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Crime boss suspects arrested at Russian birthday dinner

* Four alleged crime bosses arrested in restaurant raid * Police say raid hits strategy meeting after slaying * Reputed godfather was shot dead in Moscow last week By Lidia Kelly and Steve Gutterman MOSCOW, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Police raided a restaurant near Moscow and arrested four alleged crime bosses and 19 others as they met to plan strategy after the killing of a criminal godfather known as Grandpa Hassan, the interior ministry said on Saturday.

Reputed organised crime boss shot dead in Russian capital

MOSCOW, Jan 16 (Reuters) - One of Russia's most prominent reputed crime bosses was shot dead on a street in central Moscow on Wednesday, law enforcement officials said, less than three years after he survived an assassination attempt. An unidentified gunman shot Aslan Usoyan, 75, known in the underworld of the ex-Soviet Union as "Grandpa Hassan", and he died shortly afterward in hospital, the federal Investigative Committee said. A woman suffered two gunshot wounds.

UPDATE 1-Reputed organised crime boss shot dead in Russian capital

* Elderly "Grandpa Hassan", 75, gunned down on Moscow street * Served jail time in Soviet era, survived assassination bids By Alexei Anishchuk and Steve Gutterman MOSCOW, Jan 16 (Reuters) - One of Russia's most prominent reputed crime bosses, a 75-year-old nicknamed "Grandpa Hassan" who survived time in Soviet jails and assassination attempts, was shot dead on a Moscow street on Wednesday in what may have been a turf war, authorities said.
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