Leonid "Tarzan" Fainberg also known as Ludwig Lyosha Fainberg (born 1958) is an Israeli mobster

Gangster

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. Born in Odessa

Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

, Fainberg left the Soviet Union in the early 1980s for Israel, and moved to the United States following the fall of the Soviet Union. In the mid-1990s, Fainberg attempted to purchase a Soviet submarine

Submarine

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 for use in drug smuggling for a Colombian

Colombia

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 cocaine

Cocaine

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 cartel

Cartel

A cartel is a formal agreement among competing firms. It is a formal organization of producers and manufacturers that agree to fix prices, marketing, and production. Cartels usually occur in an oligopolistic industry, where there is a small number of sellers and usually involve homogeneous products...

. Fainberg lived in Miami between 1990 and 1997, when he was arrested and convicted of smuggling and racketeering. He spent thirty months in jail before his trial, and was deported to Israel after the conviction. A year later Fainberg was living in Canada, working in sex trade

Prostitution

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, but in January 2003 Canadian immigration authorities arrested him and deported him back to Israel.