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Russian carder Yaroslav Sumbayev, aka Miguel Morales, is the founder of the Los Zetas drug market on the darknet. Unfortunately, he became known to the world not because of his skillful hacks, but because of a series of contract killings. Yaroslav Sumbayev became famous as a person who actually ordered a murder through the Darknet and, most importantly, this murder was solved. Solved at the cost of his own life, that of Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Evgenia Shishkina. It was senior investigator Evgenia Shishkina who played the main role in catching this dangerous criminal.
"Catch Me If You Can" is a cult film by Steven Spielberg, in which the brilliant swindler Frank Bignail carries out cunning schemes, robbing banks for millions of dollars, while each time escaping from the hands of FBI agent Carl Hanratty. If the remake of this film were filmed in Russia, then Frank's place would be taken by Russian carder Yaroslav Sumbayev, and the role of the FBI agent would be played by especially important cases investigator Evgeniya Shishkina.
But our film will not have a happy ending, since everyone who gets in the way of Frank's grief will either die or remain disabled for life. Yaroslav Sumbayev is a kind, modest and very smart guy. This is how his friends and classmates at the ASTU University described him.
But you can't fool me so easily, after all, I am a wife. Since childhood, Yaroslav had a penchant for the exact sciences. At the institute, he met a girl named Iolanta, who helped him prepare for exams in mathematics. She later became his wife. But Sumbayev was never able to solve the problem of how to build a legal business. When his parents divorced, the character of the future carder changed for the worse.
He began to grab any job, as long as it paid. Sumbaev started his career on forums dedicated to shadow earnings. He sold stolen e-wallets, made a living as a carder, offered personal data mining services, and asked for loans. In 2011, he registered on the mmgp.Ru investment forum under the name Yaroslav Snezhny.
He offered users to invest in selling bags, purses, and belts made from exotic animal skins. Naturally, investors did not receive any profits, and when naive investors asked where the money was, Lebowski. Yaroslav answered with the only leather item that his all-father had awarded him. Unlike most carders, Sumbaev liked to attract attention to himself.
In 2012, he was noted on the VK page of Moscow lawyer Dmitry Vinogradov, who shot six people in the office of his company. "Dmitry is simply a handsome man, few are capable of such a thing," Yaroslav wrote at the time. That same year, Sumbayev was charged with fraud with credit cards. Without waiting for a trial, he fled from Astrakhan under house arrest, cutting off his electronic bracelet.
For which a federal search was declared. At the same time, on the kriminala.net forum, Sumbayev met carders Maxim Matyushev and Kirill Kulabukhov. Together, he came up with a scheme to hack ticket systems. They sent Zeus-type Trojans to the email addresses of travel companies, received passwords, and then issued the most expensive train tickets on behalf of these companies.
Formally, the buyers were drops who handed in the tickets to the box office, receiving cash in hand. The total damage to 31 travel companies amounted to 17.5 million rubles. In 2014, investigator Evgenia Shishkina took up the case. Previously, she bore the surname Grigoryan, lived in Baku, and after the Armenian pogroms, fled to Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh.
There she got a job as a clerk in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When the bombing of Karabakh began, Evgenia Grigorian lived in a basement for a year. In the early 90s, Shishkina moved to Russia, where she rose from a seamstress at a shoe factory in the city of Kimry to an investigator for especially important cases in the transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District. Former colleagues say that Shishkina was an energetic and stern person at work.
She never took bribes and was an honest cop, the kind you usually see in movies. In the transport department, Lieutenant Colonel Shishkina served in the department for investigating organized crime in the economic sphere. The ticket case was considered important in the department. Shishkina combined disparate episodes of hacking tour operator systems into one case, which allowed her to pursue it under a more serious article and count on a promotion.
Shishkina's group traveled around the regions for several months and still found an important informant. The main testimony against the organizers of the hacking at the end of 2014 was given by the middleman and drug dealer, St. Petersburg resident Roman Mikhailov, who agreed to make a deal with the investigation. In November 2015, Mikhailov, who confessed to everything, was beaten and cut with a rose near his own entrance.
