MOSCOW, August 2The Basmanny Court of Moscow received a petition from an investigator to choose a preventive measure for Senator Dmitry Savelyev in the case of organizing a murder, the court reported.
«The court received materials on the investigator's petition to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention for Dmitry Savelyev,» the agency's interlocutor said.
According to the Investigative Committee, in August 2023, Savelyev ordered his acquaintance to kill an entrepreneur he disliked. Law enforcement agencies found out about this, and a staged murder was organized in order to expose the criminals. After receiving information about the alleged murder, Savelyev gave his accomplice a reward. The case was opened under Part 3 of Article 33, Part 1 of Article 30, paragraph «z» of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of preparation for murder).
After Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov appealed to the Federation Council with a motion to deprive Savelyev of immunity on suspicion of involvement in organizing the murder and received the go-ahead, the senator was detained — as reported by the head of the Federation Council Committee on Rules Vyacheslav Timchenko, this happened when leaving the meeting room.
Savelyev is a senator from the government of the Tula Region in the Federation Council. Before that, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the sixth convocation, and was a member of the Committee on Natural Resources, Nature Management and Ecology.