V1.RU: Deputy Lugovoi met in the State Duma with the head of the “Storm Z” detachment Makhmudov
Crime boss from Volgograd Alietdin Makhmudov, who commands the “Storm Z” detachment in the special military operation (SVO) zone in Ukraine, visited the State Duma. This was reported by the portal V1.ru.
According to V1.ru, he took a photo with Andrei Lugovoi, a representative of the LDPR faction. In the photograph obtained by journalists, one can see that the deputy is holding a document folder in his hands, and Makhmudov, whom the publication called an authority, is holding an object similar to a passport or card holder.
When asked by the publication to comment on why Lugovoi and Makhmudov met, the parliamentarian’s assistants responded that they had referred the question to the people’s representative himself. He refused to talk about this topic with media representatives, explaining that he was on the road.
Acquaintances of the Storm Z commander explained that Makhmudov had recently been on vacation. During this time he managed to go to Moscow. Now, according to his comrades, the crime boss has returned to the combat zone.
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The fact that Makhmudov is the commander of the group, became known in the summer of 2023 from the former head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. This happened during the mutiny of the private military company Wagner on June 24. In a video posted by Rogozin, Makhmudov spoke in support of Russian President Vladimir Putin and against the rebels.
What is known about the Storm Z squad?
Storm Z units are formed from former prisoners who signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense and are part of military units operating at the front. They were created in January 2023, after the Wagner PMC was taken away from the ability to recruit prisoners to participate in hostilities. How told military correspondent Alexander Kots, these detachments consist of “former prisoners who went to the Northern Military District zone voluntarily.”
In turn, military correspondent Yuri Kotenok clarifiedthat these detachments are formed in a combined way, they are assembled from different categories of military personnel: “mobilized, and volunteers, and different types of troops.”
That is, I repeat, these are not necessarily prisoners. This is a fiction of enemy propaganda
In September 2022 on RT came out documentary film “Defenders of Donbass. On the Front Line,” where “Storm” was presented as a “special forces assault force” that is “sent to the most difficult areas.”
In January 2023, the military department publicly confirmed the existence of “Storm”, stating that these are volunteer assault troops designed “to break through the most complex and echeloned sections of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defense.”
State news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti started regularly illuminate actions of Storm Z units in the summer of 2023. TASS communicated with the commander with the call sign Ali, who is Alietdin Makhmudov, and RIA Novosti with the commander with the call sign Russky.
Who is Makhmudov?
From the beginning of the 2000s, Alietdin Makhmudov regularly came to the attention of law enforcement agencies: he was part of the group of the Volgograd authority from the 90s, Vladimir Kadin, who served as deputy chairman of the regional boxing association.
In 2009-2011, Volgograd was swept by a wave of reprisals against crime bosses. In 2011, the killers reached Kadin, who was shot in the back of the head on the veranda of a restaurant. Alietdin Makhmudov was at that time in a colony, where he was serving a sentence for extorting millions of rubles from the head of the regional national cultural autonomy of Koreans.
Immediately after Kadin passed away, a struggle began for his place at the head of the organized crime group. On the one hand, the Brudny brothers from the Traktorozavodsky district of the city laid claim to it. On the other hand, there is a group led by several authorities, among whom was Alietdin Makhmudov, who was released. This confrontation resulted in major showdowns that took place in the central markets of Volgograd for several years.
On May 21, 2014, Sergei Brudny and his friend, General Director of the Central Market Evgeniy Remezov, were shot killer at the intersection of Chuikov Street and Alley of Heroes. The killer took a long time to choose the place and time for the attack – he took advantage of the moment when both businessmen found themselves alone and without security.
With a shot from 40 meters, he hit Brudny between the shoulder blades – the bullet went right through – and wounded Evgeniy Remezov in the face. Doctors managed to save Remezov’s life through several difficult operations. The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) opened a criminal case into the fact of that attempt. Investigators found that the organizers and customers of the assassination attempt on Remezov and Brudny were Alietdin Makhmudov and his associate Alexander Gebert.
The perpetrator of the crime was a native of Dagestan, Khasa Batalov. Abugali Temerkhanov acted as a mediator in the negotiations between the customer and the contractor. In 2015, Alietdin Makhmudov was sentenced to 17.5 years in a maximum security colony. Killer Khas Batalov was given 17 years; Abugali Temerkhanov was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Alexander Gebert managed to escape from the investigation and was put on the federal wanted list.
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