A Russian millionaire politician said he accidentally killed a man because he mistook him for a bear

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The victim had been 'earning money for the family' by collecting scrap metal at the garbage dump when the incident happened.

A millionaire Russian politician has confessed to shooting a man in Russia's far east Kamchatka peninsula.

Igor Redkin said he was trying to scare away a bear who had been roaming around the village's garbage dump. He said he later found out that he had shot a man and not a bear, and turned himself in to the police.A wealthy Russian politician said Tuesday that he accidentally killed a man he mistook for a bear in Kamchatka in Russia's Far East.

Fifty-five-year-old Igor Redkin was trying to scare away a bear who had been roaming the garbage dump at Ozernovsky Village on August 2, according to a statement Redkin's lawyer sent to Russian news outlet"On August 2, there occurred a tragedy that I, Igor Redkin, was involved in despite myself. In the evening, I learned that a bear was roaming a garbage dump in the village of Ozernovsky. The animal was potentially harmful to local residents," Redkin's statement read.

Redkin is a member of the United Russia Party, the ruling political party in Russia. Redkin said in his statement that he was suspending his membership with the party in order to "prevent gossip." He will not take part in next month's re-election campaign to the Kamchatka assembly, per theRedkin is one of the wealthiest known politicians in Russia, according to Tass. He declared an income of 1.

 

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