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| “ | Give him what he wants. | „ |
| ~ Abramov telling his men to kill a thief by drowning him in molten gold. |
Mikael Abramov (Russian: Микаэль Абрамов) is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Organized Crime episode "All That Glitters". He is a Russian crime lord who specializes in smuggling gold, as well as drug and human trafficking.
He was portrayed by Mark Ivanir, who also portrayed The Doctor in Metro Exodus and Solomon in Battlefield 3.
Early life[]
Abramov is a Russian gangster who poses as a jewelry dealer; in reality, he smuggles gold out of several African countries, uses slave labor to turn it into jewelry, and then sells it to jewelers for 80 cents on the dollar. He also traffics drugs and women out of his native country, selling the former on the streets and pimping out the latter.
While he usually does business in New York City, he sometimes sells his various wares in Europe. A year prior to the events of the episode, he ran a trafficking operation in Italy, where he was investigated by Interpol Agent Tia Leonetti. She found a witness to his crimes and was in the process of building a racketeering case against him that would put him in prison for life, but he killed the witness, along with his wife and children, before fleeing back to New York, which was out of Leonetti's jurisdiction.
In "All That Glitters"[]
Abramov is first seen at the warehouse in which his jewelry is made, where he accuses the foreman of stealing gold from him. The terrified foreman tries to deny it at first, but Abramov reassures him that he can have all the gold he wants if he only asks politely. When the man does so, thereby indirectly admitting that he is indeed guilty of stealing, Abramov smiles and tells his men to give the foreman what he wants; Abramoff's goons then kill the man by pouring molten gold on him as his workers look on in horror. He then thanks one of them, a young Russian woman named Joy, for telling him about the theft and "promotes" her to domestic work at his mansion.
Meanwhile, Detective Elliot Stabler of the NYPD's Organized Crime Task Force and the rest of his team start investigating Abramov's smuggling operation, arresting a jeweler who knowingly sells his trafficked gold. Stabler persuades the man to become his informant by promising to give him police protection from Abramov, and then sets up a sting operation to put Abramov behind bars with help from Leonetti, with whom he once worked when he was a NYPD liaison in Italy.
Stabler and Leonetti send Detective Bobby Reyes to go undercover to Abramoff's mansion, posing as a wealthy West African diplomat seeking to partner with him in his smuggling operation. Reyes makes a tentative deal with Abramov while Stabler and his partner, Sergeant Ayanna Bell, listen in from a police van parked several blocks away. Reyes also notices Abramov pawing at a clearly uncomfortable Joy as she serves them drinks; he later approaches her, reveals his true identity, and offers to help her get away from Abramov if she helps his investigation.
Julia tells Detective Jet Slootmaekers everything she remembers about being taken to the warehouse, and Slootmaekers uses this information to pinpoint its location. Stabler, Bell, and Leonetti raid the warehouse, but Abramoff is nowhere to be found. They threaten his men with life in prison unless they reveal where he has gone, and one of them eventually says that Abramoff is going to board his private jet to Russia.
Abramoff calls one of his underlings in Russia as he prepares to board the plane, but he is surprised to see Stabler, Bell, and Leonetti driving up to the airfield to arrest him. He uses the chaos of the ensuing shootout, in which several of his men are killed, to get aboard the plane, but Stabler manages to board it as well before it can take off, and arrests him. Abramoff is then imprisoned for life for smuggling, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, and murder.
External links[]
- Mikael Abramov on the Law & Order Wiki
