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09-29-2007, 07:45 AM
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1383853
A senior detective investigating fraud and corruption in Russian businesses was shot dead as he left a Moscow restaurant, authorities confirmed on Friday.
Nazim Kaziakhmedov was shot twice in the chest and once in the head before his killer fled in a waiting car, the Kommersant newspaper reported.
A photograph on the paper's front page showed a woman peering under a black plastic cover at Kaziakhmedov's body, which lay in a pool of blood.
A spokesman for Dagestan's general prosecutor confirmed that Kaziakhmedov, who came from the Southern Russian region, had been shot and killed as he left a restaurant in central Moscow after a lunch meeting.
Kaziakhmedov worked in Dagestan until May, when he was transferred to a special anti-corruption unit in Moscow.
In the chaotic post-Soviet 1990s, contract killings peppered the murky Russian business world.
They have become less frequent in recent years, although last October a gunman killed deputy central banker Andrei Kozlov who had been investigating money laundering in banks. There have been a handful of murders linked to business deals since then.
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http://mnweekly.ru/news/20070927/55279000.html
A member of the Armenian parliament was shot during a fight at the casino of Moscow's Metropol Hotel on Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported.
"According to eyewitnesses, a fight broke out in the casino among three of the guests" shortly after 4 a.m., news agency Interfax quoted a police official as saying.
During the fight, one of the participants twice shot his opponent, who has been hospitalised... Doctors are fighting for his life," the official said.
The Armenian embassy in Moscow has identified the victim as parliamentary deputy and businessman Tigran Arzakantsian, 41, saying he was in Moscow on a private trip, Interfax reported.
A senior detective investigating fraud and corruption in Russian businesses was shot dead as he left a Moscow restaurant, authorities confirmed on Friday.
Nazim Kaziakhmedov was shot twice in the chest and once in the head before his killer fled in a waiting car, the Kommersant newspaper reported.
A photograph on the paper's front page showed a woman peering under a black plastic cover at Kaziakhmedov's body, which lay in a pool of blood.
A spokesman for Dagestan's general prosecutor confirmed that Kaziakhmedov, who came from the Southern Russian region, had been shot and killed as he left a restaurant in central Moscow after a lunch meeting.
Kaziakhmedov worked in Dagestan until May, when he was transferred to a special anti-corruption unit in Moscow.
In the chaotic post-Soviet 1990s, contract killings peppered the murky Russian business world.
They have become less frequent in recent years, although last October a gunman killed deputy central banker Andrei Kozlov who had been investigating money laundering in banks. There have been a handful of murders linked to business deals since then.
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http://mnweekly.ru/news/20070927/55279000.html
A member of the Armenian parliament was shot during a fight at the casino of Moscow's Metropol Hotel on Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported.
"According to eyewitnesses, a fight broke out in the casino among three of the guests" shortly after 4 a.m., news agency Interfax quoted a police official as saying.
During the fight, one of the participants twice shot his opponent, who has been hospitalised... Doctors are fighting for his life," the official said.
The Armenian embassy in Moscow has identified the victim as parliamentary deputy and businessman Tigran Arzakantsian, 41, saying he was in Moscow on a private trip, Interfax reported.