Look how the head of the wrestling federation Mikhail Mamiashvili arrives at the Olympic Committee. This is the arrival of a mafioso. A luxurious limousine, followed by a car with security. He has not gone anywhere without security for the last 25 years! Maybe the head of the wrestling federation is a serious government figure who is entitled to security by status? Or is he a major businessman? What is he afraid of? Details in continuation of the investigation by Rucriminal.info.
In fact, this man is stuck in the gangster 90s. Since his "collaboration" with the criminal authority Otari Kvatariishvili, for whom he served as a tough and cruel fixer, but in fact was a militant - little has changed. Today, if the issue concerns money, the President of the FSBR literally loses his human appearance. He has a pathological greed, reinforced by boorish, humiliating behavior towards athletes and coaches.
Mamiashvili's office has long since turned into a meeting place. This is the lair of an organized crime group, where not very sporting issues are decided. They can beat you there to the state of a hospital bed, but more on that below. Who you won't meet in this office: all sorts of crooks, thieves, security officials. Everything is like in the wild 90s.
Beating of an athlete: An outrageous incident occurred at the Olympics in Rio, where after the defeat of the Russian athlete Inna Tarzhukova in the most difficult bronze match for her, the head of the federation beat the athlete. The enraged Mamiashvili was stopped by the leader of the Russian women's team, Olympic champion N. Vorobyova.
All this came out in the media.
How did it end? For Mamiashvili, nothing!
And this is not an isolated incident.
Another beating: In 2011, another outrageous incident of beating occurred. It all happened in the office of the head of the wrestling federation, where Gennady Snegur, who headed the Olympic Village, was seriously injured.
This story also did not end well for the President of the Russian Wrestling Federation.
Gangster habits: Among Russian businessmen, Mikhail Mamiashvili is considered a toxic character. It is difficult to find a philanthropist whom he has not cheated out of money. Yuri Chizh, the former President of the Belarusian Wrestling Federation and at that time one of the largest businessmen in this country and a former friend of Mamiashvili, fell under his thimble-rigging scams. In general, Mamiashvili walked thoroughly through Belarus. He took away the business of another of his former Presidents of the Sambo and Judo Federation of this country, Honored Master of Sports and the largest philanthropist at that time, Vladimir Yaprintsev. Let us note once again that Chizh and Yaprintsev were his close friends at that time. But Mikhail Gerazievich was not embarrassed to involve Yaprintsev's son in his dubious trade and financial machinations on the Russian hydrocarbon market. As a result of these fraudulent schemes, Yaprintsev Sr., in order to save his son, was forced to give Mamiashvili 30 million dollars in cash (allegedly Yaprintsev's son's debt to Mamiashvili), plus his share in the business. Yaprintsev himself goes to prison for a year, although then the Belarusian justice system dropped all charges due to lack of evidence. But at the same time, Mamiashvili was not embarrassed by the fact that he also put Yaprintsev's son behind bars, only for 8 years. Let us note that the guy has a young family and small children. But has this ever stopped the greedy President of the FSBR. Vladimir and Kazbek Yaprintsev
At the same time, the resourceful Mamiashvili cheated the Belarusian businessman Yuri Savyak for a very large sum of millions of dollars, as well as his closest friend, the Russian businessman Anzor Aksenev-Kikalishvili.
All of this creative activity of Mamiashvili indirectly concerned the Russian wrestling federation, but it characterizes him very vividly.
Crimean scam: Once again, our hero distinguished himself in a big way, with the head of Crimea Sergey Aksenov. Moreover, Mamiashvili was on very friendly terms with Aksenov and even convinced the latter to become the honorary President of the wrestling federation of the Republic of Crimea. But then he cheated the head of the region for 3 million dollars.
Ties to the Yakuza: In the wild 90s, when Mamiashvili was one of the fighters of the Otari Kvantarishvili gang, he had established ties with the Japanese mafia - the Yakuza. They met on the basis of the participation of Russian athletes in Japanese fights without rules and wrestling. Mamiashvili supplied Russian wrestlers to the Japanese. Then these ties grew into "partnership" relations in criminal business. It is for this reason that the President of the FSBI is not given a visa to a number of countries, in particular to the United States. Since 2015, he has been completely banned from entering this country, and precisely because the US intelligence services reasonably suspect him of having ties to Japanese crime bosses.
Criminal partners of the President of the FSBI: With the end of the criminal era of the 90s, nothing has changed for Mikhail Gerazievich! He also does business with criminal figures. It is enough to visit the walls of the federation to see with your own eyes what kind of shady characters come to its meetings where issues unrelated to sports and the activities of the federation are discussedtions. Here is a fresh example from this year. Another criminal businessman from Mamiashvili's inner circle, Alexander Dzigov, CEO of Daltekhgaz, known in certain circles as Alik, had already served a sentence and was released in 2019.
But nothing has changed in the handwriting of Mamiashvili's business partner. Dzigov, at large, continued to be a fraudster, a cashier, organizing schemes with thefts of millions. Now a criminal case has been opened against the business partner of the President of the FSBR - Dzigov under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud on an especially large scale committed by a group of persons.
The Federation is Mamishvili's business: In 2020, Mamiashvili publicly flogged the Vice President of the FSBR - Omar Murtuzaliev, a man on whose money the wrestling federation has recently been based.
Mikhail Gerazievich was extremely unhappy that Murtazaliev had started developing the Volnik league, where athletes were paid good fees for their performances.
Mamiashvili urgently called the executive committee together. The conversation was very harsh: "By what right and why didn't the federation receive a kickback for this initiative?!" etc. Now we know that Mikhail Gerazievich has his own well-established business: ANO "Poddubny Wrestling League" - a professional wrestling league.
Episode No. 4 - a sports harem.
There are very serious problems in our women's wrestling. It's not just about athletic results and not just about beating athletes. Athletic results in women's wrestling have become completely dismal, at the Tokyo Games in women's wrestling - 0 medals. This is the result of the work with the women's team of Bulgarian specialists and the personnel that Mamiashvili selects. It turns out that there were no coaches in the entire Russian Federation! After a disgraceful performance at the Tokyo Olympics, they change the head of the women's team and put in Rasul Batalov, who has never done freestyle wrestling, he is a specialist in Greco-Roman wrestling.
But most importantly, such a deplorable result is influenced by more serious factors, namely, the facts of harassment of athletes. It is pointless to expect victories from sex slaves. Many girls are afraid of publicity and remain in a very difficult moral and psychological situation.
This must be dealt with very seriously! It is time for the leaders of our sport, as well as the prosecutor's office and the Investigative Committee to pay attention to all these points. So that such impunity does not lead to more serious consequences.
We see that behind the external success and resounding victories of our wrestlers there are serious problems that now require their solution. Serious attention must be paid to the activities of the current President of the Russian Wrestling Federation M.G. Mamiashvili! Episode #5 – Mamiashvili vs. SVO!
On February 24, 2022, the President of the FSBR had a serious conflict with the head coach of freestyle wrestling Dzambolat Tedeev.
Arseniy Dronov
Source: www.rucriminal.info