Civil RICO lawsuit against the Russian Mafia and Chechen Islamic Fundamentalists

• Pimps, prostitutes, pushers, pornographers and assorted criminals from the former Soviet Union have joined with underworld characters in Western markets over the past decade to create a global web of smuggling, protection, extortion, counterfeiting, tampering with witnesses, revenge, evasion of taxes and other illegal activities.

• Russian organized crime groups and Chechen Islamic mafiosi, working in cooperation with each other and foreign gangsters, infiltrate lucrative, hard currency markets, such as the U.S., by taking advantage of ineffective and un-enforced immigration laws as well as bribable officials to illegally gain entry for the organization’s managers and human assets.

• A former writer and political producer for Channel 5 and Channel 7 TV News in New York City, Roy Den Hollander, a lawyer and business consultant, has filed a civil Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization lawsuit in the U.S. Federal Court for the Southern District of N.Y., Index No. 03 CV 2717.

• This case grew out of discoveries by Mr. Den Hollander that began while working as the acting manager of Kroll Associates in Moscow.   

• The RICO suit focuses on two of the core businesses of the alliance among American, Russian and Chechen gangsters—white slavery and pornography.  It also addresses the attendant crimes that keep prostitution and pornography profitable, such as immigration fraud, bribery, drugs, money laundering, tax evasion, coercion, intimidation, perjury, official misconduct and more.

• The Russians run prostitutes, pornography and in some cases drugs out of Russia into the U.S., or first to Cyprus and than the U.S., or by a second route though Mexico to the U.S.

• Profit driven immigration lawyers subvert U.S. laws in order to gain entry into America for members of the Russian mafia.

• Russian, American and Chechen gangsters, apparently including those connected with the Arbi and Movsar Baraev Chechen Islamic clan, protect the organization’s operations from exposure and legal proceedings through threats, intimidation and coercion.  A number of Mr. Den Hollander’s witnesses in Krasnodar, Russia have been threatened, and he has received four threats so far.  The FBI has identified one of the threatening callers, but is afraid that by interviewing him it would provoke him to harm Mr. Den Hollander.  As such, the FBI has told Mr. Den Hollander not to open his door to anyone he does not know and to be careful when out in public.

• Prostitutes and pornography are sold through an affiliation of lap-dancing clubs controlled by organized crime and allegedly marketed over the Internet on the Cybertech Internet Strip Club Network.

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• The drugs are secretly administered to some customers as a way of assuring return business.

• Mr. Den Hollander, while in Russia, unwittingly fell victim to one of the Russian mafia’s schemes:  duping American men into marrying mafia members so that the females can obtain legal U.S. residency and citizenship to carry out and expand the organization’s activities in the U.S. 

• One of the mafia’s members, Alina, a.k.a. Angelina, Shipilina, secretly slipped narcotics into Mr. Den Hollander’s meals and exploited the American sense of “idiot compassion” to cozen him into marriage so that she could enter the U.S. to expand the mafia’s criminal activities.  

• Ms. Shipilina now lives in Astoria, Queens, apparently working as a call girl, laundering money, evading taxes and importing drugs for the Russian mafia.  She worked as a stripper at Flash Dancers right after coming to America.  While living in Chechnya, she was mistress to Ruslan Labazanov, a former bodyguard to Chechen President Dudaev. 

• In addition, Ms. Shipilina’s family has close connections with the Chechen Islamic mafia clan previously run by Arbi Baraev, who beheaded four British telecommunication workers in 1998 in return for $20 million from Usama Bin Laden, and subsequently run by Movsar Baraev, who led the taking of 700 hostages at a Moscow theater in 2002. 

• Ms. Shipilina and her family continue to have profitable dealings with Chechen criminals in Krasnodar, Russia.

• The suit is for damages caused to Mr. Den Hollander’s business and property in the amount of approximately $1,000,000 and for a court order to prevent the defendants from causing him harm—whatever good that will do.

 If you have any questions, please contact the plaintiff, Roy Den Hollander, Esq., (212) 995 5201, rdhhh@yahoo.com.

