As Kommersant has learned, a new version of the charge has been brought against the leader of the Medvedkovsky-Orekhovskaya group, Sergei Butorin (Osya), who was recently extradited from Spain in the 1990s in Moscow. Now the “authority” is accused of 32 murders and attempts. Among the crimes Osa is accused of is organizing the murder of the head of the Athletes Social Protection Fund Otari Kvantrishvili, the killer Alexander Solonik and a dozen other Orekhovskys, shot, according to investigators, on the orders of the Axis during the “purges” in the “brigade”.
Extradited by Spain on March 4 and arrested the next day by the Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow, 46-year-old Sergei Butorin is now being held in the special block of Matrosskaya Tishina. In the pre-trial detention center he was charged with a new version.
The previous case was presented in absentia in 2000, after which the “authority” was put on the wanted list. Let us note that the new charge was previously agreed upon with the Spanish prosecutor's office - this was a condition of extradition. According to the data, now the leader Medvedkovo-Orekhovskaya "brigade" accused of “organizing a criminal community” (Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), “banditry” (Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), also of 32 “murders” and “attempts” (Article 30 and Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), which, According to the investigation, they were carried out on the orders of the Axis.
According to the investigation, former warrant officer of the construction battalion from Odintsovo near Moscow, Sergei Butorin, having left the army in the late 80s, got a job as a bouncer in the Moscow cafe "The Scarlet Flower". In 1990, according to detectives, Sergei Butorin, together with his brother Alexander, organized the theft of paintings worth $9 million from the famous Russian collector Viktor Magids (only Alexander Butorin was convicted of this; the court considered Axis’ guilt unproven). While selling stolen goods, he met the founder and leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group Sergei Timofeev (Sylvester) and soon became part of his inner circle.
According to investigators, on April 5, 1994, Sergei Butorin, together with former KGB lieutenant Grigory Gusyatinsky (Grisha Severny), who created and led the Medvedkov group, organized the murder in Moscow of the “authoritative businessman” and head of the Social Protection Fund for Athletes Otari Kvantrishvili (he did not share with Sylvester several refineries). Mr. Kvantrishvili was shot by the Orekhovsky killer - a retired officer of the internal troops, holder of the Order of Courage Alexey Sherstobitov (Lesha Soldat) . The latter received 23 years in prison for two sentences of the Moscow City Court.
In 1994, a car with Sylvester was blown up on Tverskaya-Yamskaya in Moscow, after which a struggle for leadership in the organized crime group broke out, Osya joined Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik) and Yuri Volodin (Dragon). According to the investigation, on February 14, 1995, on the orders of Sergei Ananyevsky, Yuri Volodin and Sergei Butorin, one of the contenders for leadership in the group, the head of the Lianozov “brigade” Yuri Bachurin (Usatii) and his bodyguard Alexei Sadovnikov ( Bath attendant).
In the same 1995, the case says, during internal disputes, Kultik, Dragon, Grisha Severny were killed, after which Osya headed the Orekhovskys, and brothers Oleg and Andrey Pylev(the first received a life sentence, and the second - 21 years in prison) - "Medvedkovsky". Then they united and took control of dozens of companies, several banks, and large markets.
In addition, on the orders of the Axis, the investigation believes, several businessmen and leaders of rival gangs were killed by the Orekhovskys. Among the victims of the organized crime group is the famous killer of the Kurgan group Alexander Solonik (Sasha the Makedonsky), who was killed on February 1, 1997 in Greece along with his girlfriend Svetlana Kotova.
At the end of the 90s, Sergei Butorin and the Pylev brothers (by this time they had already moved to Spain) decided to “clean up” their “brigade”, which was starting to cost them too much. From that moment on, on the orders of the Axis, according to the investigation, dozens of Orekhovskys were killed. As the Pylev brothers later explained in court, they and Osya acted on the principle “the fewer of us there are, the more money we will get.”
Butorin in the story of the stolen collection of Victor Magids
The thief, the collector and the main witness did not live to see the trial
The value of Victor Magids's antique collection exceeded $9 million. Seven years ago, the collector's apartment was attacked by armed bandits. They took the paintings and jewelry abroad and sold them. The criminals were arrested and sent to prison. But most of the stolen collection is still on the international wanted list.
Robbery of the Century
On July 27, 1990, all Moscow police units were alerted and rushed to search for the bandits who attacked the apartment of collector Victor Magids. They stole works of art and jewelry with a total value of over $9 million. Such large thefts have never been committed in the capital.
At about 10 am, Victor Magids left his apartment. He was going to the store. On the landing he was suddenly hit on the head and pushed back into the apartment. The Collector noticed that there were three raiders. Two of them were armed. The unarmed man remained on the stairs. Magids' hands were tied and he was laid face down on the floor. “Don’t move, grandfather,” said the robbers, “or you’ll fly out of the window.”
The bandits called someone from Magids' apartment. Soon another person joined them. He showed his accomplices exactly what paintings they needed. The bandits stayed in the apartment for two hours. In total, 59 gold jewelry and archaeological objects, 50 miniatures, 7 icons of the 17th-18th centuries were taken from Magids. and 30 paintings by old masters. These were mainly works by the “little Dutchmen,” including Adrian van Ostade, David Teniers the Younger, Adrian Brouwer, Philips Wouwerman, Jan Steen, Juan Flanders, and Lucas Cranach the Elder; In addition, a watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky was stolen.
