Another murder moves Russia at this time.
This time the victim was a researcher who helped develop the Sputnik V anticovid vaccine. They found him in his apartment in Moscow and there is a detainee.
According to police sources cited by the official TASS agency,
the victim is Andrei Botikov
, a researcher at the Gamaleya National Center, developer of the Sputik V vaccine against covid-19.
Botikov was the co-author of the vaccine's patent
and received an award from Russian President Vladimir Putin for his work, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
The department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the city of Moscow opened a criminal case for murder.
According to investigators, on March 2, in an apartment in a building in northwest Moscow,
a 29-year-old man strangled
the owner of the apartment, Botikov, with a belt during an argument, and fled.
However, shortly after the alleged perpetrator of the murder was arrested. During interrogation, he pleaded guilty and was formally charged.
According to TASS, the defendant has a criminal record, since he was tried for the commission of a serious crime.
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