On Monday, August 12, the San Martín Court ordered 9 months of preventive detention against Ukrainian citizen Ivan Kuzmin, investigated for the alleged crime of murder of Ludmila Lazarenko.
According to information from RPP, the foreigner will serve preventive detention in a prison in Tarapoto, and the victim’s husband will travel to Peru to take the body of his partner and mother of his children.
The tragic crime occurred last Saturday, August 10, when Kusmin, 38, killed and dismembered Lazarenko, 44. Both were in a healing center located in Yurimaguas, Loreto. Apparently, the subject had taken ayahuasca before committing the crime.
According to the police, the foreigner locked the young woman in a room and beat her to death, then dismembered her.
Authorities arrived at the premises after being alerted by workers, who heard the victim’s screams.
The Ukrainian was found in the room next to the woman’s body and threatened to cut himself with a sharp weapon. He also bit and hit the officers.
It is still unknown if they were a couple, since Lucía Lazarenko appears with her husband and daughters on her social networks.
On the other hand, Pepe Ordóñez, owner of the comprehensive development center ‘Dos Mundos’, stated that the Russian and the Ukrainian were not patients at his center.
“They were not staying here, they were there as a friend, they were old patients, they were just passing through. We gave them space to stay for a little while.“, he said.
