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15:34 / 27.09.2018
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Finland’s sting operation to catch alleged relative of thief in law Adu Zugdidsky for money-laundering
Shota Zurabovich Shamugia, 36, is a manager in Airiston Helmi. A report says that a 36-year-old Russian citizen working as an assistant to a company owner was detained in a money-laundering case.
A 36-year-old Russian citizen has been detained in Finland for money laundering. The man is an assistant to Pavel Melnikov, the owner of
Airiston Helmi,
iltalehti.fi reported. According to the Finnish commercial register, two 36-year-old Russians are listed as managers in the company; one of them is Shota Zurabochich Shamugia, who may be related to the thief in law Zurab Shamugia (
Adu Zugdidsky), according to the
CorruptionTV Telegram Channel.
Finland carried out a major sting operation on September 22; there were searches in the offices of
Airiston Helmi among other places. According to
CorruptionTV, the company purchased €9.200.000’s worth of land plots in the Turku district between 2007 and 2014. This is the amount as stated in the case file.
According to the Finnish commercial register, Pavel Eduardovich Melnikov, a citizen of Malta and Hungary, is the company owner. Melnikov was granted the Maltese citizenship by investment program. The company employs four other Russians, as well as citizens of Italy and Finland.
Seven people have been interrogated in the case; documents and memory sticks were seized from them. Earlier two people were reportedly detained, but no information on them was disclosed in the interests of the investigation.
Adu Zugdidsky
The thief in law Zurab Shamugia lives in Latvia and enjoys certain dominance in the criminal circles of the country. He got jailed twice in Latvia in the 2000s, after which he decided to settle there. After the Estonian mafia boss, Nikolai Tarankov, was murdered in 2016, Shamugia’s power grew significantly. Some consider him the boss of all bosses in the Baltics.
