ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Vladimir Pereverzin was imprisoned for seven years in some of Russia's most notorious jails and penal colonies. He tells Business Insider about life in Russian jails and prisons, including details about police interrogations, solitary confinement, and forced labor. He describes the conditions in prison camps, the 'thieves code', and Russian prison tattoos.
Pereverzin worked in Cyprus for Yukos, an oil company owned by the billionaire businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In 2005, Khodorkovsky was sentenced on charges of fraud, which were widely considered to be politically motivated. Russian prosecutors accused other Yukos executives alongside Khodorkovsky, Pereverzin among them. He was incarcerated at several of the penal colonies that also held the Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
His book about his experiences, "The Prisoner: Behind Bars in Putin's Russia," was published in English in March 2024.
Find his book here:
www.amazon.com/Prisoner-Behind-Bars-Putins-Russia/dp/1802472517
This video was edited by a Business Insider reporter who chose to remain anonymous to protect their safety.
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - The Moscow Arrest
02:16 - A Notorious Jail
04:29 - Prison Transfers
05:50 - The Penal Colony
08:06 - The Thieves' Code
10:08 - Prison Labor
12:11 - The Gulags
12:58 - The Guards
17:23 - Threats
20:16 - The Aftermath
23:55 - The Bigger Picture
26:10 - Credits
MORE HOW CRIME WORKS VIDEOS:
How 9 Gangs And Mafias Actually Work - From The Crips To Hells Angels | How Crime Works Marathon
• How 9 Gangs And Mafias...
How Car Theft Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
• How Car Theft Actually...
How I Laundered Money For Pablo Escobar's Cartel | A DEA Agent's Uncut Story | How Crime Works
• How I Laundered Money ...
------------------------------------------------------
#russia #howcrimeworks #insider
Insider's mission is to inform and inspire.
Visit our homepage for the top stories of the day: www.businessinsider.com/
Insider on Facebook: / insider
Insider on Instagram: / insider
Insider on Twitter: / thisisinsider
Insider on Snapchat: / 2708030621
Insider on TikTok: / insider
How Putin's Prisons (Russian Jail) Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
![จังหวะนี้ - เม้ก อภิสิทธิ์ [ Official MV ] จอนนี่มิวสิค](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4gQRZCkRyiU/mqdefault.jpg)
This guy's calm toughness is incredible.
He makes it look easy.
@@eugenetswongRussians are very tough
No one will understand that feeling of getting out....there's nothing like it in the world litterally like lifting a 500lb weight off your back and then the fear and anxiety kicks in
I understand it bud there’s a lot more like me too so I wouldn’t say no one
We’re was you in prison? Don’t tell me the uk 🇬🇧
@@user-sz8km9dy5v prison is prison, no matter where it is. lack of freedom is lack of freedom; being confined to a jail cell is just the same wherever you are in the world. some are worse but none are a walk in the park.
Larry Lawton talked about how when he got out he couldn't even order a sandwich. It was sensory overload because of all the choices. Then the halfway house was a horrible joke and he opted to go to prison/jail and use it as a halfway house instead.
Hundreds of thousand of people , probably millions understand actually lol that’s kind of the problem
Mr. Pereverzin was no mere mid-manager employee of Yukos.
He was instrumental in the acquisition of Yukos by the bank Menatep, which Khodorkovsky was Chairman of. He personally acted for Menatep on 8 December 1995 in the controversial purchase of Yukos.
I'm not saying he is guilty as charged, however it is somewhat disingenuous for him to make out that he was a mere pawn.
Exactly. And to be honest, there was nothing honest about Russian business practices on that level in the 1990s
Exactly lol this is propaganda
My experience of a similar country is that the mentality is : everybody is guilty of something to a degree, which is a useful, justice can never be wrong
+15 rubles
There is love in Russia with creation of documents, because even if facts are against documents, documents will survive and maybe someone will treat them as facts. So we will never know.
Nothing new unfortunately. Us old farts have seen and read the same interviews from Soviet prisoners, many many times. Going all the way back to the revolution.
It's important to keep bringing it up, so the younger generations learn too.
