The Limassol District Court on Monday remanded for a further eight days the 43-year-old man who has confessed to murdering 61-year-old Olga Vasilieva, after hearing he had told investigators he had been in a relationship with her for six months and had thrown her handbag into a recycling bin.
The man did not object to the request from Limassol CID investigators, and has not been represented by a lawyer since the previous hearing. He kept his head bowed throughout the proceedings and showed no reaction.
Reading the sworn statement in support of renewing the remand order, CID investigator Alvinos Kanaris set out the facts of the case from the day Vasilieva was reported missing. In a second, voluntary statement about their relationship, the man said he had been seeing her for the past six months, he told the court.
The man also said he threw her personal belongings, including her handbag, away along the route he took after the killing, the court heard. He pointed out a recycling bin on Amathountas Avenue where he said he had thrown the handbag, and identified it himself.
Kanaris said searches had been carried out at Vasilieva’s home and at the field where the man took her body. The man also pointed out the hammer with which, according to his confession, he killed her. Examinations also established that he was involved in an accident on 1 May 2026, which caused no damage, the court heard.
Another 35 statements are expected to be taken, and the man is due to point out further locations so that his movements before and after the killing can be recorded, Kanaris said. His bank accounts will also be examined.
The case will go before the Limassol Permanent Criminal Court. Vasilieva was murdered on 21 October. In his written confession, the man said he moved her body the next day and threw it into a sewage pit in a field in the Saittas area.
