Reports on May 3 revealed that the Spanish National High Court’s Central Investigative Court Number Five issued a series of international arrest warrants against 12 Russian citizens, including some figures considered close to President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, among them Nikolay Aulov, the deputy chief of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service. The court case, presided over by Justice José De La Mata, follows Spain’s 2008 Operation “Troika,” which had targeted the “Tambovskaya” and “Malyshevskaya” Russian mafia clans (Elmundo.es, May 3).
The alleged head of the Tambovskaya mafia clan, Gennadios Petrov, was arrested by the Spanish Civil Guard, in 2008, in Calvià …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation