A Russian crime boss was killed in Ukraine after being recruited from prison to fight in the war

[Eugene]

Source: Business Insider

A Russian crime boss was killed in Ukraine after being recruited from prison to fight in the war, report says

Alia Shoaib
Sun, September 25, 2022 at 8:25 AM

A Russian crime boss who was serving a 23-year jail term before leaving prison to fight in Ukraine was killed in action, according to the Russian outlet Business Gazeta.

Igor Kusk was the leader of a gang in Tatarstan and was found guilty of various crimes, including murders in 2015, and was imprisoned in a strict regime prison colony, according to reports.

Kusk sent a letter from prison to the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, asking to join the fight in Ukraine, his widow Irina told the outlet.

A representative from the paramilitary Wagner Group came to get him, and she said he was sent to the front line on July 25.

He died on September 6 ...

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/russian-crime-boss-killed-ukraine-122556694.html

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Should have given Pootler his cut...

Then he wouldn’t have been a “crime boss”.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Exactly, if you give Putin his cut, you are called a trusted oligarch, not a crime boss.

[Duncanpup]

2. Good glad Ukraine wasted him.

[brush]

4. It's dangerous being a male Russian nowadays.

So many ways to die.

[mitch96]

5. Or he got someone to fake his death and he is now in Brooklyn...

The mob has its ways......cynical me...
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[peppertree]

6. So Ukraine is not only fighting the good fight - they're taking a bite out of crime too.

And Putin's Russia definitely needs it.

[Sneederbunk]

7. Maybe some of his enemies joined the military too.