Gang " Black cat"is perhaps the most famous criminal association in the post-Soviet space. It became so thanks to talent Weiner brothers, who wrote the book “The Age of Mercy”, as well as the skill directed by Stanislav Govorukhin, who directed one of the best Soviet detective stories, “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed.”
However, reality is very different from fiction. In 1945-1946, rumors appeared in different cities of the Soviet Union about a gang of thieves who, before robbing an apartment, painted a kind of “mark” in the form of a black cat on its door. The criminals liked this romantic story so much that “black cats” multiplied like mushrooms. As a rule, we were talking about small groups, the scope of whose activities did not come close to what the Weiner brothers described. Street punks often performed under the sign of the “Black Cat”.
Popular detective genre writer Eduard Khrutsky, whose scripts were used for such films as “According to the Criminal Investigation Data” and “Proceed with Liquidation,” recalled that in 1946 he himself found himself in a similar “gang.” A group of teenagers decided to scare a certain citizen who lived comfortably during the war years, while the boys’ fathers fought at the front. The police, having caught the “avengers,” according to Khrutsky, treated them simply: “they hit them on the necks and let them go.”
But the plot of the Weiner brothers is based not on the story of such would-be robbers, but on real criminals who took not only money and valuables, but also human lives. The gang in question was active in 1950-1953.
Bloody "debut"
February 1, 1950 in Khimki senior detective Kochkin And local district policeman V.Filin walked around the area. Entering a grocery store, they noticed a young man arguing with a saleswoman. He introduced himself to the woman as a plainclothes police officer, but the man seemed suspicious. Two of the young man's friends were smoking on the porch.
When the police officers tried to check the documents, one of the unknown men pulled out a pistol and opened fire. Detective Kochkin became the first victim of the gang, which terrorized Moscow and the surrounding area for three years.
The murder of a policeman was an extraordinary event, and law enforcement officers were actively searching for the criminals. The bandits, however, reminded themselves: on March 26, 1950, three broke into a department store in the Timiryazevsky district, introducing themselves as... security officers. “MGB officers,” taking advantage of the confusion of sellers and visitors, drove everyone into the back room and padlocked the store. The criminals' loot was 68 thousand rubles.
For six months, operatives searched for bandits, but in vain. Those, as it turned out later, having received a big jackpot, hid. In the fall, having spent the money, they went hunting again. On November 16, 1950, a department store of the Moscow Canal Shipping Company was robbed (more than 24 thousand rubles were stolen), and on December 10, a store on Kutuzovskaya Sloboda Street was robbed (62 thousand rubles were stolen).
Raid in the neighborhood of Comrade Stalin
On March 11, 1951, criminals raided the Blue Danube restaurant. Being absolutely confident in their own invulnerability, the bandits first drank at the table and then moved towards the cashier with a pistol. Junior police lieutenant Mikhail Biryukov that day I was in a restaurant with my wife. Despite this, remembering his official duty, he entered into a battle with the bandits. The officer died from the bullets of criminals. Another victim was a worker sitting at one of the tables: he was hit by one of the bullets intended for the policeman. There was panic in the restaurant and the robbery was foiled. While escaping, the bandits wounded two more people.
The failure of the criminals only angered them. On March 27, 1951, they raided the Kuntsevsky market. Store director Karp Antonov entered into hand-to-hand combat with the gang leader and was killed.
The situation was extreme. The latest attack took place just a few kilometers from Blizhnya Dacha Stalin. The best forces of the police and the Ministry of State Security “shook” the criminals, demanding to hand over the completely insolent robbers, but the “authorities” swore that they knew nothing.
Rumors circulating around Moscow exaggerated the crimes of the bandits tenfold. The legend of the “Black Cat” was now firmly associated with them.
The powerlessness of Nikita Khrushchev
The bandits behaved more and more defiantly. A reinforced police patrol came across them in the station buffet at Udelnaya station. One of the suspicious men was spotted holding a gun. The police did not dare to detain the bandits in the hall: the area was full of strangers who could have died. The bandits, going out into the street and rushing to the forest, started a real shootout with the police. Victory remained with the raiders: they managed to escape again.
Head of the Moscow City Party Committee Nikita Khrushchev threw thunder and lightning at law enforcement officers. He seriously feared for his career: Nikita Sergeevich could well be held accountable for rampant crime in the capital of “the world’s first state of workers and peasants.”
