{"id":339988,"date":"2023-03-04T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=339988"},"modified":"2023-03-03T23:39:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T04:39:21","slug":"top-russian-scientist-who-created-sputnik-v-covid-vaccine-is-strangled-to-death-with-a-belt-in-his-moscow-apartment-in-row-with-intruder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/03\/top-russian-scientist-who-created-sputnik-v-covid-vaccine-is-strangled-to-death-with-a-belt-in-his-moscow-apartment-in-row-with-intruder\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Russian scientist who created Sputnik V Covid vaccine ‘is strangled to death with a belt in his Moscow apartment in row with intruder’"},"content":{"rendered":"

by James Reynolds, Daily Mail<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\" Andrey Botikov was a senior researcher involved in making the Sputnik vaccine
\nHis killer was found by authorities and has since been arrested and charged<\/p>\n

Russia’s investigative committee has launched a murder investigation after a top scientist was found dead in his Moscow apartment yesterday.<\/p>\n

TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Andrey Botikov, known as one of the 18 scientists who worked on the Sputnik V\u00a0coronavirus<\/a><\/span>\u00a0vaccine in 2020, was identified as the man who had been strangled to death with a belt in northwest Moscow.<\/p>\n

It was previously reported he had survived the encounter after an intruder broke into his home and started rowing with him over money.<\/p>\n

But a 29-year-old man has since been arrested and charged with the murder of the scientist.<\/p>\n

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Andrey Botikov was found strangled to death in his apartment in Moscow on 2 March 2023<\/p>\n

The Investigative Committee of Russia said they found the suspect in ‘the shortest possible time’ after he tried to flee the scene.<\/p>\n

They claim he confessed to the crime during an interrogation.<\/p>\n

The committee also reported the defendant had already been prosecuted for committing another ‘serious’ crime.<\/p>\n

Russian media reported that the suspect, known as Alexei Z, had spent 10 years in prison on charges of providing sex services.<\/p>\n

Andrey Botikov was a senior researcher at the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.<\/p>\n

He had previously worked at the Russian State Collection of Viruses D.I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology as a senior scientist.<\/p>\n

He was awarded an Order of Merit for the Fatherland for his work on the Sputnik V vaccine.<\/p>\n

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An image shared by the Investigative Committee of Russia after the virologist was killed<\/p>\n

Sputnik was the first registered combination vector vaccine against Covid-19.<\/p>\n

Critics suggested the vaccine was approved without robust research into its safety and efficacy.<\/p>\n

A 2021\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0in The Lancet nonetheless claimed the vaccine ‘appeared safe and effective’.<\/p>\n

In February, Russian General Vladimir Makarov was\u00a0found shot dead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in an apparent suicide at his country home.<\/p>\n

He had recently been fired from his top job of ‘combating extremism’ in Russia.<\/p>\n

In December, a Russian sausage tycoon was\u00a0found dead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0after falling out of a window to his death while staying at a hotel in India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Read More @ DailyMail.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by James Reynolds, Daily Mail: Andrey Botikov was a senior researcher involved in making the Sputnik vaccine His killer was found by authorities and has since been arrested and charged Russia’s investigative committee has launched a murder investigation after a top scientist was found dead in his Moscow apartment yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[149781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}