Semion Mogilevich

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Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich (born June 30, 1946, in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a transnational organized crime boss who has directed a network of over 300 associates operating in more than 30 countries since at least 1995. Holding Russian, Israeli, and Ukrainian citizenships, he possesses multiple passports and maintains a primary residence in Moscow, Russia, while evading capture as a fugitive. U.S. federal authorities have charged him with leading racketeering enterprises involving murder, extortion, human and weapons trafficking, money laundering, securities fraud, and official corruption, including a specific multi-year scheme from 1993 to that defrauded thousands of investors of over $150 million through manipulated stock in a Pennsylvania-headquartered company. Indicted in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in and on counts including RICO conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, and falsifying SEC filings, Mogilevich faces forfeiture exceeding $50 million and was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 2009, with a $5 million reward offered for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

In brief

Semion Mogilevich’s public story is written almost entirely by investigators. Agencies have called him a central organizer of post-Soviet crime, a reputation he has lived under for decades.

This archive records the name because the record does. The entry is not a toast. It is a fact of the late twentieth century’s underground economy.