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ROY DEN HOLLANDER

Attorney at Law

545 East 14th Street                                                                                                                                                                               Tel. & Fax: (212) 995-5201

New York, NY  10009                                                                                                                                                                           Mobile 917 687 0652

                                                                                                                              July 10, 2003

Andrew Heyward

President CBS News

524 West 57 St.

New York, NY 10019

Roy Den Hollander v. Flash Dancers Topless Club, et al.

Southern District Court of New York, CV-03-2717 (MBM)

Dear Andrew,

              This is a follow up to an email I sent you a few weeks ago concerning a RICO lawsuit I’ve filed against various Russian, Chechen and American organized crime figures.  Among the defendants are those that my investigators tell me were connected with Arbi and Movsar Baraev.  Arbi, now deceased, was the General of the Chechen Special Islamic Regiment and is believed to have beheaded in 1998 four western telecommunication workers in return for $20 million from Osama Bin Laden.  Movsar, Arbi’s nephew and now also deceased, led the taking of hostages at the Moscow theater complex last year.          

              I’ve enclosed a copy of the complaint.

              Thank you again for your time.                                                                                                                          

                                                                                                                     Best                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Roy Hollander   

ROY DEN HOLLANDER

Attorney at Law

545 East 14th Street                                                                                                                                                                             Tel. & Fax: (212) 995-5201

New York, NY  10009                                                                                                                                                                        Mobile 917 687 0652

                                                                                                                              January 28 2004

Stephen Handelman

Associate Fellow

Harriman Institute

420 West 118 St., 12th Floor

Columbia University

New York, NY 10027

Dear Mr. Handelman:

              I’m a graduate of Columbia’s Business School who also spent a semester at SIPA before going for my MBA at the advanced age of 40 something.

              My MBA landed me in Russia for a short consulting stint with Kroll Associates in 1999.  Before starting with Kroll, I read your Comrade Criminal but still managed to stumble into a den of hoods, Chechens, pimps, prostitutes, pushers and pornographers that stretches from Southern Russia to NYC. 

              I thought, as a columnist and commentator, you might be interested in this story, which is now the subject of a civil RICO suit in the US Southern District Court in New York (03 Civ 2717).  It’s not “politically correct” but definitely evolutionarily correct.  I’ve attached a two-page summary.

              Thank you for your time.

                                                                                                                              Sincerely,

                                                                                                                              Roy Den Hollander

ROY DEN HOLLANDER

Attorney at Law

545 East 14th Street                                                                                                                                                                                Tel. & Fax: (212) 995-5201

New York, NY  10009                                                                                                                                                                           Mobile 917 687 0652

                                                                                                                              March 10, 2004

Tatianna Leonova

Chief Editor

Cyprus Advertiser

8, Evagora Pallikarides St

Limassol, Cyprus 3732

Dear M. Leonova:

              The story we discussed a few years ago has evolved with new information into one that you may find more interesting.  It is now in the United States Federal Court for the Southern District of New York.

              I’ve enclosed a copy of the complaint in Russian and a press release as well.  If you prefer Greek or English versions, I can send them along.

              Thank you for your time although I don’t expect a Russian newspaper to dare to do anything with this story.  Consider it a courtesy.

                                                                                                                              Sincerely,

                                                                                                                              Roy Den Hollander

Civil RICO lawsuit against Cypriot, Russian and Chechen International Crime Organizations

• Pimps, prostitutes, pushers, pornographers and assorted criminals from Cyprus and the former Soviet Union have joined with underworld characters in Western markets over the past decade to create a global web of smuggling, protection, extortion, counterfeiting, tampering with witnesses, revenge, evasion of taxes and other illegal activities.

• Russian organized crime groups, working in cooperation with Cypriot and other foreign gangsters, infiltrate lucrative, hard currency markets, such as Cyprus and the U.S., by taking advantage of ineffective and un-enforced immigration laws as well as bribable officials to illegally gain entry for the organization’s managers and human assets.

