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A court has recognized the evidence gathered by the Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee located in Saint-Petersburg sufficient to convict Valeria Kubasova, Akhmed Umarov and Timur Makuzayev. Depending on the role of each one they were found guilty of and involved in the murder of Belgian citizen Bris Josef committed on hire and out of mercenary motives.

The court and investigators have found that in April 2012, Kubasova to handle her debt she owed to Bris Josef offered Umarov to kill the Belgian for a fee. Umarov agreed and together with Makuzayev on 5 April 2012 following Kubasova’s instructions med the victim in the city of Saint-Petersburg and lured him in their Volkswagen Golf. After that Umarov and Makuzayev took Josef to Tosno District, Leningrad Region, where they strangled him and threw the body in a ditch.

The court sentenced Kubasova to 14 years in prison, Umarov to 16.5 years and Makuzayev to 16 years in prison.