Aslan Usoyan, known as Deda Hasan, was killed in the center of Moscow. He was shot on January 16 around 14.30:XNUMX p.m., when he was leaving a restaurant in Bolshoi Nikitska Street. One bullet hit him in the neck, and one hit a woman who happened to be passing by in the chest. Usoyan's body was taken to the mortuary in the Botkin hospital, and the clinic was placed under forced protection.
"They probably killed the writer? (The writer was probably killed?)»
"No, a known criminal..."
"And who?"
"Hasan's grandfather..."
"Finally they killed him..."
The staff of neighboring restaurants and shops said that they found out about the shooting only when the emergency sirens were heard and when at 16.30:35 p.m. the police gathered around the second entrance at XNUMX Povarska Street, based on the assumption that the shots were fired from there.
One of the tenants of that house told the journalists that construction work had recently been carried out on the attic. In the yard of that house, there is construction material, which is raised from there by a winch to the mansard. From the top of that floor, you can clearly see the garden courtyard. Investigators found six 9mm caliber shells between the fifth and sixth floors of that house. A folding chair and a fragment of some fabric interesting for the investigation were also found there.
Hasan was shot from a VAL silenced machine gun, which is used by special forces of the Russian internal army and intelligence service (MVD and FSB). The special VAL machine gun with 9-mm ammunition was made at the CNIITOČMAŠ factory, and is included in the set of silent weapons, together with the special sniper rifle «Vintorez» of the same caliber. It cannot be obtained from the market.
The restaurant itself, whose frequent visitor was Deda Hasan, is located in a part of Prince Alexander Dolgorukov's garden, between Moscow's Povarska and Nikitska Streets (and in that garden is also the Azerbaijani restaurant "Karetnij Dvor", which was originally believed to have hosted Deda before the shooting Hassan). Aslan Usojan was shot at the door of the auxiliary entrance to the "Starij Phaeton" restaurant (whose main entrance is on Nikitska Street).
"They probably killed the writer?" (They probably killed the writer?) asked one woman, apparently that's why the Central House of Writers is located next door.
"No, a known criminal..." answered one of the gathered journalists.
"And who?"
"Hasan's grandfather..."
"Finally they killed him..."
Usojan was considered the strongest authority among professional thieves (vor v zakone, who must follow a special code) in the entire post-Soviet space, and his biography is indicative of Godfather 1, 2 and 3 together.
Aslan (Hasan) Rashidovich Usoyan, Grandfather Hasan, was born in Tbilisi on February 27, 1937. He is Kurdish-Yezidi by nationality.
The Yazidis, members of the Kurdish ethnic group, emphasize that they are different from the Kurds and that they are a separate nation. Most of them are in the Lalish area in northern Iraq, but there are also others in Syria, Turkey, Armenia and Georgia. They cultivate a special syncretic religion, Yezidism, which is a combination of Christianity, Islam, Sufism and Zoroism. They prefer to live near Christians since Muslims consider their religion diabolical and persecute them. Due to the pressure they are exposed to, a large part of them emigrated, especially to Germany.
At the age of 19, Aslan Usojan was already sentenced to 18 months in prison for clashing with the militia, but on January 10, 1956, the Supreme Court of the Georgian SSR released him from further serving the sentence. Then, on January 15, 1959, the Stalin District Court in Tbilisi sentenced him to 5 years in prison for robbery, but he was later released on parole. Then, on December 28, 1966, the October District Court in Tbilisi sentenced him to three years for some illegal speculation, but he was released on parole on June 24, 1968, by the decision of the Tsulukidzev District of the Georgian SSR.
In prison, he was crowned a professional thief (a thief in law, according to the unwritten code of the criminals there).
Grandfather Hasan lived for a long time in the Krasnodar Territory, and then in Moscow, although he was officially registered in Kalmykia. In St. Petersburg, Moscow and the Krasnodar Territory in 1994, he held the largest part of the gambling underground.
Since 1996, he has been in conflict with the representative of the Armenian criminal group Rudolf Oganov (Rudik Bakinsky) over the control of business in the Krasnodar Territory.
In 1997, Oganov tried to deprive Deda Hasan of the status of "leader of the law" at a meeting of professional thieves in Podmoskovlje. At the beginning of 1998, one of Ogan's associates named Edik Moskva, also a professional thief, was killed in Pyatigorsk.
In 1998, Usoyan was shot in Sochi, but missed.
The war of those criminal clans ended with the murder, with 40 bullets, of Rudolf Oganov in February 1999 in a station cafe next to the Moscow Outer Ring Road.
When in 2006 professional criminal Zaharij Kalashov (Shakro Jr.) was arrested in the United Arab Emirates and when he was extradited to Spain, where he was accused of a series of crimes, Deda Hassan's clan managed the business empire of the boss Lashi Shushanashvili - who was being chased by Kalashov...
In 2006, Usojan entered into a conflict with the criminal clan of Tariel Oniani, called Taro. On May 2, 2008, Deda Hasan convened a meeting of the heads of the underworld to agree on the control of funds at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. Vyacheslav Ivankov, known as Japonchik, sided with Usoyan in the dispute over the distribution of spheres of influence. On July 8, 2008, they arranged a meeting with the rival Oniani clan on the chartered tourist boat "Moscow" on Lake Klyazmin. The police found out about this and the special police arrested 39 people, 20 of whom were known as professional thieves. A little later, most of them were released.
The grandfather of Hasan's protégé, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Japonchik, was fatally wounded by a sniper in 2009, when he was leaving the "Thai Elephant" restaurant on Horoshevsky Highway in Moscow. He was given a solemn public funeral (see related texts).
In Usojan's environment, they concluded that Oniani had ordered it. In November 2008, Moscow restaurateur Gela Tsertsvadze, who ran Oniani's business and intended to lease the hot water pipe, was wounded.
Deda Hasan was shot for the last time on September 16, 2010, when he came to the house at 12 Tverskaya Street in the center of Moscow with a bodyguard named Bagramyan to visit the son of Nodar Aslanovich Usoyan (1962). The sniper took a position near the open window of the room on the third floor of the building opposite Usojan's building, on the courtyard side...
Grandfather Hasan then received several life-threatening wounds. Initially, the judicial authorities announced that Hasan and his bodyguard were dead, so that the attackers would not try to finish him off on the way to the Botkin hospital, where protection was organized and where Usoyan was then successfully operated on. Afterwards, they told the journalists that the wounded were alive.
Aslan Usoyan fell into the hands of judicial authorities in Moscow and Petersburg several times, but they always released him after informative interviews. When the Ukrainians expelled him last year because of incorrect documents, no one from the police met him in Moscow.