The attacker said goodbye to Sumbaev. The police never found the person who sent the greetings. Then investigators detained two leaders of the carding group, Maxim Matyushov and Kirill Kulabukhov. They were charged with group fraud and hacking. When they were interrogated, Sumbaev had already fled Russia. His case was separated into a separate proceeding, and he himself ended up in the Interpol database.
Shishkina was eager to catch him; she wanted this evil to be punished. Sumbaev considered her a personal enemy. The ambitious and straightforward Shishkina reciprocated his feelings. He wrote hateful posts about her on forums and threatened her on Telegram. The investigator reread these messages so many times that she knew them by heart.
The cyber fraudster told his friend that he loved the movie Catch Me If You Can, in which an investigator unsuccessfully chases a criminal. When Sumbayev was put on the international wanted list in 2015, he, like the film's hero Frank Bignail, periodically reminded the investigator of himself. Having gone on the run, changing Russia for Montenegro, Montenegro for Turkey, and Turkey for Georgia, he called the investigator from unfamiliar numbers and wrote messages from anonymous accounts.
"Evgenia, you are already becoming famous, soon all of Russia will know about you, your colleagues at work say that you are walking around in hysterics from anger and drooling in all directions," Sumbayev wrote. While in Turkey, Sumbayev met with his relatives, for whom the quickly rich millionaire bought vouchers to the best hotels in Istanbul.
In this photo, Sumbayev and his wife pose against the backdrop of the bridge over the Bosphorus. In Istanbul, Sumbayev was using forged documents in the name of Lithuanian citizen Vitaly Makarov. They were made for him for 6,000 euros by his friend Vasily Margiev, whom the carder met in 2013 on a forum. 35-year-old Vasily Margiev was born in the Georgian city of Karelia, but lived most of the time in Sochi.
He did not study anywhere, but he knew how to do a lot, drove cars, developed websites. And in 2003, Margiev was convicted of stealing jewelry worth a total of 350 thousand rubles. Yaroslav Sumbayev could not stay in one place for a long time, being on the international wanted list, he began to develop a persecution mania.
Then it seemed to him that the operatives were constantly watching him and were just waiting for the command to detain him. He wrote to Margiev to find out if he had connections with which he could remove him from the international wanted list database. To Sumbaev's surprise, Margiev told him about his acquaintance with influential security officials who could help him and give the green light to his shady dealings.
But to do this, Sumbaev had to move from Turkey to Georgia. All official routes were closed to him, but the Darknet came to the rescue. On one of the forums, he found a bus driver who secretly transported people in a special secret compartment between the ceiling and the roof of the bus. It's a 20-hour bus ride from Taksim Square in Istanbul to the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
This task is not easy even for the most trained ass sitting in a comfortable chair, let alone Yarik, who made the entire journey lying down in an incredibly narrow compartment. That day, Yarik counted every bump with his back. It is unknown whether he lost his reproductive function, but what the driver took out from under the upholstery of the cabin upon arrival in Georgia already barely resembled our hero.
I'm joking, of course, Sumbaev met Morgiev, got to know each other in person, and they started working together. Yaroslav offered his friend money to buy and transport used cars. In return, Morgiev promised him the support of high-ranking Georgian security officials. Sumbaev told Morgiev about his plans, he wanted to start selling drugs and weapons.
He said that he had already found reliable suppliers and asked to quickly introduce him to security officials he knew. The funniest thing is that Margiev had no influential friends, and he simply used Sumbaev, or rather his money. To prevent the deception from being revealed ahead of time, Margiev persuaded his friend Eduard Shaverdov, a taxi driver, to play the role of the city prosecutor.
At the meeting in the restaurant, Shaverdov ate with pleasure and pretended that he did not speak Russian, it is unclear what Margiev was thinking, since Yaroslav had studied dozens of photographs of the high-ranking official before the meeting and it was not difficult for him to distinguish the original from the impostor. Sumbayev didn't let it be known, he watched this circus to the end, after which he told the two jokers everything he thought about them.
