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The man detained in Tomsk Region and charged with murder of a security guard is suspected of other offenses

The Tomsk Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia continues investigation of a probe launched into a fact of a murder of a security guard of Tomsk house building company under Paragraph H of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of Russia (murder attended with robbery).

On June 2, 2021 the body of the security guard of the Tomsk house building company was discovered in administrative building of the company in Tomsk with signs of violent death. Money in an amount of over 600,000 rubles was stolen from the cashier's office. An investigative and operational group including investigators of the Sovetsky district investigative department, forensic investigators of the Tomsk Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Main Forensics Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia, and police officers was created for investigation of the probe.

As a result of investigative actions and search activities the officers of the Criminal Intelligence Department of the Tomsk Regional Department of the Russia Interior Ministry identified a person suspected of committing of this offense. It was a man born in 1972 put on an international wanted list on suspicion of committing a murder in Novosibirsk Region, where in September 2020 a body of a 66-year-old owner was discovered in a private house in Iskitim with signs of a violent death in a form of a stab wound on a neck. Search activities established that money had been stolen from the house. The suspect managed to flee the scene.

Officers of the Investigative Committee of Russia and police criminal intelligence officers carried out a set of activities aimed to locate the suspect. The suspect was detained by officers of the Tomsk Regional Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs with force protection of the Special Rapid Response Unit of the Tomsk Regional National Guard Department.

During the search carried out at the Tomsk apartment of the detainee, the officers discovered money presumably stolen from the Tomsk house building company.

The detainee fully admitted the guilt while being charged under Paragraph H of Part 2 of Article 105 (murder attended with robbery) and Paragraph C of Part 4 of Article 162 of the Criminal Code of Russia (robbery attended by infliction of severe health damage).

The investigation is checking his involvement in committing of especially grave offenses in other Russia regions.

Upon investigative motion, the court ruled to put the accused into custody.

At present, investigative actions are being carried out in order to collect and consolidate evidence. A number of examinations, including medical, genotypic, computer, complex (genotypic, fingerprint and traceological) has been arranged, witnesses are being questioned, other investigative actions are in progress. The criminal investigation is ongoing.