23:00, 16 April 2011

Figurant in Kuschevskaya massacre case confesses of murdering two businessmen

Vitaly Ivanov, one of those accused of murdering 12 persons in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, has confessed that in September 2003 he killed two entrepreneurs, acting together with his accomplice.

Vitaly Ivanov, who is accused of murdering farmer Ametov's family and his guests from Rostov-on-Don in Kuschevskaya, has confessed that in 2003 he committed a double murder of entrepreneurs named Bogachov in their household in Kuschevskaya," said a source from law enforcement bodies.

The "Interfax" adds that a separate criminal case will be opened on this episode will.

Ivanov was detained on the above suspicion on December 9, 2010. In January, he tried to commit suicide by cutting veins in his arm and stomach. Investigators decided not to initiate a criminal case on this fact. It was the second suicide attempt of the 28-year-old Ivanov; during the first one - in December 2010, when being kept at the Kuschevskaya SIZO (pre-trial prison), cut his neck with a piece of glass, the "Yuga.ru" writes.