Who was the Russian “hitman” who was murdered in Greece?
The controversial case of the murder of Russian mafia boss Alexander Solonik and his 19-year-old partner on the occasion of the arrest of a 48-year-old man, who is considered a moral perpetrator in the murders, has resurfaced.
But who was the Russian mafia boss? Alexander Viktorovich Solonik (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ви́кторович Соло́ник) (October 16, 1960 – January 31, 1997) was the most notorious assassin of the Russian Mafia, and one of the most wanted by Interpol.
Nicknamed “Alexander the Great”, Solonik played a leading role in the Russian mafia for its alleged “effectiveness” for much of the 1990s, until his disappearance after his second escape from prison in 1995.
He was born in Kurgan in the Urals of the Soviet Union and from a tender age he loved martial arts. After school he will serve his military service in the Red Army, as a crew member in the Soviet forces of East Germany.
After his tenure he wanted to become a police officer and joined the ranks of the infamous police academy, although he was expelled after six months for practicing excessive
violence against perpetrators. Alexander will return to his hometown and get a job at the local funeral home. He gets married, has a daughter but will soon get a divorce.
After his escape, Solonik will return to Kurgan and immediately become a member of the local mafia, taking up arms as a paid executioner. One of his first jobs was “The Godfather” of a rival gang, which he will assassinate in 1990. After this assassination, Solonikos will go to Moscow with other members of Kurgan’s gang to find work. In 1992, Solonik would assassinate Viktor Nikiforov, and six months later he would assassinate another important Godfather. This time the victim was Valerie Dlugatz, while having fun in a crowded club, surrounded by several of his bodyguards and without injuring any third person.
In a short time, Alexander Solonik will become the most accurate executor of the Russian mafia and will acquire the nickname “Alexander the Great”. At the same time, however, he would enter the minds of the Muscovite police and everyone wanted to arrest him. Eventually they will succeed in a well-planned operation in a pub, but there will be a fight, with Saloni pulling out a small automatic pistol and shooting some police officers.
Solonik was also seriously injured in the clash, nevertheless managed to escape. He will be caught a little later that day and before he is taken back to prison, he goes through the hospital to remove the bullet that had been nailed to his kidney. Although he was transferred to Moscow’s High Security Prison “Detention Center 1” in 1995, he managed to escape again after eight months in solitary confinement, although it is rumored that he must have had help from within.
Svetlana Kotova
With the police pursuing him but also with open accounts in the Russian mafia, Solonikos who will come to Greece, where he will finally find a permanent shelter and will quickly set up his own criminal group, from the Russians who had fled here and returned to the former USSR . His headquarters will be Thrakomakedones and Lagonisi, while he will be circulating under the false identity as a Russian expatriate named Vladimir Kessov. A name widely used by his team in fake identities, as evidenced by the 1995 massacre outside the Menidi nightclub. Alexander Solonik is said to have at least 40-50 people under his control.
On January 25, 1997, Svetlana Kotova, a well-known Russian model, who had won the title of Miss Russia in 1996, will come to Greece at the invitation of Solonik. Soloniko will be impressed by the Russian beauty. The couple will stay at Solonik’s villa in Lagonisi and will have a pleasant and very romantic time, as Svetlana had mentioned to her mother, in the telephone communication they had. Alexander Solonik will be found murdered in Athens, on February 3, 1997 in a forest area of Varybobi. It was preceded by a phone call at the beginning of which the point had been revealed.
According to the forensic report, he was found strangled with a rope or cable between bushes, he had been killed at least 24 hours before. The perpetrators took his life elsewhere and then transported him to Varybobi.
A few months later in May, near the villa that the Russian was renting in Lagonisi, the body of his girlfriend, 19-year-old Svetlana Kotova, was found.
According to the medical examiner’s report, the perpetrators dismembered her body, placed it in a suitcase and buried it in the area.
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