“The chief investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the North Caucasus Federal District, in cooperation with the FSB department for the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, detained the former prosecutor of the Zhererechny district of the Vladikavkaz Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Olga Shvetsova, during a criminal investigation into members of the criminal community headed by Aslan Gagiev ", The agency said in a statement.
According to TASS, she is suspected of organizing contract killings of an investigator from the Northern Investigation Department of Transport of the Moscow Interregional Administration for Transport of the UK. It is specified that Shvetsova has chosen a preventive measure in the form of detention.
In early December 2018, the UK indicted the head of the organized criminal group, Aslan Gagiev, in particular, for organizing a criminal community, creating a gang, and killing; arms trafficking.
In early July, the UK said that Gagiev had pleaded not guilty and refused to testify.
According to investigators, the Gagiyev organized crime group began operations in 2004, it had 50 participants. In total, members of the organized crime group committed 60 contract killings in the Moscow region and North Ossetia.