The bandits wrapped the paintings in sheets. Before leaving, they cut the telephone wire and told Magids: “If you report, we will kill you.” But as soon as the door slammed, the collector untied himself, went down to the neighbors and called the police.
Having blocked exits from the city, the police began methodically inspecting cars and combing, as operatives put it, places where criminal elements were concentrated. In all the capital's police departments, teams were created to investigate this crime. There, the operational services reported daily information about the work done.
It was possible to draw up sketches of the two bandits and their detailed descriptions. There were only fingerprints missing - the robbers were wearing gloves. But it was all in vain: the bandits seemed to evaporate. However, all the circumstances of the attack indicated that the criminals had calculated everything to the smallest detail.
Gunner hanged himself in Belgium
Magids and his wife Maria took their loss seriously. Soon Maria became seriously ill and died. Before her death, she told her friends that she would be very happy to sell her husband’s entire collection. “We were hostages of this collection,” she complained.
Having come to his senses a little, Magids left for London. There he tried to make inquiries about his missing collection, but he was unsuccessful. Before returning to Moscow, in one of the London city parks he installed a bench with the name of his wife - it is customary there to remember the dead.
For four whole years, the case of the attack on the collector was considered hopeless, but then operatives of the 9th - "antique" - department of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department unexpectedly got on the trail of the bandits.
In 1994, aspiring entrepreneur Vladimir Stepanov turned to the criminal investigation department. He said that he participated in the robbery of Magids. A certain Yakov Feldman took him on the case. Together with him, Alexander Butorin and Evgeny Tokarev took part in the robbery. Stepanov just drove them by car to Magids’ house.
All three were put on the wanted list. But it soon became clear that Feldman was no longer alive. About a week after the attack on Magids, he went to Belgium and settled in a Brussels hotel. There he was soon found hanging from a chandelier hook. The police found no signs of violent death. Feldman's remains were sent to Moscow and cremated. They say that the coffin was not opened at home.
Feldman, as operatives believed, could have been the organizer of the Magids robbery. He spent many years in the colonies for speculation and smuggling and, like Magids, collected antiques. And the world of collectors, as you know, is quite narrow. During the investigation, it turned out that Feldman met Butorin and Tokarev during his last imprisonment. Butorin was one of the “authorities” of the Odintsovo criminal group. For some reason the criminals called him Zombie. Tokarev did not enjoy much authority among criminals, but he was a good hunter - he hit a squirrel in the eye.
Butorin and Tokarev (along with them there was also a certain Gusitinsky) were detained in the fall of 1994 on a completely different matter. The detectives took them to a dacha in the Moscow region, which they rented from an academician. The bandits used the dacha as a weapons and ammunition warehouse. There were 20 Makarov pistols alone there. As it turned out, the pistols were stolen from a fire-technical school in the Irkutsk region. During the attack on the school, the criminals killed a sentry.
Nevertheless, the lawyers were able to get Butorin, Tokarev and Gusitinsky released on bail through the court. When the bandits left the Mozhaisk pre-trial detention center, they were met by numerous “lads” and a heavily armed OMSN (special purpose police unit subordinate to the MUR). Everyone was detained, fingerprinted and recorded on video, after which the “lads” were released, and Butorin and Tokarev were sent to Moscow, where they were soon charged with robbery at Magids’ apartment. Their accomplice Gusitinsky immediately after his release left for Kyiv, where he was killed during a gang war.
Death of a Witness
During interrogations, Butorin and Tokarev claimed that they had nothing to do with the theft of the collection. But Magids identified the bandits (they were brought straight to the hospital for identification, where the collector was being treated for cancer), and witness Stepanov testified against them. In addition, a hair from one of the attack participants was seized from Magids’ apartment. An examination carried out by specialists from the Expert Forensic Center of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate showed that it was a hair from Butorin’s head. In general, there was more than enough evidence of their guilt. The only thing missing was the stolen paintings.
During the investigation, only one of them was found in Moscow. The police seized the painting from Butorin several months before the arrest. Then he was detained for storing a machine gun in the trunk of a car, but then the case was dropped. There was also a painting in the same car. It was Franz de Hulst's painting "River Landscape". He was confiscated along with the weapons, but for some reason they were not included in the case. As a result, the painting gathered dust behind a safe in the police department office. This episode surfaced during a new investigation, and the painting was returned to Magids.
With the help of Interpol, six more paintings and miniatures stolen from Magids were detained at the Sotheby's auction. Accompanied by a state security officer, Magids went to London, collected the miniatures, and then sold them at the same auction.
In 1995, shortly before the start of the trial of the bandits who robbed him, Victor Magids died. Shortly before his death, he headed the Renaissance Humanitarian Programs Foundation, which was involved in the formation of corporate collections of several Moscow banks.
The trial of Butorin and Tokarev lasted a year and a half. A few days before the verdict in this case, the main prosecution witness, Vladimir Stepanov, was killed. He was shot at his own entrance with a pistol. On that day, Stepanov turned 27 years old.
