MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, who had been given a life sentence for soliciting the killing of prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, died in a penal colony, a source told Sputnik on Tuesday.
"Gaitukayev died in a colony," the source said Monday, adding that the convict suffered from several illnesses.
23 December 2016, 09:46 GMT
On October 7, 2006, Politkovskaya, who worked for the Russian Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was killed in her own house. Dissatisfaction with her journalism is considered to be a motive for the crime, however the people who had ordered the murder have not been identified yet.
In June 2014, a Moscow court gave life sentences to Gaitukayev and Rustam Makhmudov, finding them guilty of organizing the murder of the journalist. Their accomplices had also been convicted and imprisoned.
