{"id":887,"date":"2025-07-22T07:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/?p=887"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:30:33","slug":"anti-organised-crime-chief-mysteriously-found-dead-in-benidorm-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/anti-organised-crime-chief-mysteriously-found-dead-in-benidorm-swimming-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-organised crime chief mysteriously found dead in Benidorm swimming pool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spanish Civil Guard officers stand outside the garage where the body of the Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov was found after he was shot dead, in Villajoyosa, Spain (Picture: Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A former official at Ukraine<\/a>’s Interior Ministry has been found dead at the very same Spanish<\/a> resort where a Russian military defector was murdered<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ihor Hrushevskyi, the ex-head of the anti-crime police unit, was discovered in the town of Villajoyosa, a few miles from the resort popular with British tourists for its packaged holidays.<\/p>\n

The 61-year-old was floating face-down in the communal pool – no deeper than 1.5 metres – of the Cala Alta house complex, El Espa\u00f1ol <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n

Neighbours pulled him out, performing CPR, but they were unable to save him and when paramedics arrived at the scene, he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

While there were no obvious signs of violence, blood was coming from one ear, so foul play has not been ruled out.<\/p>\n

The incident happened in the morning of June 29, but the identity of the man was only revealed this week.<\/p>\n

It was just a few months ago that Hrushevskyi had purchased a flat in one of the blocks and he was still renovating.<\/p>\n

His death comes a little more than a year after Maksim Kuzinovm – an ex-Russian helicopter pilot, who had deserted to Ukraine – was killed there.<\/p>\n

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Russian military pilot Maksim Kuzminov who flew his helicopter over the frontline to defect to Ukraine (Picture: Maksim Kuzminov\/east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Police found his bullet-riddled body in the underground parking garage of that same resort.<\/p>\n

A burnt-out car apparently used by his attackers was found near the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old fled Russian and landed a Mi-8 helicopter in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in August, 2023, while flying between two Russian bases.<\/p>\n

He had reportedly contacted the Ukrainian secret service to inform them of his decision to defect and they had promised him \u00a3397,000, protection for his family and new documents.<\/p>\n

A state TV report from October, in which Russian propagandists branded Kuzminov ‘a traitor to the motherland’, claimed that Russian intelligence operatives had received orders to assassinate him.<\/p>\n

Sergei Naryshkin, Russia\u2019s foreign intelligence chief, said at the time: \u2018In Russia it is customary to speak either good of the dead or nothing at all.<\/p>\n

\u2018This traitor and criminal became a moral corpse at the very moment when he planned his dirty and terrible crime.\u2019<\/p>\n

Ukrainian officials have not yet commented on Hrushevskyi\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more stories like this, <\/strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n


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