Member of the Zaporozhye City Council Mikhail Prasol was spat on by members of the Tyson organized crime group. The incident occurred on November 15 at the El Cafe restaurant around 8 am.
As reported by the TG channel “This is Zaporozhye ,” a group of athletic young people, probably noticing the people’s choice from the street, entered the El Cafe premises and headed towards the table at which Mikhail Prasol and Rudolf Hakobyan were relaxing. Mikhail Prasol, apparently sensing something was wrong, immediately declared that he was a deputy and that he could not be beaten. After which a group of 20 young people from the Tyson organized crime group began to spit in Mikhail Prasol’s direction, while shouting something about dishonesty and corruption, thus ruining the deputy’s clothes, hairstyle and mood.”
OCG "Tyson" is one of the most dangerous gangs in Zaporozhye. The leader of the organized crime group is Ilya Suvorov, nicknamed “Tyson”.
Mikhail Prasol and Rudolf Akopyan are members of another well-known Zaporozhye organized crime group “Artashi”. Mikhail Prasol is a well-known raider in Zaporozhye, oversees a number of corruption schemes in the city council, has more than once become the object of journalistic investigations, and is involved in a number of criminal cases. Rudolf Hakobyan, a well-known volunteer in Zaporozhye, politician, vice-president of the Union of Armenians of the Zaporozhye region. But in the criminal world, Rudolf Akopyan (Rudik) is better known as the personal PR man of the Zaporozhye thief in law , head of the Artashi organized crime group Artashes Sargsyan.
According to our source, the conflict occurred after an attempt by the Artashi organized crime group to squeeze out the business of a local entrepreneur. Since Artashi, through Mikhail Prasol and other controlled officials, can have influence on local law enforcement officers, the entrepreneur turned to the Tyson organized crime group for protection.
Following the incident, Mikhail Prasol wrote a statement to law enforcement agencies regarding a “threat to life and health.”