But nothing helped: neither threats, nor the attraction of new forces. In August 1952, during a raid on a tea shop at Snegiri station, bandits killed watchman Kraev, who tried to resist them. In September of the same year, criminals attacked the “Beer and Water” tent on the Leningradskaya platform. One of the visitors tried to defend the woman saleswoman. The man was shot.
On November 1, 1952, during a raid on a store in the Botanical Garden area, bandits wounded a saleswoman. When they had already left the crime scene, a police lieutenant drew attention to them. He knew nothing about the robbery, but decided to check the documents of suspicious citizens. A police officer was fatally wounded.
Call
In January 1953, bandits raided a savings bank in Mytishchi. Their loot was 30 thousand rubles. But at the moment of the robbery, something happened that allowed us to get the first clue leading to the elusive gang.
The savings bank employee managed to press the panic button, and the phone rang in the savings bank. The confused robber grabbed the phone.
- Is this a savings bank? - the caller asked.
“No, the stadium,” the raider answered, interrupting the call.
The officer on duty at the police station called the savings bank. I noticed this short dialogue MUR employee Vladimir Arapov. This detective, a true legend of the capital's criminal investigation department, later became the prototype of Vladimir Sharapov.
And then Arapov became wary: why, exactly, did the bandit mention the stadium? He said the first thing that came to mind, but why did he remember the stadium?
After analyzing the locations of robberies on the map, the detective discovered that many of them were committed near sports arenas. The bandits were described as athletic-looking young men. It turns out that the criminals could have nothing to do with crime at all, but be athletes?
Fatal barrel of beer
In the 1950s, this was unthinkable. Athletes in the USSR were considered role models, but here it is...
The operatives were ordered to begin checking sports societies and pay attention to everything unusual that happens near the stadiums.
Soon, an unusual emergency occurred near the stadium in Krasnogorsk. A certain young man bought a barrel of beer from the saleswoman and treated everyone to it. Among the lucky ones was Vladimir Arapov, who remembered the “rich man” and began checking.
At first glance, we were talking about exemplary Soviet citizens. Treated me to beer student of the Moscow Aviation Institute Vyacheslav Lukin, excellent student, athlete and Komsomol activist. The friends who accompanied him turned out to be workers from defense factories in Krasnogorsk, Komsomol members and labor shock workers.
Student of the Moscow Aviation Institute Vyacheslav Lukin. Photo: Frame youtube.com
But Arapov felt that this time he was on the right track. It turned out that on the eve of the robbery of the savings bank in Mytishchi, Lukin was actually at the local stadium.
Gradually we unraveled the whole tangle, finding the leader, who turned out to be a 26-year-old Shift Foreman at Defense Plant No. 34 Ivan Mitin. An exemplary worker, by that time he had been nominated for the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for his success in work.
Shift foreman at defense plant No. 34 Ivan Mitin. Photo: Frame youtube.com
Mitin established the most severe discipline in the gang, prohibited any bravado, and rejected contacts with “classic” bandits. And yet, Mitin’s scheme failed: a barrel of beer near the stadium in Krasnogorsk led to the collapse of the raiders.
"Ideologically incorrect" criminals
At dawn on February 14, 1953, operatives burst into Ivan Mitin’s house. The detained leader behaved calmly, during the investigation he gave detailed readings, without hoping for the preservation of life. The labor shock worker understood perfectly well: for what he did, there could only be one punishment.
When all members of the gang were arrested, and the investigation report was placed on the table of senior Soviet leaders, the leaders were horrified. Eight members of the gang were employees of a defense plant, all shock workers and athletes, the already mentioned Lukin studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute, and two more were cadets at military schools at the time of the defeat of the gang.
Cadet of the Nikolaev Naval Mine and Torpedo Aviation School Ageev, who before his admission was Mitin’s accomplice, a participant in robberies and murders, had to be arrested with a special warrant issued by the military prosecutor’s office.
The gang had 28 robberies, 11 murders, and 18 wounded. During their criminal activities, the bandits stole more than 300 thousand rubles.
Not a drop of romance
The case of Mitin’s gang did not fit into the ideological line of the party so much that it was immediately classified.
The court sentenced Ivan Mitin and one of his accomplices to death Alexandra Samarina, who, like the leader, was directly involved in the murders. The remaining gang members were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 to 25 years. Student Lukin received 25 years, served them in full, and a year after his release he died of tuberculosis. His father could not bear the shame, went crazy and soon died in psychiatric hospital. Members of Mitin's gang ruined the lives of not only the victims, but also their loved ones.
