(Bloomberg) -- Ukrainian investigators found the body of the woman wanted over last week’s attack on a sanctioned Ukrainian businessman in Monaco, leading to more discoveries that include her contacts with a spy agent, crypto wires and a torture chamber.

The woman, identified as Anastasiia Berezovska, was found dead with gunshot wounds to the head, alongside spent pistol cartridge casings, Ukraine’s National Police said in a statement on its website on Tuesday. The discovery was first reported by news outlet Ukrainska Pravda, which said the body was recovered in the Kyiv region, citing people familiar.

Their apprehension was result of a joint operation by Ukraine’s police, the Prosecutor General’s office, and the country’s two main security agencies, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and military intelligence (HUR), the police said.

Berezovska, a Ukrainian citizen who was 39, was sought by Monaco authorities and Interpol after an explosion in Monaco on June 29, which wounded Vadym Iermolaiev, a developer from Ukraine’s major city of Dnipro, as well as a woman and a child. 

Berezovska is suspected by Monaco authorities of detonating a bomb while disguised as a man. She then drove to France and wound her way back to Germany, her last known place of residence.

She arrived back in Ukraine on July 1, police said. There, she had contacts with her family, as well as the ex-officer and the acting HUR officer, who both made several wires to her bank and crypto accounts.

The wires led investigators to the men, with the HUR officer confessing to the murder, saying he committed it with the other suspect. The officer stated he hasn’t informed his superiors about his contacts with Berezovska, the fund transfers or any of his other actions, and that he had acted on his own initiative, police said. 

“Additionally, during a search of the residence of the former law enforcement officer, investigators discovered a basement area resembling a torture chamber,” police said in the statement, without saying where it was located. 

Both suspects have been detained on suspicion of committing murder by prior conspiracy as a group, according to the statement.  

Ukrainian investigators are working closely with their counterparts in Monaco and have provided all the relevant information, seeking to identify individuals who ordered the attempted murder of a family in Monaco, as well as any other persons involved, police said. The investigation is being personally overseen by HUR chief Oleh Ivashchenko.

Iermolaiev was regularly featured in a Forbes ranking of the 100 richest people Ukraine. He was sanctioned by Ukraine in 2023 over his business selling alcoholic beverages in Russia-occupied Crimea. 

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