Putin... allegedly favored a takeover of the St. Petersburg port by the Tambov organized crime group.

Ref: 1) Louise Shelly, "Contemporary Russian Organised Crime" Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Control Policies in the European Union and Beyond ed. Cyrille Fijnaut, Letizia Paoli (2004) pp. 563–85. 2) A. Konstantinov, Banditskiy Peterburg St. Petersburg: Bibliopolis, (1995) 3) A. Konstantinov, M. Dikselius, Banditskaya Rossiya St. Petersburg: Bibliopolis (1997)