Otari "Otarik" Kvantrishvili was a Georgian mafia boss and one of Moscow"s leading organised crime figures during the early 1990s.
Career
In the 1980s he then founded the Dynamo Sports Club and later the 21st Century Association, an organisation ostensibly dedicated to funding sports but was widely regarded as a front for racketeering. But several months later he was shot dead by a sniper while leaving a bathhouse. Oleg Pylev was sentenced to life in prison, Aleksei Sherstobitov (knowns as Lyosha the Soldier Russian: Лёша Солдат) received 23 years of imprisonment, Pavel Makarov - 13 years and Sergei Yelizarov - 11 years.
Sherstobitov was the one who actually killed Kvantrishvili.
He received a Lada car as payment for Kvantrishvili"s murder.
Politics
In late 1993, Kvantrishvili publicly announced his intention to enter politics through a new party, the Party of Sportsmen, at a conference attended by many well-known athletes.
Views
During the chaotic transition to capitalism in the early 1990s, Otarik became something of a public face for the mafia, befriending politicians and celebrities such as Joseph Kobzon while also acting as a mediator between various underworld factions, including the thieves in law and Slavic and Chechen mobsters.
Membership
On September 29, 2008, four members of the Orekhovo-Medvedkovo gang were convicted, among other things, for organizing Kvantrishvili"s murder.