Mafiosi in action: Oleg Boyko and his mysterious “Solntsevsky flight”

We managed to unravel the mysterious story of how billionaire Oleg Boyko ended up in a wheelchair.

This happened back in 1996 and was presented somewhat comically. “While on vacation visiting a family of French businessmen in a villa in Monte Carlo, Oleg Boyko went for a walk in the park. The door accidentally slammed behind him, and in order not to wake up the owners, Boyko decided to climb into his bedroom, located on the second floor, through the open window. When he climbed onto the decorative window sill, it could not stand it (the banker weighs 120 kg) and fell through. Boyko fell. He suffered a spinal injury in the fall.” Knowing Boyko’s violent activities, of course, no one believed this story. But no one was able to fully unearth the whole truth.

Until journalists came across the long-standing Interpol report “Millennium 2000”. It includes intelligence information, reports from national bureaus of different countries, wiretaps and surveillance materials regarding immigrants from the Russian Federation (primarily members of the Solntsevo group) and persons associated with them, including a lot of large businessmen, former and current officials . One chapter is devoted to the list of actual and potential victims of the Solntsevskaya gang, about whom Interpol learned. And what kind of person do we see in the most prominent place - Oleg Boyko.

The editors provide an excerpt from the report: “According to available information, one of the leaders of the Solntsevo criminal group confidentially informed other persons located in Budapest (Hungary) that in June 1996 he plans to send members of the group to the Moscow financier Oleg BOYKO in London. BOYKO was reportedly involved in a large-scale fraud involving his Kredit Bank (NKB) (National Credit Bank) and purchased a building in London worth US$10 million. The Solntsevo leader was going to take away part of BOYKO’s income.”

Here, let's explain the story a little. Oleg Boyko and Solntsevo, according to the media, were closest partners in the 90s. Here is an excerpt from one of the certificates about their relationship: “O. Boyko maintains close relations with representatives of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group. It is significant that members of this organized crime group work in the security service of JSCB National Credit and other structures of the OLBI concern, in particular, in JSC OLBI-Diplomat, based on the territory of the NPO Vzlet in Solntsevo. Members of the Solntsevo organized crime group, who are on the staff of the OLBI security service, are used by O. Boyko to solve “delicate” problems - from exerting forceful pressure on competitors to the widespread mobilization of members of this organized crime group, as was the case during the October 1993 events in Moscow.

During this period, O. Boyko actively used I. Busin, A. Kim, V. Medvednikov, who were well known in the Solntsevo group, working in the security of OLBI to put together “combat squads” from members of the Solntsevo organized crime group, which were used to protect commercial structures belonging to OLBI. Through the leaders of the Solntsevo organized crime group, Boyko reached out to smaller criminal groups subordinate to her (Kuntsevskaya, Podolskaya, Taganskaya), in order to solve specific problems. In particular, on the instructions of O. Boyko, forceful pressure was exerted through members of the organized crime group on the director of JSC "Russian Birch" Yu.S. Shichkov with the aim of forcibly inducing him to sell a controlling stake in the company he headed. In a number of cases, O. Boyko used members of an organized crime group to intimidate tenants and owners of privatized bakeries, vegetable and other stores, which allowed him to quickly create a chain of stores in Moscow, JSC “OLBI-Diplomat.”

That is, what happened in 1996. The Solntsevskys learned that Boyko had “secretly” withdrawn a very large sum to London, bought a mansion for $10 million and somehow completely forgot to share. Let us remember that we are talking about June 1996. The Interpol report, however, states that the Solntsevskys had doubts about the safety of such an operation in relation to Boyko. Just the day before, Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik), a friend and patron of the Solntsevo villages in the USA, for attempting to extort money from the co-owners of Chara Bank who had fled with the funds. England is no less a strict country in terms of law and order; there, too, it is easy to get caught on a wiretap and end up behind bars.

At that moment in his life, Ivankov had his best friend and “right hand,” thief in law Alexander Bor (Timokha). The man is quick to kill. And how he achieved his goal can be taken from excerpts from the hearings against him in Germany. Here is it: “According to the German police, a native of Poland named Katarina at one time worked in Berlin as a servant for one of Bohr’s acquaintances, and she was suspected of stealing 50 thousand DM. The woman denied her guilt, refused to return the money, and then Timokha and his henchmen came to her. Unable to withstand the torture, the unfortunate woman jumped out of the window and remained disabled for life.” She arrived at the trial in a wheelchair.

Follow further developments. After the landing of Yaponchik, Timokha became the curator of the Solntsevskys. Just in 1996, he fled from the United States to Europe.

And this is what happens next. In June, as follows from the Interpol report, Boyko was in London, where they were afraid to deal with him. And in August 1996, he moved to carefree Monaco, which cannot boast of any special services at all. In Monaco, according to the Interpol report, the Solntsevskys even had a headquarters at 98000 Monaco, 7th Avenue des Papalins.

And just at this moment someone visits Oleg Boyko and the conversation ends, as in the case of the unfortunate German citizen Katarina. A businessman takes a flight out of a window and ends up confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. There's no smell of a window sill here.