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Justice Department's indictment of Semion Mogilevich

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and investing money received from these fraudulent schemes; (c) disguising and concealing the<br />

defendants' interest in, and control over the money and investments; and (d) spending and using<br />

various amounts <strong>of</strong> money in ways that promoted the scheme and benefitted the individual<br />

members and associates <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Mogilevich</strong> Enterprise.<br />

4. Defendants SEMION MOGILEVICH, IGOR FISHERMAN, and JACOB<br />

BOGATIN were leaders <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Mogilevich</strong> Enterprise who directed other members <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Enterprise in carrying out unlawful and other activities in furtherance <strong>of</strong> the conduct <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Enterprise’s affairs. Under the direction <strong>of</strong> the leaders <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Mogilevich</strong> Enterprise, defendant<br />

ANATOLY TSOURA, and others known to the grand jury, participated in unlawful activities in<br />

furtherance <strong>of</strong> the conduct <strong>of</strong> the Enterprise’s affairs.<br />

THE RICO CONSPIRACY<br />

5. From in or about 1993, continuously thereafter up to and<br />

including in or about September 1998, in the Eastern District <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania and elsewhere,<br />

defendants<br />

SEMION MOGILEVICH,<br />

a/k/a "Simeon Mogilevitch"<br />

a/k/a "Semjon Mogilevcs"<br />

a/k/a "Shimon Makhelwitsch"<br />

a/k/a "Seva"<br />

IGOR FISHERMAN,<br />

JACOB BOGATIN,<br />

a/k/a "Yakov"<br />

ANATOLY TSOURA<br />

being persons employed by and associated with the <strong>Mogilevich</strong> Enterprise described above in<br />

paragraphs 2 through 4 <strong>of</strong> Count One, an enterprise which was engaged in, and the activities <strong>of</strong><br />

which affected, interstate and foreign commerce, did unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly<br />

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