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 Semibankirshchina. In the 90s he moved to France, where from a criminal authority he became an authoritative philanthropist.
His path from camera to TV camera is the 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 issue a passport to the godfather? What connects him with the bandit Ukraine and the top of the current Kiev government? How many assassination attempts did he survive and why did he spare his sworn enemy? And why does he support the Orthodox Church in Cannes?
A lifelong crime saga - in the release of the New Russian Sensations program.
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Year of issue: 2017
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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 May 5, 1949 in the city of Belaya Tserkov, Kiev 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 Semibankirshchina. In the 90s he moved to France, where from a criminal authority he became an authoritative philanthropist.
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, Hungary, now he lives permanently in France. The closest connections are the "Serpukhovskaya" 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 operations with Russian weapons.
His path from camera to TV camera is the 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 issue a passport to the godfather? What connects him with the bandit Ukraine and the top of the current Kiev government? How many assassination attempts did he survive and why did he spare his sworn enemy? And why does he support the Orthodox Church in Cannes?
He is mortally feared in Europe and is being watched by FBI agents. For the first time on NTV - crime boss Lenya Mackintosh. The revelations of the real godfather are 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 sports teenager, who showed great promise in athletics, studied at the Lviv special boarding school, whose graduates invariably joined the ranks of the KGB, where they were supposed to be scouts or saboteurs. Preparing for future profession started at an early age.
One weekend Leonid accidentally met guys a little older than his age, who so colorfully painted him the prospects of rest on the Black Sea coast that the future "committee member" agreed to take part in a risky event that promised the fulfillment of a sudden dream - the robbery of a collector. Leonid coped with his role perfectly, and the “initiators” let him down. They quickly got caught by the police and immediately "split up", revealing the accomplice with giblets.
At the age of 15, Bilunov went for 2 years to a "youngster" in the village of Gorodok, Lviv region.
After his release, Leonid Bilunov, who had already received the nickname Lenya Makintosh, did not stay free for long. He was “soldered” for 6 years for rape and he went to continue his prison journey to a colony for juvenile offenders in the town of Priluki, Chernihiv region. There he first showed the strength of his character, taking an active part in the murder of an over-aged "hillock" - sadist. The court extended the term by another 6 years, but the cassation instance later "knocked" it down to 2 years.
Nevertheless, Mackintosh had to get acquainted with the peculiarities of the strict regime of detention in Sambor's special prison. Having crossed the equator of majority, he got to Drohobych. By that time, he had established himself as a malicious violator of the regime, constantly refusing to go to work and follow other rules of the routine. Bilunov was given a term, was sent for treatment with sulfazine to the Dnipropetrovsk psychiatric hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was again put in a punishment cell.
In 1981, once again leaving the prison, Lenya Mackintosh did not think that he would never again go to jail. On the contrary, he did not "quit", but took up a very risky from the point of view of the law, but profitable business - trading in certificates of the Berezka chain of stores. In the USSR, a number of categories of professions in those days enjoyed the right to exchange foreign currency earned abroad for special certificates giving the right to purchase highly scarce goods that never entered the regular retail trade.
Business went so well that he soon moved from Lvov, which he knew well, but small for the scale of his real activities, to huge Moscow, where he created a whole network of unofficial exchangers. He had to not only be careful with the police pursuing speculators and the KGB vigilantly watching any attempts to illicit currency turnover, but also fight with competitors or crooks who often try to slip the “doll”.
In addition to courage and determination, Bilunov, who has a developed intellect, was carried away by cards and doubled his capital by 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. He got a partner in his business - the banker Alexander Smolensky. The financier attracted Bilunov's money to his financial structure "Capital Savings Bank", put the 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 companion with huge connections in the criminal world had to advise him and carry out some delicate assignments.
Smolensky was not clean on hand and very often acted beyond the limits of what was permitted by law. Operations with false advice notes, laundering of "gray" income, tax evasion - all this has become a daily practice of a banker. Another feature of the character of Alexander Smolensky Lenya Mackintosh smelled in time. He extremely did not 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, are very necessary. Three times the head of 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. Macintosh fiercely fired back for 4 hours, feverishly gathering press representatives and lawyers under his windows, in the end, did not allow to deal with him without witnesses.
Despite the huge connections of Leni Macintosh among the "Lyubertsy" and "Serpukhov", the divorce from the banker was peaceful, without blood. Alexander Smolensky happily lived until 2003, when he retired and began to describe his stormy life in his memoirs. With others who allowed themselves to become an obstacle in his path, Bilunov acted much tougher.
Law enforcement agencies 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 Mackintosh decided to leave Russia, which had become troubled and unpredictable, forever. He lived briefly in Austria, Cyprus and Hungary until he found his ideal residence in Paris. At first, the French government was wary of him. The secret services were aware of Macintosh'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 must be killed during his visit to France. Bilunov 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. During the trial, he had to defend himself against charges of illegal possession and trade in weapons, facilitating drug trafficking and the use of a false passport. Bilunov was sentenced to 5 years of probation. Perhaps attempts to get rid of the presence of a dangerous inhabitant on their territory would continue in the future, but here a lucky chance helped Mackintosh.
