Investigators are reportedly resuscitating the effort to identify and locate the man who ordered Nemtsov’s assassination

There appears to be more evidence that federal investigators have returned to the Boris Nemtsov murder case. On June 20, without citing any sources, the news agency Rosbalt reported that Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee and Federal Security Service are resuscitating the effort to identify and locate the man who ordered Nemtsov’s assassination.

On June 21, a lawyer for one of the men convicted of killing Nemtsov told the radio station Ekho Moskvy that her client has recently faced intense interrogation in prison, where he’s allegedly been threatened with terrorism charges, if he refuses to cooperate.

On July 3, 2017, a Moscow court sentenced five men convicted of murdering Boris Nemtsov — Zaur Dadayev, the brothers Anzor and Shadid Gubashev, Terirlan Eskerkhanov, and Khamzat Bakhayev — to prison terms ranging from 11 to 20 years. This is the final word on the official version of Boris Nemtsov’s death, finding that Nemtsov was murdered for a simple cash reward, without any ideological or political motivations.

According to this version, the murder was organized by Ruslan Mukhdinov, the driver for a Chechen police battalion deputy commander. It remains unknown where Mukhdinov is today, or indeed if he is still alive. According to the trial, the bread crumbs end at Mukhdinov, who supposedly masterminded everything.