Pilot Kuzminov was killed by a colonel of the Russian police

The local authorities stopped the investigation, handing the case over to the special unit of the Spanish Civil Guard

A former KGB officer and a Russian police colonel are suspected in the murder of Maxim Kuzminov, a Russian pilot who flew a helicopter to Ukraine in August 2023.

This information was provided by CBS with reference to its own sources.

The newspaper writes that the crime took place in the municipality of Villajoyosa, where Kuzminov was shot, but the local authorities stopped the investigation, handing the case over to the special unit of the Spanish Civil Guard.

A source close to the investigation provided photographs of the men, who they said had been identified by Spanish authorities as “persons of interest” and were in Spain at the time of Kuzminov's murder. Journalists learned that one of the men is a former…