There is no romance in the history of Ivan Mitin’s gang: this is a story about “werewolves” who, in the light of day, were exemplary citizens, and in their second incarnation turned into ruthless murderers. This is a story about how low a person can fall.
We know the “Black Cat” gang from Govorukhin’s films and Weiner’s book. Real story This group is even more shocking than the artistic interpretation of events. For several years in a row, robbers, robbers and murderers kept all of Moscow in fear. And the police for a long time found herself powerless in the face of their insolence.Fact or fiction? Was there a black cat gang?
After watching a movie or reading a book, many people have a completely natural question. Did the “Black Cat” gang really exist, or was everything described just a figment of the imagination of writers and the director? The answer is this: Govorukhin and the Weiners, when describing the gang, took a real prototype as a basis. But their works also contain a lot of fiction. Even the name of the group is very far-fetched.In fact, legends about the Black Cat gang began to circulate for the first time post-war years, when Muscovites were cold and hungry, and large quantities of captured weapons were “walking” around the city. Crime in the capital of the USSR was off the charts, and people lived in constant fear for themselves, loved ones and their property.
And against this background, an event occurred from which the legends about the “Black Cat” gang began. . And the precedent was as follows. An image of a black cat began to regularly appear on the door of the apartment of the director of the Moscow Trade Department, which was publicly reported by the frightened official. He said he was being threatened by a gang. Having set up an ambush, the police managed to catch the “terrorists”. They turned out to be seventh-graders who considered the director a thief and wanted to intimidate him.
The boys confessed to their crime immediately and were released. But rumors about the Black Cat gang spread across Moscow. Residents considered every high-profile crime to be the work of its members, and thrill-seekers also fueled this gossip by calling their (mostly teenage) criminal organizations the famous phrase.
The history of the Black Cat gang
The real prototype of the group from works of fiction is a gang created and led by a certain Ivan Mitin. Most of its members were from Krasnogorsk near Moscow, but operated in the capital. It is their bloody organization that is commonly called today the Krasnogorsk gang “Black Cat”.Ivan Mitin - gang leader
The first crime of Mitin and the company was the murder of a police officer on February 1, 1950. The law enforcement officer wanted to check the documents of a man who seemed suspicious to him and was shot dead.
On March 26 of the same year, Mitin’s gang “Black Cat” robbed a manufactured goods store, posing as employees of the Cheka. The production amounted to almost 70 thousand rubles. Similar crimes were committed by bandits in the fall and then in the winter of the same 50th.
In March 1951, another policeman, Mikhail Biryukov, became a victim of the raiders. A lieutenant, vacationing with his wife at the Blue Danube restaurant, tried to prevent the robbery of this establishment and paid for it with his life. And very soon the bandits went on the hunt again, committing a daring robbery of the Kuntsevsky Torg store and killing its director.
The last object was located next to Stalin's dacha. The crime caused a terrible commotion; The entire Moscow police were brought to their feet, but it was not possible to catch the bandits. And they behaved more and more boldly, engaging in open firefights with the capture groups, mercilessly killing people and plundering government facilities one after another.
The history of the Black Cat gang in Moscow ended in 1953. An accident helped crack the “tough nut.” One of the criminals, Vyacheslav Lukin, bought a whole barrel of beer and filled everyone’s glasses for free. Among the latter was detective Vladimir Arapov. Lukin seemed suspicious to him and the policeman decided to check him. By pulling a thread, Arapov unraveled the whole tangle. The gang was detained.
Gang "Black Cat": real facts
The facts related to the activities of the Krasnogorsk raiders are shocking and difficult to comprehend. For example, it is known that:· “Mitya men” committed 28 robberies, killing eleven and wounding twelve people;
· the total amount of the loot was three hundred thousand rubles (at the time when a car could be bought for a couple of thousand, a huge amount of money);
· the group included leaders in the defense industry, masters of sports, military school cadets, Komsomol members, a MAI student and even a Stakhanovite;
· the “hunt” for the “cat” was personally controlled by Nikita Khrushchev, and the success of the operation helped him come to power.
Ivan Mitin, the leader of the Black Cat gang, as well as Alexander Samarin received capital punishment and were executed. The remaining members of the group were imprisoned for terms ranging from ten to twenty-five years. Since the gang included progressives and party members, the case was kept secret. The truth about the “Black Cat” gang (photos, names, documents, etc.) became public only many years later.
The most mysterious gang of the Stalin era, “Black Cat,” haunted Muscovites for 3 years with its daring raids. Taking advantage of the difficult post-war situation and the gullibility of citizens, Mitin’s gang “ripped off” large sums of money and walked away unharmed.
