The woman suspected in the Monaco bombing that injured a Ukrainian businessman has been found dead in Ukraine, country officials said on Tuesday.
Interpol previously named the bombing suspect as 39-year-old Anastasia Berezovska, who was born in Ukraine and recently lived in Germany. Her body was found with gunshot wounds to the head and a gun casing, police and the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office said.
Ukrainian authorities said they had detained two men on suspicion of killing Berezovska “with prior collusion.”
Police said one of the men, a current employee of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense’s Main Intelligence Directorate, confessed to Berezovska’s murder and claimed that the second suspect, a former law enforcement officer, was an accomplice.
Berezovska arrived in Ukraine on July 1 and has been in contact with her family and two men, Ukraine’s National Police said in a statement on Tuesday. Investigators learned that both men had repeatedly made bank transfers and cryptocurrency payments to Berezovska, leading police to treat them as “individuals who may have been involved in the attempted murder in Monaco.”
Police announced that an emergency search had been carried out against two people in connection with the Monaco attack, during which an active intelligence officer separately confessed to Berezovska’s murder. Police said the intelligence officer did not inform his superiors about his contact with Berezovska or the bank transfer to her, and said the suspect “acted of his own volition.”
“Additionally, during a search of the residence of a former law enforcement officer, a basement resembling a torture chamber was discovered,” a police statement said.
Prosecutors also said that “law enforcement authorities are identifying the instigators and other individuals involved in the attempted murder of a family in Monaco.”
CNN has reached out to Monaco’s police, Monaco’s Ministry of Justice and Interpol for comment.
Last week’s attack in Monaco targeted Ukrainian-born businessman Vadim Ermolaiyev when a bomb exploded at the entrance to one of the city’s most luxurious apartments, injuring three people, including Ermolaiev, a woman and a child.
Although the motive remains unclear, Monaco’s prosecutor Stéphane Thibault has previously characterized the bombing as an “assassination attempt,” making it the first recorded bombing attempt on Monaco’s closely guarded and secure streets.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
CNN’s Issy Ronald, Stephanie Halas and Camille Knight contributed to this report.
