MOSCOW, February 7 (RIA Novosti) - A prominent businessman was killed in Moscow last night in what investigators believe was a contract killing, a police officer said on Thursday.
Yevgeny Chivilikhin, 57, head of the Moscow Guild of Markets and Fairs and a co-founder of the Timiryazevsky trade center, was gunned down near his house in the north of the Russian capital at about 9 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday.
"An unknown man fired several pistol shots at Chivilikhin, made an execution-style shot to the head, and fled the scene," a police source said.
He said police have seized a tape from a surveillance camera installed near the house in the hope it will help spot the killer.
In 2006, Chivilikhin escaped an attempt on his life, when a bomb with a yield equivalent to 400 grams of TNT exploded near his house.
