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The Moscow region investigative bodies of the Russian Investigative Committee continue investigation of a criminal case over the crimes under paragraph “g” of part 2 of article 105 (murder committed by a group of persons) and part 1 of article 222 of the Russian Criminal Code (illegal store of firearms).

Today on the request of investigators, the third suspect Mikhail Ishchenko was arrested.

The investigation believes that it was Ishchenko who shot the businessman from a hand-made 9 caliber submachine gun. The suspect was detained in one of the villages in the Krasnodar region where he was hiding from the investigators after the committed crime. Thereby, due to coherent and professional actions by investigators of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow region and field officers of the Moscow area police force the murder committed in unobvious conditions was solved in shortest time, all accomplices – organizers and perpetrators – were identified and detained. The organizer of the killing – Aleksey Pronin, 36, from the Ryazan region and one of the perpetrators Vitaly Antishin had been detained earlier.

At present, a complex of forensic examinations is arranged, witnesses are being questioned, the investigators are carrying out other investigation operations to collect evidence. The investigation is to be continued.