Looking ahead, I will say that in January 2019, Margiev was hit by a car at high speed. He miraculously survived, but lost a third of his skull, which left him disabled for life. Today, he walks poorly and speaks even worse. Margiev believes that the hit-and-run was planned. This is also confirmed by leaked correspondence, in which Sumbayev promised to kill him in a dialogue with an acquaintance.
Let's go back three years. In 2016, Sumbayev still managed to create his own drug empire. He opened a drug store on the Darknet called Los Zetas and became known as its employee under the pseudonym Miguel Morales. Sumbayev chose this pseudonym for himself for a reason. Miguel Morales is the leader of a large-scale drug cartel in Mexico, who is still considered one of the most brutal criminals of the century.
He posted execution videos online, threatened the authorities, and maintained a separate army of children and teenagers who idolized him. For about two years, he headed the Los Zetos drug empire and was only caught by Mexican marines in 2013. The investigation into his crimes is still ongoing. As I said, Umbaev's Los Zetos opened in 2016, during the heyday of the Russian Anonymous Marketplace on the Darknet.
The store's staff consisted of about 30 people, including stash men, chemists, carriers, warehouse managers, support services, deputies, and Miguel Morales himself. On one of the forums, Miguel wrote that in the first year and a half, the police detained 8 of his stash men. Four of them are in prison, these are stupid teenagers under 22, whom he strictly forbade to work in the park, and they, in fact, did not listen.
Another four were accepted by chance, frisked on the street, but everything was decided on the spot from 200 to 300 thousand rubles. Over 2 years, the rates increased, they wrote in the chat that Miguel had to pay half a million rubles for the release of a newbie Stashman. Stashmen in Los Zetos were constantly changing, one left after he earned money for a new BMW, another saved up for an expensive suit, the third learned that she had cancer.
Miguel had at least three deputies, their responsibilities included drawing up route maps for the Stashmen, negotiations with regional representatives and regular reports in the corporate organizer Evernote. They also organized competitions, the store held quests in cities and offered its clients to send the best photo on the theme of Los Zetos blew up this day.
The prizes were stashes. In early 2017, Miguel learned about the upcoming closure of RAMP and Los Zetas were among the first to register on the competing platform Hydro. In July of the same year, RAMP ceased to operate, and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported its closure. In less than two years on Hydra, Miguel's store made more than 250 thousand transactions.
According to the Dragstad Telegram channel, at the end of August, Los Zetos ranked 11th in sales among all stores on the platform. In addition to the standard set of stimulants and cannabis derivatives, Los Zetos offered cocaine, which is rare and expensive for Russia, which was mentioned on the DarkMoney forum by Yaroslav Sumbaev. Everyone has always known that I am a versatile and multifaceted person.
My hacking and carding activities are not related to managing the sale of other things. I also supply Colombian cocaine from Mexico. There, Yaroslav openly discussed with one of the users the prices for transporting pure coke from Venezuela and enthusiastically responded to favorable offers. 12 thousand dollars per kilogram? Wow, a great price for a transfer in neutral waters.
I will keep this in mind. After the opening of Los Zetos, a stream of easy money poured into Sumbaev's pockets. But no millions are nice when you have to constantly move from place to place, afraid of being caught. Constantly keep both eyes open, suspecting everyone around you. Sumbaev sincerely believed that investigator Shishkina was on his trail, and that everything could end for him any minute.
He could not think of anything better than to try to intimidate her. Having learned that Evgenia had bought a used Lexus on credit, he hired people to set it on fire. Sumbaev sent these photos to his girlfriend with the comment "I am raising hell for this bitch." Upon learning of the arson, the management offered Shishkina security, which she refused. Her husband said that she did not want two healthy men to follow her around all the time.
Unfortunately, this decision would later become a fatal mistake for Evgeniya Shishkina, since immediately after setting fire to the car, Sumbayev began looking for someone to kill her. There are many rumors around the Darknet, kids with big dicks tell each other about secret sites where you can order a person's murder.
But in fact, this is nothing more than a legend. The creators of one such site, Bessa Mafia, pretended to be members of Albanian criminal groups that allegedly kill on order in the USA, Canada and Europe. In 2017, British cyber specialist Chris Monteiro found a vulnerability on the site and gained access to the correspondence of the imaginary mafiosi.
