a few years ago, this man was one of the most influential people in the astrakhan region, and his authorities were legendary. he could solve any problem. one word one stroke. they were afraid of the pen of his gaze and tried to catch the eye as little as possible. meet the former head of the uop department for combating organized crime of the internal affairs directorate of the astrakhan region , a police colonel. rinat salikhovka, a graduate of the gorky academy of the ministry of internal affairs of the ussr, irina sarikhov , began serving in the police in astrakhan in 1984

year as an operative of the criminal investigation department, then was transferred to the obkhss in the department for combating theft of socialist property after graduating from the academy of the ministry of internal affairs of russia, headed the department for combating organized crime of the astrakhan region in 2007 renat salikhov was accused of serious crimes and arrested according to the investigation, the head of the regional police department involved in the murders: according to the materials of the criminal case, rinat salikhov organized the murder of moscow lawyer yevgeny zamoskovichev and astrakhan lawyers igor razenberg and sergei zhalilov. in addition, the investigation considered renat salikhov involved in the murder of the cossack ataman, vyacheslav belanenko, on june 3, 2010. the astrakhan regional court stripped renat salikhov of the rank of police colonel and sentenced him to a life sentence of svoboda with a sentence to be served in a special regime correctional colony, our colleagues and

journalists say. even the unbridled leaders of the regional organized crime groups, the russians supported the trade union with the colonel, allegedly diplomatic. relationship yes not or we have they sit down, as they say, in prison or they are shot back, and that's the fate of all these criminal authorities, or there we say kulagin leader, he was shot. uh, dotash planted fedot pavlenko, he sits with his entire group. then about uh, the russian club , the boards say, it was also shot by the tatar trade union, also an attempt on representatives and the entire poacher fraternity of the region, starting with ordinary fishermen, sturgeon and ending

with bigwigs in the icon business. everyone in the region was afraid of him and wanted to deal with him by crime, he didn’t let him into astrakhan the region of bandits and neighboring republics. otherwise , they miserably experienced on themselves how the law enforcement system works. first he became a suspect, then an accused and a defendant. today, rinat salikhov has been sentenced to life for organizing the murders and is serving his sentence. in a special regime colony. a black dolphin in the orenburg region, the isolation of a police colonel was in the hands of absolutely everyone . representatives of the regional tfr considered salikhov an authoritative leader of certain groups. roofed by those who directly had access in the first place

to control this unit for the protection, and fish stocks, which were both civilian organizations and which were part of, uh, law enforcement agencies. who was at the same time. in the prosecutor's office there is such a structure that, as it were, was engaged. yes nickname, convicted for life, the former head of the regional ubop, rinat salikhov , knows perfectly well how the criminal market of the astrakhan region works. and who is behind the largest mafia clans that oversee the illegal caviar business in the links of the shadow chain and fishermen and buyers and organizers unhindered delivery of an expensive delicacy. from the coast. caspian central regions. the russian former colonel recalls how he and his subordinates lived and worked in the old days. in pursuit of a shootout

, the release of the hostages, he paid special attention to the fight against caspian smugglers today in prison, he says slowly and briefly. at some point, you forget that a former police colonel is sitting in front of you, sentenced to the most severe punishment in our country. but there are those who buy it all, who then after all? it's a whole organized network. in i mostly left and went to moscow, volgograd left. there it was legalized and sold already on the net, that is, everything this criminally obtained needs, and first of all, legalization, and in astrakhan it could not be legalized, because we were immediately attracted for it. we, on the other hand, had developed a practice of acquiring this criminal way, and at that time, not even this article worked in all regions, but it worked in astrakhan. we are attracted for these articles. but in other regions there is not even everyone knew that, say, only

poachers could get caviar in the dark, that everything was official. it goes through the distribution network has a certain logo has a certain pair. career in the caspian sea is not a new phenomenon , just 50 years ago there were so many fish that no one paid attention to illegal immigrants. the flourishing of the criminal activity of the astrakhan poachers came at the end of the nineties of the last century, the fishing and mining business was supervised by criminal clans department for combating organized crime under the leadership of colonel renat salikhov, you came immediately and won no, e the fact is that this work is operational, which, by itself , implies the collection of operational information, and then it in a certain period of time the implementation of this information .