The murder might not have been connected with the trial: Stepanov borrowed a large sum of money and could not pay off his debts for a long time. Before this, there had already been an attempt on his life; he was wounded by two bullets and spent several months in the hospital.
However, Stepanov’s murder did not affect the court decision in any way. Butorin was sentenced to 9 years in prison. Tokarev was sent for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric clinic. As operatives say, Tokarev has been very successfully “mowed down” before, as soon as they wanted to bring him to criminal responsibility.
The search for Magids' stolen collection continues to this day. In the seven years that have passed since the theft, only a small part of the stolen property has been recovered. German police seized four paintings and several gold boxes and snuff boxes (14 items in total) in Stuttgart. The Russian authorities managed to achieve their return to Moscow, where they were transferred for examination and storage to the Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin.
Meanwhile, several of Magids' relatives claimed rights to the collection. They still can't agree with each other. In general, the end has not yet been set in this detective story.
Makskim Varvydin
“Osya”, or Butorin Sergei Yuryevich, is a criminal authority and leader of Orekhovskaya
In 2011, the leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group was convicted and the punishment was imposed. The judicial authorities found Butorin guilty of the criminal acts charged to him, namely the organization and leadership of an organized criminal group, as well as the murder of 38 people.
A few biographical facts
Butorin was born in 1964 in the city of Ostashkov, located in the Tver region. Having reached conscription age, the guy went into the army, where he served in a sapper unit. The military unit was located in Odintsovo. Having served the required term, Butorin did not leave the service, but continued his military career. Thus, he rose to the rank of ensign. In his young and mature years, Osya became seriously interested in sports, in particular boxing. He repeatedly took part in various competitions and even received a rank in this sport.
However, in 1989, the future leader of the organized crime group retired from the military. His further work was to guard a small cafe called “The Scarlet Flower”. The location of this establishment was in the Koptevo area.
First crime
Sergei Butorin's younger brother, Alexander, was repeatedly convicted and used drugs. Perhaps it was thanks to him that Butorin connected his life with crime. So, it was together with Alexander that Osya, who did not yet have such a nickname, committed his first crime. This happened on July 27, 1990. At that time, Butorin was not yet a member of any criminal groups and did not communicate with any of the authorities in the criminal world. On that day, Sergei Butorin, Osya, and his brother robbed the apartment of Victor Magids, who was a well-known collector in certain circles.
The brothers received an order to rob this apartment from another antique lover, Yakov Feldman. The latter met Alexander Butorin in prison, where he was also serving his sentence. In addition to the brothers, an acquaintance from prison also took part in the crime. But besides this, Tokarev also previously worked in the internal affairs bodies. Preparations for the crime, that is, measures to search for weapons, were undertaken by Sergei Butorin. As a result of this robbery, the criminals caused damages amounting to more than nine million US dollars. Among the stolen items were a lot of jewelry, icons, ancient paintings, as well as various archaeological finds.
Yakov Feldman and Vladimir Stepanov
Vladimir Stepanov, who was an aspiring entrepreneur at that time, had to play a certain role in this crime. According to the plan developed by Feldman, Stepanov was supposed to stand in his car at a distance from the crime scene, and when the others had done their job, drive up to the entrance and take away the loot. But it was at that moment that an incident happened to Stepanov. At a certain time, he was unable to drive up to the appointed place, because he was overcome by sleep. Having woken up and arrived at Magids’ house, Vladimir Stepanov discovered that his accomplices were no longer there.
Four years later, Vladimir Stepanov turned to the internal affairs bodies, where he spoke about the crime committed and the persons involved in it. Police officers put the Butorins, Tokarev and Feldman on the wanted list. Some time later, Feldman was found hanged in the Belgian capital. He left there a week after the robbery; he lived in Brussels, in one of the hotels where he rented a room. Belgian police found no signs indicating that it was a violent death. Therefore, everyone decided that it was suicide. Feldman's corpse was sent to Moscow, where he was cremated.
Subsequent criminal career
Having completed the indicated robbery of the apartment, Osya realized that a period was coming during which he could rise well. It was then, with the collapse of the USSR, that the era of the cooperative movement began, and the criminal careers of many criminals took off. Taking such cooperator-entrepreneurs under one's protection ("protection") brought very large incomes. Of course, Butorin didn’t like working as a security guard for mere pennies, so he, his brother and a guy nicknamed Belok (Dmitry Belkin) decided to organize their own brigade. These events took place in Odintsovo. Having created a group, the criminals began to work - they extorted money from entrepreneurs, committed robberies and robberies.
Expansion of organized crime groups, unlike other gangs
Over time, the gang began to expand, and more and more territory came under its control. Their influence spread to the area from Odintsovo to Zvenigorod. Basically, the organized crime group was engaged in racketeering of entrepreneurs, but it also did not shy away from any other business for which it could make at least some profit.
The difference between Butorin’s organized crime group and other criminal organizations was that Axis subordinates did not commit murders on order, but generally just like that, perhaps even for pleasure. Such murders did not promise them any benefit, but the fact remains that people were killed for no apparent reason. So, at one time Butorin’s people were at enmity with the Golitsinskaya organized crime group. Subsequently, the Golitsyns surrendered, gave the Butorin group all their wealth and spheres of influence and did not lay claim to anything else. However, Butorin's people continued to kill them without stopping.
