MOSCOW, May 30 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) – Marat Yanbukhtin suspected of killing a Moscow attorney has been placed in detention until July 26, the Presnensky District Court’s spokesperson Anastasia Pylina told RAPSI on Tuesday.

Law enforcement officers arrested Yanbukhtin on Monday.

The woman, who had been working as a lawyer, was shot dead on entering her apartment in the north-east of Moscow on April 26. Investigators consider different versions of the murder including those connected with the victim’s professional activity.

Reportedly, the victim is the 40-year old Natalya Vavilina. However, this information has not been officially confirmed.

According to the Federal Chamber of Lawyers, the woman became the seventh attorney killed in Russia in the last two years. Since 2001, 45 Russian lawyers have been murdered. Most of crimes have not been detected, the Chamber reported earlier.