Moscow, Russia – Moscow police got their hands on Israeli-Russian mafia kingpin Semion Mogilevich, who is wanted around the world for tax evasion, money-laundering and uranium smuggling. In the U.S., his capital is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Israeli citizen Mogilevich is considered to be the "leader of the Red Mafia," one of the biggest Russian-based organized crime groups in the world.
He is wanted by the FBI, among others, and was arrested, along with his bodyguard, in a supermarket in Moscow, where police waited next to his luxury car. He was detained under the name Sergei Schneider, believed to be one of his many aliases.
The 61-year-old mafia boss frequently uses assumed names and holds passports from several different countries, and his name was connected with the huge money-laundering scandal a few years ago at the Bank of New York. [haaretz]