Criminal authority
By 1993, Butorin had gained a very significant authority in Odintsovo, other criminal groups began to listen to him, and his organized crime group became the only one holding Odintsovo.
Also in 1993, Alexander and Sergei Butorin met Grigory Gusyatinsky, at that time the leader of the latter was, in turn, the closest henchman of Sergei Timofeev, the current leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group. Gusyatinsky recognized in the Butorin brothers the people he needed and decided not to let them go far from him. Later he introduced them to Sergei Timofeev.
Then the distribution went as follows. Belkin was left in Odintsovo to control criminal activities there. Butorin Jr. became Gusyatinsky’s right hand; he was entrusted with various assignments that could not be entrusted to other people. Sergei Butorin joins the gang of Sergei Ananyevsky, nicknamed Kultik. After some time, he, as a member of the organized crime group, becomes the right hand (Sylvester).
Detention of accomplices
Later, in 1994, Alexander Butorin, Evgeny Tokarev, as well as the head of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group Grigory Gusyatinsky were detained in a completely different case. The criminals rented a dacha from a famous academician in the Moscow region, where they were detained by police officers. During a search of the dacha, detectives found a whole warehouse of firearms and ammunition. There were twenty Makarov pistols alone in the cache. It was subsequently found out that these pistols were stolen from a fire school located in the Irkutsk region. During the theft of these pistols, a school watchman was killed.
Sergei Butorin was saved from arrest on that ill-fated day for the rest only by the fact that, having learned about the detention of the rest of his accomplices, he managed to hide. Later, the criminals' lawyers managed to get the court to release all detainees on bail.
Release and re-arrest
After their release, the trio was met by the entire “brotherhood” that made up the organized criminal group. But not only their criminal comrades were waiting for them, but also a special police detachment. The latter’s fighters arrested the newly released criminals, as well as everyone who met them. Then the detainees were taken to the police department, where they “rolled off their fingers,” made a video recording, and then released them. But Alexander Butorin and Evgeniy Tokarev were not released, but were sent to the capital. There, the criminals were charged with the robbery they committed against the collector Magids.
After this incident, Gusyatinsky quickly left for Kyiv, but was killed there by a killer hired by his own people, who decided that he was no longer needed.
Investigation into the case of apartment robbery
After the arrest of Tokarev and Alexander Butorin, they were interrogated several times, but the criminals denied all accusations, without admitting to anything. The investigative authorities, however, also did not sit still. They carried out a number of investigative actions, including the identification of the criminals by the victim Victor Magids. The latter easily identified everyone. Measures to show the suspects to the victim were carried out right in the hospital where Magids was being treated. In addition to identification by Magids, Stepanov gave testimony against Tokarev and A. Butorin. But the evidence base against the criminals was not limited to this. A hair belonging to the criminal was found and seized from the collector's robbed apartment. Later, a forensic examination was carried out and it was determined that this hair belonged to Butorin.
Thus, the guilt of the detainees was fully confirmed by the evidence found.
Search for stolen antiques
But at the same time, investigators were worried about one more question: where was the stolen property? Of the stolen paintings, only one was found in the capital, which the police seized from Butorin literally a couple of months before his arrest. The arrest at that time was for possession of a firearm that was found in the trunk of a vehicle. There, along with the machine gun, was a painting, which was confiscated in abundance. Later the case was closed, but the stolen painting remained lying somewhere in the police department.
When conducting a new investigation, the investigators remembered this recent case, picked it up, found the painting, which was returned to the owner. After some time, Interpol officers discovered six more stolen paintings, which they wanted to sell through Sotheby's auction. Victor Magids independently went to the UK, where he took property belonging to him. However, then he still sold the paintings through this auction.
The victim, Victor Magids, died in 1995; the trial of the thieves of his property never began, so he did not have time to see the criminals being sent to prison.
The trials in the criminal case in which Evgeniy Tokarev and Alexander Butorin were accused lasted about a year and a half. Before the court was to pronounce its verdict, the main witness, Vladimir Stepanov, was killed. He was shot right at his entrance; the crime weapon was a pistol.
Denouement
A few years later, more precisely in 2011, it turned out that Stepanov was killed on the order of Sergei Butorin, and the murder was carried out by Marat Polyansky, who at that time worked for Butorin as his bodyguard. Despite this, Stepanov managed to give all the testimony necessary to the investigation, so his murder did not affect the court verdict.
Sergei Butorin’s brother was sentenced to 9 years in prison, but Evgeniy Tokarev was sent to a psychiatric clinic for treatment. Later, Tokarev escaped from this hospital; they could not find him. Sergei Butorin, as already mentioned, received life imprisonment.
Not all people know where Sergei Butorin is imprisoned, why he was imprisoned, what crimes he committed, but some time ago he gave an interview to one information publication, in which he spoke about his atrocities, about his attitude to life at that time, which was not so distant time.
