In Moscow, they found the bodies of eight who died during a tour of the underground river Neglinka on August 20 — a digger guide and seven participants. This was reported by the capital's department of the Investigative Committee.
On the day of the tour, it rained heavily in the capital, and the water level in the collector rose. According to meteorologists, 60% of the normal precipitation for the whole of August fell — 47 millimeters.
Yesterday afternoon it was known about the discovery of the bodies of four missing participants in the tour. In the evening, according to the Shot telegram channel, a dead elderly couple was found, and on the morning of August 22, two more people were found. The bodies of the latter were carried to Zaryadye Park and the Bolshoi Ustyinsky Bridge. Among the dead were the head of the PR service of the large IT company Lanit, Dmitry Markushkin, with his 15-year-old daughter and nephew. ). The REN TV channel claims that the searches took place at the heads of Russian tour aggregator sites, where you could buy participation in the Neglinka tour — Tripster.ru and Sputnik8.com. We are talking about Nikita Dubas and Alexander Kim, respectively. The first has already been charged, the Investigative Committee reported. Kim, the general director of the Sputnik company, listed on the Sputnik8 website, should be transferred from St. Petersburg to Moscow.
Another person, the general director of Avangard LLC Alexander Lazovsky, flew to the UAE on August 21. He was put on the wanted list. According to the aggregator of data on legal entities Sbis, the company ran the PresentStar service, which also sells places for various excursions.
The Investigative Committee, however, calls all three the direct «organizers» of the Neglinka tour.