Pasarel

The Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office charged on Friday the Russian citizen German Kostin with the murder of the five-year-old Nikita Leontyev, whose body was found in a suitcase near the village of Pasarel in March.

According to the prosecution, the death of the child was caused through suffocation between February 8 and 10, the website of the prosecutor's office informs.

Anna Leontyeva, the dead mother of a 5-year-old boy whose body was found in a suitcase, was in love with a young man from Turkey, suspected by Bulgarian police of having murdered both, told a Russian daily.

Russia's Consulate in Bulgaria will provide assistance in the investigation that authorities have launched into the murder of a boy whose body was found in a suitcase in March.

Nikita Leontyev, 5, whose father was a Russian citizen, was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and lived in the city of Perm.

A sketch of the 5-year-old boy whose body was discovered in a suitcase near the village of Pasarel, Western Bulgaria was released by Bulgaria's Interior Ministry on Sunday.

The boy is about 112 cm tall, with dark brown hair and brown eyes, police say. Currently they are unable to establish its identity.

The Sofia Directorate to the Ministry of the Interior is currently working on an investigation regarding a severe criminal case.

The dead body of a 5-year old boy has been discovered in a closed suitcase near the village of Pasarel on Friday.