New arrest warrant served on US man after dismembered woman found

March 1, 2018

Kobe- Japanese police served a fresh arrest warrant on a 26-year-old US man on Wednesday in connection with the discovery of the dismembered body parts of a Japanese women in the western city of Osaka.

The man, Bayraktar Yevgeniy Vasilievich, is suspected of cutting up the body of a woman at a condominium in Osaka between Feb. 16 and 18 and abandoning the decapitated head at a "minpaku" private lodging facility in the city by Thursday afternoon.

The severed head was found to be that of Saki Kondo, a 27-year-old woman in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, who went missing earlier this month, sources familiar with the investigation said.

According to the sources, the head of the woman was cut off with a knife or a similar tool.

Security camera footage shows that the man and woman entered the condominium, which has minpaku lodging rooms, shortly after midnight of Feb. 15. Since then, the woman had been unaccounted for.

Her family reported her disappearance to the police on Feb. 17.

The severed head was found in a suitcase kept in a room booked by the suspect at the minpaku facility.

The police later found a torso and pairs of arms and legs in mountain areas in Osaka and Kyoto prefectures as described by the suspect.

The police arrested the man on Thursday in the western Japan city of Nara on suspicion of confinement of the woman. Jiji Press