The murder of the former mayor of Tiraspol has been solved
A suspect in the murder of the former mayor of Tiraspol, Andrei Bezbabchenko, was arrested in Odessa.
This was reported by the First Pridnestrovsky TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the investigation, three citizens of Transnistria were the killers. Having learned that the ex-mayor of Tiraspol lives in New Dofinovka, Odessa region, and knowing that he is a very wealthy man, they decided to kidnap him and force him to pay a round sum for his life. Having settled in Kryzhanovka, the criminals followed the victim for some time, studying his schedule and routes of movement.
Finally, on May 21, they took active action: breaking into the house where Bezbabchenko lived, they tied him up, loaded him into the trunk of his own Infinity car and drove him to an abandoned building in Vapnyarka, where they began to beat him, demanding money. While torturing the abducted man, the men overdid it, and Bezbchenko died. Frightened, the criminals abandoned the body right at the crime scene and tried to escape.
The late Bezbabchenko, a former crime boss, was the head of the Tiraspol administration from 2012 to 2016. In 2016, he resigned to take part in the election campaign of the then President of Transnistria, Yevgeny Shevchuk.
In 2016, Shevchuk lost the presidential election to Vadim Krasnoselsky. In the summer of 2017, he secretly fled from Transnistria after the investigative committee of the republic opened 5 criminal cases against him. In 2018, he was sentenced in absentia to 16 years in prison and a $100 million fine for corruption and abuse of power.
In Transnistria, criminal cases are opened and sentences are passed on many people from Shevchuk’s entourage who did not have time to allegedly flee to Russia. Bezbabchenko was put on the wanted list by law enforcement agencies of the PMR, but at the same time he headed an investment and construction company with its main office in Tiraspol.
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