By RIA Novosti
Moscow : A suspect in the 2002 murder of a former governor of Russia’s Far East region of Magadan arrived in Moscow on Saturday after being extradited by Spain, the Russian prison service said.
Martin Babekekhyan, charged with organizing the murder, has been put in a pre-trial detention center in the Russian capital.
Babekekhyan was accompanied to the center by Russian Interpol and prison service officers, a spokesman for the service said.
The suspect will be soon be questioned by investigators, he added.
Valentin Tsvetkov was gunned down near his region’s representative office in central Moscow on October 18, 2002. A year later, the Prosecutor General’s Office declared the case solved. Two suspects were arrested, and another five, including Babakekhyan, were put on the wanted list in May 2003.