A Pensioner and Wife of a Moscow Official Hired a Hitman to Kill Her Husband — to Avoid Splitting Half a Billion in Assets

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When a divorce threatened to split a fortune worth half a billion rubles, 70-year-old Galina Timonina made a chilling decision — kill her husband instead. In this episode of From Russia with Crime, we dive into the calculated murder plot of a wealthy Moscow socialite who offered 5 million rubles to have her husband, a high-ranking gas company executive, quietly poisoned. She thought she'd become a rich widow. Instead, she ended up behind bars. Greed, betrayal, and deception — all in today’s shocking story.

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