Ludwig Fainberg

Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg is a Ukrainian-born mobster who tried in the 1990s to buy a Soviet submarine for a Colombian cocaine cartel.

born 1958Attempted Soviet submarine sale to cartelPorky's bar in MiamiConviction for smuggling and racketeering

Born: 3 January 1958, Odesa
Occupation: procurer

Ludwig Fainberg was born in 1958 in Odesa

Fainberg was born in Odesa on January 3, 1958. He is also known as Leonid Fainberg and by the nickname Tarzan. In the early 1980s he left the Soviet Union for Israel.

After the fall of the Soviet Union he moved to the United States. He lived in Miami from 1990 to 1997 and owned a topless bar called Porky's. In the mid-1990s he tried to buy a Soviet diesel submarine for drug smuggling by a Colombian cocaine cartel.

He was arrested and convicted of smuggling and racketeering, after spending 30 months in jail before his trial. As of October 2012 he was jailed in Panama, awaiting trial for pimping.

A judge released him from La Joyita Prison, but the prosecutor appealed. Before he could be arrested again, he and Tony Galeota fled to Costa Rica. He later went to Cuba and returned to Moscow.