Date
30/03/1997  
First
Nikolai  
Surname
Mozolin  
Sex/Age
M  
Incident
homicide  
Motive
nJ  
Place
town  
Job
journalist  
Medium
print  
Federal District Plus
NORTHWEST  
Street, Town, Region
Kirovsk, Leningrad Region  
Freelance
yes  
Local/National
local, Novy Peterburg  
Other Ties
 
Cause of Death
murder, beaten  
Legal Qualification
111.2 (manslaughter)  
Impunity
investigation, reopened  


Freelance journalist Nikolai Mozolin, who contributed to the Novy Peterburg newspaper, died on 30 March 1997 as a result of a beating he received from unidentified assailants in early March.

A former policeman, Mozolin did not report the incident to law enforcement agencies. On 2 April an investigation began into Mozolin’s death, qualified as manslaughter (article 111.2) under the new Criminal Code.

It is thought he was the victim of people engaged in “child-trafficking” since he had published several articles in Novy Peterburg about the abuse of international adoption.