Adventurer Gacic Ter-Oganisyan and Chechnya’s President Dudayev

In “McMafia”, Misha Glenny wrote about colorful adventurer Gacic Ter-Oganisyan of London and his friendship with the brothers Ruslan and Nazarbeg Utsiev who had arrived in London as envoys of President Dudayev [of Chechnya] to buy weapons. “At some point relations between the Armenian and the Chechens soured….Ter-Oganisyan had discovered that the Stinger missiles were destined for Azerbaijan to be deployed in the war against his home country, Armenia. There was a second theory: that the Stingers were indeed bound for Chechnya and the Utsiev brothers and Ter-Oganisyan fell out over money. What is certain is that Ter-Oganisyan alerted senior members of the Armenian KGB from Los Angeles, the center of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States, to London. The Utsiev brothers were murdered in gruesome fashion. Ter-Oganisyan is now doing life for their murders, while a co-defendant, an officer of Armenia’s KGB, hanged himself at Belmarsh Prison while awaiting trial…”

In “McMafia”, Misha Glenny wrote about colorful adventurer Gacic Ter-Oganisyan of London and his friendship with the brothers Ruslan and Nazarbeg Utsiev who had arrived in London as envoys of President Dudayev [of Chechnya] to buy weapons. “At some point relations between the Armenian and the Chechens soured….Ter-Oganisyan had discovered that the Stinger missiles were destined for Azerbaijan to be deployed in the war against his home country, Armenia. There was a second theory: that the Stingers were indeed bound for Chechnya and the Utsiev brothers and Ter-Oganisyan fell out over money. What is certain is that Ter-Oganisyan alerted senior members of the Armenian KGB from Los Angeles, the center of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States, to London. The Utsiev brothers were murdered in gruesome fashion. Ter-Oganisyan is now doing life for their murders, while a co-defendant, an officer of Armenia’s KGB, hanged himself at Belmarsh Prison while awaiting trial…”