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Dugina murder suspect placed on international wanted list

According to investigators, after committing the crime, Vovk and her daughter fled to Estonia through Russia’s Pskov Region

MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. Natalia Vovk, a suspect in the murder of Russian journalist Daria Dugina, has been put on an international wanted list, the press office of the Moscow Basmanny District Court told TASS on Wednesday.

"The suspect is on an international wanted list," a spokesman for the court said.

Earlier in the day, the court satisfied a motion submitted by investigators and ruled to put Vovk in custody in absentia for a period of two months starting from the day of her arrest or extradition to Russia.

According to investigators, after committing the crime, Vovk and her daughter fled to Estonia through Russia’s Pskov Region. Investigators also established that before the crime Vovk had been renting an apartment in the same residential building, where Dugina lived.

Daria Dugina, 29, was killed on August 20 when her car was blown up on the M1 Highway near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy in the Moscow Region’s Odintsovsky district. On August 22, the Russian Federal Security Service's Public Relations Center told TASS that her murder had been solved. According to the agency, it was carried out by Ukraine’s intelligence services, and the perpetrator was a Ukrainian citizen named Natalia Vovk.

Later, the FSB reported that in addition to Vovk, Dugina's murder had been plotted in Moscow by another member of this Ukrainian sabotage and terrorist group, Ukrainian citizen Bogdan Tsyganenko.