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Metro
22-07-2025
- Metro
Mystery over death of Ukrainian anti-organised crime chief in Benidorm pool
A former official at Ukraine's Interior Ministry has been found dead at the very same Spanish resort where a Russian military defector was murdered. Ihor Hrushevskyi, the ex-head of the anti-crime police unit, was discovered in the town of Villajoyosa, a few miles from the resort popular with British tourists for its packaged holidays. The 61-year-old was floating face-down in the communal pool – no deeper than 1.5 metres – of the Cala Alta house complex, El Español reported. Neighbours pulled him out, performing CPR, but they were unable to save him and when paramedics arrived at the scene, he was pronounced dead. While there were no obvious signs of violence, blood was coming from one ear, so foul play has not been ruled out. The incident happened in the morning of June 29, but the identity of the man was only revealed this week. It was just a few months ago that Hrushevskyi had purchased a flat in one of the blocks and he was still renovating. His death comes a little more than a year after Maksim Kuzinovm – an ex-Russian helicopter pilot, who had deserted to Ukraine – was killed there. Police found his bullet-riddled body in the underground parking garage of that same resort. A burnt-out car apparently used by his attackers was found near the scene of the crime. The 28-year-old fled Russian and landed a Mi-8 helicopter in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in August, 2023, while flying between two Russian bases. He had reportedly contacted the Ukrainian secret service to inform them of his decision to defect and they had promised him £397,000, protection for his family and new documents. More Trending A state TV report from October, in which Russian propagandists branded Kuzminov 'a traitor to the motherland', claimed that Russian intelligence operatives had received orders to assassinate him. Sergei Naryshkin, Russia's foreign intelligence chief, said at the time: 'In Russia it is customary to speak either good of the dead or nothing at all. 'This traitor and criminal became a moral corpse at the very moment when he planned his dirty and terrible crime.' Ukrainian officials have not yet commented on Hrushevskyi's death. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Girlfriend's tribute to 'inspirational' hockey player who died at Ibiza Rocks hotel MORE: First look inside Putin's secret 'death' factory where teenagers build drones MORE: Nato scrambles warplanes for 13th time in weeks after latest Putin attack
New York Post
21-07-2025
- New York Post
Ex-Ukrainian official found dead at the same Spanish resort where Russian defector was killed: reports
A Ukrainian former anti-organized-crime official was found dead in a pool at the same Spanish resort where a Russian military defector was gunned down a year earlier, reports said. Ihor Hrushevskyi — a 61-year-old ex-senior official with Kyiv's Interior Ministry's Department for Combating Organized Crime — was discovered floating face-down June 29 in the communal pool at the Cala Alta luxury apartment complex in Villajoyosa, El Español reported. Hrushevskyi's death comes a year after police found the bullet-riddled body of former Russian military helicopter pilot and alleged Kremlin 'traitor' Maksim Kuzminov, 28, in the underground parking garage of the same resort. Advertisement While local authorities say there were no signs of a violent attack against Hrushevskyi, foul play has not been ruled out, with officials saying Hrushevskyi's death at least appears suspicious at this point. 3 Ihor Hrushevsky, a former senior official for Ukraine's top anti-organized crime agency, was found dead inside the pool at the Cala Alta resort in Spain's Villajoyosa. REUTERS Hrushevskyi, who served Ukraine's anti-organized crime agency in the 1990s, had been one of the resort's newest guests when he went out to the pool last month at around 9:30 p.m., according to police. Shortly after, a fellow Ukrainian staying at the resort found him floating dead in the pool, with some surmising he suffered a medical episode while in the water and drowned, the local outlet reported. Advertisement As the investigation began into this death, officials and local journalists ran into difficulties identifying Hrushevskyi, given the fact that there was 'no trace in official documents or public information' about him because of the nature of his job, authorities said. Officials have yet to reveal a cause of death. 3 Maksim Kuzminov, a Russian military helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine, was found dead in the same resort last year. Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Advertisement Ukrainian officials have not commented on Hrushevskyi's death, but the foreign ministry reportedly said its consulate in Spain was handling repatriating the body. As for Kuzminov, he was marked by the Kremlin as a 'traitor' and found gunned down Feb. 13, 2024. He had been shot at least six times and run over by his attackers' car, according to Spain's state news agency EFE. 3 The former Kremlin pilot had been shot at least six times, with his attackers also running over his body in the complex's underground garage. via REUTERS The Moscow defector had been living in Spain with a Ukrainian passport and under an assumed name after fleeing Russia in his helicopter and handing top intelligence documents to Kyiv. Advertisement Before his murder, Kuzminov slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion as 'a genocide of Ukrainian people,' with the defector warned to remain in Ukraine or risk retaliation from the Kremlin. But the 28-year-old decided to move to the sunny Villajoyosa — Spanish for 'joyous village.' Months before his death, Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, claimed that Russia's top intel agency had 'given the order' to kill Kuzminov.