Most of those were debunked btw. Solzhenitsyn’s wife later admitted it was mostly fabricated. The Soviet Union instituted the greatest increase in living standards and industrial power the world has ever seen.
Bringing it up doesn't help either.
At the end of the day they had been allowed to continue terrorize half of europe after WW2 despite the fact that they were the same as the third reich and would have given a lot to work together up to the point they arrived in berlin.
And who can blame a system that never changes if it always worked out.
"Learn".. Reading your ((newspapers)) is not learning.
Seems the russkibots are as effective and competent as their army 😅
@@VikingTeddy Go worship your rabbis American
Meanwhile Anders Breivik:
*sues norway for inhumane treatment and asks for a playstation*
That speaks volumes on Norway as a country.
You're missing the point though
@@DomnulSarb i have no point
a) He's being kept in solitary confinement for the maximum amount of years possible by Norwegian law. Solitary confinement has officially been recognized as a form of torture (his isn't for a variety of reasons). By Norwegian standards, his sentence is very harsh.
b) Norway is a country that sets higher standards for itself than a russian penal colony.
c) Norway has, on a worldwide scale, an extremely low recidivism rate (rate at which criminals end up back in prison after release). They also save tons of money and bureaucracy on not running a prison system that is designed to suck.
Clearly their system is working.
That's because the Norwegian jail system has a purpose of rehabilitating prisoners and either make them into functional members of society, or keep them locked in for a long period of time. It's what prison should be by a definition.
Russian system however, is designed to keep the ruling class in tighter control, and the prisoner is not to be considered a person.... So, yeah.... It's damn near impossible to even consider humanity as an approach.
I always find it tragicomical when the leaders of the countries, corrupted to the point of absolute debauchery, talk about democracy... Democracy can only be achieved by a truly moral human being. In a corrupted society, it's a paradox and a mockery by itself.
we never realize how good we have it untill u hear about mother russia
Thank God the America prison system is a much better example for everyone else to follow.
America ain’t no paradise either
6 men share one shower head once a week for 15 minutes to wash themselves and wash clothes. Damn.
Luck it’s cold there so they don’t have to really worry 😂
@@humanOilslick cold when? in the winter? of course it is. in the summer? it's hot. or do you think russia is engulfed in snow all year round?
@@hurmane.8593 most year 😂
@@humanOilslick tell me you've never been/lived in russia without telling me
See also: "Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag"
70 years later, and so little has changed in the Russian prison system
Russia will never change. It's basically an enormous self-regulating and self-perpetuating dysgenics experiment.
Didn't they made a movie about it
Omg, there is a whole elaborate prison culture. Not just tattoos, but giving party before you leave, burning prison clothes afterwards, etc.
Well Pereverzin said many times he is innocent, but he could easily share if he knew Khodorkovsky, if Khodorkovsky was also innocent and why does he think so - what was he doing in that company and how did people work there - he is now in free country so he should say how does the communism arise - its now in france, canada and biden's mind.
@@boris2997Yes, I think it was a TV movie from the early 80’s
I’m glad this man is able to move on and still have an upbeat personality.
It’s such a crime this keeps happening and sadly, I don’t see this ever stopping anytime soon.
I feel so sorry for this man...terrible to be serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Unfortunetly in Russia not much has changed since the USSR days, maybe except fashion and technology...
Didn't commit ehh?
200 billion stolen from Russia and laundered via european danske banks.
Nothing to see here... Everyone is innocent and who knew too much are murdered by Western countries.
The communism went away, and the authoritarianism didn’t.
@@BridgesDontFly The prosecution literally didn't even present any evidence against him except a labor book saying he worked for Yukos previously. No records of his sales, no proof that any embezzlement occurred. Nothing. He had never met the CEO of the company or even the other manager they accused of being his co-conspirator. The crime itself was literally impossible for him to have done because he didn't ever have access to 13 billion dollars worth of sales of crude oil in the time he worked there. The case was a sham, it certainly wouldn't meet the standards for proof in the U.S. How would you feel if my only evidence for accusing YOU of a crime was that you worked at the same company as a murderer?
@@brody3166
This happens often in the US.
Interesting and simple. They needed a fall guy. To officially acquire the oil.
