A Former Sparta Battalion Fighter Has Been Sent to Pretrial Detention in the Case of the Murder and Dismemberment of a Woman and Her 19-Year-Old Daughter

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In the garage of the live-in partner of a woman who was killed and dismembered in New Moscow, the body of her 19-year-old daughter and a weapons cache were found. The man has been detained, the Investigative Committee reports. “The routes taken by the woman’s live-in partner have been reconstructed in maximum detail based on…

A former fighter of the Sparta battalion has been sent to pretrial detention in the case of the murder and dismemberment of a woman and her 19-year-old daughter

Moscow’s Kuzminsky District Court has arrested 47-year-old Teymuraz Gogiashvili. He is accused of murdering two people for mercenary motives, as well as two counts of illegal trafficking in weapons and ammunition. According to Moscow courts, the man admitted guilt.

According to investigators, on the evening of October 1, Gogiashvili shot the 19-year-old daughter of his live-in partner in a garage in New Moscow, and several hours later killed her 53-year-old mother, Elena Tsereteli, in an apartment on Zhulebinsky Boulevard. After that, he dismembered the bodies. Fragments of Tsereteli’s body were found on October 3 on the apartment balcony, and her daughter’s body was found in the garage, where weapons and ammunition were also discovered. Gogiashvili was detained the next day in Voronezh Oblast.

Since 2014, Gogiashvili had fought in eastern Ukraine as part of the Sparta battalion, which was commanded by Arsen Pavlov, known as Motorola. Later he worked at the Rossiya Segodnya media holding and received a Russian passport. A woman born in 1986 who was with him at the time of detention is being checked for involvement in the crime.