - Dinagbursky
>>>
>>> -Sliva
>>>
>>> - Kordysh
>>>
>>> To those who are not fluent in slavic nomology these surnames do not
>>> appear overtly Jewish but Dinagbursky and Sliva are typical Eastern
>>> Jewish names
>>>
>>> Kordysh is more of Ukrainian last name.
>>>
>>> However he is also most likely Jewish. About 70% of Eastern Jews and
>>> about 98% of Polish Jews slaviczied their surnames after 1945.
>>>
>>> American press is more forthcoming on this matter. When "Russian"
>>> maffiosos are arested or kill each other their last names are listed
>>and
>>> are almost exlusively in style like Rabinovitz, Zuroff, Zuckerman etc.
>>>
>>> Polina
>>>
>>one certainly might think that Russians are just incapable of any
>>wrongdoings and traditionally all troubles come exclusevely from Jews.
>>Hence Toronto Press "in Jewish hands" , "slavization of Jewish
>>surnames" and all other imaginable sins "caracteristic" of Jews.
>>However, American press, in contrast to racist swines like Polina,
>>doesn't make any difference between nationalities and their dirty
>>deeds. So, when numerous Ivankovs , Voloshins, Brainins, Lushtaks,
>>Chernoguzes or other top criminals from Russia arise on the
>>international criminal horisonts American press writes about them as
>>well as about Jewish , Italian or Japanise mobsters without resorting
>>to pathetic “researches” trying to prove that black is white.
>>
>Hey, what do you have against blacks, moron?
Did he even mention blacks?
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Igor S.
Samogon
>
> staten wrote in message <83j71b$g8q$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
> >In article <385198A8...@catskill.net>,
> > polin <poli...@catskill.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> --------------DDE04B67485271A12EE20576
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> >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >>
> >> correct term "Russian" maffia.
> >>
> >> It must be a reason why the names of 35 arrested maffioso were not
> >> stipulated by the Toronto Press which is in Jewish hands.
> >>
> >> Instead they "spilled" only three surnames :
> >>
> >> - Dinagbursky
> >>
> >> -Sliva
> >>
> >> - Kordysh
> >>
> >> To those who are not fluent in slavic nomology these surnames do not
> >> appear overtly Jewish but Dinagbursky and Sliva are typical Eastern
> >> Jewish names
> >>
> >> Kordysh is more of Ukrainian last name.
> >>
> >> However he is also most likely Jewish. About 70% of Eastern Jews and
> >> about 98% of Polish Jews slaviczied their surnames after 1945.
> >>
> >> American press is more forthcoming on this matter. When "Russian"
> >> maffiosos are arested or kill each other their last names are listed
> >and
> >> are almost exlusively in style like Rabinovitz, Zuroff, Zuckerman etc.
> >>
> >> Polina
> >>
> >one certainly might think that Russians are just incapable of any
> >wrongdoings and traditionally all troubles come exclusevely from Jews.
> >Hence Toronto Press "in Jewish hands" , "slavization of Jewish
> >surnames" and all other imaginable sins "caracteristic" of Jews.
> >However, American press, in contrast to racist swines like Polina,
> >doesn't make any difference between nationalities and their dirty
> >deeds. So, when numerous Ivankovs , Voloshins, Brainins, Lushtaks,
> >Chernoguzes or other top criminals from Russia arise on the
> >international criminal horisonts American press writes about them as
> >well as about Jewish , Italian or Japanise mobsters without resorting
> >to pathetic ⌠researches■ trying to prove that black is white.
> >
> Hey, what do you have against blacks, moron?
Pierre Renault
> > >After reading this "research" on Russian-Jewish names of
> > >madam Polina,
> > >one certainly might think that Russians are just incapable of any
> > >wrongdoings and traditionally all troubles come exclusevely from Jews.
> > >Hence Toronto Press "in Jewish hands" , "slavization of Jewish
> > >surnames" and all other imaginable sins "caracteristic" of Jews.
> > >However, American press, in contrast to racist swines like Polina,
> > >doesn't make any difference between nationalities and their dirty
> > >deeds. So, when numerous Ivankovs , Voloshins, Brainins, Lushtaks,
> > >Chernoguzes or other top criminals from Russia arise on the
> > >international criminal horisonts American press writes about them as
> > >well as about Jewish , Italian or Japanise mobsters without resorting
> > >to pathetic “researches” trying to prove that black is white.
> > Hey, what do you have against blacks, moron?
> ? Am I missing something? Where did he even mention any blacks?
Boy, irony is lost on some people isn't it?
There was no mention of black mobsters, the inquiry was ironic. Think a
little.
Pierre
Samogon
> Boy, irony is lost on some people isn't it?
>
> There was no mention of black mobsters, the inquiry was ironic. Think a
> little.
>
> Pierre