The defendant in the Bunkus murder case faces 20 years to life in prison / Article

All three defendants in the case are also asked to be placed under probation supervision for three years. Property confiscation is also being requested for Babenko and Uļmans, who are accused of ordering the murder.

The debate is one of the final stages before the court prepares the verdict.

Bankruptcy administrator Bunkus was shot dead in his Range Rover in Mežaparks near the Riga Brethren Cemetery on the morning of May 30, 2018. In May 2022, several years after Bunkus' murder, the police announced that they had managed to trace the chain of people involved in Bunkus' murder from the client to the organizer to the executor.

The investigation into one of the largest contract killings in the history of the Latvian State Police was completed on November 24, 2022. Police requested criminal prosecution of four people – three Latvian citizens and one Russian citizen.

The public prosecutor has charged three people: one with incitement or ordering murder, one with incitement and aiding and abetting murder and one with committing the murder. In addition, the perpetrator of the murder was also accused of carrying and transporting a firearm and firearm ammunition without appropriate authorization and of disclosing information that he had obtained in the course of pre-trial criminal proceedings without the permission of the investigator or public prosecutor until the conclusion of the proceedings. not to pass on the relevant information.

The mastermind of the murder was not charged because he died a violent death. The man was reportedly Genādijs Vaļagins, a member of Ivans Haritonov's once-powerful criminal gang in the 1990s. He was shot dead in Plavnieki, Riga in March 2022.

It was established that the motive for the murder was dislike of the administrator in the performance of his professional duties.

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