Michael Dasaro

Michael Dasaro (died November 13, 1993) was an American businessman who was murdered in Moscow, Russia near the American Embassy at the time. Dasaro was the first American citizen with direct ties to the embassy to be murdered since perestroika.

Private life After his death, the Moscow press stated that he was homosexual and frequented gay bars.

In the late 1980s Dasaro was a contract employee in the economics section of the U.S. embassy in Moscow.

Dasaro was employed by the International Finance Corporation, the commercial wing of the World Bank, where he focused on privatization initiatives for Russian industrial companies. He later joined the Accounting firm, Ernst and Young, where he worked for the two months prior to his death.