Sergei Yurievich Butorin(“Osya”) - (November 9, 1964 Ostashkov, Tver region, RSFSR, USSR) - criminal authority and leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group. On September 6, 2011, the Moscow City Court sentenced him to life imprisonment, having been found guilty of murdering 38 people and leading a criminal community. After the trial, he was transferred to Correctional Colony No. 18 “Polar Owl”.
Biography
Sergei Butorin was born on November 9, 1964, in the city of Ostashkov, Tver region. He served in the sapper unit of the Engineering Troops, in Odintsovo. After being transferred to the reserve, he continued his military career, where he rose to the rank of warrant officer. He was seriously involved in boxing, had a rank and participated in various competitions. Butorin had a younger brother, Alexander Butorin (“Zombie”), but unlike Sergei, he could not boast of a good character: he was convicted several times and was a drug addict. In 1989, Butorin retired from the army and began working as a security guard at the Scarlet Flower cafe, which was located in the Koptevo district.
The beginning of a criminal career
Butorin committed his first crime with his brother Alexander, when “Osya” was not even associated with the “brotherhood” and was not a member of any groups. On July 27, 1990, the apartment of the famous collector Victor Magids was robbed. The customer of the robbery was Yakov Feldman. He spent many years in the colonies for speculation and smuggling and, like Magids, collected antiques. Yakov Feldman met Alexander Butorin during his last imprisonment. Sergei Butorin, Alexander Butorin, and his friend Evgeniy Tokarev, a former police officer, with whom the “Zombies” served time together in a colony, took part in the robbery of the apartment. “Osya” took out the weapon for the robbery. Works of art and jewelry with a total value of over $9 million were stolen from the apartment: 59 gold jewelry and archaeological objects, 50 miniatures, 7 icons of the 17th-18th centuries, and 30 paintings by old masters. These were mainly works by the “little Dutchmen,” including Adrian van Ostade, David Teniers the Younger, Adrian Brouwer, Philips Wouwerman, Jan Steen, Juan Flandes, and Lucas Cranach the Elder; In addition, a watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky was stolen.
In 1994, aspiring entrepreneur Vladimir Stepanov turned to the criminal investigation department. He said that he participated in the robbery of Magids. Yakov Feldman, for whom Stepanov worked as a personal driver, took him on the job. Together with him, Alexander Butorin and Evgeny Tokarev took part in the robbery. Stepanov was supposed to deliver the car at the moment when the robbers took out the paintings. But he slept through the crucial moment and arrived when everything had already happened and the brothers had disappeared. Everyone was put on the wanted list. But it soon became clear that Feldman was no longer alive. About a week after the attack on Magids, he went to Belgium and settled in a Brussels hotel. There he was soon found hanging from a chandelier hook. The police found no signs of violent death. Feldman's remains were sent to Moscow and cremated.
Alexander Butorin and Evgeny Tokarev were detained, along with them was the leader of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group Grigory Gusyatinsky (“Grinya”), in the fall of 1994 on a completely different case. The detectives took them to a dacha in the Moscow region, which they rented from an academician. The bandits used the dacha as a weapons and ammunition warehouse. There were 20 Makarov pistols alone there. As it turned out, the pistols were stolen from a fire-technical school in the Irkutsk region. During the attack on the school, the criminals killed a sentry. “Osya” was saved only by the fact that, having learned about his brother’s arrest, he managed to hide. Nevertheless, the lawyers were able to get Butorin, Tokarev and Gusyatinsky released on bail through the court. When the bandits left the Mozhaisk pre-trial detention center, they were met by numerous “lads” and a heavily armed special forces unit. Everyone was detained, fingerprinted and recorded on video, after which the “lads” were released, and Butorin and Tokarev were sent to Moscow, where they were soon charged with robbery at Magids’ apartment. Gusyatinsky immediately after his release left for Kyiv, where he was shot by the killer of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group Alexey Sherstobitov (“Lyosha the Soldier”). Gusyatinsky became a victim of a conspiracy by his wards, who, after the death of the leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group Sergei Timofeev (“Sylvester”), decided to eliminate Gusyatinsky as a superfluous person.
In 2011, by a court decision, the crime boss, one of the most famous leaders of the gangster group of the 90s, Sergei Yuryevich Butorin, was sentenced to life imprisonment. He did not admit his guilt, but still went to live out his life in a prison for especially dangerous repeat offenders. Why and where is Sergei Butorin imprisoned? Everything is written in this article.
Biography "before"
The biography of Sergei Butorin, the Axis, was nothing special before the first crimes. He was born in Ostashkov (Tver region) on November 9, 1964. He, like most guys, served in the armed forces. Sergei was in a sniper unit, and after finishing his service, he decided to stay here to build a military career. He managed to rise to the rank of warrant officer, but for some reason he didn’t want to go further, the guy left the army and began working as a security guard in a cafe.
Otherwise, he was also a fairly positive person. He took up boxing and was even able to get a rank in this sport.
Younger brother
Butorin had a younger brother, Alexander, known in crime as Zombie. This guy, unlike Sergei, had no merit, and his characterization left much to be desired. Alexander Butorin was famous as a drug addict and had several criminal records. Despite all the shortcomings of the younger one, Sergei Butorin still loved him and trusted his brother more than anyone, and it was for this reason that he went on his first business with him.
