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Leningrad Region Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has completed investigating a criminal case against Alexey Miloserdny, 42, Deputy CEO of ZAo Argosi (CJSC) charged with a crime under part 3 of article 33, part 1 of article 30, paragraph “h” of part 2 of article 105 of the RF Criminal Code (organization and plotting of contract murder).

According to investigators, Alexey Miloserdny in May 2011 owing money to a businessman Andrey Kaloshin and wishing career development hired two of his debtors (sometime earlier he had lent them a large sum of money on business) to kill the businessman. Miloserdny gave them necessary information about the victim and paid them 2 million 100 thousand rubles. Later the money were transferred to killers through a number of intermediaries.

One of the accomplices in the crime was Liana Iskandaryan, 32, CEO of OOO RegionAgro (LLC). Through her the killers received 1 million rubles as a prepayment for the murder. The rest of the money they should have received after killing Kaloshin.

At the end of June – beginning of July 2011, on Mtsenska by pass road (Moscow-Kharkov highway) Liana Iskandaryan met with Georgy Beshentsev (one of Miliserdny’s debtors whom he hired to kill his partner). The man asked her to find perpetrators for the crime. For that the woman went to her brother, “a convict in authority” Ashot Iskandaryan who had did time in a correctional facility in the village of Fornosovo of Tosnensky district, Leningrad Region, together with Andrey Antipov. Later Beshentsev gave to Liana Iskandaryan a memory card with files containing a map fragment and a scheme of Kaloshin’s place of residence and 1 million of rubles as a prepayment for a murder to be transferred to the killers. Having received the money and the flash card Liana gave them to a person sent by her brother. By telephone Ahot Iskandaryan informed her that the money had been received and the killers were to set off for Moscow to execute the murder. Further on, at Beshentsev’s request, she repeatedly contacted her brother on the phone and asked him about the progress of plotting Kaloshin’s murder, up to 27 July 2011 when she was detained.

Kaloshin’s murder was scheduled for 27 July 2011, by this time a group of persons from Saint-Petersburg who intended to execute the murder were already in Moscow. But due to competently planned and efficiently performed operations by Leningrad Region Investigations Directorate, Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad Region Directorate of Federal Penitentiary Service, Crime Detection Department of Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Tula and Oryol the crime was stopped and the perpetrators detained.

Investigators have managed to find the entire chain of persons involved – from a contractor to perpetrators. As a result, there are 7 people prosecuted in relation to this inquest, the criminal cases against all of them were either sent to or are already being reviewed by the courts.