Deputy Speaker of the Russian State Duma Lyubov Sliska was left with her gun and her medal after robbers struck her apartment.
Photo: Dmitry Azarov
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Politician's Apartment Robbed
First deputy speaker of the State Duma and United Russia Party member Lyubov Sliska was the victim of a robbery. She lives in the heavily-guarded “deputies' house” on Olof Palme St. just outside the central part of Moscow. Although the details of the case are officially secret, it is known that the investigation has classed the robbery as one of “especially large size.” Sliska, however, stated that the loss was not great but that the items taken, among them birthday presents, had personal value.
A reliable Kommersant source in the Moscow Main Department of Internal Affairs (the police) placed the losses from the robbery in the millions of rubles. The robbers were described as professions. One investigator said that the robbers worked slowly and methodically. The safe in the apartment was opened and large-denomination financial securities and jewelry worth ˆ85,000 were taken. No fingerprints were found. Larger items, such as Sliska's pistol and her medal of the order For Service to the Homeland, II degree, were not taken.
Sliska and her husband, Moscow Regional Court Judge Sergey Sliska, sped most of their time in their suburban home. A domestic worker called the family on Saturday to say that she was unable to enter the apartment. Sliska had the apartment opened by locksmiths on Tuesday and reported the crime to the Ramenskoe Department of Internal Affairs personally. She told police that she was last in the apartment on October 17, when he dropped off birthday presents there. She turned 53 on October 15. Her husband was in the apartment on October 20.
Several generals from law enforcement bodies and representative of the Prosecutor General's Office were present at the examination of the crime scene. The investigation has yet to determine how the thieves entered the apartment. The building is surrounded by a fence and has round-the –clock guards and concierges. There is also continuous video surveillance of the building, which investigators are hoping will provide clues. In January 2004, a Mercedes 500 belonging to Duma member Pavel Semenov was stolen from the courtyard of that building. The car, worth 2.5 million rubles, was never recovered.
Alexander Zheglov
All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 26, 2006
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