we received this information, well, we received it, in addition, and our unit closely cooperated with the fsb, that is, with the fsb , this information was shared with the fsb by the convicted ex-police colonel, sallikha, until now does not admit his guilt, he is sure that he was set up by representatives of what is called the caviar mafia with which he is unhappy, fought by poaching, climbed practically . and this is the so-called kamenskaya daninsky group, they came and hmm, in fact , lawlessness began at one time for the employees of the unit. rinat salikhov tried to bribe bigwigs and mountain mafias more than once offered them large sums of money not

happened. at the moment when you started major sales, you got up to understand that your position was at gunpoint. of course, when these sales went first, we began to delay large borders, we detained one plant that was illegally working in the caspian sea and detained it. there was a large amount of caviar fish and immediately established corrupt connections. nobody protected them. it was connected with the prosecutor's office and hmm of course, after that there were threats to me, and hmm on the phone. at first the calls were threatened the family. and they set fire to this house, and then there was an attempt on my life, it was also not easier to quit. if you already understood everything, it was easier to fire me. you know, as it were, maybe i would have quit. it was just that he took it there and left, as it were, that's all.

but, when you have a task from moscow, i immediately at the beginning of the department set the task of working and not going anywhere , and it was just ugly, let's say, to leave, and really i interfered, and therefore, if it was not possible to frighten, if the attempt failed, then the most proven way is to attract responsibility, you can discredit expel from the authorities. or you can just take revenge and put the situation in a tough way, as we constantly met with an employee of the prosecutor's office, who supported the charges during the process in the astrakhan regional court. she has no doubts about the guilt of the former colonel, and the case here, according to the prosecutor, is not at all about caviar, we are talking about several murders. in the commission of a number of particularly serious crimes, sally's guilt in the murder for moscow and the murder of rosenberg's lawyer were confirmed by witnesses. testimonies in the case, and in addition,

the conclusions of the examinations carried out in the case, salikhov convicted of the murder of a belanin woman. and now, this is in the second person and the attempted murder of the cossacks, that this is a well-deserved punishment of a just sentence. our information mass destruction of beluga and sturgeon stellate sturgeon and sterlet in the caspian sea lasted for several decades in the early seventies in the soviet union caught 29,000 tons of sturgeon, then the volume of fishing began to decline sharply in 2001 four countries of the caspian basin kazakhstan azerbaijan turkmenistan and russia introduced a temporary ban on industrial

catching of sturgeon moratorium several times canceled and reintroduced today the ban was accepted by all countries of the caspian sea including iran the problem, in fact , is very acute and the situation is not improving. by and large, it is only getting worse and really. here is the poaching pressure that is being carried out, and it, well, in fact, ah hmm, is not declining and we expect that, uh, it will only increase to restore the number of sturgeons the caspian sea is not enough to fight poachers alone. it is necessary to artificially breed disappearing feeders. the sturgeon restoration program itself is very long-term in nature, because sturgeon only goes to spawn after a family of eight

years, that is, maturation occurs quite late and indeed these volumes that are now being artificially reproduced. they are still not enough overall. here in the russian federation, we now produce about 35 million pieces annually. delta wolves, the village of ikryannoye, which is 40 km from astrakhan they say here i tried sturgeon fish soup. even peter i himself in soviet times built a large volga collective farm in these places in ikryany, they were engaged in the extraction and processing of fish, now about the enterprise famous throughout the country, there are only memories of work , few local residents work in the regional center, as their ancestors go to the river, because the volga feeds, although not in the same way as before, much less, of course, carp has become there.

pike perch is not enough, of course. mikhail amosov has been living in caviar for all his 55 years, fishing since childhood, catching carp pike perch about a rare stellate sturgeon. here, for some reason, she calls her red, she doesn’t even remember the poacher’s freemen did their job unique species of fish exterminated barbarians, local organized criminal groups how i leave the crowd with these poachers, yes, and they also throw nets, they all disappear. all this one here is generally already barbaric. mikhail nikolaevich is going fishing; he puts on; he is dead ; he is preparing tackle; so we, in principle, live here, caught cooked carp,

there would be large individuals. and now i'm saying now its large, for example, individuals. she doesn't stay. here he said, the first bite mikhail nikolaevich accurately determines the carp, please.

