As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the central board Olga Vradiy, the official was found dead on July 2 in the city district of Kolomna in his own apartment.

“Immediately, investigators and criminologists, as well as the deputy head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region, Igor Doinikov, went to the scene,” she said.

Currently, experts are examining the scene.