Police made a gruesome discovery in a private garage in the Noginsky district of the Moscow region on Sunday night. A body found hidden in a metal barrel filled with cement reportedly belongs to Russian lawmaker Mikhail Pakhomov.
"Pakhomov’s body was discovered in a barrel of cement near the village of Obukhovo in the Moscow Region district of Noginsk,” a spokesperson for Russia's Investigative Committee told state news agency RIA Novosti.
"Investigators have gathered enough evidence to establish the violent nature of Pakhomov's death," the Committee also said, according to SkyNews.
Thirty-six year-old Pakhomov belonged to President Putin's United Russia partyand was a popular member of the city party in Lipetsk, a city south of Moscow.
According to The Telegraph, the father of two was kidnapped on February 12 .