A series of "Black cats"
In post-war Moscow, the crime situation was alarming. This was facilitated by the lack of essential products among the population, hunger, a large number of unaccounted for captured and Soviet weapons. The situation was aggravated by the growing panic among the people; One loud precedent was enough for frightening rumors to appear. Such a precedent in the first post-war year was the statement of the director of a Moscow trade that he was threatened by the Black Cat gang. Someone began to draw a black cat on the door of his apartment, and the director of the bridge store began to receive threatening notes written on notebook paper.
On January 8, 1946, the MUR investigative team went to the alleged crime scene to ambush the attackers. At five in the morning they were already caught. They turned out to be several schoolchildren. The boss was seventh-grader Volodya Kalganov. The future film playwright and writer Eduard Khrutsky was also in this “gang”. The schoolchildren immediately admitted their guilt, saying that they simply wanted to intimidate the “grabber” who lived comfortably in the rear while their fathers fought at the front. Of course, the matter was not allowed to proceed. As Eduard Khrutsky later admitted, “they pressed us on the necks and let us go.” Even before this, there were rumors among people that before robbing an apartment, thieves draw a “black cat” on its door - an analogue of a pirate’s “black mark”. Despite all the absurdity, this legend was enthusiastically taken up by the criminal world. In Moscow alone there were at least a dozen “Black Cats”; later similar gangs began to appear in other Soviet cities. These were mainly teenage groups who, firstly, were attracted by the romance of the image itself - the “black cat”, and secondly, they wanted to throw the detectives off their trail with such a simple technique. However, by 1950, the activity of the “Black Cats” came to naught, many were caught, many simply grew up and stopped playing around, flirting with fate.
“You can’t kill policemen”
Agree, the story of “Black Cat” bears little resemblance to what we read in the book by the Weiner brothers and saw in the film by Stanislav Govorukhin. However, the story about the gang that terrorized Moscow for several years was not invented. The prototype of the book and film “Black Cat” was Ivan Mitin’s gang. Over the three years of its existence, the Mitino members committed 28 robberies, killed 11 people and wounded 12 more. The total income from their criminal activities amounted to more than 300 thousand rubles. The amount is substantial. A car in those years cost about 2,000 rubles. Mitin's gang made itself known loudly - with the murder of a policeman. On February 1, 1950, senior detective Kochkin and district police officer Filin were making their rounds when they caught Mitin and an accomplice preparing for a robbery at a store in Khimki. A shootout ensued. Kochkin was killed on the spot. The criminals managed to escape. Even among experienced criminals there is an understanding that “policemen cannot be killed,” but here they are shot at point-blank range without warning. The MUR realized that they would have to deal with a new type of criminal, cold-blooded lawbreakers. Less than two months later, on March 26, the Mitino men committed another daring robbery. This time they robbed the Timiryazevsky department store. The criminals' loot was 68 thousand rubles. The criminals didn't stop there. They made one daring raid after another. In Moscow, talk began to circulate that the “Black Cat” had returned, and this time everything was much more serious. The city was in panic. No one felt safe, and the MUR and the MGB took the actions of the Mitino men as a challenge to them personally.
Khrushchev on a string
The murder of policeman Kochkin was committed by the Mitino members shortly before the elections to the Supreme Council. The rosy information agenda of those days, with assurances about economic growth, that life was getting better, that crime had been eradicated, ran counter to the robberies that took place. MUR accepted everything necessary measures to ensure that these incidents do not become public knowledge. Mitin’s gang announced itself just three months after Nikita Khrushchev, who arrived from Kyiv, became the head of the Moscow Regional Committee. At that time, information about all high-profile crimes was placed on the table of the highest officials of the state. Joseph Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria could not help but know about the “Mitytsy”. New arrival Nikita Khrushchev found himself in a delicate situation; he was personally interested in the “Mitinets” being found as soon as possible. In March 1952, Khrushchev personally came to the MUR in order to carry out a “cleaning”. As a result of the visit of the “high authorities,” two heads of regional departments were arrested, and a special operational headquarters was created at the MUR for the Mitin gang case. Some historians believe that the Mitino case could have played a decisive role in the history of the confrontation between Khrushchev and Beria. If Mitin’s gang had not been exposed before Stalin’s death, then Beria could have taken the place of the head of state. The head of the MUR Museum, Lyudmila Kaminskaya, said directly in the film about “Black Cat”: “It was like they were going through such a struggle. Beria was removed from business, he was sent to head the nuclear energy industry, and Khrushchev oversaw all law enforcement agencies. And, of course, Beria needed Khrushchev to be untenable in this post. That is, he was preparing a platform for himself to remove Khrushchev.”
