Handgun allegedly used to murder underworld leader lost by police

Photo: investigation file

At long last, investigation files on paid murder of underworld leader Kalev Kurg (44) ten years back are public. Turns out, despite the efforts applied not a clue was found. All traces led straight to nowhere. 

At that, the grand blunder was losing the alleged murder weapon which a random swimmer discovered in Vääna River in 2007, about a year after the killing – an automatic PPSh-41.

The gun though rusted would have proven the initial solid lead in the investigation, ballistics-wise, as bullets abounded on murder site.

Had a link been established, former owners could have been traced down leading to the killer.

Alas, the gun was not found when needed. Police documents show it was found while no written evidence proves it reached the weapons storage room at police facilities.

Where did go? It could not have vanished into thin air at half way?

However, that is exactly what the facts are pointing to, internal police audit having attempted to find out what happened.

The investigation led nowhere. The culprit was never pinpointed as legally all was correct.

The individual they thought would have been responsible for the weapon disappearing left the police service years later.  

Till this day, the legally-correct-thing makes the policemen involved in the murder case curse out loud.

All sorts of theories are being spread regarding how the handgun «evaporated», from intentionally lost to collection interests.

The files are now archived at central criminal police. Postimees asked to take a look, to see how far the police advanced with investigations.

The answer is explicit: nowhere.

Having investigated for years, no clue was found, no potential suspects were spotted. Nobody saw the shooter though at the time of the murder the then unmarried partner of Mr Kurg was standing within metres.

Thus, the police never even got to a theoretical chance to get the murder sorted out.

As the bullets were sprayed into the man that Friday evening, people in the house thought to have heard fireworks. Some said they went to the window to look.

The unmarried partner never saw who did it. Amid the five security cameras, none caught the killer.

All the police ever detected was a footprint of the paid murderer who had jumped the fence and run away.  

Their dog took them 200 metres down the road and then just stood there. Evidently, a car had picked he man up.

For a while, they tried to go after a dark Series 3 BMW made in 1998 to 1999 which some eyewitnesses said they saw waiting where the killer may have been picked up.

The description proved too general and the vehicle was never established.