ICRF plans to exhume members of Chudakov family killed in the Rostov Region

The bodies of the family members of Dmitry Chudakov, the commander of Nizhny Novgorod special troops, killed in 2009 in the Rostov Region, will be exhumed for further examination.

Dmitry Chudakov, the head of the special-purpose militia of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, his wife and two children, aged 7 and 11, were killed on July 8, 2009, on the highway, 15 km away from Rostov. Their VAZ-2115 car with Nizhniy Novgorod state numbers plates pierced by bullets was found at the exit from Rostov-on-Don with the dead bodies inside. Dmitry Chudakov and his son Alexander were shot dead from "Saiga-410" carabine; while the bodies of his wife and daughter has also stabbed wounds.

Last September, Alexei Serenko, a resident of the Rostov Region, never persecuted before, was detained on suspicion of committing the murder.

"The investigation has satisfied the petition lodged by Alexei Serenko's mother and the suspect's defence on exhumation of the bodies for a repeated commission forensic medical examination," says a message of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) without indicating any circumstances to be clarified in the course of the examination.

The decision on exhumation was obtained through the court, because the mother of the killed Irina Chudakova was strongly against it.

"At the time of investigatory actions, Irina Chudakova's mother rendered resistance; therefore, inspectors decided to suspend exhumation and complete it later," says the website of the ICRF.