MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) – Police in Russia have detained a fugitive wanted in the United States on suspicion of murdering two women in New York in 2011, officials said Tuesday.
Police say the man is a resident of Novomoskovsk, a town in the Tula province, south of Moscow.
Law enforcement authorities launched a manhunt for the suspect, identified in U.S. media reports in 2011 as a handyman called Nikolai Rakossi, after their U.S. colleagues turned investigation materials over to the Russian prosecutor’s office, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry in Tula province.
A report in U.S. tabloid The New York in 2011 cited police as saying that Rakossi, a Russian citizen and former special-ops soldier, stabbed his girlfriend, Tatyana Prikhodko, and her daughter in a Brooklyn apartment.
New York television WPIX reported that police believed the suspect may have left the country for Russia from JFK International Airport shortly after the killing.
