Man pleads guilty in cover-up of Ohio slaying

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — A man arrested in Illinois has pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence in a Russian immigrant’s slaying in Ohio.

The Warren County prosecutor’s office said 40-year-old Ermek Abdildaev, of Gurnee, Ill., was convicted after pleading guilty today in Lebanon, Ohio.

Abdildaev was charged with gross abuse of a corpse and evidence tampering in the slaying of 32-year-old Aleksandr Alferov’s. Prosecutors agreed to a two-year-sentence in return for Abdildaev’s cooperation in the investigation.

Alferov lived in Cincinnati when he went missing in 2000 along with $27,000 from his bank account. Authorities last year identified a skeleton found in 2007 as Alferov’s and said he apparently was beaten to death.