article_snippet: had when playing for Spartak Moscow and taken under the wing of the club's controversial millionaire owner Shabtai von Kalmanovic.
article_snippet: In fact the James Bond similarities don't end there as Von Kalmanovic was an ex-KGB spy turned businessman who had spent five and a half years in an Israeli prison after he was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
article_snippet: But Jackson friendship with Von Kalmanovic gradually turned into an oppressive partnership.
article_snippet: But Von Kalmanovic smothering obsessiveness took it's toll.
article_snippet: At one time Von Kalmanovic security detail started following Jackson and other Spartak players through a local mall after a game. '
article_snippet: Von Kalmanovic was even wearing a trench coat,' Jackson says. 
article_snippet: The kind of Von Kalmanovic Von Kalmanovic was involved in couldn't have been made any clearer though when in November 2009 Von Kalmanovic was shot dead in Moscow, .
article_snippet: Two men just drove up beside Von Kalmonvic's luxury Mercedes and riddled the vehicle with bullets, in what The Guardian reported at the time was a classic assassin's tactic.
highlights_snippet: Von Kalmanovic was a charismatic figure .
  
highlights_snippet: Von Kalmanovic spent five and a half years in an Israeli prison for spying .
  
highlights_snippet: Von Kalmanovic was shockingly shot dead in a contract killing .
  