Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

Russian Court Closes Website Advertising Assassinations


(MENAFN) Court documents revealed that a Russian tribunal has ordered the blocking of a website that promoted contract murders and secret assassinations disguised as accidental deaths.

It is still uncertain whether any individuals were actually harmed or prosecuted in relation to this platform.

According to a news agency, the prohibited website allegedly offered staged deaths that appeared to be accidents – such as workplace mishaps or falls from elevated places – along with suicides and poisonings that could be interpreted as heart attacks.

The listed fees reportedly varied between 170,000 rubles (about $2,000) and 400,000 rubles (approximately $4,700).

The probe began after a military prosecutor found that “information about providing services for the killing of a person was freely available to an unlimited number of users.”

The Nikulinsky District Court in Moscow decided that the website hosted banned content explaining how to commission a murder, stressing that such details were accessible to the entire online audience, including underage users.

The court ruling stated: “Since the site in question freely provides materials on the possibility of offering services for the killing of a person, the court concludes that the information it contains is subject to recognition as prohibited for dissemination, as are actions related to publishing such information.”

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