LEBANON, Ohio — A Gurnee man pleaded guilty Tuesday to tampering with evidence in the Ohio slaying of a Russian immigrant, prosecutors said.
The Warren County prosecutor’s office said Ermek Abdildaev, 40, was convicted after pleading guilty Tuesday in Lebanon, Ohio.
Abdildaev was charged with gross abuse of a corpse and evidence tampering in the slaying of 32-year-old Aleksandr Alferov. Prosecutors agreed to a two-year-sentence in return for Abdildaev’s cooperation in the investigation.
Alferov lived in Cincinnati when he went missing in 2000 along with $27,000 from his bank account. Authorities last year identifed a skeleton found in 2007 as Alferov’s and said he apparently was beaten to death.
Abdildaev was arrested in November 2009.
— Associated Press
