The men who killed a Russian police detective last year were reportedly hired on the Darknet for 1 million rubles
Meduza 11:17, 12 march 2019
Sources tell the BBC Russian Service that someone paid 1 million rubles ($15,215) to arrange the murder of Interior Ministry detective Evgeniya Shishkina last October, hiring the gunman through the Darknet. Shishkina was shot twice outside her home in the town of Arkhangelskoye on October 10, 2018, as she was leaving her apartment building and walking toward the parking lot, on her way to work. She was a lieutenant colonel in the police, rising from inspector in the Moscow Railway Special Transport Department to senior detective in the Major Cases Division.
On March 7, federal investigators in St. Petersburg announced the detention of two suspects in Shishkina’s case. According to an official statement, the man who carried out the killing is named Abdulaziz (Abdul) Abdulazizov, a 19-year-old first-year student at a local social medicine institute. The second man in custody is a 17-year-old, 10th- student suspected of acting as an accomplice in the crime. The minor’s name has not been released to the public, but the BBC says his initials are “A.G.â€
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This is Gorky Park type of stuff and these kinds of stories happen fairly frequently, yet, at the same time, we have our crime too. It's just kind of curious.
