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The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia puts under supervision the investigation of circumstances of murder of a senior married couple in the Chelyabinsk Region

The Chelyabinsk Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia detained a 39-year-old local resident suspected of committing an offense under Paragraph A of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of Russia (murder of two persons).

According to the investigation, on October 26 of current year in an apartment of one of the houses of Yuzhnouralsk there were found bodies of 61-year-old local resident and her 68-year-old husband with stab wounds and head trauma.  Thanks to well-planned investigative actions and operational-investigative activities carried out by investigators of the Chelyabinsk Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia and officers of the regional department of the Russian Interior Ministry, a 39-year-old local resident, an acquaintance of the victims suspected of committing a crime, was arrested. A mercenary motive for the crime was preliminarily established - a large sum of money was missing from the apartment. The issue of charges and the election of a preventive measure is being resolved.

The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia instructed the head of the Chelyabinsk Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia P.G. Reshetnikov to present a report on the performed investigative activities.

The progress of investigation is under supervision of the Central Office of the Investigative Committee of Russia.