Organizer of Murder of Deputy Sobolev's Son Identified (PHOTO)

His name is Yusup Abuev.

The identity of the organiser of the attempt on the life of Viacheslav Sobolev, a deputy of the Kyiv Regional Council, in which his 3-year-old son was killed, has been established. This was reported by Detective-Info.

The organiser is 25-year-old Yusup Abuev, a native of the city of Krasnogorsk, Russian Federation. 

He offered one of the suspects, Andrei Lavreg, to carry out the murder of Deputy Sobolev for a reward of $40,000, which the latter agreed to. They met at one of the capital's shopping and entertainment centres.

According to reports, Abuev provided the shooter with information about the deputy, his lifestyle, home and work addresses, etc., and also supplied him with a firearm, a vehicle and financed other expenses, including the rental of a garage for storing the weapon.

The men communicated on Telegram. Abuev himself, to divert suspicion, left Ukraine the day before the tragedy.

Yusup Abaev has been wanted since 19 November 2019. His profile is in the database of persons evading law enforcement. According to this information, he lived on Zamkovetska Street in Kyiv. Earlier, a court elected a preventive measure in the criminal proceedings.

On 17 December, the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office and Kyiv city police found out who could have organised the attempted contract killing of Sobolev, but did not disclose his name.

The Kyiv Prosecutor's Office has already approved a notice of suspicion for the Russian citizen of organising a contract murder under Part 2 of Article 15, paragraphs 11 and 12 of Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The issue of declaring him an international wanted person is now being decided.

On the evening of 1 December, when Sobolev, his wife and their 3-year-old son got into the car, the gunman fired, but hit not the deputy but the child, who died. The Shevchenkivskyi District Court ordered custody for 2 months without the right to bail for the suspect.