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In the opinion of the Neverov gangsters, the first signs of a lack of understanding between Sirotenko and Neverov emerged because of this very twisted Kashin. It all started with Misha devising a financial scheme which, if successfully implemented, promised its organizers a sizeable return. At first glance the scheme looked fairly innocent and legal.
It is well known that in the mid-90s the VAZ automobile plant experienced considerable difficulties in terms of operating assets and oftentimes used cars as payment for spare parts received from suppliers. Barter reigned at the plant. Kashin decided to put it to use. He entered into an agreement with a gas condensate plant located in the city of Perm to ship its product to the city of Kazan. An enterprise located there manufactured polyethylene film from gas condensate. Kashin supplied the film to the VAZ plant, which in turn used cars to pay for the film.
The arrangement would be quite acceptable for those days, except for one nuance. It was not implemented with Kashin’s money, but with funds coming from certain companies controlled by Igor Sirotenko (Sirota). The cars used by the plant as payment were shipped and sold through the Real-Lada company, which was also under the influence of the abovementioned criminal boss. As for Kashin, his revenue from the arrangement as organizer and main person responsible for its implementation was a relatively small percentage of the profit. Responsible, because for every penny spent he had to respond to questions from the owners of the arrangement, Igor Sirotenko and Miron Mokrov. Business was hot and smooth until a certain point in time. But at some point Kashin apparently could no longer resist his ever-present desire to get a lot of “fast” money and decided to try a fraud.
The Neverov gang maintains that Kashin simply “pumped out” the group’s money from the arrangement he had created himself in order to spend it on one of his next-in-line projects. As far as we know, the amount being discussed approximated three million rubles. And when the owners of the business, Miron and Sirota, found this out and started “pressing” Kashin, he turned for help to one of the leaders of the Neverov group, Boris Vechetomov (Borya Mordvin). And asked him for money in exchange for a share in a lucrative — but someone else’s — business.
Vechetomov did give him the money, but Kashin never returned it to Sirota. Instead, he disappeared from the city, having presented the criminal bosses with an opportunity to figure out on their own who owed whom how much and what for. After Kashin disappeared from Togliatti, Sirota and Miron allegedly billed Mordvin for the amount of the debt and even threatened him. Vechetomov rejected the claims and responded with threats to the threats.
On the other hand, the version related by the Neverov gang members is refuted in its entirety by representatives of Sirotenko’s organized criminal group. They maintain that there were no aggravating incidents in their work with Kashin. And Igor Sirotenko became one of the few partners of Misha’s who he not only never defrauded, but instead provided revenue for. When it came to saying goodbye, Kashin and Sirota did it peacefully, no debts or claims. As for Vechetomov, Sirotenko never had anything to do with him at all and only knew about him because Mordvin was a companion of Kashin’s.
That is why the reported conflict between Sirota and Vechetomov is sheer fiction from start to finish.
We cannot say whether it is so or not. But we know for sure that on September 26, 1997 an unknown killer gunned down Borya Mordvin in his own car on the way home from the Komsomolets night club. The city’s criminal circles have two versions of why Vechetomov was killed. According to one of them, the death of Neverov’s comrade-in-arms is ascribed to the ill will of Igor Sirotenko. This version however is popular mostly with the not too informed “rank-and-file torpedoes,” while people of noticeable position in the gang hierarchy are of a different opinion: the late Vechetomov lost his life as a result of his own infatuation with scandals and alcohol. According to them, on that ill-fated day, while at the Komsomolets night club, a very drunk Vechetomov had a row with Stolyarov (Stolyar), leader of the Kupeyev organized criminal group. The drunken criminal bosses’ verbal shootout gradually turned into a fist fight. The security managed to stop the clash, which nonetheless did not prevent the Neverov lieutenant from verbally abusing Stolyarov and those close to him rather strongly. The “gang rules” demanded that such statements not remain unpunished. And after leaving the nightclub, Vechetomov was gunned down. It allegedly was Stolyar himself who shot him, who, having sobered up, later “sincerely repented.”