Not one of the hundreds of orders was ever completed. The Bessa Mafia administrators simply took the money and disappeared. An excellent fraud scheme, I think you guessed why the unfortunate clients of this service did not report the scam to the police. But our story corrected this exception, because formally Sumbayev really did order Shishkina's murder through the Darknet. He placed an order on the Hydra forum in one of the branches of his Los Zetos store.
The first to respond to the message was an 11th-grade student who worked as a Los Zetos coordinator. The schoolboy didn't have the guts to commit such a crime, but he told his 19-year-old friend Abdulaziz Abdulazizov that their boss Miguel Morales was ready to pay a million rubles to eliminate the bad woman. The imbecile took two weeks to think about it, after which he wrote to his friend that he was ready.
Sumbayev sent Shishkina's data to the schoolboy's Telegram chat. He, in turn, passed it on to Abdulazizov. Then Kladman and Los Zetos made a stash for Abdulaziz, which contained a Makarov traumatic pistol converted into a combat pistol. Abdulazizov bought the clothes for killing the investigator in a cheap clothing store called Season. He learned to shoot from the movie Hitman. He traveled from St. Petersburg to the suburbs of Moscow, where Shishkina lived, using the BlaBlaCar app.
He waited for the investigator near her house in the village of Arkhangelskoye, having prudently rented a room in the Opalikha hotel. Abdulazizov booked the room on Avito and paid the bill by card. On October 9, 2018, Abdulazizov drove up to Shishkina’s house in a Yandex.Taxi. “I followed the woman from the entrance.
She seemed to be walking towards me from the left side, as if diagonally. I approached and, taking out my gun, took a quicker step. At that moment, the woman, seeing how I was taking out my gun, swung at me. Dodging the blow, I slipped and rested my left hand on the ground, and with my right hand I fired a shot into the stomach from the hip. After that, I got up and shot her in the neck area. She was lying on the ground, the interrogation report says.
It was 7.30 a.m. After walking around the body, Abdul-Azizov put on a new T-shirt on the go, walked two blocks and called Yandex.Taxi again. They will find him by these trips. On the day of the investigator's murder, Abdul-Azizov went to a Brannon Savage concert and posted a video of the concert on Instagram. Five months later, he was accused of murdering the investigator and arrested. In October 2020, the court sentenced him to 14 years in a maximum security prison.
In early November 2018, Sumbayev himself was arrested in Georgia. He was taken near the house he was renting in the city of Gore. He had documents in the name of Vitaly Makarov and a combat pistol with him. Sumbayev's wife and little daughter were waiting for him at home. Georgian authorities accused Sumbayev of illegally acquiring a firearm and using a fake passport.
Sumbayev simply could not obtain a legal passport, says his current lawyer Ivan Narakidze, and the carder fled to Georgia fearing persecution by Russian special services. After his arrest, Sumbayev asked the Georgian authorities to grant him political asylum, but he was refused and placed in one of the cells in a Golden prison. The trial for Sumbayev's extradition to Russia began in the winter.
In May, Sumbayev uttered exactly one phrase in the courtroom. "I want to make a statement. I will not say another word, except this, unless the court session is closed." Having received a refusal from the judge, Sumbayev really did not say another word. Half an hour later, the judge ruled to extradite him to Russia. Four months later, the Georgian Ministry of Justice issued a decree on the carder's expulsion.
His defense lawyers filed a complaint with the Strasbourg court on the same day. Sumbayev wrote to BBC correspondents that he had nothing to do with the murder of the investigator, and that he ended up behind bars on the initiative of the Russian special services. Sumbaev claimed that FSB officers forced him to work for them in 2012 and 2013 and undermine the economies of the United States and European countries.
After the arrest of Yaroslav Sumbaev, the Los Zetas store continued to operate. The associated accounts on the Darknet and messengers are also active. But Miguel Morales himself disappeared forever. A year after his death, Evgenia Shishkina was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously. I bow my head before you, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel. You knew no fear and carried out your service for the sake of justice.
