Andrey Botikov was found strangled to death in his apartment in Moscow on 2 March 2023.

A prominent 🇷🇺 Russian scientist who helped develop the world's first COVID-19 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.

“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.

Botikov was one of 18 scientists who developed the world's first COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V in 2020.

According to The Moscow Times, Russian President Vladimir Putin had honored the virologist with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland award for his work on the COVID vaccine in 2021.

Credit: Daily Beast || Dailymail UK

WriterNiig:
He reached the end of his usefulness i guess.

Covid was a hoax. They had to get rid of the evidence before bigger heads roll.

What do you mean COVID was a hoax, please?

America handwork

Patriotism and Nationalism are tools of psychological manipulation.

They are propaganda tools, to get the poor masses to support wars that they do not personally gain anything from, but the ruling class does profit from.

In every war, there are always profiteers, and it's definitely NOT the poor masses.

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TONYE001:


What do you mean COVID was a hoax, please?

2023 and u still dey ask this question

TONYE001:


What do you mean COVID was a hoax, please?

You mean the same Covid that Bill Gates predicted will kill millions in Africa if we don't take the vaccine? How did that work out? Did they (Africans) die massively?

You need to open your eyes, Covid is a massive fraud.

TONYE001:


Is Bill Gates a medical personnel? Can his prediction stand in any scientific (medical) discussion?

You mean a Billionaire like Bill Gates doesn't have access to medical personnel that will give him such predictions. Or you mean a few palm can't be greased to put fear in the eyes of the masses so there will be panic and everyone will rush to take the vaccine. Then Business will boom

Pfizer made nearly $37Bn in sales from it's Covid 19 vaccine.

Why not tinubu

Chai too bad
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Meanwhile at a cheap price DM for your logo and flyer design

It’s all as a result of envy if you check well

What a cruel world 🌎

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He killed their market so he must be taken out.

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WriterNiig:
He reached the end of his usefulness i guess.

Covid was a hoax. They had to get rid of the evidence before bigger heads roll.

Cos you didn't lose a loved one to it, you're here behaving like a GTA 5 NPC.

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I wish those people insulting our president here were Russian

There that people can not even vote and the president selects the governors

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Conspiracy theorists will blame KGB

RIP man who first invent covid vaccine.

High profile sabotage

Hmmm.

they don start abi

Fragility6:

2023 and u still dey ask this question

I just want to know why the poster thinks COVID was a hoax, or do you also think it was? Please, if you do, care to tell me why you think so?

WriterNiig:
He reached the end of his usefulness i guess.

Covid was a hoax. They had to get rid of the evidence before bigger heads roll.

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I believe it. Most people that got Covid never went to hospital. They treated it like flu which has the same mortality rate.

Of course those with compromised respiratory and cardiovascular systems would fall for flu or "Covid".

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