One of Russia’s most notorious criminal masterminds, Mafia godfather Aslan Usoyan, also known as ‘Grandpa Hassan,’ was shot dead by a sniper rifle in central Moscow on Wednesday, January 16 police said, according to RT.

Usoyan was born in Tbilisi in 1937. He is considered to have been the godfather of the mafia, controlling most criminal gangs in Russia and CIS countries.