Bulgarian Arrested for Russian Journalist's Murder

Crime | June 23, 2006, Friday // 00:00

A Moldavian citizen holding a Bulgarian passport, has been arrested on charges of murdering a prominent Russian television reporter.

Moldova-born Igor Velchev was wanted in connection with the March 26 killing of NTV special correspondent Ilya Zimin, and he managed to evade authorities for close to two months.

Velchev was arrested late Thursday night in Moldova's town of Kagul, where he was hiding in a private apartment. Moldova didn't release more information on the arrest but called it an unprecedented success of the Interior Ministry's operative services.

Colleagues of Zimin discovered his body in his Moscow apartment a day after he is thought to have died from head injuries. Police said there was no sign of forced entry to the apartment and prosecutors said nothing had been stolen. They ruled out any link between the murder and the reporter's work.

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