While both the Gorky Brotherhood and the Songtsevo Brotherhood were secretly planning for their next retaliatory operation, the KGB, which had been unresponsive, was also stepping up its plans.
On the information wall of the office of the Uzbek Corruption Task Force at No. 11 Dzerzhinsky Square, the photos of the victims of a series of violent incidents obtained from the Moscow police were pasted on it, and the head of the task force, Baranikov, used a pen to make a large circle around the periphery of these photos, and then pulled out a wire and connected it to the other side of the data wall, where were the heads of some Uzbek officials who had fallen from power.
Above the horizontal line was a large line of writing, Nikolai, and Baranikov was staring at the wall with his hands on his chest, lost in thought.
It has been nearly a year since the establishment of the task force, and in this year's time, they have dug up a large number of corrupt elements from the Republic of Uzbekistan, two-thirds of the local officials have been dismissed, and several hundred people have been sent to prison.
But in this series of cases, the name Nikolai is constantly mentioned like a ghost.
Nearly 40 percent of the corrupt officials in the region have directly or indirectly transferred their ill-gotten wealth abroad through Nikolai, so that they cannot be traced, and it is these 40 percent of the corrupt officials who occupy almost the most powerful strata of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Baranikov can say without exaggeration that if Nikolai cannot be caught, it will not be possible to recover the wealth that has been transferred abroad.
Nikolai has become a major breakthrough in this series of cases, but such an important mysterious figure completely disappeared after the task force came to Uzbekistan, which made the task force simply helpless.
But who would have thought that a series of gang violent deaths in Moscow would resurface Nikolai, who had disappeared.
As soon as Baranikov heard that Nikolai was involved in the two murders from the police, he immediately suppressed the case, and the task force immediately took over the case.
Baranikov demanded that the Ministry of Internal Affairs refrain from any investigative action in these two cases, not even the internal security services of the KGB, for fear that any act that would alarm Nikolai would make the cunning guy invisible again.
In order to intensify the investigation of Nikolai, Baranikov transferred several experts in organized crime from the KGB's internal security agency to join the task force, and after a series of discussions and studies, the experts finally came up with a set of effective plans to continue to track down Nikolai's clues, that is, to send undercover agents to infiltrate Nikolai's organization to follow up more clues.
In order to find the right candidate, Baranikov had his deputy fly to Afghanistan.
According to the recommendations of these experts in organized crime, the undercover candidate must meet the following conditions, first of all, he must be a Muscovish, because only a local person has a background and social connections that the forest people can convince of and can successfully develop among the gangs in the Moscow region.
Secondly, you must have a gang background, preferably in the Gulag, so that you can hide your true identity.
Finally, the person had to be able to be controlled by the KGB.
And the troops in Afghanistan happened to be filled with young men recruited from the Gulag.
While Baranikov was still thinking hard, the phone behind him suddenly rang.
Baranikov turned around and picked up the microphone, and the voice of his deputy Pachushev came from inside.
Pachushev said excitedly on the phone: "Team leader Baranikov, I have finally found the right person.
This man's name is Chebyshev, who had been under Hassan's men, had also entered the Gulag, and later fled to Afghanistan to fight in order to get a reduced sentence.
Originally, he also had an older brother who worked as a driver in China, but his brother drove drunk and killed the spouse of a high-ranking official and escaped, and I think he fully meets our conditions."
"Okay, bring him back as soon as possible for me to see, this matter can't be delayed any longer, the sooner the better," Baranikov said in a tired voice, rubbing his dry eyes.
"Captain, I've returned to Moscow, and I'll be able to bring Chebyshev to your office in a moment," Pachushev replied.
The two hung up after a few words, and then Baranikov immediately asked the secretary to find out the information about this Chebyshev to him.
When Baranikov got the information, he immediately read it at a glance, and he read it very quickly and memorized.
It was not uncommon for people like Baranikov to possess such abilities within the KGB, and Mr.
An was also said to be a genius who could not forget.
Half an hour later, Pachushev arrived on time with Chebyshev.
Pachushev asked Chebyshev to wait outside the door for a while, and Chebyshev, who came to Dzerzhinsky Square for the first time, looked at everything in the room with a new curiosity, like a child in a candy store.
It was about three minutes before Chebyshev was called into Baranikov's office.
Baranikov looked the guy up and down, and then asked, "I heard that your original boss was Hassan, tell me what you did with Hassan."
"We just poured some home appliances and auto parts into the country, and I was in charge of the warehouse at first, and after a year or so, the boss called me to solicit business, and sometimes we were responsible for collecting the accounts when we met cheating customers," Chebyshev said with a sigh.
"Why did you go in later?"
asked Baranikov again.
"I made a heavier move when I was collecting the bills, and I blinded one of the guys' eyes, so I was sent in," Chebyshev replied again.
"You're lucky, you weren't sent to the Arctic Circle, but you're locked up in Moscow, and you're very knowledgeable about current affairs, and you know that you can get a reduced sentence by joining the army, but your brother is not so lucky, he killed a judge's wife, and he ran away, do you know how long your brother will be imprisoned, at least seven years, but if he is sent to some difficult place, such as the primeval forests of Siberia, to work as a lumberjack, I think he will probably never come back, now only we can help you with this, it all depends on your performance, Do you understand," Baranikov warned.
"Yes sir, I will do as you tell me, as long as my brother is spared punishment," Chebyshev said with sincere fear.
"How are you going to get back to Hassan?"
asked Baranikov again.
"I'll just say I ran back as a deserter," Chebyshev said casually.
"I think it's better to charge you with stealing military materiel, and then I'll arrange for you to escape from it," Baranikov said after a moment of deep thought. t1706231537: