In Moscow, Andrey Bottikov, Gamaleya, a virologist, co-creator of the AI Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. Telegram channels were the first to report this, later the information was confirmed DEA News And red blood cell in law enforcement.
The incident occurred in the Shchukino district, in the northwest of the capital, on Rogov Street, in Botikov’s apartment. How reported in the Investigative Committee
The murder occurred on March 2 – during an argument, a 29-year-old man strangled a 48-year-old landlord and then fled the scene.
The suspect was quickly located and taken into custody. During interrogation, the man pleaded guilty, charged under Part 1 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Murder”). The maximum penalty under this article is 15 years’ imprisonment. Britain noted earlier that the man had been prosecuted for committing a serious crime.
On Friday evening, the Moscow City Court press service reported that the Khoroshevsky District Court had detained the suspect for two months. The man’s name is Alexei Zmanovsky. He confirmed that he had pleaded guilty during the trial.
“The deceased was Andrei Bottikov, born in 1974, one of the creators of the Sputnik V vaccine,” a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti. UK representative Yulia Ivanova explained in an interview with the agency that the man was strangled with a belt.
A number of media and Telegram channels, citing eyewitnesses and sources, gave some details about the crime. It was reported that especially the doctors came to the scene in a short time and tried to save Botikov, but he died in the end.
In addition, Mash wrote that several stab wounds and abrasions were found on Botikov’s body. In addition to Zmanovsky, the police detained the suspect, who is the 18-year-old girlfriend of the alleged murderer Olga Duboiska.
It was also said that both Zmanovsky and Duboiskaya were from Kaluga. According to the Telegram channel, Zmanovsky came to visit Botikov, with whom they had a conflict that resulted in a murder. The 29-year-old man stole the deceased’s personal belongings and fled. The girl had been waiting for him at the entrance all this time.
According to channel 112, Zmanovsky previously served ten years in a colony for kidnapping. After strangling Botikov with a belt on March 2, he finished off with a knife, stole valuables from the apartment and left. He told his girlfriend about the murder, but his girlfriend didn’t tell the police. On the morning of March 3, Botikov “disappeared” by his colleagues in the center of Gamaleya and appealed to law enforcement officers who found the body in the apartment.
Andrey Botikov is co-author of a patent for the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, and in the summer of 2021, by decree of President Vladimir Putin, he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.
As socialbites.ca said in the headquarters of Gamaleya,
Botikov continued the work of the entire laboratory of the State Virus Collection. “Andrey Gennadievich studied at the Institute of Virology. DI. Ivanovsky “NITsEM them. NF Gamaleya”, part of the Federal State Budgetary Institution, Ministry of Health of Russia since 2002.
The main areas of his work were related to the study of viruses in the pathogenicity groups 2-4.
Colleagues of the victim said he has been actively involved in all research related to the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. He specifically developed models for the spread of COVID-19 and then created a vaccine against the coronavirus.
“Andrey Gennadievich was not only a highly qualified specialist, but also a very kind and sympathetic person who was always ready to help. “This is an irreplaceable loss for all of us,” he said. gamaleia