Sunday Star-Times

Hollywood end for crime boss

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In a Hollywood-style assassinat­ion, 75-year-old Russian crime kingpin Aslan ‘‘Grandpa Hassan’’ Usoyan was gunned down in his Moscow apartment on Wednesday. Pravda reported yesterday that the killer used a ‘‘Val’’ silent machine gun and ‘‘the killer was waiting for the victim, sitting on a stool in the attic of the building, where poet Mikhalkov lived’’.

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