Maxim Lazovsky

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Maxim Yuryevich Lazovsky (Russian Максим Юрьевич Лазовский, nicknames "Max", "Lame") (1965 – 2000) was Russian criminal leader and FSB agent suspected in organization of terrorism acts in Moscow in 1994 and participation in Russian apartment bombings in 1999, along with other crimes including murders and abductions.

Maxim Lazovsky was born in Grozny. In 1992 he has organized a gang that was connected with the Chechen criminal groups and the Сhechen-Russian oil business. He was a co-owner of firm "Lanako" engaged in oil business. In the same firm officer Andrey Shchelenkov served, who was lost on November 18, 1994 (before the first Chechen war) at the organization of act of terrorism - explosion of the railway bridge in Moscow. With Lazovsky also colonel Vladimir Vorobyev which has organized other act of terrorism in Moscow (explosion of a trolley bus in December, 1994) close cooperated.

In February 1996 Lazovsky has been detained by the Moscow Criminal Investigation department (MUR). Together with it the employee of Moscow branch FSB Alexey Jumashkin actually played a role of the head of security service of a gang has been detained. At most Lazovsky at a search have withdrawn counterfeit certificates of the Russian power structures. In the investigatory file of Lazovsky appear 6 operative employees FSB entered into its environment.

A court taken place 1997 has recognized charges against Lazovsky not proved and has sentenced it to two years of the conclusion for storage of drugs and the weapon. In 1998 Lazovsky has left on freedom.

Historian Yuri Felshtinsky has tracked its indirect communications in 1999 with Achimez Gochiyayev, accused in the organization of explosions of apartment houses in Moscow, and also with the allegation mistress of Gochiyaev Tatyana Koroleva, also connected with this affair. Others accused - Batchaev and Krymshamkhalov - in the letter in the independent commission of investigation come out with the assumption what exactly Lazovski worked with them under a name "Abdulgafar".

He was shot to death by unknown assassins in April 2000 on the entryway of church in village Uspenskoye near Moscow where he lived.