Oniani Prime Crime — Tariel

The legendary Slavic mob boss Vyacheslav Ivankov (known as "Yaponchik") stepped in to mediate but sided with Grandpa Khasan. Soon after, in 2009, Yaponchik was assassinated by a sniper in Moscow. The underworld widely blamed Taro for ordering the hit. ⛓️ Caged but Not Defeated

Oniani forged alliances with ethnic Georgian, Armenian, Azeri, and Russian criminal bosses, proposing a unified criminal council that would control drug trafficking, arms, and extortion across Russia, Europe, and the former Soviet republics. This directly violated the traditional vorovskoy mir (thieves’ world) principle of decentralized, cell-based operations. tariel oniani prime crime

Oniani’s prime was between 2005–2009. He was arrested in Russia in 2009, charged under Article 210 (criminal community organization) — a rare application against a vor . He was convicted in 2012 and sentenced to 10 years. After release in 2019, he was arrested again in Georgia in 2020 on charges of "membership in a criminal association" (a post-Soviet legal innovation designed specifically to combat vory ). The legendary Slavic mob boss Vyacheslav Ivankov (known