The Chechen

The Joker: ''Tell your men they work for me now. This is my city.''

The Chechen: They won't work for a freak.

The Joker: (mocking accent) Freachk??

—Both, moments before the Chechen's murder.

The Chechen was Gotham City's Chechnyan mob boss.

Early life
The man who would be called The Chechen was born and raised in Chechnya, by parents he believed were "poor and ignorant". He witnessed many atrocities in his youth.

Arrival in Gotham
The Chechen's outfit, once weak due to Carmine Falcone's near monopoly on illegal drug trafficking and political corruption, has found new strength picking up the pieces of Falcone's empire after his fall. A participant in the turf wars of Gotham, but with the wars over he has now formed something of a friendship with Sal Maroni, eating and discussing business with him. His main interest seems to be drugs, but as Falcone's shipments have stopped and with Batman and Harvey Dent arresting or scaring away most reliable suppliers, he desperately enters a deal with the the Scarecrow to supply drugs. Understandable, he is enraged to learn the true nature of the drugs the freak sold to him. By the start of the movie, he confronts the Scarecrow with his men and a pack of Rottweiler attack-dogs at his side. As Crane gleefully reminds him he is the Chechen's only available supplier in Gotham, several Batman impersonators attack them, causing the Chechen to wisely flee the scene before the real Batman appears. He later forms an alliance with fellow mob leaders Sal Maroni, the Italian mob boss, Lau, the Chinese mob boss, and Gambol, the Black mob boss to launder the mobs profits. When the Joker unexpectedly arrives at a business meeting between the crime lords, the Chechen tells Gambol to let the Joker speak of his proposition and seems the most interested in the Joker's deal. Later in the film, he suggests to Maroni that they hire the Joker. Later, the Chechen, Maroni and loads of criminals were all taken to court at once. He isn't seen again until the Joker breaks himself and Lau out of prison and meets him at a boat house where the Joker is given his reward of half the mob's money. The Joker burns the large pile of money along with Lau and betrays the Chechen by "chopping him up into little pieces" and possibly feeding his remains to his two dogs.

Behind the scenes

 * A similar character from the Nolan franchise is The Russian, Yuri Dimitrov.