TASS
April 13, 1997, Sunday
INVESTIGATION INTO PERM BUSINESSMAN'S MURDER FINALIZED
BYLINE: BY LEONID BAGDATYEV
DATELINE: PERM, APRIL 13
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MURDER OF GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE NEFTEKHIMIK COMPANY
YEVGENY PANTELEIMONOV HAS BEEN FINALIZED. THE MATERIALS ARE PASSED OVER TO
COURT.
IT TOOK THE INVESTIGATORS TWO YEARS TO FIND OUT THE REASONS FOR MURDERING THE
BUSINESSMAN IN THE DOORWAY OF HIS HOUSE. SUSPECTED MURDERERS, ORGANIZERS AND
INSTIGATORS OF THE CRIME HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. THEY INCLUDE HEAD OF THE FD-KREDIT
BANK DMITRY RYBOLOVLEV.
OBSERVERS BELIEVE THE CRIME IS RELATED TO THE POTASSIUM AND OIL BUSINESS WHICH
INVOLVED BOTH THE VICTIM AND THE SUSPECTED CRIME ORGANIZER.
PERM REGIONAL GOVERNOR GENNADY IGUMNOV TOLD THE MERKURIY LOCAL WEEKLY SOME TIME
AGO HE KNEW THAT "RYBOLOVLEV HELD NEGOTIATIONS WITH A U. S. COMPANY ON EXPORTS
OF POTASSIUM SALTS BUT DID SO WITHOUT ASKING THE REGIONAL LEADERS FOR ADVICE. "
YER/DRO