Suspects in Russian central banker's murder identified: prosecutors

Russian prosecutors said on Monday that they had identified those behind the murder of the Central Bank's first deputy chairman Andrei Kozlov, who was killed last month in Moscow.

"Several persons involved in arranging and committing this crime have been identified and proper investigative action is being taken," an unidentified official of the Prosecutor General's Office was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

Moscow's Basmanny Court has issued arrest warrants for three suspects in the killing of Kozlov, Itar-Tass said.

Kozlov was shot by two attackers on Sept. 13 near the Spartak stadium in eastern Moscow and died later in hospital. The assailants also killed his driver. Investigators consider the killing related to Kozlov's professional activities.

Kozlov had been first deputy chairman of the Central Bank since 2002 and had held the same position in 1997-1999.

Source: Xinhua