Overview
- The Investigating Court No. 3 in La Vila Joiosa issued a firm ruling in September granting provisional dismissal for lack of a known perpetrator under article 641.2 of Spain’s criminal procedure law.
- Maxim Kuzmínov, a 33-year-old Russian pilot who had deserted, was shot multiple times on February 13, 2024, in the garage of a residential complex near Avenida Rosa dels Vents.
- The Guardia Civil’s Homicide group carried out extensive inquiries but reported it was not possible to attribute either material or intellectual authorship to any specific person.
- A car heard speeding up the garage ramp was later found burned in El Campello, and investigators collected six Soviet-type cartridge cases and noted several bullet impacts at the scene.
- Media cited sources who suggested a potential contract killing linked to Russian intelligence and noted public condemnation by SVR chief Sergei Narishkin, but authorities have not confirmed that hypothesis.