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In Russia, a woman reportedly tried to have her eight-year-old stepdaughter killed with a stun gun.
Investigators in the autonomous republic of Tuva in southern Siberia had thwarted the 61-year-old's plan, as the responsible authority announced.
The widow was aiming for two apartments, whose legal heiress is his child after the death of the husband.
At a meeting in her apartment, the accused offered a police officer who posed as a potential contract killer 180,000 rubles (around 2010 euros) to carry out the act.
She also explained to the undercover agent where her stepdaughter lived and went to school and handed him a stun gun.
The agency published a video with excerpts of the conversation, on which the woman can be seen with a pixelated face.
She was arrested on suspicion of preparing a contract killing and is currently in custody.
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