ST. PETERSBURG. Sep 3 (Interfax) - A St. Petersburg court will soon begin hearing the case of Sergei Moyseyenko, ex-deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary System (FSIN) branch in Russia's second largest city, who will stand trial alongside his two accomplices; he is charged with organizing the contract killing of his colleague Nikolai Chernov in the Leningrad region.
Investigators have collected enough evidence to submit the indictment for approval. Once approved, the case will be sent to the court that will try the case, the Russian Investigative Committee's press service said on Monday.
According to the investigation, Moyseyenko, the then deputy head of the FSIN department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, approached his acquaintance Sabir Sadykov, the contract killer, in late 2016. Moyseenko asked him to kill Chernov, his subordinate, who was the official in charge of technical oversight and management of construction projects. The motive was the desire to conceal corruption offences, investigators said.
"Sadykov in turn approached Igor Zakharov, who met with him in St. Petersburg and gave him a Makarov pistol with a device for noiseless and flameless firing and bullets in February 2017," the Investigative Committee said.
Sadykov encountered Chernov in the Vsevolzhsk district of the Leningrad region on March 2, 2017 and shot him several times as the victim was sitting in a car parked at the side of a road. Chernov was fatally wounded and later died in hospital.
In the course of the criminal inquiry, Sadykov pleaded guilty, fully admitting charges brought against him. He accepted a plea-bargaining agreement.