Russian Ex-Cops Kidnap, Kill Austrian Lawyer

An Austrian lawyer linked to Russian organized crime was kidnapped and accidentally killed by two former Russian policemen with a criminal record, Kommersant daily reported on Saturday. The body of Erich Rebasso, who went missing in Vienna in late July, was recently unearthed in a forest outside the Austrian capital, the report said. The discovery was made after Russian police detained the two alleged kidnappers on request of their Austrian counterparts, who traced them to Moscow. The suspects, Pavel Vlasov and Alexander Molchanov, served on the police force in the city of Kirov, but were discharged and jailed for fraud and heroin dealing, respectively. Vlasov and Molchanov, who started working for an unidentified crime boss after serving their prison sentences, admitted during questioning that they kidnapped Rebasso.

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