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Israeli organized crime figure Yanis Yushayev was shot dead outside of a gas station on Sunday, August 23rd. According to reporting by the Jerusalem Post, Israeli police believe Yushayev operated along with brothers Eli and Matan Arbivin as a joint criminal group in several regions throughout Israel including Caesarea and Hadera. Yushayev has been arrested repeatedly on suspicion of participating in shootings, grenade attacks, and car burnings, but has never been convicted of any crime, according to the Times of Israel. He owned several restaurants in Or Akiva, and reportedly almost never talked on the phone because he knew he was being wiretapped by police. The attack occurred as Yushayev and two associates were walking out of a restaurant inside the Caesarea Junction gas station. Yushayev was transported to the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The gunman fled the area and so far has not been located or detained. There are several reports (so far unconfirmed) that the shooter was wearing a hyper-realistic face mask when he carried out the attack. #israel #mafia #shooting #caesarea #organizedcrime
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The Estonian internal security service known as KaPo arrested Major Deniss Metsavas in September 2018 on charges of spying for Russia for more than ten years. Metsavas was visiting family members in Russia in 2007 when he was ensnared in a classic honey trap after a one-night stand with a local woman. He had been secretly filmed with her and police threatened to arrest him on rape charges unless he cooperated. The following year he met for the first time with his handler ‘Anton’ from the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence organization. For the next decade he continued to meet infrequently with Anton to be debriefed and further tasked for information on Estonian military preparedness, but especially on relations and cooperation with NATO allies and the United States. Over the years, Metsavas served as an artillery officer and deployed to the Helmand province in Afghanistan in 2012. He even acted as a semi-official spokesman for the Estonian Defense Forces in Russian-language media interviews in 2014 after the Russian occupation of Crimea and eastern Ukraine. After returning from Afghanistan Metsavas was assigned as a staff officer to the national military headquarters, which greatly increased his access to classified information, and his inherent value to the GRU. Shockingly, Metsavas’ father Pjotr Volin was also recruited by the GRU after he remarried and moved to Russia to be near his new wife’s family. Volin served in the KGB border guards in his youth and maintained strong pro-Russian views later in life. He soon acted as a courier for his son’s information after Estonian military personnel were barred from traveling to Russia beginning in 2014. Estonian authorities have still not publicly explained how they learned of Metsavas’ and Volin’s espionage activities. In February 2019 the men were sentenced to fifteen years and six years confinement, respectively. In August 2026, the Harju district court denied his request for early release from prison.
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Two convicted spies were swapped in a prisoner exchange at the Russian-Estonian border in February 2018. Artem Zinchenko (carrying the blue attaché case) was a Russian national living in Estonia where he operated a business manufacturing baby strollers before his arrest in January 2016. Before moving to Estonia, he’d been recruited by the GRU. His great-grandfather joined the Soviet NKVD in 1938 and later served in the counterintelligence unit Smersh. According to Estonian prosecutors, Zinchenko was recruited in 2009 and began his espionage work in 2013, providing information on the Estonian military and NATO activities in country. He was subsequently sentenced to five years in prison. However, just one month after Zinchenko’s arrest, Estonian businessman Raivo Susi was arrested at an airport in Moscow while on his way to Tajikistan and charged with espionage in a Russian court stemming from his activities from 2004 - 2007. Susi was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2018. The trials of both men were cloaked in secrecy and few details were publicly divulged in either case. Shortly after Susi’s conviction, an exchange was negotiated, which took place at a bridge over the Piusa River just south of the town of Koidula. Alexander Toots, deputy director for the Estonian KAPO security service briefly conferred with his Russian FSB counterpart in the middle of the bridge before both prisoners were exchanged. As part of the agreement, both men also received official pardons for their previous convictions. Zinchenko was the 10th Russian spy caught by KAPO in the space of nine years. In a shocking turn of events, Zinchenko fled his home in St. Petersburg, Russia and defected to Estonia four years after the exchange on the bridge. He may be the only spy to have publicly defected to the country which had imprisoned him. He later claimed during an interview that he was motivated by his support of Russian dissident Alex Navalny and his own personal opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. Whether he was turned by the KAPO security service during his year in captivity remains an open question.
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