{"id":592924,"date":"2026-10-22T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=592924"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:11:06","slug":"second-suspect-arrested-in-poland-over-murder-of-russian-artist-skrepetsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/second-suspect-arrested-in-poland-over-murder-of-russian-artist-skrepetsky","title":{"rendered":"Second Suspect Arrested in Poland Over Murder of Russian Artist Skrepetsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers of Poland\u2019s Internal Security Agency (ABW) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abw.gov.pl\/pl\/aktualnosci\/2848,ABW-zatrzymala-drugiego-podejrzanego-w-sprawie-zabojstwa-w-Bialej-Podlaskiej.html\">have arrested<\/a> a second suspect in the murder case involving Russian cartoonist <b>Semyon Skrepetsky<\/b><b>\u00a0(Robert Kuzovkov)<\/b>. The detainee is a Georgian citizen.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russian-artist-shot-dead-in-biala-podlaska\">Skrepetsky was shot dead on a street in Bia\u0142a Podlaska<\/a> on June 15, 2026. Three days later, on June 18, the first suspect, Georgian citizen <b>Elnur A.<\/b>, was arrested. He was charged with murder and remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The second suspect, 22-year-old <b>Makhmud A.<\/b>, was arrested on October 19 in a car park near the A2 motorway. He was travelling with two other Georgian citizens. The day before, Makhmud A. had arrived in Poland from Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The ABW says evidence confirming Makhmud A.\u2019s involvement in Skrepetsky\u2019s murder has been obtained.<\/p>\n<p>The young man has been charged with aiding and abetting murder, as well as illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. He has denied the charges. A court ordered that Makhmud A. be held in pretrial detention for three months.<\/p>\n<p>The two Georgian citizens detained alongside Makhmud A. were handed over to border guards for deportation and banned from entering Poland for 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers of Poland\u2019s Internal Security Agency (ABW) have arrested a second suspect in the murder case involving Russian cartoonist Semyon Skrepetsky\u00a0(Robert Kuzovkov). The detainee is a Georgian citizen. As previously reported, Skrepetsky was shot dead on a street in Bia\u0142a Podlaska on June 15, 2026. Three days later, on June 18, the first suspect, Georgian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":499126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6adb169e168ee.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Second Suspect Arrested in Poland Over Murder of Russian Artist Skrepetsky"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[143248],"class_list":["post-592924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident","tag-polsha"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592930,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592924\/revisions\/592930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}