Hands chained behind the back, retouching was applied to the face. A man in dark clothes is led by plainclothes operatives into a Greek police building. This is the first recording with the participation of Alexander Solonik, a suspect in organizing the murder of a fugitive killer from Russia. The photo of the detainee is published by the Greek media. According to journalists, the man’s name is Joachim Karsliadis, he has been on the international wanted list since 2005.
The 48-year-old suspect arrived from Larnaca, as soon as he was fingerprinted, it was found that an arrest warrant had been pending since 2005. He is suspected of involvement in the murder of Russian gangster Alexander Solonik and his 19-year-old girlfriend. At the airport, the police handcuffed the man without giving him the slightest chance to react.
Recidivist and murderer Alexander Solonik, whose massacre is being investigated to this day, is considered a legend of Russian crime. He was called Sasha the Macedonian, allegedly because he skillfully mastered the skill of shooting with two hands. Solonik was born in 1960 in Kurgan, served in the police, but was dismissed and, together with his future accomplices in the Kurgan organized crime group, got a job at the cemetery to dig graves. A few years later, he committed the first contract murder. But he never became his own in the underworld. Colleagues in the shop did not consider him an authority, did not take on the shooters, because the lads would not talk to the former cop. But they admitted that Solonik worked cleanly. He is credited with more than a dozen ordered massacres. The killer was ordered by crime bosses, politicians, businessmen. Given that the Solonik case was never investigated, the names of the victims are not known for certain. Moreover, in those days, among professional killers, it was not customary to share their achievements. If a person asked whose job, he either disappeared or went to Kurgan to be corrected.
Solonik worked for the Kurgan organized crime group, but there is evidence that sometimes he took orders from the most powerful Orekhovskaya gang at that time. When the list of victims of the assassin reached an impressive size, the criminal leaders apparently decided that the assassin should disappear. This moment coincided with the detention of Alexander Solonik. They took him from the market near the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya metro station. The repeat offender put up a desperate resistance, shot three policemen and wounded the guard. The lawyer Aleksey Zavgorodniy, who was kidnapped and held captive 20 years later in order to take away the apartment, was accused of the high-profile murder of the capital’s businessman Alexander Mavridi, to defend the Kurgan killer. Solonik did the impossible in 1995 – he escaped from Matrosskaya Tishina, one of the most protected isolation wards in Russia.
Then the security forces lost the trail of the elusive killer, but colleagues in the criminal shop quickly tracked him down. Solonik was hiding in Greece, settled in a mansion in the suburbs of Athens. Another hired killer from the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group, Aleksey Sherstobitov, nicknamed Lesha the soldier, tracked down the Kurgan killer. He installed a wiretap in Solonik’s mansion, and it soon became clear that the fugitive was planning to murder the criminal bosses of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group – the brothers Pylevykh and Oleg Butorin. Thus, Solonik signed his own death warrant. The most experienced fighters of the gang set off on his trail.
“They set me such tasks that others could not accomplish, they didn’t succeed,” said the convicted Sherstobitov.
The killer Lesha the soldier just prepared a contract murder. The reprisal itself was committed by another hired killer, Alexander Pustovalov, nicknamed Sasha the soldier. Together with two accomplices, they made their way to the villa, where they strangled Alexander Solonik and his girlfriend Svetlana Kotova. The body of the formidable killer of the killer was thrown on the road. The killers who were directly involved in the massacre of Solonik received their terms back in 2005. Later, the customers were also convicted – crime bosses Andrei Pylev and Sergei Butorin.
How exactly the 48-year-old man detained in Greece participated in the murder of Alexander Solonik has not yet been reported, but it is obvious that if they have been looking for him since 2005, the security forces have very serious claims against the detainee. And upon completion of the investigation, a trial awaits him.
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