A deputy of the Khanty-Mansiysk District Duma was killed in Novaya Moscow

A member of the Duma of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District was killed in Novaya Moskva. The body of Aleksandr Kolodych with signs of violent death was found in the basement of his home, the Investigative Committee reports.

The deputy’s wife was also found in the house with multiple stab wounds, and she was hospitalized. On suspicion of murder, a 39-year-old laborer who tended the deputy’s garden was detained, Sibir.Realii reports.

The Investigative Committee reported that “a conflict arose between the deputy and the worker, which turned into a stabbing.”

“Kolodych’s wife ran to the screams, the gardener hit her with a knife,” the department reported. It is claimed that after the murder, the gardener buried the deputy’s body in the basement and hid, but then told his brother about what had happened, and he informed the deceased’s son.

• Alexander Kolodych headed the budget, finance and tax policy committee in the Duma of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District. He was born on March 20, 1965 in the village of Sedelnikovo, Omsk, since 1973 he lived in Nefteyugansk. Since 2005, Kolodych has been the chairman of the board of the “Union of Entrepreneurs of Ugra”, from 2006 to 2011 – a deputy of the Duma of Nefteyugansk, since 2013 – a deputy of the Duma of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District.
• In 2016, journalists of the district shot a story about Kolodych, stating that management companies controlled by Kolodych “take increased utility payments from the population, ultimately extracting large dividends.” The deputy declared that the film was “an injection of opponents on the eve of the elections.”