Tambovskaya Bratva

After establishing in 1988, the Tambov Gang used a Baroque church on Vasilyevsky Island as the site for interrogating people. Kumarin and Gennady Petrov have been close to the KGB since the late 1980s. Viktor Ivanov has strong links to the Tambov Gang. He supported Vladimir Kumarin's Tambovskaya OGG in their war against the Malyshevskaya OGG for control of the Leningrad sea port and the trafficking of Colombian narcotics through the Leningrad sea port to Europe. He believed that the Velikie Luki were responsible and, later, Viktor Gavrilenkov () and Nikolai Gavrilenkov () were shot with Viktor Gavrilenkov being killed in the bedlam. Even the speaker of the Assembly Viktor Novosyolov gave his support and maintained close relationships with Kumarin. Formed in September 1994, the Petersburg Fuel Company (PTK) was administrated by the Saint Petersburg City Administration. During the later half of 1993 and into 1994 and with bank accounts in New York, Vladimir I. Dyakov (, b.1959) of the Kazan Gang, which had many very devout Muslim Tatars, fought the Tambov Gang for control of St. Petersburg's energy trade. The St Petersburg mafia gangs also fought for control of the St Petersburg seaport, however, Viktor Ivanov strongly supported the Tambov Gang to control both the oil and the seaport. From 1998 to 1999, Kumarin became Deputy President of PTK, the top fuel trading company in the city. On 16 January 2007, the Prosecutor General of Russia Yury Chaika announced that the Tambov Gang had recently forcefully taken over 13 large enterprises in Saint Petersburg and was being investigated. In May 2015, Spanish prosecutors alleged that Parex Bank, which held mostly offshore deposits for persons from Russia, was the preferred Latvian bank for the money laundering of Vladimir Putin, Yuri Chaika, and Russian mafia especially the Tambovskaya Mafia from Saint Petersburg and that very large sums were laundered for them through Latvian and German firms associated with Parex Bank and Overseas Services, which is a sister firm of Parex Bank, by Mikhail Rebo, also spelled Rabo, and his wife Tatiana Rebo who was the manager of the Parex Bank Berlin. == 2007 and 2008 arrests ==

Alexander Litvinenko was a key witness for the Spanish prosecutors. On 13 June 2008 Spanish police arrested 20 members of the organisation's Spanish branch. In connection with the raid Russian politician Vladislav Reznik was investigated A money laundering scheme involved Vera Metallurgica, a subsidiary of Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) which Oleg Deripaska and Iskander Makhmudov were the main owners in the early 2000s. According to the sources, about a billion euros of Russian money were first transferred to a real estate and financial services company in Bulgaria, called Optima Ca. That firm then wired half of the money to the Estonian financial house AS Tavid, which sent the money back to Russia. The rest of the money was transferred to accounts in Cyprus, Dubai, Hong Kong and other countries, according to the newspaper. The investigation, which is going on in Bulgaria, is secret. Two persons were investigated in Bulgaria on May 23, 2008, for this case, Elizabet Elena Von Messing and Sverozar Milter. Von Messing, a Russian with Finnish citizenship and whose second husband Andrei Khloev () is very close to Kumarin, had acted as a proxy. A similar trial in Spain involves the Solntsevo Gang. == Conclusion ==

After a ten-year trial the Third Section of the Criminal Chamber of the Spanish National Court has acquitted all 17 defendants on October 18, 2018, on all accounts. The prosecution provided insufficient evidence to link the defendants to the criminal conspiracy or any associated wrongdoing. Vladislav Reznik, Michail Rebo, Juri Salikov, Diana Gindin, Andrey Malenkovich, Leonid Khazhin, Svetozar Milter, Leocadia Martin Garcia and Ignacio Pedro Urquiujo Sierra and others are among the acquitted. ==Criminal sphere==

According to Mark Galeotti in 2017, the Tamboskaya OGG controls both the Saint Petersburg sea port and the Stockholm sea port. ==See also==