First thing
It was Alexander who received a tip about the robbery of the apartment of the famous collector Magids Victor. His prison friend Feldman Yakov told Sasha about the valuables at this man’s disposal. Sergei Butorin became interested in the opportunity to make good money, and personally began supplying weapons for the robbery, since he had some loopholes to ammunition depots.
The fourth from the organized group was another former prisoner and once internal affairs officer, Evgeniy Tokarev. The “brigade” thought everything through carefully and carried out the robbery one July night in 1990.
The guys made good money, taking things worth over nine million US dollars from Magids' apartment. There were ancient icons, valuable paintings, jewelry, and archaeological finds.
Offended accomplice
Another element, known as Vladimir Stepanov, was to take a direct part in the collector’s robbery. His duties were to bring the car to the crime scene in time, when the other participants were taking out the valuables. But the car was not there, since Stepanov, apparently tired, decided to take a nap and slept through the rush hour. Having arrived at the appointed place, Vladimir found no one and went home with nothing.
A few years later, burdened with pangs of conscience or resentment towards his accomplices, Vladimir came to the police and told about everything he knew. Internal affairs officers no longer hoped to solve the crime or find the perpetrators, and the information received from Stepanov became simply invaluable material for them in the case. The Butorin brothers, Tokarev and Feldman, were immediately put on the wanted list.
Feldman was soon discovered, but he could no longer be punished and tell about the whereabouts of the other participants. Jacob was found in Belgium, in one of the hotel rooms, he was hanged. The police did not identify any traces of violent death, and declaring it a suicide, sent the body to Moscow for cremation.
Odintsovo organized crime group
The collapse of the country, mass discontent, poverty, the height of wars between bandits for power and money - all this is so close, it would seem, of the nineties. This was the time when a business was created, and the time when blood was shed for this business. The racket flourished, merchants paid tribute to the bandits protecting their points. For each such “donor” there was a real massacre, and the territories were strictly divided: each was ruled by its own group, and strangers who dared to enter other than their territory were mercilessly killed. These were real wolf packs, living by their own laws, and these laws were respected by everyone.
Sergei Butorin, his brother Zombie and Dmitry Belkin (Belok) did not miss the opportunity to join the situation. They created their own group in Odintsovo, and began by clearing the territory of the Golitsinskaya organized crime group, which reigns here. The Odintsovskys did not spare the Golitsyn people; they killed those of them who did not agree to leave the inhabited territory and fought back. The Butorinskys were distinguished by a special bloodthirstiness; they beat and executed even just like that, not for profit, but for simple pleasure. By doing this, they established themselves as ruthless and serious guys, whom they began to fear and respect.
Soon, rumors about Sergei Butorin and his people spread throughout the country, authorities rushed to get to know their daring colleagues.
Well-deserved authority
By 1993, Odintsovo was completely freed from the encroachments of foreign groups. Sergei Butorin and his guys completely accepted power and began to single-handedly reap the fruits of their labors. At the same time, Grinya (Grigory Gusyatsky), who is the leader of an organized crime group from Medvedkovo and a confidant of Sylvester (Sergei Timofeev), the leader of the Orekhovskaya group and the most authoritative criminal element, has the honor of meeting them.
Soon, the Odintsovskys were in for a promotion of sorts: Belok became the chief in Odintsovo, since Sasha was taken to the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group to carry out especially important assignments and secret tasks, and Sergei Butorin went to the Orekhovskaya organized crime group to become close to Sylvester himself.
Gang arrest
In 1994, at the dacha of an academician in the Moscow region, almost the entire gang was detained. Alexander Butorin, Grigory Gusyatsky and Evgeniy Tokarev rented this living space and placed an ammunition warehouse on it. Detectives went to this dacha and were able to arrest the tenants. As it turned out, most of the weapons were stolen from the Fire School of the Irkutsk region, and while the gang was removing the ammunition, the sentry who noticed them was eliminated.
Sergei Butorin was able to miraculously avoid a common fate, and upon learning about the arrest of his accomplices, he hid for some time. Lawyers hired to defend the brother and the rest of the gang were able to get them released on high bail. However, the criminal elements did not enjoy freedom for long, since they were met from prison not only by their brotherhood, but also by armed employees of the special department. All participants were detained, fingerprinted, and Alexander and Tokarev were sent to Moscow for trial, while the rest were released.
In Moscow, Butorin Jr. and Evgeniy Tokarev were given a prosecutor's order to arrest them for robbing a collector's apartment.
Gregory, after this incident, hastened to leave Russia and went to Kyiv. Only he was soon shot there by a killer hired by Sylvester. The authorities considered Gusyatsky not only superfluous, but also a dangerous person for the rest of the gang.
Alexander Butorin and Evgeniy Tokarev
Alexander and Evgeniy did not admit their guilt. They did not know that the police officers had indisputable evidence in the form of Sashka’s hair found at the crime scene, and a living witness - Magids. The collector was able to identify the criminals, although he himself was in a clinic where he was being treated for cancer. The perpetrators were brought straight there for a confrontation.
Another witness in this case was soon killed. The victim of the killer was Stepanov, who was ordered by Sergei Butorin. After a year and a half of investigation, Alexander was sentenced to nine years of special regime, and Tokarev was placed in a psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment. It was from there that he was able to escape, and has not yet been found.
