It has become known about a crime that took place in the basement of one of the cities of St. Petersburg.
The body of a young woman was found in the bag, where it had lain for 12 days.
The information about the incident was confirmed by the press service of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the city of St. Petersburg in its Telegram channel.
Due to the terrible discovery, law enforcement officers opened a criminal case under the article on murder.
The woman's cohabitant has already confessed to committing the crime.
According to the preliminary investigation, the woman, who was a citizen of Uzbekistan, was killed on December 9.
The murdered woman's body was hidden by her cohabitant in a suitcase, which he then buried in the ground and left in the basement of a house in the Nevsky district.
The man left Russia and went to his homeland in Uzbekistan, where on December 10 he went to the police with a confession to the murder of his common-law wife and revealed the location of her body.
An investigation team was sent to the address, which confirmed the veracity of the suspect's testimony. All necessary examinations are being carried out, including medical ones, necessary to establish the cause of the woman's death.