This is a great rarity today. Ironically, Lieutenant Colonel Shishkina left behind a son, Yaroslav, who will soon graduate from the institute and, perhaps, will continue the fight against crime in the best traditions of his mother. Thank you to everyone who read to the end, and thank you very much for your donations. See you soon!
"Catch Me If You Can" is a cult film by Steven Spielberg, in which the brilliant swindler Frank Bignail carries out cunning schemes, robbing banks for millions of dollars, while each time escaping from the hands of FBI agent Carl Hanratty. If the remake of this film were filmed in Russia, then Frank's place would be taken by Russian carder Yaroslav Sumbayev, and the role of the FBI agent would be played by especially important cases investigator Evgeniya Shishkina.
But our film will not have a happy ending, since everyone who gets in the way of Frank's grief will either die or remain disabled for life. Yaroslav Sumbayev is a kind, modest and very smart guy. This is how his friends and classmates at the ASTU University described him.
But you can't fool me so easily, after all, I am a wife. Since childhood, Yaroslav had a penchant for the exact sciences. At the institute, he met a girl named Iolanta, who helped him prepare for exams in mathematics. She later became his wife. But Sumbayev was never able to solve the problem of how to build a legal business. When his parents divorced, the character of the future carder changed for the worse.
He began to grab any job, as long as it paid. Sumbaev started his career on forums dedicated to shadow earnings. He sold stolen e-wallets, made a living as a carder, offered personal data mining services, and asked for loans. In 2011, he registered on the mmgp.Ru investment forum under the name Yaroslav Snezhny.
He offered users to invest in selling bags, purses, and belts made from exotic animal skins. Naturally, investors did not receive any profits, and when naive investors asked where the money was, Lebowski. Yaroslav answered with the only leather item that his all-father had awarded him. Unlike most carders, Sumbaev liked to attract attention to himself.
In 2012, he was noted on the VK page of Moscow lawyer Dmitry Vinogradov, who shot six people in the office of his company. "Dmitry is simply a handsome man, few are capable of such a thing," Yaroslav wrote at the time. That same year, Sumbayev was charged with fraud with credit cards. Without waiting for a trial, he fled from Astrakhan under house arrest, cutting off his electronic bracelet.
For which a federal search was declared. At the same time, on the kriminala.net forum, Sumbayev met carders Maxim Matyushev and Kirill Kulabukhov. Together, he came up with a scheme to hack ticket systems. They sent Zeus-type Trojans to the email addresses of travel companies, received passwords, and then issued the most expensive train tickets on behalf of these companies.
Formally, the buyers were drops who handed in the tickets to the box office, receiving cash in hand. The total damage to 31 travel companies amounted to 17.5 million rubles. In 2014, investigator Evgenia Shishkina took up the case. Previously, she bore the surname Grigoryan, lived in Baku, and after the Armenian pogroms, fled to Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh.
There she got a job as a clerk in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When the bombing of Karabakh began, Evgenia Grigorian lived in a basement for a year. In the early 90s, Shishkina moved to Russia, where she rose from a seamstress at a shoe factory in the city of Kimry to an investigator for especially important cases in the transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District. Former colleagues say that Shishkina was an energetic and stern person at work.
She never took bribes and was an honest cop, the kind you usually see in movies. In the transport department, Lieutenant Colonel Shishkina served in the department for investigating organized crime in the economic sphere. The ticket case was considered important in the department. Shishkina combined disparate episodes of hacking tour operator systems into one case, which allowed her to pursue it under a more serious article and count on a promotion.
Shishkina's group traveled around the regions for several months and still found an important informant. The main testimony against the organizers of the hacking at the end of 2014 was given by the middleman and drug dealer, St. Petersburg resident Roman Mikhailov, who agreed to make a deal with the investigation. In November 2015, Mikhailov, who confessed to everything, was beaten and cut with a rose near his own entrance.
The attacker said goodbye to Sumbaev. The police never found the person who sent the greetings. Then investigators detained two leaders of the carding group, Maxim Matyushov and Kirill Kulabukhov. They were charged with group fraud and hacking. When they were interrogated, Sumbaev had already fled Russia. His case was separated into a separate proceeding, and he himself ended up in the Interpol database.
