MOSCOW – Businessman Vladimir Marugov, also known as the Sausage King of Moscow, stripped naked in a gold hut on Sunday night and called one of his factories a “meat kingdom” when two masked assailants attacked him and his lover.
The assailants demanded money, then tied up Marugov and his accomplice before killing the merchant with a crossbow. Her boyfriend later escaped from the scene and warned authorities to kill at the bloody time. Became.
Before his desperate death, millionaire Marugov had dreams of making his family business a traditional sausage empire, in the fashion of highly respected German or Austrian sausage companies, so he could pass it on first to his son and then to his grandchildren. The idea of succession was deeply rooted in his mind; Marugov shared these dreams in every interview he gave. But that dream fell apart. Many years ago, he left his wife for a little woman – the same lover who ended up in a gold rush. Then last year his eldest son died in a traffic accident.
And on Sunday, Marugov’s own life ended very dramatically.
The businessman had enemies in his immediate circle, and he was fighting a fierce battle with his family members over property.
Like many men of the Russian elite, Marugov lived a double life – one with his good-looking wife, Kavita Tatiana Marugova, and his son; And another with his business partner, 36-year-old Sabina Gaziyeva, a long-haired brunette (like his wife). When Marugov divorced Tatiana, he first behaved in a dignified manner: Aligarh left his wife and son, the future heirs of his estate, a large apartment, a villa and his favorite sausage factory. But later Marugov changed his mind and demanded all his property back.
Russia – wherever the president has divorced his first wife and is rumored to have a mysterious private life, including many children by Olympic champion Elena Kabayeva – loves to gossip about rich family plays. A few years ago the whole country was discussing the hidden details of Marugovs’ personal scandals.
His ex-wife, Kavita Tatiana, was releasing songs full of pain and despair, after which she was revealed to appear on the Jerry Springer-style TV gossip show: “I found out that half of our lives were spent in her bed; My husband bought ments apartments and vehicles for her. “The biggest wound was that Marugov stopped communicating with his 23-year-old son, Alexander, after having two children with his new partner, and devoted his entire life to the new family. The ex-wife was in pain,” Tatiana said. Sharing with millions of Russians, he complained: “I have received death threats from him. Trust me, he will not stop until he squashes me.”
The war over the meat kingdom and other family property lasted for five years. Then came another tragedy: Marugov’s son Alexander crashed his motorcycle in July last year and died.
Marugov was the second Russian businessman to be assassinated in his sauna in recent weeks. In late October, Alexander Lex .under Petrov, a businessman in gold, was assassinated in the town of Vyborg, near the Finnish border.
Former intelligence agent Gennady Goodkov told the Daily Beast that the latest killings should have alerted the entire Russian electorate to come back to their security situation. “If I were a Russian alligator today, I would look at Marugov’s assassination, which was skillfully carried out by a crossbow shooter, as well as another recent assassination of businessman Alex Petr Petrov – he was killed while leaving his army. , A place where one is very sensitive, “Goodkov said.
By Monday evening, police had arrested Marugov’s alleged killers. It is not yet clear who was behind the killings, but Goodkov, a longtime manager of a security company, suspects it was an organized hit. “Once I managed to stop contract killings: a wife ordered her husband to be killed in return, then he increased the rent for his shop; She later confessed to me her true intentions, “said Goodkov, who has been involved in crime investigations in Russia. “I am sure investigators are suspicious of Marugov’s close family members [or] Friends as some of the main suspects. “
The COVID-19 epidemic has caused thousands of Russians to lose their jobs in the past month and crime is on the rise in many regions. The Russian Interior Ministry reports that between January and June, the number of cybercrime and financial scams increased by 91 percent. “We were worried in April that unemployed people would form criminal gangs,” Vasily Zubkin, a Moscow businessman, told the Daily Beast. But he said targeting wealthy individuals is nothing new. “In general, criminals here have robbed summer huts and harassed private owners before and during the virus at high oil prices and low oil prices.”
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