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Investigators searching for the kidnapped son of a wealthy Ukrainian businessman uncovered grim remains in a popular holiday destination. A severed head, together with several other body parts retrieved by authorities, has been confirmed as belonging to Igor Komarov, who was snatched on February 15.

Evidence indicates that Igor’s killers had been monitoring him for several weeks, successfully tracking him down through geolocation data taken from Instagram posts shared by his influencer girlfriend, Yeva Mishalova. Before his death, a deeply disturbing video was uploaded by Igor’s captors, demanding roughly £7 million in ransom for his safe return.

In the footage, the visibly injured 28-year-old begged for his life, saying: “They already chopped off some of my limbs, I have broken legs [and they] punched [my] ribcage. I’m already on meds, I already have no limbs.”

In the recording, Igor warned that without urgent medical treatment, his wounds would turn septic, and stressed that his kidnappers could not be found before their deadline passed.

He went on: “Bring me home, what is left of me at the moment, please settle with these people, they need ten million dollars, which we stole. As soon as these 10 million are received in their accounts, they will immediately let me go to the place where they took me.”

Igor had been riding motorbikes with a group of friends along a steep road in the northern part of the holiday island when armed attackers suddenly set upon them.

Some reports suggest that one of Igor’s companions was also seized by the assailants and subsequently released following a ransom payment, but Igor appeared to be the kidnappers’ primary target.

A fresh examination of the fatal abduction on true-crime channel Lazy Masquerade suggests that the attackers were able to track down Igor through Yeva’s persistent social media activity.

Photographs posted by Yeva, 25, also provided detailed insight into Igor’s precise location. They stated: “She updated her fans on her daily activities with Igor, posting photos and videos in real time with captions and geotags. That meant that anyone keeping an eye on the couple knew exactly where they were.”

A romantic Valentine’s Day post on February 14, depicting the couple in swimwear enjoying the tropical island, was the particular clue that reportedly led Igor’s kidnappers to him.

Following the harrowing ransom video circulated via Telegram, a second clip emerged in which Igor, visibly coerced, claimed that his father had been running a fraudulent call centre in Ukraine and had conned victims out of millions.

Less than a fortnight after Igor’s kidnapping, human remains were found at the mouth of the Wos River along Bali’s lower east coast.

A police statement disclosed that the head, right leg, upper chest, thighs, and internal organs had been severed from the body of an individual who had died two to three days beforehand.

DNA testing confirmed that the recovered body parts were a close match to tissue samples provided by the victim’s parents.

Forensic analysis also linked the victim’s mutilated remains to bloodstains and other evidence uncovered in a hire car and a holiday villa in Bali’s Tabanan region, believed to have been rented by those responsible.

Bali Police Senior Commander Ariasandy told the Jakarta Globe: “Blood spatters found at the villa and in the Avanza car, which is suspected to have been used by the perpetrators, were examined, and the results are identical to the DNA of the victim’s mother.”

Given the advanced decomposition of the remains, visual identification was not possible, leading investigators to dispatch six bone samples to the National Police Forensic Laboratory Centre in Jakarta for DNA analysis.