The trial of Sergei Butorin
Law enforcement agencies were able to find Butorin back in 1999, when he, having undergone plastic surgery and staging his own funeral, went to Spain.
The trial in the case of Polyansky and Butoroin began in early May 2011, the verdict took more than five hours. Sergei Butorin, whose photo is in this article, was accused of 38 murders and nine attempts, of which 36 murders and all attempts were proven. Sergei was involved in the deaths of people such as Solonik Alexander (the famous killer of Macedonian Sasha), Otari Kvantrishvili (director of the fund for the social protection of athletes). The murders of members of his own gang were also proven. Sergei Butorin hated drug addicts, having learned that some of his people were heavily addicted to drugs, he personally dealt with them. He also became the main organizer of clearing his area of all drug dealers.
The prosecutor requested a life sentence for him, and 17 years of strict regime for Polyansky.
What prison is Sergei Butorin in?
The well-known authority was sent to serve his life sentence in the prison of the regime village of Kharp, which is located in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. "Polar Owl" is located beyond the Arctic Circle and was specially organized for such repeat offenders as Sergei Butorin (Osya). Where the famous authority sits, the Sob River flows, and not far away is the Rai-Iz mountain range. There is no chance of escaping from this place, much less staying alive if you try to escape.
The “polar owl” appears in several television series, so anyone who wants to know where Butorin was imprisoned can see it in person. These are "The Game. Denouement", "Sword-2" and "Insomnia".
Son of Sergei Butorin
While the father is in prison, his son continues his work. Grigory Butorin was detained a year after his father was sentenced. He and several other gang members were arrested while handing over money from a man they had intimidated and extorted from him for a large sum. A case was opened against the participants based on this fact; nothing is known about their other crimes.
Grigory, like his father, lives at the expense of intimidated people. He is engaged in racketeering and fully lives up to the expectations of his authoritative parent.
On September 6, the Moscow City Court gave a life sentence to the leader of the Orekhovskaya group, Sergei Butorin, nicknamed Osya. At the same time, gang member Marat Polyansky was sentenced to 17 years. Lawyers for those convicted want to appeal the verdict. Polyansky is dissatisfied with the sentence, and Butorin does not admit guilt at all. The Orekhovsky leader fears for his life. He says that he has many enemies who will not let him live long in prison.
According to law enforcement agencies, former Soviet army warrant officer Sergei Butorin began his criminal career in 1990, when he was 25 years old. Together with his brother Alexander, on the order of collector Yakov Feldman, he took a large amount of antiques from collector Victor Magids. However, the collection was never transferred to the customer - shortly after the robbery, Feldman was found hanged in a hotel in Belgium (the death was ruled a suicide). As a result, Alexander Butorin was sentenced to nine years for robbery, but the collection was not found (so far only a few items from it have been discovered).
Law enforcement agencies believe that Magids’ collection remained in the possession of Sergei Butorin, whose guilt in robbery was considered unproven by the court. While deciding on the sale of antiques, Osya met crime boss Sergei Timofeev, nicknamed Sylvester. Timofeev at that time headed the Orekhov group operating in Moscow. Butorin entered Sylvester's entourage and was content with a minor role until the gang leader was blown up in his car in 1994. After this, a criminal war unfolded - members of the Orekhovskaya group fought for leadership, and other gangs tried to take away zones of influence from the decapitated organized crime group. Finally, Butorin became the leader of the Orekhovskys.
Some law enforcement officers admitted to journalists that Osya made them regret Sylvester’s death. Former collective farm tractor driver Timofeev did not allow so-called “lawlessness” and generally encouraged gang members to go into legal business. And the new leader approached criminal activity with a tough military approach (by the way, under Osa, many former military and ex-law enforcement officers, as well as athletes, became members of the group).
Butorin's close associate Dmitry Belkin (Belok) became famous for demanding tribute from businessmen only once. The Orekhovskys did not engage in bargaining or threats - if a person did not bring the required amount the first time, he was immediately killed. On the other hand, even the slightest attempts by competing groups to offend controlled businessmen were suppressed through immediate reprisals.
The Orekhovskys maintained internal discipline no less harshly - members of the group were killed for their tendency to alcoholism and drug addiction, for their intention to leave the gang, for criticizing the leaders. However, some sources note that in many ways this approach was due not to a love of order, but to self-interest. “The fewer of us there are, the more money we will get,” gang members, the Pylev brothers, later explained in court.
In 1996, Butorin decided to “go to the bottom.” Media reports that he faked his death and lavishly “buried” himself at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery in Moscow. The supposedly fake grave can still be seen. Although in reality this is not so simple. Some media outlets publish a photograph of the columbarium, on one of the cells of which you can see the inscription: “Butorin Sergey Yurievich, 1964-1996.” Although, according to open sources, Butorin’s middle name is Vladimirovich. And in some reports the place of the false burial is described differently: “A modest slab with already worn letters: “Sergei Butorin. 1965-1995"". Either the crime boss buried himself twice just in case, or the journalists are confusing something. However, we can also talk about namesakes - the name and surname of the leader of the Orekhovskys are not so rare.