Production leaders
the main problem for the detectives was that they were initially looking in the wrong place and for the wrong people. From the very beginning of the investigation, Moscow criminals as one “went into denial” and denied any connection with the “Mitinsky” group. As it turned out, the sensational gang consisted entirely of leaders in production and people far from the criminal “raspberries” and the circle of thieves. In total, the gang consisted of 12 people. Most of them lived in Krasnogorsk and worked at a local factory. The leader of the gang, Ivan Mitin, was a shift foreman at defense plant No. 34. Interestingly, at the time of his capture, Mitin was nominated for a high government award - the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. 8 of the 11 gang members also worked at this plant, two were cadets at prestigious military schools. Among the “Mitinets” there was also a Stakhanovite, an employee of the “500th” plant, a party member - Pyotr Bolotov. There was also a MAI student Vyacheslav Lukin, a Komsomol member and athlete. In a sense, sport became the connecting link between the accomplices. After the war, Krasnogorsk was one of the best sports bases near Moscow; there were strong teams in volleyball, football, bandy and athletics. The first gathering place for the “Mitinites” was the Krasnogorsk Zenit stadium.
Exposure
Only in February 1953, MUR employees managed to get on the trail of the gang. “Mitintsev” was let down by banal indiscretion. One of them, Lukin, bought a whole barrel of beer from the Krasnogorsk stadium. This aroused legitimate suspicion among the police. Lukin was put under surveillance. Gradually, the number of suspects began to increase. Before the arrest, it was decided to conduct a confrontation. MUR officers in plain clothes brought several witnesses to the stadium and, in the crowd, led them to a group of suspects who were identified. The Mityans were arrested differently than in the film. They detained us without any fuss - in apartments. One member of the gang, Samarin, was not found in Moscow, but later he was detained. He was found in Ukraine, where he was in prison for fighting. The court sentenced Ivan Mitin and Alexander Samarin to capital punishment - death by firing squad; the sentence was carried out in Butyrka prison. Lukin was sentenced to 25 years in prison. A day after his release, in 1977, he died mysteriously.
There has always been crime throughout the entire globe. The actions of the bandits are seemingly simple - come to the appointed place, kill several people, rob and that’s it, the money is received, and the raiders are happy. Russia was also no exception in the underworld, because it was here that some of the most serious crimes were committed, such as the Real Story of Murderers. Gang "Black Cat".
How it all began
The news that someone is being killed somewhere is no secret. Residents Russia We are already accustomed to such messages and are not at all surprised. Robberies, assaults, murders, economic crimes are the main components of criminal activity on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Crime has always existed, and law enforcement agencies tried to fight it with all their might. People created gangs and communities united by one goal - earn money. But the income had to come not legal, but “black”, that is, illegal. It was then that thoughts of murder, violence and theft came to people’s minds.
Organized crime groups called organized crime group, how rabbits “breeded” in the Soviet Union. People began to be afraid to go out, because they knew that it rarely ends well. The day when a person reached home calmly and was not robbed was considered lucky.
Each group had its own name, which distinguished it from the others. There are a huge number of such names in the criminal world, so it’s definitely not possible to get confused in crimes committed by any organization. Criminals liked to leave various identifying marks at the crime scene, which could be used to identify a particular criminal sect.
New era of crime
A new era of criminals began in the post-war years. It was then that new sects and groups were formed that kept the entire country in fear. Throughout Soviet Union there were “our own” people who were capable of absolutely anything.
The real story of the Black Cat gang begins at this time. They acted in a very original way, which is what they are remembered for in the criminal world. Gang members first chose a house or apartment that would later be robbed. A certain symbol was drawn on the door that looked like a black cat. This is how the criminals warned their victims that the place would soon be robbed.
The entire criminal world of that time liked the actions of the group, they considered it some kind of criminal " romance" This was the reason why the gang was constantly growing, suppressing many other groups with its authority. Of course, there were also petty swindlers who pretended to belong to the sect and also drew black cats. As a rule, the real bandits then found them and intimidated them to such an extent that people were simply afraid to leave their own home.
