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Milan Police Treat Former Ukrainian Banker’s Fall as Likely Homicide

Investigators are exploring extortion for digital keys after finding signs of violent restraint.

Overview

  • Alexander Adarich, 54, was found dead on January 23 after a fall from a fourth-floor luxury Airbnb in central Milan.
  • Police opened a homicide inquiry, assessing the death as a staged suicide based on wrist binding marks and possible strangulation.
  • A Romanian passport was found on the body and additional identity documents with the same photo but different names were recovered in the apartment.
  • Witnesses reported several men at the scene and one person seen looking from the fourth-floor window just after the fall.
  • Adarich rented the property under a false name, arrived without luggage, told his wife he had a business meeting, and an autopsy is pending as investigators consider an attempt to obtain cryptocurrency keys as a possible motive.