Moscow court jails son of murdered university professor on murder charge
A Moscow court jailed the son of Moscow State University associate professor Anna Kameneva on Thursday, charging him with her murder, according to a law enforcement source cited by Russian state news agency TASS. Kameneva, an associate professor at Moscow State University’s Higher School of State Audit, was found dead with a cut to her neck at a house in Zhukovka, a village outside Moscow, on Aug. 26, the newspaper Izvestia reported.
Shell casings and a nonlethal handgun that fires rubber bullets were found at the scene, Izvestia said. Moscow State University’s press office confirmed her death. Earlier reports from the tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda suggested the main suspect was a close friend of Kameneva’s son, who fled the scene and is being sought. The motive may have been connected to the family’s money, the tabloid said.
Kameneva had worked in the Higher School of State Audit’s economic and financial investigations department since 2011. She was married to Gadzhi Makhachev, a former member of Russia’s State Duma and a former deputy prime minister of Dagestan, who died in a car crash on Moscow’s Kutuzovsky Prospekt in 2013.
The Tverskoy Court ordered the pretrial detention of Kameneva’s son, TASS reported. The investigation is ongoing, with authorities continuing to examine the circumstances surrounding her death.
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