Aslan Usoyan
| Aslan Ûsoyan | |
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| Born |
Aslan Rashidovich Usoyan 27 February 1937 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 16 January 2013 (aged 75) Moscow, Russia |
| Other names | Ded Hassan |
| Citizenship |
 Russia
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| Criminal charge | extortion |
| Criminal penalty | 8 imprisonments |
Aslan Ûsoyan (Georgian: ასლან უსოიანი; Russian: Асла́н Раши́дович Усоя́н) (27 February 1937 – 16 January 2013), also known as Grandpa Hassan ("Дед Хасан" Ded Hasan) or just Grandpa ("Дедушка"), was a Russian mafia boss, an ethnic Yazidi Kurdish mobster and thief in law, who began his career operating in Georgia, continued in Moscow, Ural, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Krasnodar, Sochi, and other parts of the former Soviet Union. According to The Economist, he was "reputed to be Russia’s mafia boss."
Starting in 2007, Ûsoyan was embroiled in a gang war with Georgian mobster Tariel Oniani, who was seeking to reestablish himself in Moscow. Several of Ûsoyan's top lieutenants were killed including the Armenian national Alek Minalyan, a man allegedly in charge of extorting construction firms working on the 2014 Winter Olympics. In July 2008 police raided Oniani's yacht as a meeting took place amongst the criminal leaders in an attempt to settle the conflict. Ûsoyan was not however amongst those detained. He later gave an interview to a newspaper, denying the stories of escalating violence and stated that "We are a peaceful people and don't bother anybody, we are for peace in order to prevent lawlessness".
Vyacheslav Ivankov was brought in to mediate the conflict, in which he sided with Ûsoyan's faction. He was however shot by a sniper while leaving a Moscow restaurant in July 2009, and died of his wounds in October that year. Although he did not attend, Ûsoyan sent an elaborate wreath to Ivankov's funeral saying "To our brother from Grandpa Hassan".
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