A man is being hunted by police in Moscow after stabbing his wife's friend to death in what preliminary reports describe as a revenge attack, according to Russian law enforcement authorities.
The Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the city of Moscow confirmed that the body of a woman born in 1975 was found with multiple knife wounds on October 6 inside an apartment on Litovsky Boulevard.
Investigators have officially opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which covers the offense of murder.
Investigative Committee Procedure
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation operates as the nation's primary federal agency responsible for investigating serious criminal offenses, including homicide, kidnapping, and major violence. Under Russian criminal law, Part 1 of Article 105 governs standard murder cases that do not carry statutory aggravating factors such as premeditated mass murder or crimes against state officials.
Forensic specialists, known within the Russian legal system as criminalists, work alongside detectives to process violent crime scenes, gather physical evidence, and reconstruct event sequences for judicial prosecution.
Police Search Underway
Litovsky Boulevard is a prominent residential thoroughfare located in the Yasenevo District of Moscow's South-Western Administrative Okrug. Officials indicated that preliminary findings point to the victim being targeted by the husband of her female friend as part of a personal revenge plot.
Detectives and forensic teams remain at the residential address on Litovsky Boulevard to examine the scene and secure forensic material. Law enforcement forces across Moscow are conducting a search to locate and apprehend the suspect, who escaped immediately after the stabbing.
When a homicide investigation is launched in Moscow, municipal police and operational units utilize regional checkpoints and law enforcement databases across the capital to track suspects who have fled crime scenes.
