Zimin Sergey Dmitrievich

Biography

From archival operational data it follows that Sergey Dmitrievich Zimin was born in 1962.

Sergey Dmitrievich Zimin, born in 1962, is absent from the official base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And yet one document was found. It became a vehicle registration card in the traffic police base - the 1961 Java motorcycle of cherry color.

According to these data, Sergey Dmitrievich Zimin acquired it in 1980. If you analyze this information and other archival data, then the registration address of Sergei on Festivalnaya Street in Moscow coincides with the one that the future founder of VimpelCom Dmitry Zimin had.

In other words, Sergei Zimin, before being drafted into the army, from where he returned in 1987, apparently lived at the same address as Dmitry Zimin.

The former boxer joined the Koptevskaya organized crime group in 1987, reads the 1994 certificate of the Central Address and Reference Bureau (TsASB) of the Moscow Police Department.

"He was prosecuted several times, but thanks to giving a bribe to law enforcement officers he avoided punishment," the document^[1] says^[2].

When Sergei Zimin became the leader of the Koptevsky, "it became even worse for the merchants, because Zimin put a lot of effort on restoring order in the commercial affairs of his office," Rossiyskaya Gazeta wrote.

According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the Koptevskaya organized crime group in the late 1990s numbered 250 people. As the publication noted in a 1998 publication, the Coptevskys controlled "not only their native places" and part of the center of the capital, but also large areas in the north and north-west of Moscow, business in Zheleznodorozhny, Lobna, Dolgoprudny, Sheremetyev-1 and Sheremetyev-2 districts near Moscow.

In January 1998, Kommersant wrote about the wanted list of the leader of the Koptevsky Sergei Zimin, nicknamed Zoom, on suspicion of killing the "Tushinsky criminal authority." By that time, Sergey, according to the publication, was already wanted in another case - for an armed attack on an entrepreneur in 1996.

"Sergey Zimin... had a certificate of an employee of the Sofrinsky separate police battalion, "Valery Karyshev, who defended the hired serial killer Alexander Solonik, wrote in his book Notes of the Gang Lawyer.

RT sources in law enforcement provided a copy of the official certificate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Zimin and his security guard's certificate.

"In order to legally carry weapons, he was fictititiously in a commercial security bureau," reads the CASS certificate.

In 1999, Literaturnaya Gazeta wrote about Sergei Zimin as the son of the founder of VimpelCom in connection with the murder of company co-owner Konstantin Kuzovoy on March 25, 1999.

Seven years earlier, radio engineer Dmitry Zimin, who for more than 35 years held senior positions at the A.L. Mints Radio Engineering Institute (RTI), created one of the country's first publicly accessible cellular networks. He did this on the equipment of the American company PLEXSYS and on the provided Russian military frequencies. So VimpelCom JSC appeared.

Founder of VimpelCom Dmitry Zimin

The company has long been a leader in the market, but after the default of 1998 it suffered losses: competitors began to gain popularity - MTS, MSS, SONNET and MegaFon.

In September 1998, VimpelCom left the first deputy general director Konstantin Kuzova. He joined the management of Personal Communications (SONNET).

Soon, Kuzova gave an interview to the Algorithm Media agency, in which he spoke about the conflict with Zimin.

"Zimin and I had ideological discrepancies that forced me to leave VimpelCom," Kuzova said then.

At the same time, he remained a shareholder in VimpelCom.

"Yes, this is my property, and I would like to dispose of it at my own discretion," the businessman said.

A few months after the interview, in March 1999, Kuzova was shot dead at the entrance of his own house.

Literary Newspaper wrote about the murdered that he bought up 38% of the shares of RTI named after Mints, "intended to combine his stake with a large stake in Bilain competitors and thus" squeeze Zimin out of his native nest. "

At the same time, both Literaturnaya Gazeta and Kommersant noted that Dmitry Zimin was shocked by the murder of a former partner.

In 2001, Dmitry Zimin left the business and began to engage in charity work.

2021: Absentee arrest in the murder of a criminal authority

In May 2021, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow arrested Sergei Zimin in absentia, who is the son of the founder of VimpelCom Dmitry Zimin. He is on the international wanted list, to which Interpol was connected.

According to Kommersant, Sergey Zimin, known in criminal circles under the nickname Zema, is in a criminal case initiated on the murder of Tushinsky "authority" Vyacheslav Stepanov (part 1 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in 1998.

According to investigators, two bandits, by order of Zimin, who was abroad, ambushed Stepanov and his friend Yevgeny Berezin. They were fired at the bar with machine guns. Stepanov was killed on the spot, and Berezin was able to escape.

During the shooting, several bullets hit the tram. As a result, four passengers were injured. One of them died in the hospital.

In 2007, the criminal prosecution of Zema was discontinued due to the lack of corpus delicti in its actions. But they continued to search for him, already as a missing person. It was assumed that he was hiding in Europe, but by May 2021 his whereabouts were unknown to law enforcement agencies.

In mid-April 2021, the Presnensky Court of Moscow, at the request of the participants in the investigation, quashed this decision, which made it possible to again declare 59-year-old Sergei Zimin on the federal criminal wanted list, including due to the fact that the crime was daring and especially cynical, writes. Kommersant

Having granted the request of the investigation, judge Elena Abramova, who had once sentenced artist Mikhail Efremov for a fatal accident, arrested Sergei Zimin for two months. He will be detained from the moment he is extradited to Russia from abroad or detained in the Russian Federation. The request for the absentee arrest of Sergei Zimin was made by the head of the first department for the investigation of especially important cases of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee in Moscow against the person and public safety.^[3]

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