The Chechen

The Chechen is Gotham City's Russian mob bos who appears in The Dark Knight. He forms an alliance with fellow mob leaders Sal Maroni, the Italian mob boss, Lau, the Chinesse mob boss, and Gambol, the African-American mob boss. He keeps a pack of rotweiler attack dogs at his side. He first appears during a buisness meeting with the Scarecrow, who is selling him a shipment of his fear toxin. The meeting is interuppted by a group of Batman impersonators. While the Chechen manages to escape as the real Batman arrives, the Scarecrow, some of the criminals, and the impersonators are all apprehended. When the Joker unexpectadley arrives at a buisness meeting between the crime lords, the Chechen tells Gambol to let the Joker speak of his proposition. Later in the film, he suggests to Maroni that they hire the Joker. He and Maroni are then ratted out by Lau, who is apprehended and returned to Gotham. The Joker saves them from imprisonment. He isnt 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 having his own men join him and his own dogs kill him.