It’s never that simple
He's telling ALL OF US, to BE THANKFUL FOR ALL THE THINGS YOU HAVE NOW. life, health, food, warm shelter, comfort, love, Etc... ❤ thanks ❤
The balls on this man to get jumped on purpose by 5 people just to get transfered. Hope he is having a good life now
yes,this one is called documentary .bravo .
Torturing prisoners is not good. Especially when a prisoner who is innocent.
*Laughs in american prison*
Its normal in russia, always has been
@@JohnDoe-lx5rm While not quite on the same level, the USA has some terrible prisons too by first world standards..
@@zivkovicable it does. Somewhere deep in south too, of course. But overthere is everywhere like that. And whether you are guilty or not if you are put in prison they will literally beat the confession out of you, that us if some powerful people or just people with food connections want you gona for whatever reason, that is a common practice there. Just the same way rhis guy was out there because someone else wanned rhst business or wanned to steal that money and they jist made him a scapegoat. Everything is for sale and i mean Everything. You have 0 rights and you are not human there, you are just meat. In most of the places its like exactly like this. I mean you know what they did to the guy who was trying to replace putin right? Put in prison and ended up killing him, poisoning. russia is not a good place to be in prison or live there. I hope the send more of my tax money to help Ukraine to withstand their invasion and their regime. Russia basically is like north korea but with little more freedom.
Innocent? 😂 He was working on the one of the worst and bloodiest oligarch - Khodorkovsky
PLEASE Make an episode of rehabilitation camps
Russian prisons no joke
Reminds me of that scene in "The Wire".
"This is not prison. This is nothing"
-- Sergei
Remember that scene in "The Wire"?
"This is not prison. This is nothing."
--- Sergie
Hahaha! How long could you stay in "not a prizon"? one or three minutes?
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c It's a line from a TV show. A Russian guy is saying this about American prison. Never mind 🤫
He just said “this is how crime works “
I thought you never committed any crime?
😂😂😂
Is it not obvious, that in this case the crime was commited by the state authorities ?
Hahaha! What a clever comment!
You're not the brightest bulb in the drawer are you?
My name is Vladimir, but everyone calls me Georgio
他英文真好，基本都能听清楚，口音并不影响理解
It's certainly better than yours😅
@@axeavier that went right over your head didn't it.
你好同志
For a second there I thought the thumbnail said “schizo guard”
Cheeky clickbait. They knew what they were doing lol.
Overpaid Russian adds flooding the comments.
Yes, and payment is good
The troll farms are out in full force 😂
But all of your comments here is about Russia. Who's the bot?
I love this Channel, pls make a Video about a Chinese Jail
No one ever gets out or they would.
@@oregonsdank thats scary af i think its look like a SquidGame 💀
I need more videos on western jails to balance out that propaganda.
This info is aged now, Russia changed its penal system a lot in the last 5-10 years. The thieve's code etc, prisons ran by thieves, this is mostly a thing of the past, the authorities are in charge in almost every prison nowadays.
I worked in China near the Chinese-Russian-North Korea border for some time and we always played this game of "which would be the worst prison to be sent to". Everyone was united on this: Russia
I wonder why the colonies were so nervous about the complaints, couldn't they censor the mail?
Prisoners give them to their lawyers, or directly to the court.
@@CtOlaf I'm surprised they're allowed to do that. At least in that aspect, it seems like a fair justice system.
@@ShermanT.PotterFair???😂😂😂
So Navalny was treated kind of fairly?
@@Asger21 "At least in that aspect", meaning specifically regarding complaints. Proper grammar is supposed to lessen contextual issues such as this, but the reader has to pick up on them. :)
Well, the issue is that you have competitors: Prosecutor's Office, may be the Investigative Committee and so on. Ideally they would be glad to compromise another law enforcement agency in the race of power. But practically, especially in the poor regions, local law enforcement agencies can be intertwined by the corruption, so these complaints would not be a big problem. But there's another issue: it's still a bureaucracy. And you have to deal with this paper, and even if you could just throw it off, it still annoys you
This reminds me so much of what it was like to be a student at Pilgrim’s Rest Boarding School in Kentucky. Children can be tortured but can’t get lawyers.
