Added salt: new details of a Balashikha resident’s poisoning of his parents

During the search, dichloroethane was confiscated from him

Additional details of the crime drama in Balashikha near Moscow were revealed, where a 25-year-old local resident slowly killed his mother and stepfather over the course of six months by sprinkling poison in their food .

Photo: Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation

As it became known » MK,” the suspect, Artem, worked as a manager in a car rental company. In addition, he worked part-time as a tutor. The young man explained during the preliminary interrogation that he committed the crime to get his parents’ apartment. He added poison, in particular, to salt — this moment was captured by a video camera. During the search, dichloroethane glue and other deadly substances were confiscated from the man.

As Olga Vradiy, senior assistant to the head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region, reported, the court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention against the suspect.