Maxim Lazovsky

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Maxim Yuryevich Lazovsky (Russian Максим Юрьевич Лазовский, nicknames "Max", "Lame") (1965 – 2000) was former Russian FSB officer who retired from FSB, became involved in underground business and was engaged in terrorism acts in Moscow in 1994. According to Alexander Litvinenko and co-authors he was also suspected of 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 linked to the Chechen criminal groups which tried to control oil business in regions neighbouring Chechnya^{[citation needed]}. He was co-owner of the 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^{[citation needed]}.

In February 1996 Lazovsky has been detained by the Moscow Criminal Investigation department (MUR) and accused of various criminal activities togetehr with the employee of Moscow branch FSB Alexey Jumashkin and six other FSB employees^{[citation needed]}. In 1997 Lazovsky was convicted to two years for possession of drugs and weapons. He was released in 1998.

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 by unknown assassins on April 28, 2000 on the entryway of church in village Uspenskoye near Moscow where he lived.

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A. Litvinenko and A. Goldfarb. Gang from Lubyanka (Russian) GRANI, New York, 2002. ISBN 0-9723878-0-3. Text in Russian
Yuri Felshtinsky, Alexander Litvinenko, and Geoffrey Andrews. Blowing up Russia: Terror from within. New York 2002. ISBN 1-56171-938-2.