in this bred fish here produces live food. and here they do scientific research. we have it, firstly, the most whimsical tolerant fish, and many factors, in particular, in the temperature of the pocket, and therefore it is used in terms of commercial cultivation, it was first proposed by professor mikhalyutin and now it is still the sixty-eighth year is considered the first object for talent. this is from the species of the native fauna of the caspian sea, as a population it is, in principle, on the verge of a complete signal. currently there are swimming pools. this is the largest fish, and it was offered to us in order to try something as long as it can, uh, exist in our fishing. this is the fish

that was accredited to us in the soviet union, brought back in russia from america. that's very good. we have taken root in general, we believe that this is the most important fish of the caspian sea, the population of which yes gave large industrial scale gave large, so to speak catches. the reproduction of fish is made technically complex and costly, which is only worth heating the water of giant pools, for example, here are 5,000 small fish ready for release into the sea , each weighing from 3 to 5 g. how many of these small fish in a helmet are released annually, well, last year about 30 million were issued. experts say this is a drop in the ocean, but not even in the amount of work. the main thing is to let the fish swim for at least a few years, as they say. ichthyologists work up fish grow until maturation

beluga sturgeon grows for quite a long time - this is in the conditions of cage rearing without heating water without identification of production. it's 15 to 18 years old, and the fish is simpler, uh, but sorry 12 years old. this is also the long period. that's eight to twelve. i take the males myself. yes, and the first maturation, that is, 12 years. you just need to invest. just invests money to feed and wait. in addition to the border guards, the police are fighting poachers in the astrakhan department , there is a special department that controls the situation on approaches to the caspian sea in numerous channels and channels. with the police, small

boats capable of operating in shallow poaching waters are more common. this is in the lower regions of the rolling part of the caspian sea. this is the first stage, volodarsky district, astrakhan region, kamyzyaksky district, ikryaninsky district, ilimansky district. these are the areas that have, uh, a way out. e into the caspian sea, and through which the so-called channels and a lot of channels run. where can you hide, including in the reeds. we go out as policemen on the bakhti river world of boats, motorized biopowered inflatable wooden plastic, apparently, we don’t see everyone fishing with a bait within settlements, as required by local law, but at the sight of a police boat. many fishermen, for some reason, grab their mobile phones. policemen explain, so fishermen warn friends of poachers.

a police boat flies through the water in an hour . boat depicts fishermen and observes the situation. an hour later, a prearranged signal is heard whose downstream. two young people, residents of the same village, labor front, even then they went out onto the water and, trying to appear unnoticed, began to arrange for several months.

also think very much, you do not steal. i think, well, you don't steal another steal. just like everyone else is doing it. in general, in the sense of the whole village, of course, what else to live on? and the world is trying to hide its face from the lens of our video camera, apparently you don’t want to then the whole village poked a finger at him, especially since the young man has a wife and children. but his partner yuri lebedev beats himself, otherwise. you are a little ashamed. no, not ashamed. why shouldn't anything happen to him. look,

you're breaking the law. you actually got into my pocket. now you understand to the guys who are around you also got into your pocket. maybe someday you'll understand detention operatives motor and loads it on the uaz until the court decision, this property will be stored in the department of internal affairs. we'll be back in the black caviar we bought

in the course of a test purchase, the metropolitan policemen at the dorogomilovsky market , ichthyologists studied the delicacy and then a disappointing answer. poacher's caviar and very dangerous in this case, we saw that this caviar belongs, since we are talking about stellate sturgeon. we can confidently say that the commodity culture is not divorced in russia. that is, there are all signs of poaching origin, and then the question arises, where is this fish? through what technological chains? she passed or caviar, where it was made and as you understand civilized conditions? it’s hard to see everything, by the way, it’s barely like that, yes, but since

you can’t bring it legally, it means that it’s being transported illegally illegally. so, not observing the temperature regime. if you do not comply with the storage deadlines, this may actually turn out to be. it 's dangerous though, right? there are significantly fewer poachers in the astrakhan region, but sturgeons have not increased over the years of wild hunting for valuable fish. the bioresource of our country has suffered severe damage. and if you do not seriously take up the restoration of sturgeon breeds with state support, then stellate sturgeon and the beluga will remain in the photo books. and let's not forget that by buying poached black caviar and sturgeon carcasses in the markets, customers become sponsors of poaching and powerful criminal clans in

the caspian sea fishing. he is ready to give all his time. maybe you'll be lucky.

this is what we saw in the fight against poachers in

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