Three Belarus citizens sent to jail in Kazakhstan national murder case

A murder case was filed at Ishwardi Police Station in Pabna on Sunday night over the death of a Kazakhstan national in the residential area of the Rooppur power plant project in the district.

Shvets Vladimir, 50, an employee of contractor firm NIKIMT at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, was found dead at a house in the residential area of the project on Saturday night, police said. 

His brother, identified as Amere, was admitted to a hospital with injuries.

A court in Pabna sent three Belarus citizens to jail on Monday, a day after Iurii Fedorov, director of the contracting firm, filed the case accusing them of committing the murder, said Raihan Pervez, sub-inspector of Ishwardi Police Station, reports UNB.

The murder suspects are Urbanavichus Vitali, 44, Fedarovich Henadz, 42, and Matsveyeu Uladzimir, 43. They work for the Russian company Rossem.

Three Belarus nationals were earlier detained by police. Later they were shown arrested in the murder case.

The body of the Kazakhstan national has been kept at the mortuary of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

In the primary investigation, police found that the two Kazakh brothers went to the room of three Belarus nationals to settle a monetary dispute. At one stage, they got involved in heated arguments.

Police are investigating the suspected murder,” said Raihan.