A MISUNDERSTANDING “I am not bad, like you think,” says Alimzhan T. Tokhtakhounov. “I am not the Mafia, I am not a bandit.” He faces charges in the United States, but not in Russia.
He is as free as a bird and living high off the hog in Russia, just like other Russian mobsters American authorities have wanted for crimes committed in the United States
But if reputed Russian crime boss Alimzhan T Tokhtakhounov ever sets foot in America he faces federal racketeering charges that if convicted could keep him cooped up in a prison cell for plenty of years
Tokhtakhounov , who allegedly holds the high rank of “thief in law” in Russia’s criminal underworld– is accused of fixing skating matches at the Salt Lake City Olympics and running a high-stakes, trans-Atlantic gambling and money-laundering ring.
