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The cost of contract killing depends on four factors:
  1. Who is ordering?
  2. Who performs?
  3. Who is the target?
  4. What method will be used?

Of these factors, two aspects of contract killings are formed:

  1. Risk level
  2. Cost price

Accordingly, the final cost depends on the total amount of cost and monetary risk assessment. 

Consider in more detail. 

The customer of the crime is characterized by two parties: its social status and the motive of the crime. If we consider the practical aspect of the business, then social groups should be divided into the following categories: a man in the street, medium-sized business, business elite, political elite. Accordingly, the motives for the murder can be personal revenge, elimination of the creditor (the most common type of order), prevention of threats from the target (blackmail, punishment, etc.), personal gain (receiving a share of the business, real estate, etc.), political interests.

The executor of the order can be both non-professionals, who, due to personal circumstances, have agreed to its fulfilment, as well as professional assassins. Non-professional execution of the order is usually solved without the services of an intermediary through a personal acquaintance of the customer and the performer. In this case, almost 99% guaranteed disclosure of crime by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Nonprofessional orders rarely exceed the sum of 100 thousand rubles and the average amount borders on the limits of 30 thousand rubles. 

Professional performers are divided into two categories: infantry and professional.

Often, infantrymen are experienced specialists who have served in hostilities and are members of organized criminal groups. There is no contract at all, since the murder, although not a daily matter, is one of the usual tasks of an infantryman appointed by his leadership. With such an order, the leader of an organized group acts as an intermediary, and the performer is one of his subordinates or several people from the group. The cost of the contract is appointed by the manager, who further distributes it among the performers. The cost of such an order varies on average from $ 10,000 to $ 300,000.

Professional assassins often undergo special training and have connections exclusively with intermediaries. Neither the customer nor the contractor is not aware of each other's identity, thereby excluding the risks of their detection by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Such a performer costs $ 100,000 and more. 

The cost of the job consists of the costs of its preparation, implementation and concealment. 
Of course, first of all, it is the cost of renting real estate and means of monitoring the target. This is followed by the costs of the necessary tools to eliminate, and then the costs of covering up during the execution of the order and the subsequent concealment of traces (providing an alibi, etc.).

It should be noted that the professional assassin will not undertake a man in the street because the risk associated with such a task is too great, which increases the amount of the contract, thus making it impossible for such a man to order. 

In the future, we will consider police techniques for disclosing contract killings to highlight the weak and strong points of order execution that can lead to the capture of an assassin.