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A Russian meat mogul known as the “King of Sausages” died after intruders broke into a sauna at his home, tied him and a woman, and demanded money before shooting him with a crossbow.
The woman managed to escape the attack in the Moscow region and alert police, but the businessman was dead when the agents arrived at the scene, said the Investigation Committee, which positions itself as a Russian 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 and Meat Empire sausage factories.
Creepy 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, he said, in a village in the suburbs of Istra, a city west of Moscow where wealthy Russians have country houses known as dachas and like to spend weekends.
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