Russia: Police 'admit' killing website editor. Two police officers were
quickly detained last week on suspicion of carrying out the contract murder
of military web site editor Vladimir Sukhomlin, beaten to death with
baseball bats Jan. 4.
Two police lieutenants from the town of Balashikha outside Moscow,
identified by the Izvestia newspaper by the names, Goncharov and
Vorotnikov, were detained on 9 January. They were said to have told police
they had received $1,150 to kill Sukhomlin.
The suspects also reportedly named the person alleged to have paid them,
the director of a St. Petersburg company. The death of Sukhomlin, 23, was a
shock to his friends in Russia's Internet community, who knew him as
Cliver, and to military experts.
"He was killed by the criminal structure that our police have turned into,"
the his father, Moscow State University professor Vladimir Sukhomlin, told
the Moscow Times. "And these are police officers, who are supposed to be
protecting us. That's what's horrible. They are a criminal organisation."
Moscow Times report.
