A federal judge issued a $6.8 million judgment against a Russian immigrant suspected of murdering his Brooklyn mistress for her insurance.
Eugene Perchikov is believed to be living in Israel with his wife after pocketing $1 million as a beneficiary of Larysa Vasserman, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in 2002. Perchikov met the lonely divorcée through a personal ad.
Although the medical examiner could not determine a cause of death, Perchikov had self-published a short story about a killer who injects his victim with an undetectable fatal drug, the Daily News reported.
Perchikov never responded to a lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court seeking wrongful death damages and the insurance money he pocketed, so a default judgement was issued.
“It doesn’t put him in jail, but there’s more that should come, I hope,” said lawyer Jacques Debrot, who represents the victim’s estate.
Perchikov is accused in a separate suit of killing Tatiana Korkhova, a Manhattan woman who died in a similar fashion and named him as a beneficiary.
Source: https://www.nydailynews.com/2010/01/19/judge-issues-68m-judgment-vs-russian-immigrant-suspected-of-murdering-mistress-for-insurance/