In the end, the grave is fake, so that unambiguous information about it cannot be found. The main thing is different - in fact, Butorin remained alive, had plastic surgery and left for Spain, from where he continued to lead the gang. The escape was undertaken on time - already two years later, in 1998, the investigator of the special prosecutor's office of the Odintsovo district, Yuri Kerez, for the first time used Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organization of a criminal community or participation in it") to initiate a case. And this matter concerned specifically the Orekhovskys.
The gang tried to interact with Kerez according to approximately the same scheme that was tested when collecting tribute from businessmen. One evening, Belkin came to the investigator’s office and offered a million dollars to close the case. Kerez refused the deal and was shot dead the next day. However, the investigation did not end there; on the contrary, they took up the matter with renewed vigor. Soon the gang was defeated, and reports of the detention of its members began to appear regularly in the media.
The report of Butorin's capture was published in 2001. He and Polyansky were detained leaving a brothel near Barcelona. But it was not immediately possible to achieve the extradition of the detainees to the Russian Federation. First, a Spanish court sentenced the Russians to eight and a half years for weapons possession. Only in 2003 did Spain briefly transfer Butorin and Polyansky to Russia so that they could speak at the trial where the cases of their comrades were being considered. The convicts were then returned to Spain to serve out their sentences. The issue of final extradition was resolved after serving his sentence, in 2009-2010. Moreover, Butorin and Polyansky tried to stall for time by filing applications for political asylum. However, the requests were rejected, and first Polyansky and then Butorin were sent to a Russian pre-trial detention center.
In Russia, the leader of the Orekhovskys and his associate were charged with organizing a criminal community, banditry and murder. Butorin was accused of involvement in the death of about thirty people (including the famous killer Alexander Solonik), and Polyansky, according to various sources, was involved in four or six murders. The gang leader denied his guilt, although he did not testify in his own defense, citing the right not to incriminate himself. Polyansky made a deal with the investigation. However, the different positions of the defendants did not cause the quarrel. Journalists testified that in court the defendants chatted cheerfully with each other.
At the sentencing, which took place in the Moscow City Court on September 6, 2011, the defendants appeared dressed in the fashion of the nineties - Butorin in “boiled denim”, Polyansky in an Adidas tracksuit. The judge sentenced the Orekhovsky leader to life imprisonment (as requested by the prosecution), and Polyansky to 17 years in prison (two years longer than the prosecutor requested). In response to the question whether the sentence was clear to the convicts, Polyansky remained silent, and Butorin replied, “Yes, it is clear.”
Later, lawyers for both convicts said they would appeal the verdict. Butorin's lawyer Olga Tarasova, in principle, disagrees with the court's decision, and Polyansky's lawyer Vladimir Boyko said that the judge should have taken into account the time served by the accused in the pre-trial detention center when setting the term. Polyansky has a reason to strive for freedom - journalists note that his Spanish wife was present in the Moscow City Court. After the verdict was pronounced, she announced that she would move to live in the vicinity of the colony where her husband would serve his sentence.
Butorin is not currently concerned about romantic issues. He said he feared for his safety. According to the crime boss, he has many influential enemies who will not allow him to live long in the colony.
Investigators, meanwhile, continue to “pick up the tails of the nineties.” A few months ago, the same Belkin who brought fear to Moscow businessmen was detained in Spain. This is the last of the influential members of the Orekhovskaya gang to remain free. The issue of Belkin’s extradition has not yet been resolved, but judging by the experience of Butorin and Polyansky, there should not be any particular difficulties with this.
In addition, the investigation of high-profile cases continues, charges in which the same Butorin may subsequently be brought. Firstly, investigators believe that Osya was involved in the murder of Sylvester. It is assumed that he organized the bombing of his predecessor's car in order to become the leader of the gang. Butorin could also hope that after the death of Sylvester, people who suffered from the latter’s actions would refuse to take revenge on the Orekhovskys. And there really were reasons to fear revenge - according to media reports, Sylvester really did not like people from the Caucasus, and under him it was Caucasians who often became victims of the gang.
Secondly, investigators believe that in 1994, Butorin organized the bombing of Boris Berezovsky’s car (the entrepreneur was then injured). By the way, in the early 2000s, the media reported Butorin’s connection with FSB Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Litvinenko, who fled from the Russian Federation to the UK (and subsequently died under strange circumstances). Let us recall that Litvinenko claimed that he received an order from management to kill Berezovsky. However, it is not possible to build any clear version based on all this information. All available information is very amorphous. Litvinenko himself denied the fact of friendship with Butorin, and the Spanish authorities, when considering the Orekhovsky leader’s request for political asylum, did not pay attention to these rumors.
Overall, it does not appear that further investigation into Butorin's activities will attract public interest. It is obvious that he will no longer be given a greater punishment than a life sentence (especially since even taking into account the time during which the suspect hid from the investigation, the statute of limitations for these crimes has already expired or is about to expire). Thus, bringing new charges will not have direct and obvious consequences. And the sentencing of Belkin and the possible investigation of other episodes of the Orekhovskys’ activities are unlikely to cause much excitement. Now the crimes of the nineties are already perceived as history - that is, most people are interested in this information only occasionally, for a short time and in small volumes.
