Crime rules Kuznetsk // Siberian coal region is run by racketeers

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 7, 1999| Author: SHARON LAFRANIERE | Copyright information

KEMEROVO, Russia Aman Tuleev, governor of this western Siberian mining region, told the federal police last fall that someone was following his car. He also said his office might be bugged. He keeps his curtains tightly drawn in mid-afternoon and the outside door to his government office building locked.

His behavior might seem paranoid, except that his region is a hotbed of organized crime, and one of his advisers was gunned down on the doorstep of his Moscow apartment just six wee...

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