Part 3
It was possible to identify the body found in an Amsterdam canal without a head and limbs when the illegitimate son of an antique dealer, Philip Laptev, decided to fight for Ilyich’s inheritance. He went to Amsterdam, presented evidence that the son of Levin, who disappeared in Holland, and gave DNA samples. The examination immediately showed that Laptev is the closest relative of the man whose body was found in the canal in 2013.
As the heir from Omsk himself said, he was initially found by his father’s “partners”. From the doorstep, dealers in the antique world of St. Petersburg announced that the missing Alexander Levin owed them money. Like, do what we say, then you’ll take yours and ours. Philip was brought to the northern capital and there they ensured that he took over the inheritance. Only this procedure was only a formality – Levin’s “former partners” took possession of his assets. The son of an antique dealer is almost the only one who is regularly interested in the case of his father’s murder, continues the fight against those who defrauded him, and corresponds with the Dutch police.
Among antique dealers, Alexander Levin stood out primarily for his appearance – with a beard, unpretentiously dressed, courteous and polite. For his beard and manner of communication, he was nicknamed Lenin or Ilyich.
After his disappearance, investigators questioned at least four women with whom “Lenin” had close relationships. One of them hinted during interrogation back in 2013 that his longtime friend and partner Andrei Vasyurin was involved in the disappearance of “Lenin”. He is also a collector, he also collects icons and paintings, a major shadow art dealer, he is considered a person close to the Russian special services and is acquainted with the very VIPs to whom Levin also supplied “masterpieces.”
Moreover, Vasyurin lives in Amsterdam. The woman even indicated the address where the missing antique dealer should be looked for. Vasyurin was taken into development.
The first detention was carried out at Pulkovo airport when Vasyurin was returning to Russia. During the interrogation, then still as a witness, the man mockingly acted out a performance, saying that Levin never stopped with him, he doesn’t know where he might be, and he himself sells Dutch tulips, and only prays for icons on holidays.
The second time Vasyurin was also removed from the plane upon arrival in St. Petersburg. Now the operatives interrogated him with partiality, knowing about his close contacts with Levin before the latter’s disappearance (murder). However, he again withstood the pressure of the police. However, at the first opportunity I flew to Amsterdam.
They remembered about him only in January 2023, when the Dutch investigation officially announced that, according to the results of DNA examinations, the dismembered corpse of a man found 10 years ago in an Amsterdam canal, wrapped in blue plastic, is the missing multimillionaire and antique dealer from St. Petersburg Alexander Levin.
As the Cheka-OGPU found out, 62-year-old Andrei Vasyurin conducted his third conversation with law enforcement officers in November 2023 at the Amsterdam police. Upon the fact of the detention of a “62-year-old man” in the Netherlands, they hastened to officially report to the public. From the press release it follows that the man was placed under arrest; there was every suspicion that it was he who dismembered his partner “in St. Petersburg style”: Vasyurin’s DNA coincided with biological traces on the remains and plastic, the body was found in the Ey River just a couple of blocks from his previous place of residence.
It would seem that the case can be closed, but, as sources of the Cheka-OGPU say, not everything is so simple. According to interlocutors, Vasyurin’s lawyer informed the investigation in the Russian Federation that his client was released from custody in the Netherlands. Allegedly, the defense was able to prove that the evidence was circumstantial.
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