Shishkina was eager to catch him; she wanted this evil to be punished. Sumbaev considered her a personal enemy. The ambitious and straightforward Shishkina reciprocated his feelings. He wrote hateful posts about her on forums and threatened her on Telegram. The investigator reread these messages so many times that she knew them by heart.
The cyber fraudster told his friend that he loved the movie Catch Me If You Can, in which an investigator unsuccessfully chases a criminal. When Sumbayev was put on the international wanted list in 2015, he, like the film's hero Frank Bignail, periodically reminded the investigator of himself. Having gone on the run, changing Russia for Montenegro, Montenegro for Turkey, and Turkey for Georgia, he called the investigator from unfamiliar numbers and wrote messages from anonymous accounts.
"Evgenia, you are already becoming famous, soon all of Russia will know about you, your colleagues at work say that you are walking around in hysterics from anger and drooling in all directions," Sumbayev wrote. While in Turkey, Sumbayev met with his relatives, for whom the quickly rich millionaire bought vouchers to the best hotels in Istanbul.
In this photo, Sumbayev and his wife pose against the backdrop of the bridge over the Bosphorus. In Istanbul, Sumbayev was using forged documents in the name of Lithuanian citizen Vitaly Makarov. They were made for him for 6,000 euros by his friend Vasily Margiev, whom the carder met in 2013 on a forum. 35-year-old Vasily Margiev was born in the Georgian city of Karelia, but lived most of the time in Sochi.
He did not study anywhere, but he knew how to do a lot, drove cars, developed websites. And in 2003, Margiev was convicted of stealing jewelry worth a total of 350 thousand rubles. Yaroslav Sumbayev could not stay in one place for a long time, being on the international wanted list, he began to develop a persecution mania.
Then it seemed to him that the operatives were constantly watching him and were just waiting for the command to detain him. He wrote to Margiev to find out if he had connections with which he could remove him from the international wanted list database. To Sumbaev's surprise, Margiev told him about his acquaintance with influential security officials who could help him and give the green light to his shady dealings.
But to do this, Sumbaev had to move from Turkey to Georgia. All official routes were closed to him, but the Darknet came to the rescue. On one of the forums, he found a bus driver who secretly transported people in a special secret compartment between the ceiling and the roof of the bus. It's a 20-hour bus ride from Taksim Square in Istanbul to the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
This task is not easy even for the most trained ass sitting in a comfortable chair, let alone Yarik, who made the entire journey lying down in an incredibly narrow compartment. That day, Yarik counted every bump with his back. It is unknown whether he lost his reproductive function, but what the driver took out from under the upholstery of the cabin upon arrival in Georgia already barely resembled our hero.
I'm joking, of course, Sumbaev met Morgiev, got to know each other in person, and they started working together. Yaroslav offered his friend money to buy and transport used cars. In return, Morgiev promised him the support of high-ranking Georgian security officials. Sumbaev told Morgiev about his plans, he wanted to start selling drugs and weapons.
He said that he had already found reliable suppliers and asked to quickly introduce him to security officials he knew. The funniest thing is that Margiev had no influential friends, and he simply used Sumbaev, or rather his money. To prevent the deception from being revealed ahead of time, Margiev persuaded his friend Eduard Shaverdov, a taxi driver, to play the role of the city prosecutor.
At the meeting in the restaurant, Shaverdov ate with pleasure and pretended that he did not speak Russian, it is unclear what Margiev was thinking, since Yaroslav had studied dozens of photographs of the high-ranking official before the meeting and it was not difficult for him to distinguish the original from the impostor. Sumbayev didn't let it be known, he watched this circus to the end, after which he told the two jokers everything he thought about them.
Looking ahead, I will say that in January 2019, Margiev was hit by a car at high speed. He miraculously survived, but lost a third of his skull, which left him disabled for life. Today, he walks poorly and speaks even worse. Margiev believes that the hit-and-run was planned. This is also confirmed by leaked correspondence, in which Sumbayev promised to kill him in a dialogue with an acquaintance.
