Police Arrest Ilya Traber in 2020 Deputy Murder Case, Search Homes Linked to 2 Crime Bosses
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Updated · theins.press · Jun 18
Police Arrest Ilya Traber in 2020 Deputy Murder Case, Search Homes Linked to 2 Crime Bosses
3 articles · Updated · theins.press · Jun 18
Summary
St. Petersburg police on June 17 arrested Ilya Traber and detained business partner Vladimir Danilenko, bringing criminal charges tied to the October 2020 contract killing of Vyborg deputy Alexander Petrov.
Searches were underway at addresses linked to Traber, and officers also searched the home of Gennady Petrov, head of the Petrovsko-Malyshevskaya crime group, though details from that raid were not disclosed.
Alexander Petrov was shot dead in Vyborg in October 2020; the new detentions mark a major escalation in a case that had already drawn in Russia's FSB and Investigative Committee earlier the same day.
Traber is described as a close associate of jailed Tambovskaya boss Vladimir Kumarin, imprisoned since 2007, and has long been cited in investigations into St. Petersburg fuel, port and money-laundering networks.