Moscow Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s investigative Committee has finished investigating a criminal case against Azerbaijani Orkhan Zeynalov. He is charged with a crime under paragraph “i” of part 2 of article 105 of the RF Penal Code (a murder out of hooliganism).
According to investigators, on 10 October 2013, near house No 7 in Vostryakovsky Proyezd in Moscow drunken Zeynalov had a petty conflict with Yegor Shcherbakov and hit the victim multiple times in the presence of the victim’s girlfriend. After that the accused took out a penknife and stabbed Shcherbakov two times. One of the stabs was in his heart. The victim died on site.
The murder was solved in the shortest time. Zeynalov was detained on 15 October in the town of Kolomna, where he was hiding from investigators. During the investigation the accused denied his guilt and suggested different versions of the incident, starting with self-defense and ending with claiming that he had not been there at all. However, the investigators restored the full picture of the crime. Results of a number of expert examinations, including a forensic medical one, disproved self-defense. It was found that in addition to two stabs the accused had hit Shcherbakov no fewer than 20 times. The investigators also found out that wanting to finish the row Shcherbakov had walked away from Zeynalov, but the latter had taken out the knife and attacked him again.
By now Zeynalov and his lawyer have finished studying the files of the case and in the next few days it is going to be sent for the indictment to be approved and further to court to be tried on the merits.
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