The police have established the identity of two suspects in the murder of television Channel One reporter Ilyas Shurpayev, a spokesman for the Moscow investigation department of the Investigation Committee at the Russian Prosecutor’s Office told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
“Two people who may be involved in the murder of Shurpayev have been identified by the present moment,” he said. No other information has been disclosed.
Ilyas Shurpayev was killed in a rented apartment in Moscow on March 21. The killer set the apartment to fire, and the journalist’s body was found by firemen. He had a belt around his neck. The Moscow bureau of the Prosecutor General’s Office Investigation Committee opened the criminal case on the murder charges. Shurpayev was buried at a Muslim cemetery in his hometown of Makhachkala on March 25.
