Russian did not want to divorce his wife as she would get half of his property
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Moscow: A Russian businessman who didn’t want to split his wealth with his wife ended up paying a higher price after being taken for a ride by five fake hitmen and being arrested by police.
A Moscow court confirmed on Friday that Konstantin Monastyrsky, 47, was sentenced to eight and a half years for attempting to have his wife killed.
According to the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets, Monastyrsky said his wife was an alcoholic, but that he didn’t want to divorce her as she would get half of his property.
Instead Monastyrsky decided to have her bumped off, and found a man who presented himself as a hired hitman and took an advance of 200,000 rubles ($5,550) to do the job.
But when nothing happened Monastyrsky pressured the supposed hitman, who turned out to be an alcoholic who had drank the advance. The fraudster turned to the police, who in turn contacted the wife and staged a fake assassination scene.
( Source : AFP )
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