Let's go back three years. In 2016, Sumbayev still managed to create his own drug empire. He opened a drug store on the Darknet called Los Zetas and became known as its employee under the pseudonym Miguel Morales. Sumbayev chose this pseudonym for himself for a reason. Miguel Morales is the leader of a large-scale drug cartel in Mexico, who is still considered one of the most brutal criminals of the century.
He posted execution videos online, threatened the authorities, and maintained a separate army of children and teenagers who idolized him. For about two years, he headed the Los Zetos drug empire and was only caught by Mexican marines in 2013. The investigation into his crimes is still ongoing. As I said, Umbaev's Los Zetos opened in 2016, during the heyday of the Russian Anonymous Marketplace on the Darknet.
The store's staff consisted of about 30 people, including stash men, chemists, carriers, warehouse managers, support services, deputies, and Miguel Morales himself. On one of the forums, Miguel wrote that in the first year and a half, the police detained 8 of his stash men. Four of them are in prison, these are stupid teenagers under 22, whom he strictly forbade to work in the park, and they, in fact, did not listen.
Another four were accepted by chance, frisked on the street, but everything was decided on the spot from 200 to 300 thousand rubles. Over 2 years, the rates increased, they wrote in the chat that Miguel had to pay half a million rubles for the release of a newbie Stashman. Stashmen in Los Zetos were constantly changing, one left after he earned money for a new BMW, another saved up for an expensive suit, the third learned that she had cancer.
Miguel had at least three deputies, their responsibilities included drawing up route maps for the Stashmen, negotiations with regional representatives and regular reports in the corporate organizer Evernote. They also organized competitions, the store held quests in cities and offered its clients to send the best photo on the theme of Los Zetos blew up this day.
The prizes were stashes. In early 2017, Miguel learned about the upcoming closure of RAMP and Los Zetas were among the first to register on the competing platform Hydro. In July of the same year, RAMP ceased to operate, and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported its closure. In less than two years on Hydra, Miguel's store made more than 250 thousand transactions.
According to the Dragstad Telegram channel, at the end of August, Los Zetos ranked 11th in sales among all stores on the platform. In addition to the standard set of stimulants and cannabis derivatives, Los Zetos offered cocaine, which is rare and expensive for Russia, which was mentioned on the DarkMoney forum by Yaroslav Sumbaev. Everyone has always known that I am a versatile and multifaceted person.
My hacking and carding activities are not related to managing the sale of other things. I also supply Colombian cocaine from Mexico. There, Yaroslav openly discussed with one of the users the prices for transporting pure coke from Venezuela and enthusiastically responded to favorable offers. 12 thousand dollars per kilogram? Wow, a great price for a transfer in neutral waters.
I will keep this in mind. After the opening of Los Zetos, a stream of easy money poured into Sumbaev's pockets. But no millions are nice when you have to constantly move from place to place, afraid of being caught. Constantly keep both eyes open, suspecting everyone around you. Sumbaev sincerely believed that investigator Shishkina was on his trail, and that everything could end for him any minute.
He could not think of anything better than to try to intimidate her. Having learned that Evgenia had bought a used Lexus on credit, he hired people to set it on fire. Sumbaev sent these photos to his girlfriend with the comment "I am raising hell for this bitch." Upon learning of the arson, the management offered Shishkina security, which she refused. Her husband said that she did not want two healthy men to follow her around all the time.
Unfortunately, this decision would later become a fatal mistake for Evgeniya Shishkina, since immediately after setting fire to the car, Sumbayev began looking for someone to kill her. There are many rumors around the Darknet, kids with big dicks tell each other about secret sites where you can order a person's murder.
But in fact, this is nothing more than a legend. The creators of one such site, Bessa Mafia, pretended to be members of Albanian criminal groups that allegedly kill on order in the USA, Canada and Europe. In 2017, British cyber specialist Chris Monteiro found a vulnerability on the site and gained access to the correspondence of the imaginary mafiosi.