The first "raids"
Two "operators", walking around the territory in Khimki area, went to a regular grocery store. The employees watched a young man who stood near the counter and brazenly swore with the cashier, and his two accomplices stood on the “nix” on the porch of the building. The employees did not tolerate such insolence of the young man and it was decided to check his identity documents. The guy refused, for which the police began interrogation. The young man, without thinking twice, took out a pistol and shot both of them. Two law enforcement officers became the first victims of the gang " Black cat».
Of course, police departments throughout the city began to take an interest in people who killed law enforcement officers. A search for the criminals was organized. But after some time the gang “surfaces” again. An industrial goods store was raided. Two young men introduced themselves as security officers, misleading employees and visitors point of sale. Everyone present was locked in the utility room, and the raiders simply stole all the money in the store. The amount was decent - almost seventy thousand rubles.
For more than six months, law enforcement officials tried to track down the criminals, but to no avail. It turns out that the gang received a lot of money, so they decided to “go to the bottom.” But when all financial reserves run out, criminal activity " black cat"resumes. This time, the victims of the criminals were two similar stores of industrial goods, which in total enriched the group by almost ninety thousand rubles, which, of course, was a huge amount for that time.
Almost reached Stalin!
In early March 1951, a famous restaurant, famous for its wonderful cuisine, suffered losses from gang members. The bandits were confident that they were invulnerable. They arrived at the restaurant and, without attracting the attention of visitors or employees, ordered food and drinks for their table. Having had a hearty lunch, the criminals armed themselves with pistols and headed straight to the cash register table. At this time, one of the policemen was in the restaurant with his wife. Entering the fight with members of the group, was killed. Several other absolutely innocent people also died. People in the restaurant began to scream and panic, as a result of which the robbery was foiled.
One of the famous raids by criminals took place a couple of kilometers from Comrade Stalin’s dacha. All efforts were devoted to catching the criminals: law enforcement officers interrogated all the leaders of the criminal world, trying to extract at least some information about “ Black cat" But all to no avail.
Nikita Khrushchev finds no place for himself
Every day, members of an organized crime group, the name of which was on everyone's lips, attracted more and more attention. Patrolling the area led to the bandits meeting law enforcement officers at a metro station in a cafeteria. One of them had a weapon in his pocket, which the police noticed. They did not dare to detain the criminals here, since there were many people who could easily have been injured by inadequate bandits. On the street gang members rushed to run, starting a serious shootout with the police. Unfortunately, those who fled managed to escape.
Nikita Khrushchev was very angry with law enforcement agencies, because they could significantly “spoil” his career, since crime in the country of “working people” was increasing, and the head of the Moscow City Party Committee was sitting with folded hands.
But no threats or new forces could cope with the criminals’ obsession with the city. The year 1952 was fatal, because within a few months several raids were carried out, resulting in the death of more than twenty people.
First traces
In the winter of 1953, criminals decided to rob a savings bank located in Mytishchi. They, of course, succeeded in doing this. The revenue was within thirty thousand rubles.
The girl standing behind cash register, managed to press the so-called “panic button”. Immediately the phone rang throughout the room. One of the robbers picked up the phone and when asked, “Is this a savings bank?” answered “No, the stadium.” Then he hung up and the criminals fled.
Such a dialogue served as some kind of clue for the capture of especially dangerous criminals. After carefully analyzing their activities, law enforcement officers found out that it was not without reason that the answer to the call was “Stadium”. It turns out that all the robberies and robberies took place near various sports facilities. Plus, the bandits were physically in shape. Therefore, they had nothing to do with the criminal world, but were ordinary athletes?
Alcohol is evil
The operational services signed an order stating that it was necessary to immediately check all facilities intended for sports, observing various oddities.
One of these happened in the town of Krasnogorsk, near the sports arena. The young guy persuaded the cashier to sell him a full barrel of beer, after which anyone could come up and take as much as they wanted. Vladimir Arapov, an investigator, was at that time next to a suspicious person. He started checking.
It turns out that this rich man who treated everyone to alcohol was Vyacheslav Lukin, who was a student at one of the capital’s universities. He was an excellent student and an activist, and his friends were Komsomol members.
Arapov had a gut feeling that these were exactly the people the police had been looking for for several years. Later it turns out that before the robbery of the savings bank Vyacheslav Lukin was at the stadium. This became the main clue.
Unraveling all the threads, law enforcement agencies were able to get to the leader of the Black Cat a few weeks later. He turned out to be a certain Ivan Mitin, who works at the enterprise.
The real story of the gang " Black cat" ended there. Looking at the photo, you cannot immediately say that these people are criminals. They look like ordinary, calm citizens.
