According to Ukrainian media reports which cited Nadezhda Maksimets, the media relations officer to the Prosecutor General’s Office in Kyiv, Vadim Olenchik was arrested in January 2019 by Russian Interpol officers on suspicion of carjacking and murder committed in Kyiv.
According to reports, Olenchik strangled a Russian man with a towel at a nightclub in Kyiv and robbed him of his money, telephone, and vehicle. According to Maksimets, “The deceased worked as the CFO of a pharmaceutical company. When he did not come to work, his colleagues went to his home, broke the door and found the body.