Not one of the hundreds of orders was ever completed. The Bessa Mafia administrators simply took the money and disappeared. An excellent fraud scheme, I think you guessed why the unfortunate clients of this service did not report the scam to the police. But our story corrected this exception, because formally Sumbayev really did order Shishkina's murder through the Darknet. He placed an order on the Hydra forum in one of the branches of his Los Zetos store.
The first to respond to the message was an 11th-grade student who worked as a Los Zetos coordinator. The schoolboy didn't have the guts to commit such a crime, but he told his 19-year-old friend Abdulaziz Abdulazizov that their boss Miguel Morales was ready to pay a million rubles to eliminate the bad woman. The imbecile took two weeks to think about it, after which he wrote to his friend that he was ready.
Sumbayev sent Shishkina's data to the schoolboy's Telegram chat. He, in turn, passed it on to Abdulazizov. Then Kladman and Los Zetos made a stash for Abdulaziz, which contained a Makarov traumatic pistol converted into a combat pistol. Abdulazizov bought the clothes for killing the investigator in a cheap clothing store called Season. He learned to shoot from the movie Hitman. He traveled from St. Petersburg to the suburbs of Moscow, where Shishkina lived, using the BlaBlaCar app.
He waited for the investigator near her house in the village of Arkhangelskoye, having prudently rented a room in the Opalikha hotel. Abdulazizov booked the room on Avito and paid the bill by card. On October 9, 2018, Abdulazizov drove up to Shishkina’s house in a Yandex.Taxi. “I followed the woman from the entrance.
She seemed to be walking towards me from the left side, as if diagonally. I approached and, taking out my gun, took a quicker step. At that moment, the woman, seeing how I was taking out my gun, swung at me. Dodging the blow, I slipped and rested my left hand on the ground, and with my right hand I fired a shot into the stomach from the hip. After that, I got up and shot her in the neck area. She was lying on the ground, the interrogation report says.
It was 7.30 a.m. After walking around the body, Abdul-Azizov put on a new T-shirt on the go, walked two blocks and called Yandex.Taxi again. They will find him by these trips. On the day of the investigator's murder, Abdul-Azizov went to a Brannon Savage concert and posted a video of the concert on Instagram. Five months later, he was accused of murdering the investigator and arrested. In October 2020, the court sentenced him to 14 years in a maximum security prison.
In early November 2018, Sumbayev himself was arrested in Georgia. He was taken near the house he was renting in the city of Gore. He had documents in the name of Vitaly Makarov and a combat pistol with him. Sumbayev's wife and little daughter were waiting for him at home. Georgian authorities accused Sumbayev of illegally acquiring a firearm and using a fake passport.
Sumbayev simply could not obtain a legal passport, says his current lawyer Ivan Narakidze, and the carder fled to Georgia fearing persecution by Russian special services. After his arrest, Sumbayev asked the Georgian authorities to grant him political asylum, but he was refused and placed in one of the cells in a Golden prison. The trial for Sumbayev's extradition to Russia began in the winter.
In May, Sumbayev uttered exactly one phrase in the courtroom. "I want to make a statement. I will not say another word, except this, unless the court session is closed." Having received a refusal from the judge, Sumbayev really did not say another word. Half an hour later, the judge ruled to extradite him to Russia. Four months later, the Georgian Ministry of Justice issued a decree on the carder's expulsion.
His defense lawyers filed a complaint with the Strasbourg court on the same day. Sumbayev wrote to BBC correspondents that he had nothing to do with the murder of the investigator, and that he ended up behind bars on the initiative of the Russian special services. Sumbaev claimed that FSB officers forced him to work for them in 2012 and 2013 and undermine the economies of the United States and European countries.
After the arrest of Yaroslav Sumbaev, the Los Zetas store continued to operate. The associated accounts on the Darknet and messengers are also active. But Miguel Morales himself disappeared forever. A year after his death, Evgenia Shishkina was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously. I bow my head before you, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel. You knew no fear and carried out your service for the sake of justice.
This is a great rarity today. Ironically, Lieutenant Colonel Shishkina left behind a son, Yaroslav, who will soon graduate from the institute and, perhaps, will continue the fight against crime in the best traditions of his mother. Thank you to everyone who read to the end, and thank you very much for your donations. See you soon!
