MOSCOW, July 24 (RAPSI, Yelizaveta Ponomareva) – Investigators have filed a motion with the Presnensky District Court seeking to extend detention of Marat Yanbukhtin, an alleged murderer of a Moscow attorney, the court’s press service told RAPSI on Monday.

The court will hear the petition on July 25.

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.

Yanbukhtin was arrested in late May.

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.