Searches conducted at Ilya Traber’s properties: security forces revive the case of the murder of Aleksandr Petrov, the “master of Vyborg”

Vyborg’s ruler, influential businessman Alexander Petrov, was murdered in October 2020. A sniper shot Petrov twice with a rifle, killing the city’s top crime boss right on his dacha.

Petro was formerly the right-hand man of Ilya Traber, known since the early 1990s by the nickname "Antique." Then a conflict erupted between them. Traber was arrested today.

Since the 1990s, Vyborg’s owner, Alexander Petrov, had been associated with the more established businessman Ilya Traber (Antikvar), who had always been interested in port cargo handling, and Vyborg is also a port. The Vyborg Shipyard, in whose operations Petrov also had a hand, is also located there. Before his death, Petrov began actively selling off his assets, planning to move his estate abroad to live with his son, Vitaly (a former Formula 1 driver).

Sources say this led to a serious conflict between Petrov and Traber. And Traber is a dangerous man. This follows from witness testimony (members of the EPAP bar association, headed by Nikolai Egorov, a classmate of the president’s) related to the criminal investigation surrounding the company Norebo.

One of them directly states that they received threats: "If you don’t do what Traber says, the machine guns will start talking." Traber was once extremely close to Vice Governor Mikhail Manevich. Then, a conflict erupted between them over the seaport. Manevich was killed by a sniper. Petrov was later killed.