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Several intruders broke into a sauna at the home of a Russian meat magnate known as the “King of Sausages” on the outskirts of Moscow earlier today, tied him up and a woman, and demanded money before killing him with a crossbow.
The woman managed to escape the attack and alert the police.
But the businessman was dead when agents arrived at the scene, said the Investigation Committee, which positions itself as a Russian version of the FBI.
The agency did not name the deceased in its statement, but REN TV and other Russian media identified him as Vladimir Marugov, owner of the “Ozyorsky sausage” and “Meat Empire” sausage factories.
The lurid and sometimes surreal assassinations often made headlines in Russia in the 1990s after the chaotic Soviet disintegration, but they have become less common since President Vladimir Putin came to power at the turn of the century.
The Investigation Committee said the intruders had demanded that Marugov hand over the cash from his home and that they had fled in a car. He said investigators had found the murder weapon, a crossbow.
The getaway vehicle was also recovered, in a village on the outskirts of Istra, a city west of Moscow where wealthy Russians have country houses known as dachas and like to spend their weekends.
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