Todorov established contacts with other prominent underworld figures such as Vyacheslav Ivankov and Sergei Mikhailov.
[1] The gang also acquired a reputation of disregarding codes of conduct in the criminal underworld, starting and ending conflicts as they pleased.
In 1993 the group got into conflict with other russian gangs and killed mobster Viktor Kogan, who was moving in on their territory.
[citation needed] On September 13, 1994, the gang split into around a dozen warring factions.
In 2005 eleven former gang members were sentenced to up to 53 years for their involvement in 264 brutal murders, including that of notorious hitman Alexander Solonik.