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In his biography - six convictions and 20 years in prisons and camps. Under Yeltsin, he was the "roof" of the Stolichny bank of the oligarch Alexander Smolensky, a member of the powerful Seven Bankers. In the 90s he moved to France, where from a criminal authority he became an authoritative patron of the arts.
His journey from camera to TV camera is a dark history of Russia with big names and unsolved crimes. How did he participate in the release of French hostages from captivity in Ichkeria in the 90s? And why did France give the godfather a passport? What connects him with gangster Ukraine and with the top of the current Kyiv government? How many assassination attempts did he survive and why did he spare his sworn enemy? And why does he support an Orthodox church in Cannes?
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In his biography - six convictions and 20 years in prisons and camps. Under Yeltsin, he was the "roof" of the Stolichny bank of the oligarch Alexander Smolensky, a member of the powerful Seven Bankers. In the 90s he moved to France, where from a criminal authority he became an authoritative patron of the arts.
His journey from camera to TV camera is a dark history of Russia with big names and unsolved crimes. How did he participate in the release of French hostages from captivity in Ichkeria in the 90s? And why did France give the godfather a passport? What connects him with gangster Ukraine and with the top of the current Kyiv government? How many assassination attempts did he survive and why did he spare his sworn enemy? And why does he support an Orthodox church in Cannes?
A life-long crime saga - in the release of the program "New Russian Sensations".
"New Russian Sensations" is a weekly program made in the genre of investigative journalism.
Each issue is a high-profile exclusive, an information bomb or a poignant, touching mono-story of a celebrity whose name is known throughout the country, and whose life is full of dramatic events.
A frank interview in the style of a television confession, unexpected meetings with people with whom years, distances and past grievances shared, unknown facts, family secrets and "skeletons in the closet" - viewers will see all this on television for the first time.
Year of issue: 2017
Released: Russia, LLC "PPK" commissioned by NTV
In the program "New Russian Sensations" - one of the leaders of the Russian mafia in Western Europe Lenya Macintosh.
Leonid Fedorovich Bilunov, he is Lenya Macintosh. Born on May 5, 1949 in the city of Belaya Tserkov, Kyiv region. Registered: Kaluga region, village Panino.
Six convictions, 20 years in prisons and camps (robbery, armed robbery, rape, fraud, hooliganism, etc.).
Under Yeltsin, he was the "roof" of the Stolichny bank of the oligarch Alexander Smolensky, a member of the powerful Seven Bankers. In the 90s he moved to France, where from a criminal authority he became an authoritative patron of the arts.
According to operational data, he was involved in the organization and implementation of about 20 contract killings, former leader"Lyubertsy" organized criminal group. For a long time he lived in Cyprus, in Hungary, now he lives permanently in France. The closest connections are "Serpukhov" and "Chechen" organized crime groups.
According to unofficial information, he is “the holder of the thieves’ common fund of Russian organized crime groups in Western Europe. He acted as an intermediary in a number of trade transactions with Russian weapons.
His journey from camera to TV camera is a dark history of Russia with big names and unsolved crimes.
How did he participate in the release of French hostages from captivity in Ichkeria in the 90s? And why did France give the godfather a passport? What connects him with gangster Ukraine and with the top of the current Kyiv government? How many assassination attempts did he survive and why did he spare his sworn enemy? And why does he support an Orthodox church in Cannes?
He is mortally afraid in Europe, he is being watched by FBI agents. For the first time on NTV - crime boss Lenya Makintosh. Revelations of the real godfather - in "New Russian sensations".
Lenya Makintosh in the program "New Russian Sensations"
The way abroad for Bilunov was predetermined since childhood. True, initially its direction looked somewhat different.
The athletic teenager, who showed great promise in athletics, studied at the Lvov special boarding school, whose graduates invariably joined the ranks of the KGB, where they were supposed to turn out to be scouts or saboteurs. Preparing for future profession started at a young age.
On one of the weekends, Leonid accidentally met guys a little older than his age, who so colorfully painted for him the prospects for a vacation on the Black Sea coast that the future "committee" agreed to take part in a risky event that promised the fulfillment of a sudden dream - a robbery of a collector. Leonid coped with his role "excellently", and the "initiators" let him down. They quickly got caught by the police and immediately "split", betraying an accomplice with giblets.
At the age of 15, Bilunov went for 2 years to the “youngster” of the village of Gorodok, Lviv region.
After his release, Leonid Bilunov, who had already received the nickname Lenya Makintosh, did not stay at large for a long time. He was "soldered" 6 years for rape and he went to continue his prison journey to a colony for juvenile delinquents in the town of Priluki Chernihiv region. There, for the first time, he showed the strength of his character by taking an active part in the murder of an overgrown sadistic "bump". The court increased the term by another 6 years, but the cassation instance then “cut it down” to 2 years.
