Russian COVID Vaccine Creator Found Strangled to Death With Belt

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A prominent scientist who helped develop Russia’s COVID vaccine, Sputnik V, was killed in his apartment in Moscow on Thursday, according to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

Andrey Botikov, who worked as a senior researcher at the Gamaleya National Research Center for Ecology and Mathematics, was found dead in his apartment on Thursday. His death is being investigated as a murder, the committee said in a Telegram statement.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/andrey-botikov-scientist-behind-russias-sputnik-v-covid-vaccine-murdered-in-moscow?ref=home

[Ocelot II]

1. At least they've branched out from windows and nerve poisons.

Wonder what this guy did?

[2naSalit]

6. He knew something? Maybe?

That's what usually gets scientists killed in the horror flicks, they know too much so...

[Celerity]

12. "According to the investigation, on March 2, 2023, in an apartment building located on Rogova Street

in Moscow, a 29-year-old young man, during an argument, strangled the 47-year-old owner of the apartment with a belt and fled the scene,” the committee said in a statement on Friday.

A suspect was arrested shortly after Botikov’s body was found, the federal investigative agency said in the statement. “In the shortest possible time, the location of the attacker was established. During the interrogation, he admitted his guilt, he was charged. Previously, the defendant was prosecuted for committing a serious crime.”

Russian media has identified the suspect as “Alexei Z,” a former convict who spent 10 years in prison on charges of providing sex services. Local media reports, including from Russia’s Mash outlet, said that the incident appeared to have been the result of a money dispute between the scientist and the suspect.

“The body of the 48-year-old man was found… with strangulation marks, several stab wounds and abrasions were found on his body,” Mash reported.

[Cha]

2. That's too bad.. he must have

been brilliant and so young.

They got the killer, though.

[Meowmee]

3. Looks like it was over a personal

Money dispute but who knows.

[RockRaven]

4. Slipped and fell and landed on a belt, eh?

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Tripped and got hung by the belt......

that was being used to keep him from falling out of the window?

[SoCalDavidS]

7. What? No Guns? nt

[Hortensis]

8. "New study in The Lancet puts Sputnik V among the world's leading anti-COVID vaccines

than had helped to prevent severe infections/deaths during pandemic."

Maybe someone wasn't happy that it was only "among" the world's leading vaccines. Or maybe he wanted to leave to work for the WHO or Pfizer.

He could have been murdered by a sex partner, as suggested, the possibilities wide open, including that a story like that could be concocted to smear him in death.

RIP.

[SouthernDem4ever]

9. "concocted" is believable

It wouldn't surprise me.

[Hortensis]

10. Me either. Whatever the truth, it includes his important service to humanity.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

11. Wasn't it alleged that it's the Moderna vaccine

...which the obtained through hacking?

Not judging.if I ran a nation, I'd have tried to stop it from being ravaged by Covid by any means available.

[Hortensis]

13. I don't know anything about that, Algernon.

I'm with you on what I'd do to protect a nation; I'm guessing a cooperative approach would work better, but I'm also assuming my nature wouldn't rule that approach out.

[Orrex]

14. That's one heck of a way to commit suicide.