Dzambo Dzambidze

Dzambo Dzambidze (; ; born June 29, 1947), nicknamed "Young Jumbo", is a Georgian mafia boss and "thief in law". He is a member of the Rustavi and Tbilisi criminal gangs.

Biography Dzambo Dzambidze was born in Rustavi, Georgian SSR. He was born into a Georgian-Ossetian family. From the age of 19, he was engaged in criminal activity. In 1969, Jumbo was sentenced by the district court to 5 years of imprisonment for robbery. In 1977, Dzambidze was again sent to Tulun prison for fraud, and there he was crowned to the rank of thief in law.

After his release in 1982, Dzambo Dzambidze began extortion. In the late 1980s, when criminals began racketeering, Jumbo created his Rustavi criminal group, which included young guys who had been to prison at most once. This organization also included Gurgen (Gabriel Gabinidze) and Varzo (Varzo Varziev), who had been to prison several times.

In the 1990s, Young Jumbo was the leader of the Rustavi and Tbilisi organized crime groups together with Lasha Rustavsky. Since 1993, the company stopped building houses for cooperative money, the company simply collected money from people and left the construction of houses at the foundation stage.

In the mid-1990s, Dzambo Dzambidze supported Aslan Usoyan in the struggle for influence. His group also became one of Aslan Usoyan's clans and was in conflict with the rival Kutaisi organized crime group, led by Tariel Oniani. At the same time, the Rustavi organized crime group became part of the Tbilisi organized crime group, which was Aslan Usoyan's main force in the Caucasus. At that time, shootouts began between members of the Tbilisi and Kutaisi groups and a struggle for profitable points and markets. Members of the Tbilisi organized crime group operated in Moscow, while members of the Rustavi organized crime group operated in Georgia.

At that time, Dzambo Dzambidze's group was smuggling alcohol from North Ossetia to Georgia and Ukraine, and bribing border guards and police. Varzo Varziev (member of a group from Ossetia) monitored the production of alcohol in Ossetia and its delivery to Georgia. Delivery to Georgia took place via the Georgian Military Road, which was under the control of Baget Ufimsky (Artem Barsukov), he was responsible for the safe and sound delivery of the cargo to Tbilisi, where the alcohol was sold.

Since 1998, Dzambidze has also been involved in human trafficking. After the end of the First Chechen War, human trafficking began to flourish there, particularly involving enslaved foreign journalists and kidnapped Russian citizens. Dzambidze began collaborating with Chechens and soon became one of the bosses of the local human trafficking market.