Alexander Murylev

In 1996, the Moscow City Court sentenced to Alexander Murylev to death, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in a special regime colony according to a moratorium on the death penalty. As of 2021, Murylev was serving his sentence in the White Swan prison. His accomplice, the notary Igor Agarkov, who pledged the false powers of attorney, was sentenced to six years imprisonment.

In the spring of 1994, Murylev began to actively engage in apartment sales, for which he used the services of official real estate companies. During the inspection of one of these apartments, an agent of one company was arrested, who mentioned Murylev. Two days later, Murylev was detained at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow.

He committed his first murder in July 1993, when he shot a man named Zheleztsov with a harpoon. Murylev then disposed of the body in the Moskva River, where it was later found on July 30. The body could not be identified and was cremated, but a year later, Zheleztsov's brother identified the corpse from his wristwatch, which was preserved by the authorities.

In September 1993, Murylev tried to persuade a certain Alexander Ershov to issue a power of attorney for him to sell the apartment. Ershov refused, and appealed to the police. A week later, he was killed by Murylev, who took him out of town and shot him with a TT pistol.

Alexander Vladimirovich Murylev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Мурылёв; born March 31, 1971), known as Yeltsin's Sanitary (Russian: Санитар Ельцина), is a Russian serial killer and former real estate broker, who, between 1993 and 1994, killed several people in order to seize and then sell their apartments.

Alexander Murylev was born in 1971 in the family of an officer of the Soviet Army. Before coming of age, he lived with his family in East Germany, where his father held a high position in the counterintelligence headquarters of the Group of Soviet Forces.