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Russian oil consultant shot dead in Moscow
AFP
MOSCOW
Petroleumworld.com 14 11 06
The director of a Russian oil industry consultancy firm was shot dead in Moscow on Tuesday in an apparent contract killing, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
Zelimkhan Magomedov, 50, head of the National Oil Institute Fund, was killed with two shots to the head in southwest Moscow, ITAR-TASS reported.
"A criminal investigation for a contract killing has been opened," Svetlana Petrenko, an official at the Moscow prosecutor's office, was quoted as saying.
The fund was set up in 2003 and supports the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the oil and gas industry, providing analysis and consultancy services, according to its website.
Magomedov's death is the latest in a series of apparent contract killings in Moscow in recent months, including those of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya and the deputy head of the Russian Central Bank, Andrei Kozlov.
AFP 14 0924 GMT 11 06
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