- Date
- 26/04/1994
- First
- Andrei
- Surname
- AIDZERDZIS
- Sex/Age
- M
- Incident
- homicide
- Motive
- nJ
- Place
- near home
- Job
- director, publisher
- Medium
- Federal District Plus
- CENTRAL
- Street, Town, Region
- Khimki, Moscow Region
- Freelance
- no
- Local/National
- national, Kto est kto
- Other Ties
- Duma, businessman
- Cause of Death
- shot, contract killing
- Legal Qualification
- no information
- Impunity
- investigation, "solved"
Andrei Aidzerdzis, publisher of the Kto est kto (who is who) newspaper, was shot dead on 26 April 1994 in Khimki, near Moscow.
It was suggested that this was revenge by criminal forces which had backed Aidzerdzis in elections the previous year to the new parliament, the State Duma, and were disappointed by his behaviour. As well as being a deputy for the Liberal Democrat Party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Aidzerdzis had also set up one of the hundreds of private banks created in the early 1990s.
Official investigation led to warrants for 14 and 8 were arrested. The murder was declared solved, since the person who ordered it and the intermediary were identified but the perpetrator of the crime took refuge abroad. No one was prosecuted.