Zakhary Kalashov, known as "Shakro Molodoy", inherited a high position in the criminal world after the death of Aslan Usoyan. That, in turn, the criminals knew under the name Ded Hasan and considered the greatest mafiosi of our time.
early years
Zakhari was born in 1953 in the capital of Georgia. His family belonged to the small Yazidi people who professed Zoroartism. Kalashov comes from a noble family of pirs, which occupies a high place in the hierarchy of the Yezidis.
By his majority, Zakhary managed to visit a Georgian prison. The year 1971 became significant for the young man. Criminal authority Avdo Mirzoev crowned the young man and opened up great opportunities for him in the underworld. After several new terms at home, in 1989 Kalashov moved to Moscow.
In Moscow
In the capital, Shakro met famous authorities: Ded Khasan and Yaponchik, they made a significant contribution to the formation of a young "thief in law". In this company, he managed to make a career in the underworld, and a number of regular convictions raised him to the top of the criminal Olympus.
Enterprises of various fields of activity fell under Shakro's control: banks, casinos, industrial and oil institutions. The conduct of business was accompanied by several attempts on the life of a businessman. There is a version that the leaders of the Izmailovskaya criminal group, which grew out of youth gangs of racketeers, were behind this. Fearing for his life, Zacharius moved to Spain.
Abroad
Since 2003, its main occupation has been the laundering of money received in Russia and abroad. The work of the Spanish special services was successful, they actively opposed the "Russian mafia". In 2005, during the successful Operation Wasp, most of its leaders were captured. Shakro was arrested only a year later in the UAE, then extradition to Spain followed. The Madrid court sentenced him to nine years in prison and twenty million euros in a fine.
In 2010, Georgia sent a request to the Spanish Ministry of Justice to extradite Shakro Molodoy. The offender was sentenced in absentia at home to eighteen years in prison. He was accused of kidnapping and the creation of armed formations. All his property, including a huge palace with dozens of rooms, went to the state. However, Kalashov, who did not agree with the extradition, managed to appeal to the Supreme Court of Spain, and received a positive response. In 2014, the crime boss found himself in Russia. Having Russian citizenship allowed Shakro to avoid punishment at home. After preventive conversations, law enforcement officers released the criminal. By this time, many leaders of the underworld had fallen from the hands of killers, this made it possible for Zakhary to become the head of crime in the post-Soviet space.
Arrest and sentence
The events of 2015 became a high-profile criminal case. Shakro with two colleagues Andrei Kochuykov and Eduard Romanov participated in a shootout on Rochdelskaya Street in Moscow. The criminals got their weapons after they tried to extort eight million rubles from the owner of the cafe. Zakhariy's accomplices were captured immediately, he was arrested only six months later. While at large, Shakro tried to free his friends or retrain the case for a large bribe. As a result, three high-ranking officials of the Investigative Committee were taken into custody. As a result of the investigation, which lasted for two years, the fact of extortion of a bribe by an organized group of persons was proved. Kalashov was threatened with life in prison. However, the court, held in 2018, announced: nine years, ten months in prison and a fine of seven hundred thousand.
Friends and foes
Throughout his life, Zakhari was under the gun of competitors, so he had to move from one country to another. Attempts followed one after another, in total there were no less than a dozen. The most dangerous period in the biography of a businessman and a criminal was the 90s, when he managed to avoid death several times. In 1994, an expensive car in which Shakro was driving was shot on Rublevskoye Highway, he miraculously survived. Two years later, shots towards Kalashov were fired in the very center of the Russian capital. Two years later, in the city of Shakhty, representatives of law enforcement agencies covered a meeting of the heads of the thieves' world, which was attended by Zakhary. In 1999, he was caught in a shootout in North Ossetia, but was not injured.
Little is known about Shakro's personal life. He was not officially married, but for a long time he lived with his common-law wife Marina Goldberg. The wife is two decades younger than her husband, but has already gained fame in the United States for being involved in money laundering in Russian criminal circles. The most famous community was the "Brothers Circle", which, according to the American authorities, regulated the activities of criminals in many countries of the world, eliminated objectionable and resolved controversial issues. To date, the exact location of Marina is not known.
Over the years of his criminal activity, Shakro Molodoy has managed to accumulate a huge fortune. But officially the businessman himself does not own anything. All his bank accounts and real estate are registered with Yulia Bratchenko. The woman, a former trade worker, is a distant relative of his common-law wife. No kinship with Kalashov and no connection with criminals was found. The leader of the underworld assumed arrest and feared for his life, so he acted so far-sightedly. The investigation is trying to prove that the property and funds belong to Bratchenko illegally, and while she lives in a huge mansion built on six sites, she owns cars and bank accounts. As you know, a thief in law does not have the right to have wealth, perhaps this is how Zachary tried to hide the booty he had earned. According to another version, such a decision could be caused by distrust of his colleagues in crime, a complete stranger evoked more confidence in him.
The fate of Zakhary Kalashov cannot be called happy and calm. Shakro Molodoy went through numerous prison sentences and assassination attempts. Perhaps the last long-term punishment will give him time to think about the past years and be released as a different person.
