1998 Murder of General Rokhlin

Twenty years ago, on July 3, 1998, Lieutenant General Lev Rokhlin, State Duma deputy, head of the Movement in Support of the Army and one of the leaders of the opposition to President Boris Yeltsin, was killed in his country house near Moscow.

Initially, the widow of the general, Tamara Rokhlina, confessed to the murder of the general on the basis of a family quarrel. But later she retracted this confession and began to claim that unknown people in masks had killed her husband, and she was forced to take the blame, threatening to kill her son otherwise. Ultimately, Tamara Rokhlina was sentenced to four years of probation.

Three charred corpses were found in the forest belt near the dacha. According to investigators, these people died before the murder of Rokhlin. However, there is a widespread belief among Rokhlin's supporters that these were the real killers who were hired by the special services and then removed as unnecessary witnesses.