ST. PETERSBURG, April 20 (RAPSI, Mikhail Telekhov) – Several men including a lawyer and a police captain have been arrested in St. Petersburg on suspicion of organizing a murder and intended infliction of grievous bodily harm that negligently caused the death of a victim, RAPSI learnt in  the Saint Petersburg main Investigations Directorate of Russia's Investigative Committee on Wednesday.

According to investigators, in September 2010 attorney Alexander Kaidanov organized an assault on a local woman because of enmity.

On September 30, 2010, two alleged accomplices of Kaidanov fetched the women 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. He involved Police captain Yevgeny Popov in this crime promising him money reward.

Popov in turn gave information about the victim to their alleged accomplices who later committed the murder, according to investigators.