Football player of St. Petersburg Zenit Andrei Mostovoy moved temporarily with the guards after an attempt was made to kidnap him. Mostovoy told journalists about this.
“There was a time when I walked with confidence. I was sure that it would be unlikely that this would happen again, but for safety. But I also spent more time at home, including for reinsurance,” Mostovoy said.
According to interlocutors of a law enforcement source, on the evening of October 23 the attackers attempted to kidnap Zenit and the footballer of the Russian national team Mostovoy, and on October 25 they kidnapped a businessman Sergei Selegenwho is the son-in-law of the former chairman of the legislative assembly of St. Petersburg, deputy of the State Duma Vyacheslav Makarova.
The footballer managed to repel and escape from the attackers, after which they fled by car. The second victim was forcibly loaded by the three defendants into a foreign car, with which they went to a food supermarket on Vyazovaya Street. They handcuffed the man, took his cell phone and, threatening him with a gun, demanded 10 million rubles. Fearing for his life, the businessman transferred 210 thousand rubles to them, promising that his wife would bring the rest of the money. However, at that moment the car was stopped by the police, who already knew what had happened from an eyewitness to the abduction and quickly tracked the car. As a result of further activities, law enforcement agencies established the whereabouts of another accomplice and, together with employees of the Russian Guard, arrested him in Kudrovo, Vsevolozhsk District, Leningrad Region.
