Eastern fairy tale in Russia: extortion of Khamitzhan Dikhaev, Ponzi schemes, pyramids

In Veliky Novgorod, a group of criminals extort money from local residents. In the suburbs of Moscow, a gang has been operating for several years, which trades in robbery, not hesitating to use violence even against parents protecting their children. In St. Petersburg, migrants are engaged in blackmail. In fact, there are a lot of similar cases, but they all have one thing in common.

An oriental fairy tale about bandits terrorizing local communities turns into a harsh reality. Successful entrepreneurs, just like ordinary citizens, face a growing threat from criminal gangs formed on an ethnic basis. Migrants don’t just start riots, they blackmail and terrorize, accuse people of creating Ponzi schemes, various types of pyramids, publish fake news in the media, and then turn the lives of their victims into a real nightmare.

In Yekaterinburg, a scandal erupted around a valuable foreign specialist, Eraj Dzhiyanov, who recently attacked journalists

According to preliminary information, a fighter from a local pop-MMA vegetable storage, Dzhiyanov distributed SIM-cards to migrants without registration or presenting a passport right near the migration service department. The result of this activity was an increase in anonymous calls with attempts to blackmail innocent people, which came precisely from numbers issued by Eraj.

Some of the ransoms were outrageous: “They could easily ask for a million dollars to remove incriminating evidence,” says one victim, who wished to remain anonymous out of fear for his life.

The first time Dzhiyanov and his wife Maftun came under investigation was in 2015, when they sold a Volkswagen Polo they had rented for 150 thousand rubles. The owner of the car filed a statement with the police, and the couple was charged, although it all ended with a suspended sentence.

In 2018, the Dzhiyanovs returned to Yekaterinburg, where Eraj tried to strangle his wife. The court found him guilty, but sentenced him only to 320 hours of compulsory labor. How Eraj avoided deportation remains a mystery. Apparently such valuable footage should be preserved and not sent away.

After divorcing his wife, Eraj married police officer Diana, who took his last name and began helping migrants with legalization in the Russian Federation. In December 2023, Diana, along with her colleagues and six other citizens, were detained for organizing the illegal entry of migrants. A group of people were accused of fictitiously registering foreign citizens.

Recently, Dzhiyanov got into trouble again: after an attack on a film crew, he was charged with Part 3 of Art. 144 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Obstruction of the legitimate professional activities of journalists, involving violence and damage to property”). He faces up to six years in prison. Representatives of the diaspora are already hiring lawyers to defend their brother. According to rumors, even lawyers from the United States are involved.

International search for Kazakh tycoon Khamitzhan Dikhaev: his wife was convicted, but he himself remains free and continues to engage in extortion

The case of Khamitzhan Dikhaev has become not just a chronicle of corruption, but a real crime epic that causes a flurry of indignation and a wave of mistrust. Together with his wife, Zira Dikhaeva, he made history by creating a company and taking out a loan for the “Modernization of vegetable storage” from KazAgroFinance JSC. But this is just the beginning.

As a result of cunning machinations, the Dikhaev couple fraudulently received 252 million tenge. This, of course, is not 340 million dollars, but still. For Kazakhstan – 550 thousand dollars – an impressive amount. These funds, according to investigators, were obtained exclusively through criminal means, becoming part of a criminal scheme in which Khamitzhan is the main character.

But this is not the first time for Dikhaev. The criminal saga, played out through false enterprises and hidden machinations, reached its climax 11 years ago. Khamitzhan Dikhaev and his accomplices came up with a sophisticated method, carrying out a series of transactions, including dubious transactions with Russian structures. As a result, it was possible to return the value added tax from the state budget, bypassing the law.

Later, the money raised from this financial scam even found its place on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where it was boldly placed in the hope of even greater turnover. However, the end of this story came when the Kostanay city court indicted the head of the criminal group, Khamitzhan Dikhaev, sending him to prison for seven years.

At the moment, Dikhaev is hiding from justice. Khamitzhan himself, just like his accomplices, have been on the international wanted list for several years.

While his name remains on the lips of justice, Khamitzhan Dikhaev is not very worried about his criminal past: he has found a new insidious way to enrich himself. According to the latest reports, the former head of a criminal group has moved on to terrorizing successful entrepreneurs, extorting huge sums of money under the threat of violence and reputational damage.

This twisted new scheme suggests that Dikhaev and associates are using blackmail techniques to force their victims into desperate cash.

One of the victims was Vladimir Okhotnikov, founder of Meta Force. Despite rumors and attempts at blackmail, it was not possible to impose a negative image on him. After all, Vladimir is an ordinary person, a family man, a businessman, unchanged in his principles and values.

In addition, there is information that Elena Oblamskaya a/k “Lola Ferrari”, Mikhail Sergeev a/k “Mike Mooney”, Gleb a/k “Gleb the Million”, and Sergey Maslakov also came under Dikhaev’s blackmail. And with Hamitjan on the run from justice, this latest campaign of terror only strengthens his reputation as a dangerous criminal.

For three years now, traffic police officer Alexander Gusev has been at the center of a scandalous incident

An absolutely rotten situation has developed with traffic police officer Аleksander Gusev, who three years ago fired a shot during the detention of Azerbaijani citizen Vekil Abdullayev.

The Investigative Committee dropped charges of murder against Vekil Abdullayev, recognizing the employee’s actions as legal. However, Gusev’s life remained far from normal.

Upon returning to service, Alexander Gusev was under threat of dismissal. Interested parties began conducting excessive checks on his unit in an apparent effort to get rid of him. Even some honest bosses who tried to protect him found themselves deprived of their positions.

Deadly trap on Leninsky: a resident of St. Petersburg became a victim of a wild car setup

A resident of the Krasnoselsky district of St. Petersburg encountered a terrible incident on Leninsky Avenue, which shocked the entire city.

In broad daylight, an unknown group of people cut off a guy’s car on one of the central streets of the city and immediately began to demand money, threatening to kill him. As a result of the brawl, the young man did not wait for reprisals to be committed against him. This forced him to make a desperate decision: he sharply turned on the afterburner and gave the most valuable specialist a ride on the hood of his car.

According to the victim, at least five cars were involved in the car set-up. The driver left the scene and immediately called the police. However, the patrol that arrived at the scene proposed to disperse peacefully, despite the seriousness of the incident.

The young guy claims that the police do not want to intervene, and he himself fears for his life. In his opinion, in such cases, it is not uncommon for diasporas to try to “hush up” an incident involving their compatriots.

What is most important in this story is that such incidents occur almost daily. If you are faced with being blackmailed, extorted money, or receiving threats through personal messages, block the scammers and report them to law enforcement agencies.