ST. PETERSBURG, April 28 (RAPSI, Mikhail Telekhov) – Jurors on Thursday unanimously found Denis Chkhitauri and Vyacheslav Finogenov, two defendants in the case on the murder of Dmitry Soshnev, the director of Coca-Cola plant near St. Petersburg, guilty, RAPSI reports from the St. Petersburg City Court.

Soshnev went missing in November 2014.

Investigators have established that Soshnev met with Chkhitauri and Finogenov, who had a murder record, on December 28, 2014. The suspects lured him to a garage area in the Frunzensky District, where Finogenov allegedly shot Soshnev with a shotgun.

The defendants took the victim’s money (about 160,000 rubles or $2,500) and his BMW registration documents, which they planned to sell for 1 million rubles ($15,400), according to the Investigative Committee.

Chkhitauri and Finogenov were charged with murder, assault with intent to rob, document theft and trafficking in drug and weapons.