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Organizer and perpetrators of murder of Belgian Bris Josef Bert Godfrid to stand trial in Leningrad Region

The Northwestern Federal District Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has finished investigating a criminal case against Valeria Kubasova, Akhmed Umarov, Timur Makuzayev and Nasimdzhon Islamov. Depending on the role of each one they are charged with crimes under parts 4 and 5 of article 33, paragraph “h” of part 2 of article 105 of the RF Penal Code (solicitation and complicity in a contract murder), paragraphs “g” and “h” of part 2 of article 105 (a murder committed by a group of people on hire), part 5 of article 33, paragraphs “g” and “h” of part 2 of article 105 (complicity in a contract murder).

According to investigators, in April 2012 Valeria Kubasova offered her acquaintance Akhmed Umarov 25 thousand US dollars for killing citizen of Belgium Bris Josef to solve her problems with debts to him referred to supplies of live flowers from Belgium to Russia. Having agreed to the offer and received from Kubasova a fee of 100 thousand rubles, Umarov involved in the crime his acquaintances Makuzayev and Islamov. On 5 April 2012 Umarov together with Makuzayev on the instruction of Kubasova met the victim near hotel Park Inn Pulkovskaya and under a sham pretext invited him to a Volkswagen Golf car. After that Umarov and Makuzayev took Bris Josef to Tosno district of the Leningrad Region, where they strangled him and threw the dead body into a gutter. Then Umarov acting under an earlier agreement with Islamov arrived to his house and changed the clothes drenched in the victim’s blood to conceal the traces of the crime. The body of Bris Josef was found in the gutter along the motorway Yam-Izhora-Nikolskoye.

Investigators have gathered enough evidence and therefore the criminal case with the approved indictment has been forwarded to court to be tried on the merits.