Pavel Zatserkovnyi

Taxi-driver of the private Taxi-Park "055" Pavel Ivanovich Zatserkovnyi, 26, in the neurosergery department Vinnitsa-based Hospital №2, on Thursday, March 30, 2000. On March 22, 2000 Zatserkovnyi was kicked in his shift, got the concussion of brain and facial fracture. There exist 5 firms in Vinnitsa, which do the taxi-business. The accident with Zatserkovnyi is the first. Besides, according to the rumor, circulating in Vinnitsa, some 10 similar attack of private firms' taxi-drivers took place in Vinnitsa within the last period of time. The accidents took place as the taxi-drivers refused to pay taxes to the local Mafia. According to the Chief Office on fight against the organized delinquency, 689 criminal groups were neutralized during the 1999. Photo by UNIAN