2:00 Handsome guy😌 Seems like a cool guy from the interview
excellent video
I feel bad for this man Russian prisons are tough he seems like a decent guy
Just ordered his book. What a story!
watched it through the whole way, what a wonderful story honestly
Random Cat: Yep.
Random Spider: The way it goes around.
Non-Random Skidrow Tramp: Let's have some bitter tea...
Eipstein would have been glad to hear your story.
This guy was more than just a middle manager, a lot more
Luckily for him, he never got near any upper story windows.
sounds a lot like most jails to me truth be known. The comment about America being a free society comparatively. Yes, much to the dismay of the owners.
I completely disagree with you. I used to be a correctional officer. None of that stuff would be legal federally, or in the state that I worked at you would be arrested and fired right away for beating up inmates for no reason also in the United States, you have a trial Before you’re sent to prison. All the things he’s talking about or not legally allowed in the United States.
Russian jails are certainly not like most jails, not in the civilized world anyway, but then again, we all know Russians aren't civilized.
I'm always impressed when i hear someone who lives outside the English speaking world gain a perfectly working mastery of my country's language. I could never do that. Retaining their native langua accent makesxit all the more enjoyable to hear.
Guantanamo Bay, do a video on that as well that's actually how crime works
Getting out of county jail after 10 months in America is still the best feeling in the world that I've felt.
Mogs me, I didn't leave my house once in 2024.
Undisputed movies gave me all the info I need to know about russian prisons
😂 I never seen past the first one with Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames.
@@Nick_B_Bad te second one is pretty solid as well
😭😭😭 nah convicted for stealing ALL the oil is crazy
seems very vanilla. as he said at the end this story is nothing compared to some of the tortures and rapes used in russian colonies on systematic basis.
Scary stuff
This is why i respect the Voryz V Zakone. They started their organization because of the hardships that they endured in prison.
Very interesting story!
If it makes you feel better there are people in America doing 10-25 years for having a little bit of weed
You think they just let people go for weed possession in Russia?;😂
@@John-mf6ky ya if you’re an oligarch
@@John-mf6ky Usually its a fine, it depends how much you have.
@@revenone1077 NoOoOo VlAdImIr Its MucH wOrSE ThaN wHaT yOu sAyInG bOt mY MuRiCa Is tHe bEsT RuzZiA bAd WAaAaAa (RAaAaAH)
If it makes you feel better, the US prison system is increasingly privatized and treated as a for-profit organization using slave labour. 🦆👍🦆
I can't believe I hadn't heard about Navalny's death until now. I knew he'd come close several times but I never heard he actually died this year. How sad.
Navalny was murdered by prisoners...
have you seen his ads from like 15 years ago?
Navalny the MI6 agent? That guy?
How could you not have heard of Alexei Navalny's death until now?
And some of my friends wonder why I hate Russia and think it's a terrible place. No matter what problems I might have in the U.S it's vastly better than what happens over there. I feel so bad for Vladimir and his story hurts to listen to.
and now it's right back to what he describes if not worse. his statement that prisoners are not humans is the same as the rusian military and their soldiers.
I have the same issue with some people not understanding my dislike of Russia .
Ignorance is bliss. American jails are even worse.
@@davsickler3978Rarely, US prisons nowadays you can have cellphones and commodities. Now if you’re poor in prison in the US that’s rough.
Pretty ignorant to hate a country you have never stepped a foot in. By this logic i would have to hate the US after watching Goodfellas and playing GTA.
Yukos was shady as any other company in Russia at that time. If you where a business man in those times, it meant you had direct ties to organized crime.
Not true! The more shady oil company in Russia were Rosneft and Surgutnentegaz. Yukos was the first company to be published the ownershiship structure and audit by PWC.
Wasn’t there a movie based on the downfall of yukos oil company and this guy?
of course you found a person that was sentenced for crime they “didn’t commit”
I assume he's living far away from russia as we speak.
he should be lucky he wasn't put into jail later ..as Putin still had a conscience then and was not as powerful as he is now.
imagine now what they have to endure ...frontline or gulag which is better?