Nevertheless, McIntosh had to get acquainted with the peculiarities of the strict regime of detention in the Sambor special prison. Having crossed the equator of adulthood, he ended up in Drohobych. By that time, he had established himself as a persistent violator of the regime, constantly refusing to go to work and comply with other rules of the routine. Bilunov was given a sentence, sent for treatment with sulfazine to the Dnepropetrovsk psychiatric hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and again put in a punishment cell.
In 1981, having once again left the places of detention, Lenya Makintosh did not think that he would never go to jail again. On the contrary, he did not "tied up", but took up a very risky from the point of view of the law, but a profitable business - trading certificates for the Beryozka chain of stores. In the USSR, a number of categories of professions used in those days the right to exchange the currency earned abroad for special certificates that provide the right to purchase acutely scarce goods that never entered ordinary retail trade.
Things went so well that he soon moved from Lvov, well known to him, but small for the scale of his real activity, to huge Moscow, where he created a whole network of unofficial exchangers. Not only did he have to be careful with the police, who were chasing speculators, and the KGB, who were on the lookout for any attempts to illicit currency circulation, but also to deal with competitors or crooks, who often tried to slip the "doll".
In addition to courage and determination, Bilunov, who has a developed intellect, became interested in cards and doubled his capital with this occupation.
By the beginning of the 90s, the nouveau riche Lenya Mackintosh felt quite well in democratic Russia and did not think about abroad. In his business, he had a partner - banker Alexander Smolensky. The financier attracted Bilunov's money to his financial structure "Capital Savings Bank", put their owner himself in an office in the office of a credit institution and provided him with a completely legal source of income. In return, a well-connected associate in the criminal underworld had to advise him and carry out some delicate assignments.
Smolensky was not clean-handed and very often acted beyond the bounds of what was permissible by law. Operations with false advices, laundering of "gray" income, concealment of taxes - all this has become a daily practice of the banker's activities. Another feature of the character of Alexander Smolensky Lenya Mackintosh sensed in time. He didn't like to share.
At some point in time, he personally did not need Bilunov, and the funds he invested in the business, on the contrary, were very necessary. Three times the head of the Stolichny bank organized assassination attempts on Bilunov. Only by a miracle did he survive. Smolensky bought the Moscow RUBOP, which sent 18 commandos and tried to storm Bilunov's apartment. McIntosh fired furiously for 4 hours, feverishly gathering press representatives and lawyers under his windows, who, in the end, did not allow him to be dealt with without witnesses.
Despite the huge connections of Leni Mackintosh among the “Lyubertsy” and “Serpukhov”, the divorce from the banker went peacefully, without bloodshed. Alexander Smolensky lived happily until 2003, when he retired and began to describe his hectic life in his memoirs. With others who allowed themselves to become an obstacle in his path, Bilunov acted much tougher.
Law enforcement officials claim that there are facts of his involvement in 20 contract killings, the victims of which were not only businessmen, but also thieves in law and criminal authorities.
Lenya Macintosh decided to leave Russia, which had become restless and unpredictable, forever. He lived briefly in Austria, Cyprus and Hungary until he found his ideal residence in Paris. At first, the French government treated him with apprehension. The secret services were aware of Mackintosh's adventures in his youth.
In 1995, they started talking about him as the organizer of a conspiracy against President Yeltsin. Someone let the duck go first Russian President should be killed during his visit to France. Bilunov at that time again miraculously escaped arrest by leaving for Israel. Instead, his wife and daughter became the prey of the authorities.
Through lawyers, he managed to negotiate his return to Paris in exchange for guarantees to remain at large until the day of the trial. At the trial, he had to defend himself against charges of illegal possession and trafficking in weapons, facilitating drug trafficking and using a false passport. Bilunov was sentenced to 5 years of probation. Perhaps attempts to get rid of the presence of a dangerous resident on their territory would have continued in the future, but then Mackintosh was helped by a happy accident.
In Makhachkala, the mission of the charitable organization "Esklibre", which included 4 citizens of France, was captured by North Caucasian terrorists. French counterintelligence turned to Bilunov with a request to assist in their release. Leonid Bilunov did an excellent job with the task in 2 weeks. Through his criminal friends, he quickly sought out the Chechen authorities personally known to him and settled all the details of the liberation of the French, which are still a secret. The captives soon returned to their homeland, and Bilunov was given a real French passport and declared that there were no claims against him from the local Themis.
Being a respectable citizen, Leonid Bilunov leads an exclusively secular lifestyle. He won fame for himself as an art collector, a member of a charitable foundation that raises funds for the construction of the Moscow Patriarchate Church in Cannes. In addition, he found time to pick up a pen and describe in detail his adventures in the chronicle novel Three Lives, only slightly changing the names of some acquaintances in it and adding a touch of nobility to his actions.
Now he has settled in France, where, according to unofficial information, he is the holder of the thieves' common fund of Russian organized criminal gangs in Western Europe.
In an interview, he said that even if "you gave me a check for 2-3 billion euros with one condition - return to Moscow, I would still refuse."
At the same time, Bilunov claims that he is not afraid of anything.
