Brighton Beach Mob Boss Agrees To Testify Against Fellow Gangsters

A Russian mobster, who was arrested for extorting a millionaire he was originally hired to murder, told a Manhattan federal judge that he will sing like a canary if and when he testifies.

Boris “Biba” Nayfeld, 69, agreed to a plea deal with cooperation provisions, and to testify if he is called to, as reported by the New York Post.

Nayfeld is a known heroin trafficker and a former enforcer and bodyguard for the former mob boss Evsei Agron. Nayfeld switched sides to work for Marat Balagula and set up his old boss in the mid-1980s, according to the mafia news site Gangers Inc. Agron was shot in the head and killed outside of his apartment in May of 1985.

From there he rose through the ranks of the Russian mob. Yesterday he admitted in court that he is known for “being associated with organized crime.” He is looking for a lighter sentence in the strange assassination plot and will tell the feds what they want to hear in exchange for it.

According to the Post, Anatoly Potik, a Russian businessman, allegedly offered Nayfeld $100,000 to kill his son-in-law, Oleg Mitnik, who runs an international shipping company, because Mitnik was in the middle of a $20 million divorce from Potik’s daughter.

Nayfeld said in court yesterday that a co-conspirator of his, Boris Kotlyarsky, vouched for Mitnik being a “good guy” when he heard about the contract on his head. Nayfeld suggested that Kotlyarsky tell Mitnik about the contract in order to get money out of him.

This became a deal between the three in which Mitnik would pay Nayfeld $125,000 to spare his life. However, when the transaction had been made in a Brooklyn restaurant, law enforcement was ready and waiting for Nayfeld outside of the restaurant, according to Gangsters Inc.

Now Nayfeld is working with the feds in the hopes that they’ll be easy on him. He faces 40 years in prison for extortion.