Everyone hated them until 2020, for some weird reason.
i am starting to get used to people wanting to help me lol for some reason im just still upset over my younger years. for whatever reason the help i was getting just wasn't helping at all
Makes you wonder why someone would commit crimes in Russia seeing that the prisons are so bad .
you dont have to commit anything. Being in the wrong place , in the wrong time is enough to destroy you
If it wasnt for Russias tough prison system we would not had the chance to hear this amazing story
0:24 like the other guy who was said truth against america? assange
Given how criminal Yukos was, as well as any major Russian company in the privatization era, I doubt this guy was 100% innocent. Yukos was caught commiting major fraud to avoid taxes. I bet he's right that he was basically a politically motivated scapegoat for Oligarchs, but it's impossible to overstate how crooked these companies are and without knowing exactly what he did there it's not hard to believe a mere manager could be involved in the crime and end up offered up as the mastermind to save the real top dog.
Not saying this dude is lying 100%, but this doesn't pass the sniff test when you read up on the post-privatization era of Russia and how corrupt the new private companies were.
not true, this dude has nothing to do with oligarchs and workin now as a track driver in Germany...
How criminal Yukos was? Could you explain? Rosneft under management Putin's friends paid less taxes as Yukos paid, when oil prices were at least twice lower! You know why?
Would take everything this guy says with a very large pinch of salt.
We need prisons like this in the uk, criminals have nothing to fear with the current system
Well, it was nice knowing this guy.
If he's in an american channel he's probably very safe.
This guy's prison experience seems like daycare compared to the "Polar Wolf" penal colony in the Arctic that Navalny was tortured and killed in.
38 seconds in and it seems way more horrible than american prisons
The oil company broke the cardinal sin of not cutting Putin in on the deals.
Damn...this guy was put through a total nightmare for nothing. I can imagine the anger, confusion, panic and fear of being held and eventually convicted for something you did not even do.
everyone jailed claims that they are innocent! Never met so many "wrongly accused" folks under one roof, during my short stint.
the more bots I see in comments, the more I trust this guy and believe every single word in his book "The Prisoner. Behind bars in Putins Russia."
I expect they work like normal prisons, bad guys go in…good guys come out
Every prisoner ever:
I'm innocent, bro.
Where did you heard such a boolsheet? Have you been in prison?
Republicans need to be shown this. This is just a glimpse of the society they love so much. In America some of these things happen, but we hear about it and there are some consequences. In Russia you get a promotion for ruining someone's life.
Every man in prison is innocent, that is known to everyone around the world. You have not experienced African prisons, my brother..
In Russia, you reform jail.
Excellent work 👏
Next do Guantanamo bay 👍
great project.
except this interview is the most uninteresting and uninformative as it can be. most of the time spent on repeating of being wrongly convicted for political reasons, and so on. guess, being a guilty person still afraid of being caught saying true reasons for incarceration.
He discribe all details in his book, where every single word is true...
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c innocence project is waiting for his application 😅
Funny how after release he has enough money to move to US 🤔
Are you sure that this guy lives in the US?
He resides in Israel, according to a statement he gave to the Hague in 2022.
Not true, he lives in Germany and works as a driver ..
"Things that didn't happen for 300, Alex."
This man was accused of stealing 13 billion. Being a Russian. It was probably only a couple billion 😂
"This man was accused of stealing 13 billion. Being a Russian. It was probably only a couple billion "
Ah yes...
"Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes"
А где она есть эта справедливость ?
Is Russian prison today in 2024 better or worse then in 2004-2014 ?
Much better because prisoners amounts is declined rapidly and Russian government send more money for the system to build better condition with EU standards. Not ideal but much much better then 90s when Khodorkovsky stole money from russian people and send them to London
For example first time in recent history it is around 400k prisoners now in Russia (1,2 millions in 2000). US have more than 2,2 millions)
Watch the BBC documentary about the Russian prison..nothing has changed.
and here comes all the americans to tell how wonderful the US prison system is and its the best in the world.
How does Biden's Prisons Work?
