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To: Phil(bullrider) who wrote (996)	7/22/2000 10:01:21 PM
From: zonkie	Respond to of 1156

O.T.? timesofindia.com 'Russian boxer in U.S. killed by mobsters' NEW YORK: A former member of the Soviet national boxing team who came to the United States and boxed professionally was kidnapped and murdered by two Russian mobsters before he was buried behind a New Jersey home, U.S. Federal prosecutors have announced. The disclosure came as U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White unveiled an indictment returned late Monday against Alexander Nosov and Natan Gozman. Both are charged with racketeering for the kidnapping and murder of Sergei Kobozev who immigrated in 1991 and lived in Brooklyn. The indictment said they kidnapped and murdered Kobozev to boost their positions in a branch of Russian organised crime known as "Tatarin's brigade" or the "Bratva," meaning the "brotherhood" or "good fellows." According to the indictment, Kobozev was shot during a confrontation with Nosov and Gozman and others in an automobile repair shop near his home in the sheepshead bay section of Brooklyn on November 8, 1995. The pair took Kobozev, still alive, from New York to New Jersey before a co-conspirator broke his neck, prosecutors said. The defendants and others then allegedly buried him in the yard of a high-ranking member of Russian organised crime. Kobozev had been a captain in Russian army and was a chemical engineer in St. Petersburg before he made his name as a cruiserweight on the Soviet national boxing team and later with 16 knockouts in a professional career. At 6-foot-1, 190 pounds, Kobozev won the U.S. Boxing Association cruiserweight title on June 30, 1994, defeating Robert Daniels. (AP)