In Makhachkala, the mission of the Esklibre charitable organization, which included 4 French citizens, was captured by the North Caucasian terrorists. Bilunov was approached by French counterintelligence with a request to assist in their release. Leonid Bilunov coped with the task perfectly in 2 weeks. Through his criminal friends, he quickly found the Chechen authorities he knew personally and settled all the details of the liberation of the French, which still remain a mystery. The prisoners soon returned to their homeland, and Bilunov was presented with a real French passport and declared that there were no claims against him from the local Themis.
Being a good citizen, Leonid Bilunov leads an exclusively secular life. He won fame as a collector of works of art, a member of a charitable foundation that raises funds for the construction of a church of the Moscow Patriarchate 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 of his acquaintances and adding a certain touch of nobility to his actions.
Now he settled in France, where, according to unofficial information, he is the holder of the thieves' common fund of Russian organized criminal groups in Western Europe.
In one of the interviews 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 have a great time in France, after talking with you I will go to the club, meet with friends, drink champagne ... I was able to realize myself, achieve a lot. And this after what I had to endure in Russia - camps , shipment ... Such that I saw, even in a dream you will not see, constantly had to fight for survival ", - said the authority.
In 2007, a book by Leonid Bilunov was published "Three Lives", which consists of three parts: the first describes his childhood, in the second Lenya talks about his "prison universities", the third tells about the world of businessmen of the "first wave" and criminal showdowns.
Leonid Bilunov (Lenya Macintosh)
I found the very beginning of big business in Moscow. It became clear that money is starting to play an ever greater role and is turning into 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 from waiting, I glanced over my left neighbor, not very new "Zhiguli", who were patiently waiting for the green light. And suddenly I noticed that the Zhiguli driver was making some desperate signs to me ...
Listen! he shouted. - There is a case. If you are not in a hurry, let's drive off to the side ...
We carefully got out of the rushing stream and pressed ourselves to the edge of the sidewalk. The Zhiguli driver 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. He is younger than me, of average height, his face is large, with fleshy cheeks ... The eyes are bulging, tearing outward, like a Chinese dog, and at the bottom, as if the remnants of yesterday's laughter are stuck ...
I promised him to find out if he could use my connections to get a similar car, and we exchanged phones. So on one of the warm spring days in Moscow, I met someone 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 Pyatnitskaya, where his small office was located in the basement under the modest signboard "Bank Stalechny" ...
Once, at the end of the working day, I drove up to the Saratovsky barrack (as I called his bank to myself): we agreed to dine together. Descending the steep steps to its semi-underground treasury, I saw the secretary's unusually pale face ...
Oh, Leonid Fedorovich! - She began to speak in a barely audible whisper. - Don't go there! There are bandits ...
I pushed her aside and threw open the office door wide. Alexander Saratovsky was clearly not up to dinner. With a shaking chin, with even stronger than usual bulging eyes of a Pekingese, the hero of the free banking business of Russia slipped from his director's chair, and next to him towered a tall broad-shouldered Tatar, with a clear threat playing a sharply sharpened scimitar in front of his face. As it turned out later, it was Mansur, well-known in the bandit circles.
Why do you need ears? - said Mansur. - If you still don’t hear us ... My old acquaintance Leonid Zavadsky was sitting in front of the bank director’s table, in a visitor’s chair, leaning back on the back.
Lenya introduced Mansur to me, and it became clear to him that he would have to wait a little longer with the scimitar. So my accidental presence that evening saved the head ornament of one of the most prominent businessmen of modern Russia.
Zavadsky told me the whole story. It turned out that Saratovsky cleverly cheated him at seventy-six million rubles. Lenya entrusted him with rubles to be converted into dollars ... Zavadsky demanded to give him the currency, but Saratov 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 a waste material, an unpleasant person. Alexander Saratovsky hated people who owed money. The greater the debt, the more he hated ... Saratovsky made one of the attempts to destroy me when I lived with my family in Vienna. It was late 1993. I got a call from my longtime acquaintance Seryozha Mikhailov, for friends Mikhas, who also recently settled in Austria ...
After dinner, when we were alone with him to finish a bottle of thick old Bordeaux, Mikhas told me an interesting story about me. Three days ago, a compatriot came to him, an enormous fellow with unshaven cheeks and small pig's eyes ... The child took out a crumpled photograph, and Mikhas could not contain his surprise.
And who do I see in the photo? - Mikhas told me. - My old friend comes out of the entrance of a beautiful western house! Which someone really wants to see in the coffin! And as soon as possible ...
In 1993, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against the management 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" of 1998. A huge number of depositors have lost everything they had accumulated over several years. Saratov Bank was among those who shamelessly robbed hundreds of thousands of small depositors. But unsinkable Saratovsky managed to get hold of it here.
In October of the same year, the Central Bank of Russia allocated a loan to Saratov in the amount of about six billion rubles (about two hundred million dollars at the then exchange rate) - just to support the unfortunate depositors. Most of this money did not reach the depositors. The money vanished into thin air ...
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