A Russian banker sealed his wife in a barrel and threw her into the sea when the couple were on vacation on Crimea Peninsula in Ukraine, the Pervaya Krymskaya newspaper reports.

The 32-year old head of a Russian bank had arrived in Crimea together with his wife and two bodyguards. After a two-week stay in one of the local hotels the man started to suspect his wife of being unfaithful as the woman was spending nights outside the hotel and returned only in the morning. She said that she had to meet her childhood friends in her hometown of Yalta.

However, one night, the husband decided to search for her and found his spouse in a bar together with another man. A conflict ensued which ended in a brawl. The banker’s bodyguards forcefully took the woman to the hotel and locked her up in a room. After that, all three men started drinking vodka and thinking of a punishment.

Eventually, the bodyguards put the woman in a wooden barrel, sealed it and threw the barrel into the sea.

The floating barrel was spotted by local fishermen who managed to retrieve it from water and open, rescuing the woman who immediately turned to the police.

Police investigators went to the shore to check the details and found the banker who was sober, crying and looking for the barrel. The man was detain and taken to the police station where he met his wife.

Curiously, after numerous apologies the woman agreed to take back her complaint and the jealous banker avoided criminal responsibility.

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