Anastasia Berezovskaya, the Ukrainian woman sought by Interpol as the alleged author of the explosion in Monaco that seriously injured oligarch Vadim Ermolaev and his family, was found dead near Kiev on July 6, as reported by the local newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, which suggests the possibility that she had been shot to death.
Berezovskaya, 39, was identified after disguising herself as a man to place the backpack with an explosive at the entrance of the building on Reverend Père Louis Frolla street in Monaco. The Monegasque police traced her whereabouts and located her last residence in Frankfurt, where German police seized several pieces of evidence.
The investigation into the "attempted murder" of Vadim Ermolaev points to a possible revenge for money laundering operations at a bank in Estonia, Versobank, of which the oligarch was a co-owner.
Ermolaev, who remains hospitalized and out of danger from the injuries sustained in the explosion on Monday, once ranked 39th on the list of the richest men in Ukraine due to his real estate operations in Dnipro. His case has exposed the dirty laundry of the so-called "Monaco battalion", a group of around eighty Ukrainian businessmen settled on the French Riviera over the last decade.
Other Ukrainian media outlets report the unconfirmed arrest of two suspects linked to the woman's death near Kiev. The same media sources suggest possible ties to the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), the secret service of the Ministry of Defense.