MOSCOW, January 24 (RAPSI) – The Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg has sentenced a local lawyer Alexander Kaidanov to 13 years in prison for murder and large-scale fraud, according to a statement published on the website of Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office.

The court has also deemed the attorney’s guilt in intended infliction of grievous bodily harm negligently resulting in death.

According to investigators, in September 2010, Kaidanov organized an assault on a local woman because of enmity. On September 30, 2010, two alleged accomplices of the lawyer fetched the woman on her head about ten times using a blunt instrument and took minimum three shots in her leg. The woman has been taken to a hospital where she died after a few days.

In November 2010, Kaidanov worked out a plan of killing a local businessman in order to gain possession of his assets worth around 10 million rubles (over $150,000). He allegedly involved Police captain Yevgeny Popov in this crime promising him money reward. Popov in turn gave information about the victim to their accomplices, who later committed the murder, investigators claimed.

According to the statement of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Kaidanov has pleaded guilty.