OoahHhHh bOt My AmErIcAN PriSoNs A rE fAr BeTtER yOu BoT YoU OrC YoU rUzZian vLad.
How are they Biden’s?
He’s elected head of state for eight years then he retires.
I smell a hysterical snowflake.
Now may you let us know how Guantanamo works?
Amazing story by George W. Bush's russian doppelgänger
Decades in jail for a crime that never happened; only in Russia (and Bakersfield)
Never happened? Did you hear something about Russia oligarchs like his boss?
Or in 20th century America, if you're an African American.
I understand why this man came here.
How he deserved to be in prison?? Probably he was hard working guy before
It's called crimes you know...
05:43 that sounds very honest. This is so sad if the entire interview is honest reality.
horrifying.
Sorry, I don't feel bad for him at all, considering he along with his boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky engaged in severe corruption and the theft and sale of Russia's state assets for pennies on the dollar, during country's the transition from communism to capitalism. During that time, the life expectancy of Russian men dropped to 57 and many families could barely afford to eat. The state currency became so worthless teachers would get paid in bottles of vodka instead of money. Khodorkovsky became the richest man in Russia and an oligarch by using mafia type tactics to pillage the state's economy for the benefit of himself and cronies like Pereverzin.
The oligarchs are what allowed Yeltsin to stay in power, despite him being an unpopular corrupt alcoholic who destroyed Russia's economy; the oligarchs bankrolled his reelection. Then Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor on condition he would not go after Yeltsin or his family. Putin allowed all the Yeltsin era oligarchs to keep their stolen assets as long as they pledged fealty to him. Khodorkovsky refused since he thought as Russia's richest man, he could dictate terms to Putin. However, Putin charged him for corruption (which he was most certainly guilty of) along with Pereverzin and the rest of the cronies at Yukos. These men inadvertently got Putin to succeed to the presidency, thinking they could control him like they did with Yeltsin. How poetic their corrupt and evil scheme backfired on them and landed them in prison. Pereverzin is no persecuted dissident and martyr for human rights. Putting lipstick on a pig won't make it attractive.
If you read his book "The Prisoner. Behind bars in Putin's Russia" you would write such a strange comment. Pereverzin has been sent to prizon under completely false charges. Khodorkovsky has never ever been charged for corruption and you did not evern mention formal charges in Khodorkovsky case.
I feel sorry for you, that you managed to write such a long comment with has nothing to do with this guy... Maybe it wouid worth to read his book ?
Come to nigeria its 10x worst then this
It strikes me as highly unusual that a person in Russia would be convicted in court and sentenced to prison for a crime they didn’t actually commit.
I always figured Russia just disappears or assassinates those people.
It's easier to keep jailors & administrators distracted by alleged crimes to operate the prisons than order them to be murderers outright. They only have so many sadistic people to do the worst of the worst. There are plenty of people to follow orders and keep shuffling prisoners around. Having few other job options prob keeps them in line not to mention the fear of getting caught in the system themselves.
No they send you to jail first. Then they disappear you 😢😭
Nah, you only disappear if you're important enough and an actual threat to the regime by functionally working against it.
As long as you only say they're dumb or you're an easy scapegoat to keep the actual criminal out of jail (if he's more important than you and the majority of the public doesn't know the truth (isn't aware or has no info)) it's only jail time.
A few political prisoners promptly escaped from the Russian stockade to the Moscow underground. Today, still wanted by the Russian government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can the hire the A Brigade.
That's what happens when everything you now about russia comes from CNN
He'll think twice next time he steals oil.
All background video footage seems at least 20 years old
If you don’t have resent footage don’t show anything 😂
he more comments I see as popaganda or similar, the more I trust this man... Definitely. I will buy his book "The Prizoner. Behind bars in Putin's Russia. Stupid bots didn't read a single page. Every word in his book is true...
I think England prison should be a bit more like Russia ??
😢😢😢😢😢
Don't trust the windows!
America needs more prisons like this.
you want people to be forced to confess crimes they did not commit? I wonder how long a strong and brave person like you can withstand torture? One minute - you be a hero! 5 seconds .... That is how crime works
America doesn't have prisons like this, and that's a good thing.
They do have some just secret prisons