Top ballerina ‘chopped up and dissolved in acid’

A BALLERINA from the world- famous Bolshoi Theatre was dismembered and dissolved in SULPHURIC ACID after a blackmailer threatened to reveal nude photos of her.

Russian detectives are following a new lead in a long- running probe into the disappearance of dancer Olga Demina, 25, six years ago.

She is believed to have been killed after she was the victim of a sting operation by a man possessing “sexually compromising” pictures of her.

Malkhaz Dzhavoev, 40, described as the dancer’s “manager” and “lover”, has been named as the prime suspect.

He was detained in Moscow in 2017 after he was extradited on an Interpol warrant from Germany where he had fled from Russia, posing as a Kurdish refugee.

He was recently jailed for five- and- a- half years for fraud involving a flat belonging to the ballerina’s boyfriend Alexey Fetisov.

A law enforcement official said Dzhavoev

MISSING: Olga Demina

“let slip” Olga’s corpse “was dismembered and dissolved in acid” with her remains thrown in a well near a lake.

The source said: “A search is under way there now.

“Sulphuric acid does dissolve everything to zero.

“Some body fragments should be preserved. But they still need to be found.”

Immediately before she vanished, Dzhavoev took her on a trip out of

Moscow to dance for a group of businessmen at a nightclub.

Dzhavoev and his dad bought sulphuric acid from an industrial source, it was reported.

Last year a skull was found close to where Dzhavoev’s mobile signal was registered on the night Olga went missing – but it was found not to be linked to the case.

Dzhavoev’s lawyer denies any wrongdoing by his client, and claims the ballerina may have fled abroad living on the proceeds of a housing scam.