The court arrested a man who strangled his niece in the Krasnodar Territory.

The Tikhoretsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory has arrested for two months a man suspected of murdering an underage niece. This was reported on June 22 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the courtroom.

It is noted that the defendant will remain in custody until August 20, 2025. Earlier, investigators opened a criminal case under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Murder").

After the disappearance of his niece, the man was arrested, after which he confessed and said that on the evening of June 19 he strangled the girl and hid the body in the forest.

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On June 21, the investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (IC RF) in the Krasnodar Territory reported that a 41-year-old man killed a 16-year-old niece because of a quarrel that arose after the girl criticized the financial situation of her uncle's family. To deflect suspicion from himself, the man took an active part in the search for a relative.