Suspected killer of Dalnegorsk mayoral candidate charged
VLADIVOSTOK. May 7 (Interfax) - The authorities in Russia's Primorye Territory have completed their criminal investigation against local resident Alexander Vovna, who is suspected of acting together with two other people to kill Dmitry Fotyanov, a candidate for mayor of the town of Dalnegorsk.
"The final indictment has been filed. Vovna faces charges of conspiring with a group of people to commit murder by socially dangerous methods, illegal transportation of firearms and ammunition and document forgery," Avrora Rimskaya, senior aide to the director of the Russian Investigative Committee's Primorye branch, told Interfax.
The charges against Vovna will soon be forwarded to court, she said.
Vovna was put on the wanted list shortly after killing Fotyanov. Vovna, who lived with a forged identity document, was detained in Vladivostok on January 10, 2013.
On October 19, 2006, Vovna, Alexander Fedotov and Alexander Fakhretdinov, armed with two Kalashnikov assault rifles and a Makarov pistol, killed Fotyanov in his own house in Dalnegorsk.
Fedotov was subsequently sentenced to 21 years in a high-security prison and Fakhretdinov to 18 years in a high-security prison for the crime.
