Agence France Presse — English
September 28, 2007 Friday

Top Russian detective shot dead in Moscow

Moscow

A top Russian investigator was shot dead on Thursday as he walked out
of a restaurant in central Moscow in an apparent contract killing,
the Kommersant daily reported.

Nazim Kaziakhmedov was shot twice in the chest and once in the head
by an attacker dressed in black and wearing a baseball cap,
Kommersant said on Friday, citing officials.

Kaziakhmedov was working on a major fraud case involving investment
group Finvest and was a member of the newly-formed investigative
committee of the Russian prosecutor’s office, Kommersant said.

Shoot-outs and contract killings are less frequent in Moscow than
they were during the so-called "wild capitalism" years of the 1990s.
But there has been a recent spate of incidents.

In the early hours of Wednesday, a member of the Armenian parliament
was stabbed and shot by two men in the casino of the swanky Metropol
Hotel in the city centre, suffering serious injuries.