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Russia's Investigative Committee bodies for the Moscow Region have established identities of two suspects in kidnapping the Director General of the "Green Way" LLC committed in December 2015 (Article 126, part 2, items "a, v, g, z" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Finding suspects became possible because of literate and cohesive work of employees of Main Investigative Committee Directorate of Russia for the Moscow Region, operational employees of the FSB BIA of Russia for Moscow and the Criminal Investigation Department of Russian Ministry of Interior. A victim's former partner and a co-owner of the "Link-Bank" bank turned out to be one of them, second was a detainee's driver.

Investigation believes, on December 18, 2015 the victim, drove out of his house in Mytishchinsky district and headed to Moscow. On his way he was stopped under the pretext of documents check by a group of persons, dressed as workers of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate. After the man got out of the car, he was assaulted with a shocker. Then they put the businessman into the house in Dolgoprudny, where they were holding him till December 19. The victim were presented terms and conditions on signing of bills for the total amount of 800 million rubles, besides, the first remittance of 11 million rubles had to be made on January 21, 2016. As soon as the businessman had given agreement, they let him go. But he did not fulfil delinquent requirements on funds transfer. Since January 25, 2016, by means of SMS notifications the businessman started to recieve threats about the necessity of transfer of the sum earlier discussed, after which the man appealed to law enforcement agencies.

The fact that the victim had not seen who were kidnapping him and raising demands added complexity to the case. Initially several versions were considered by investigation. A certain circle of persons, including the businessman's former partner owed a large sum of monetary funds to the businessman, and a co-owner of the "Link-Bank" bank from which in 2014 the licence had been revoked for activity were being checked for involvement in crime committing. During a complex of investigative events enough conclusive evidence of involvement of the former partner, as well as of its driver into the crime committed with respect to the businessman was collected. As a result they were detained on April 25.

Promptly searches in the places of residence of suspects, as well as in the house where the victim had been being retained were carried out. In the course of search in the former businessman partner's dwelling bills and other documents and objects confirming their involvement in the committed crime have been detected. In addition, the on-site audit of a testimony in the course of which one of the suspects and victim indicated the house where the businessman had been being retained was conducted by the investigator. By this time the followng examinations have been appointed: judicial-medical, molecule-genetic, soil science, graphology one and others.

By the request of the Russia's Investigative Committee bodies both suspects have been arrested. At present the whole complex of investigative and operational actions aimed at establishment of all accomplices of the committed crime is being continued.