Top Russian scientist who created Sputnik V Covid vaccine 'is strangled to death with a belt in his Moscow apartment in row with intruder'

 Top Russian scientist who created Sputnik V Covid vaccine 'is strangled to death with a belt in his Moscow apartment in row with intruder'

• 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.

  Andrey Botikov, known as one of the 18 scientists who worked on the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in 2020, was identified as the man who had been strangled to death with a belt in northwest Moscow.

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

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