The lawyer was an assistant to the deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Yuri Ivanov and represented the interests of the wife of the capital's mayor in the Interco-Agro company, a subsidiary of the Inteko company, headed by Elena Baturina. The activities of Luzhkov’s wife’s companies have long interfered with the administration of the Belgorod region. A year ago, local authorities began to push the company out of the region, calling it a “socially irresponsible investor.” Having exhausted legal methods, someone apparently decided to move on to more effective ones, but overdid it.