Botikov Andrei Gennadyevich

Biography

2023: Death by murder in Moscow

On March 3, 2023, it became known about the murder of Andrei Botikov, a senior researcher at the N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology. This was reported by TASS and RIA Novosti, citing its sources in law enforcement agencies.

According to the press service of the Investigation Department for the North-Western Administrative District of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Moscow, on March 2, 2023, a 29-year-old young man strangled the 47-year-old owner of the apartment with a belt and disappeared.

Botikov Andrei Gennadievich, according to the UK, was strangled in his apartment during a quarrel

In the shortest possible time, the location of the attacker has been established. During the interrogation, he pleaded guilty, he was charged. Previously, the defendant was prosecuted for committing a serious crime. In the near future, the investigation plans to petition the court to choose a preventive measure for the accused in the form of detention, the ICR was informed on March 3, 2023.

A criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Murder"). The suspect faces up to 15 years in prison. According to the investigation, the murder was committed on a domestic basis, during the conflict.

The RIA Novosti Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamaleya clarified that Botikov worked as a senior researcher, he was a co-author of a patent for the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine COVID-19, and was among those awarded by the president for the development of the drug. By the beginning of March 2023, Sputnik V was approved in 71 countries with a total population of more than 4 billion people, and Sputnik Light, created on the basis of this vaccine, in more than 30 states. These are one of the world's most popular vaccines against COVID-19.^[1]

2024: Murderer sentenced to 14 years in prison

On March 15, 2024, the Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow sentenced the accused of the murder of a senior researcher at the Gamaleya Center Andrei Botikov, the developer of the Sputnik V vaccine. Alexei Zmanovsky was sentenced to 14 years in prison. This was reported by Kommersant. Read more here.

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