Suspects in two slayings involving Russian emigres have been charged in the cases – including the wife of one of the victims and a man nabbed in California who is a suspect in a third homicide.
The arrests, announced yesterday by Chief of Detectives William Allee, involve the deaths of millionaire Russian emigre Borys Kiejilches, 49, of posh Todt Hill, Staten Island, the owner of an aviation-fuel company; and Yuri Bershadski, 33, of Brooklyn, whose shot and naked body was found April 25 in the woods off Richmond Avenue and Tennyson Road in Staten Island.
In the first case, cops charged Elaina Kiejilches, 34, who allegedly shot her husband to death to inherit his money and support an affair with 26-year-old Messiah Justice of 260 Herkimer St., Brooklyn.
Justice was charged with stuffing the millionaire’s body into a 55-gallon drum and dropping it into Spring Creek on the Brooklyn-Queens border, where it was found April 24. The millionaire had been reported missing by his wife on April 2.
Elaina had allegedly been spending big money on her boyfriend, buying him a Rolex watch and promising him a $300,000 Bentley car, sources said.
In the second case, Vladimir Zuran, 37, of 2613 Emmons Ave., in Brooklyn, was nabbed Friday night in Van Nuys, Calif., and charged with the slaying of Bershadski, with whom he lived.
The pair allegedly had participated in crimes together, and apparently had a falling out, sources said.
Zuran, who has a record of arrests on charges of grand larceny, drugs, weapons and cloning cell phones, also is a suspect in the April 12 slaying of Veronika Chaschina, 28, of Brooklyn, a stripper who worked on Staten Island and in New Jersey, cops said.
Sources said Zuran is suspected of trying to rob Chaschina – apparently thinking she had more money than she actually had – and then killing her. He has not been charged in her death.