The murder of a metropolitan musician: the police arrested two suspects



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65-year-old musician Alexander Derevyanko (Photo: Arthur Kruk / Facebook)

Law enforcement officers arrested two people in Kiev suspected of having committed the premeditated murder of musician Alexander Derevyanko, 65.

This is reported by the Kiev city prosecutor’s office on Facebook.

The Prosecutor’s Office notes that according to the investigation materials, two men born in 1985 and 1989. to take possession of the property of a 65-year-old solitary resident of Kiev (money, 2 apartments and other material values), developed a criminal plan to assassinate him.

The media write that it is about the famous musician Alexander Derevyanko, who disappeared in Kiev on November 22 and was found murdered on December 5.

According to law enforcement officers, on November 22, the attackers were in the victim’s apartment on the street. I. Mazepa, in the house where he gave music lessons, inflicted bodily harm on him and then strangled him.

“Having done murder, the suspects took possession of the title documents of the apartments belonging to the victim. Later, to hide the traces of the crime, they wrapped the body of the murdered man with plastic bags, blankets, cardboard and other things and took him to one of the garage cooperatives in the Kiev region. There, in the basement, the attackers tried to hide the body by filling it with cement, ”said the ministry.

Law enforcement officers managed to identify the intruders and arrest them.

The detainees were informed of the suspicion of a crime under clause 6, clause 12, part 2 of art. 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (intentional murder). A petition was sent to the court for it to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention.

The sanction of the article provides up to 15 years in prison or life imprisonment.

Investigative actions continue. Possible accomplices of the suspects are being identified.

On December 2, his colleague Artur Kruk wrote about Alexander Derevyanko’s disappearance.

Derevianko’s failure to get in touch on November 27 was announced by the students he was teaching music to. Then the police opened the apartment: the officers found a note taped to the door, where it was written that he had supposedly gone on a business trip.

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