Russian woman has been accused of hiring an assassin to kill her children over their inheritance.
Police in Krasnoyarsk, the second largest city in Siberia, Russia arrested the 67-year-old woman last week.
It is alleged she ordered the murder of her son and two daughters, so she could become the sole owner of a family property.
According to investigators, the mother shared her intentions with an acquaintance, who told her that he knew a hit man she could employ.
She reportedly promised to pay the hit man ₽80,000, or a little more than £810 to do the job when he brought sufficient evidence of the murder of her house.
Instead of fulfilling his part in the deal, the man contacted the local police and told them about the woman’s intentions.
In order to collect the evidence necessary for the conviction, the investigators asked him to continue playing the role of the hired killer and even helped him stage the murder.
In addition, they informed the daughter – who was set to be the victim of the murder – of her mother’s intention and asked her to provide a personal item with which they could fabricate proof that she was murdered.
On May 3rd, the ‘hired killer,’ who operated under the supervision of police investigators, informed the mother that he had fulfilled his side of the agreement between them and murdered her daughter by stabbing her with a knife.
As proof, he gave her a handbag, which the daughter provided to the investigators and paid the agreed fee.
Footage shared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Telegram shows three plain-clothes officers detaining the pensioner outside her home last week.
‘Do you understand why you were detained?’ One of them asks her on the street while handcuffing her. The surprised woman replies: ‘No.’
According to JPost, her alleged plan was exposed on the day when the hired killer was supposed to take one of her daughters out – a 48-year-old woman.
Pictures shared by police show the wads of cash that she had allegedly taken out to make the payment.
A Russian Internal Ministry statement said: ‘Employees of the criminal investigation department of the Krasnoyarskoye Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia detained a suspect in organising the murder of her children.‘
Operatives received information that a resident of the regional center, born in 1956, wishing to remain the sole owner of real estate, ordered the murder of her son, born in 1978, and daughters born in 1974.’
She is now charged with committing a crime under a section of Russian law that prohibits organizing a murder for hire.