“What should I be afraid of. I’m having a great time in France, after talking with you I’ll go to a club, meet friends, drink champagne ... I was able to realize myself, achieve a lot. And this is after what I had to endure in Russia - camps , shipments ... Such that I saw, you won’t even see in a dream, I constantly had to fight for survival, "the authority said.
In 2007, a book by Leonid Bilunov was published "Three Lives", which consists of three parts: the first describes childhood, in the second Lenya talks about his "prison universities", the third tells about the world of "first wave" businessmen and criminal showdowns.
Leonid Bilunov (Lenya Mackintosh)
I found in Moscow the very beginning of big business. It became clear that money is beginning to play an increasingly important role and is turning into a real power...
Once I was driving through spring Moscow in a new car. It was my first "Mercedes" - model 280, the color of wet asphalt... With a bored look, I glided over the left neighbor, not very new Zhiguli, which were patiently waiting for the green light. And suddenly I noticed that the driver of the Zhiguli was making some desperate signs to me...
Listen! he shouted. - There is a case. If you're not in a hurry, we'll drive off to the side...
We cautiously climbed out of the rushing stream and clung to the edge of the sidewalk. The driver of the Zhiguli got out of his car with difficulty and walked towards me, smiling in advance.
Would you like to sell your car? Don't worry, I have money," he began without preamble.
I looked him over carefully. Younger than me, of medium height, a large face, with fleshy cheeks ... The eyes are bulging, tearing outward, like a Chinese dog, and the remnants of yesterday's laughter seem to be stuck at the bottom ...
I promised him to find out if it was possible, using my connections, to get a similar car, and we exchanged phone numbers. Thus, on one of the warm spring days in Moscow, I met the one who eventually became, not without my modest participation, one of the largest bankers in Russia, Alexander Saratovsky.
He called me a couple of days later and invited me to his place on Pyatnitskaya, where his small office was located in the basement under a modest sign "Stalechny Bank" ...
Once, at the end of a working day, I drove up to the barracks of Saratov (as I called the bank to myself): we agreed to have dinner together. Going down the steep steps to his semi-underground treasury, I saw an unusually pale face of a secretary...
Oh, Leonid Fedorovich! She spoke in a barely audible whisper. - Don't go there! There are bandits...
I pushed her away and opened the office door wide. Alexander Saratovsky was clearly not up to dinner. With a trembling chin, with the Pekingese's eyes even more bulging than usual, the hero of the free banking business of Russia was sliding down from his director's chair, and next to him stood a tall, broad-shouldered Tatar, with a clear threat playing in front of his face with a sharply sharpened scimitar. As it turned out later, it was Mansur, well-known in gangster circles.
Why do you need ears? Mansour said. - If you still don't hear us... In front of the bank director's desk, in the chair for visitors, leaning back, my old acquaintance Leonid Zavadsky was sitting...
Lenya introduced Mansur to me, and it became clear to him that the scimitar would have to wait. So my accidental presence that evening saved the decoration of the head of one of the most prominent businessmen of modern Russia.
Zavadsky told me the whole story. It turned out that Saratovsky cleverly swindled him out of seventy-six million rubles. Lenya entrusted him with rubles for conversion into dollars ... Zavadsky demanded to give him the currency, but Saratovsky was playing for time. A month later, he received Zavadsky and gave him a third of what he owed.
Inflation! he shrugged.
I felt that Saratovsky was plotting to get rid of me. For him, I became waste material, an unpleasant person. Alexander Saratovsky hated people to whom he owed money. The greater the debt, the more I hated it... One of the attempts to destroy me was made by Saratov when I was living with my family in Vienna. It was the end of 1993. I got a call from my old friend Serezha Mikhailov, for friends Mikhas, who also recently settled in Austria...
After supper, when we were alone with him to finish a bottle of thick old Bordeaux, Mikhas told me a curious story about me. Three days ago a compatriot came to see him, a huge fellow with unshaven cheeks and small piggy eyes... The fellow took out a crumpled photograph, and Mikhas could not contain his surprise.
And who do I see in the photo? Michas told me. - My old friend comes out of the entrance of a beautiful western house! Which someone really wants to see in a coffin! And as soon as possible...
In 1993, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against the leadership of the Steel Savings Bank, accusing him of laundering dirty money from the sale of drugs, nuclear raw materials and weapons. One can only imagine what a high-profile trial this accusation would lead to if it reached the courtroom. However, the case was dropped. Why? No answer...
Who does not remember the famous default - "Black August" 1998. A huge number of depositors lost everything accumulated over several years. The Bank of Saratov was among those who shamelessly robbed hundreds of thousands of small depositors. But the unsinkable Saratov and here managed to get hold of.
In October of the same year, the Central Bank of Russia provided Saratov with a loan of about six billion rubles (about two hundred million dollars at the then exchange rate) - just in order to support the unfortunate depositors. Most of this money did not reach depositors. Money vanished into thin air...