• A former member of the New York City media, Roy Den Hollander, now a lawyer and business consultant, has filed a civil action Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization lawsuit in the U.S. Federal Court for the Southern District of N.Y., Index No. 03 CV 2717.

• This case grew out of discoveries by Mr. Den Hollander (who worked in Russia as a consultant for Kroll Associates) that his Russian wife had previously worked in Cypriot brothels, was a money launderer, tax evader, and procurer for a gang of Russian, Cypriot and Chechen organized crime figures.  That she had secretly slipped narcotics into Mr. Den Hollander’s meals and pretended to be something she wasn’t in order to marry him so that she could enter the US in order to expand the gang’s criminal activities. 

• This gang works, in part, to make American and European men unwittingly marry its prostitutes, so that the women can obtain legal residency and/or citizenship to carry out gang activities in the U.S and Europe. 

• The RICO suit focuses on one of the core businesses of the alliances among American, Russian, Cypriot and Chechen criminals—white slavery and pornography and the crimes that keep it profitable, such as immigration fraud, bribery, drugs, money laundering, tax evasion, coercion, intimidation, perjury, official misconduct and more.

• Russians and Cypriots run prostitutes, pornography and in some cases drugs out of Russia to Cyprus and than the U.S., or by way of Mexico and than the U.S.

• The prostitutes and pornography are sold through an international affiliation of brothels and lap-dancing clubs controlled by organized crime and marketed over the Internet.

• The drugs are secretly administered to customers as a way of assuring return business.

• Russian, Cypriot, American and Chechen gangsters, including those connected with Arbi Baraev (who beheaded four British telecommunication workers in 1998 in return for $20 million from Usama Bin Laden) and Movsar Baraev (who led the taking of 700 hostages at a Moscow theater in 2002) protect the organization’s operations from exposure and legal proceedings through threats, intimidation and coercion.   Mr. Den Hollander has received four threats so far.

• The suit is for damages caused to Mr. Den Hollander’s business and property in the amount of approximately $1,000,000 and for a court order to prevent the defendants from causing him harm (whatever good that will do).

 If you have any questions, please contact the plaintiff, Roy Den Hollander, Esq., (212) 995 5201, rdhhh@yahoo.com.

ROY DEN HOLLANDER

Attorney at Law

545 East 14th Street                                                                                                                                                                              Tel. & Fax: (212) 995-5201

New York, NY  10009                                                                                                                                                                         Mobile 917 687 0652

                                                                                                                              March 23, 2004

Mike Myers

Creators Syndicate

5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700

Los Angeles, CA 90045

Dear Mr. Myers:

              After reading your firm’s client Michelle Malkin’s Invasion, I thought she might be interested in the unfolding story that is summarized on the attached sheet.

              Would you please forward the attachment to her.

              Thank you for your time.

                                                                                                                              Sincerely,

                                                                                                                              Roy Den Hollander

ROY DEN HOLLANDER

Attorney at Law

545 East 14th Street                                                                                                                                                                             Tel. & Fax: (212) 995-5201

New York, NY  10009                                                                                                                                                                        Mobile 917 687 0652

                                                                                                                              April 9, 2004

Lou Dobbs

Moneyline

1 CNN Center

Atlanta, GA 30303

Dear Mr. Dobbs:

              I thought you might be interested in the unfolding immigration story that is summarized on the attached sheet.

              Thank you for your time.

                                                                                                                              Sincerely,

                                                                                                                              Roy Den Hollander

ROY HOLLANDER

Attorney at Law

545 East 14th Street                                                                                                                                                                                    Tel. & Fax: (212) 995-5201

New York, NY  10009                                                                                                                                                                               Mobile 917 687 0652

                                                                                                                              April 18, 2004

Joe Conason

National Correspondent

New York Observer

54 East 64 Street

New York, NY 10021

Joe,

              I thought you might have some interest in a story concerning the Russian mob.  It’s more colorful than the Lambert story.  I attached a synopsis.