- Date
- 13/09/2006
- First
- Vyacheslav
- Surname
- PLOTNIKOV
- Sex/Age
- M, 39
- Incident
- not confirmed
- Motive
- ?J
- Place
- outskirts
- Job
- journalist
- Medium
- TV
- Federal District Plus
- CENTRAL
- Street, Town, Region
- Voronezh
- Freelance
- no
- Local/National
- local, 41 kanal
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- ? murder or accident
- Legal Qualification
- Impunity
- no case opened
GDF, 298
According to the police, Channel 41 correspondent Vyacheslav Plotnikov, reported missing since last June, has been found dead in a forest near Otrozhki Lake in the Zheleznodorozhny District of Voronezh.
With no knife or bullet wounds, nor traces of stifling found on the TV reporter’s body, forensic experts are now busy trying to identify the cause of Mr. Plotnikov’s death. So far, there are no reasons to believe he was murdered.
The journalist’s body was found far from the place of his residence. The police have established that a week before his death he was taken to a hospital near Otrozhki from which he escaped without the doctors’ permission a few days later. The report about his disappearance was filed at about the same time he died. Still, colleagues believe Mr. Plotnikov may have been killed; they want the law enforcement agencies to investigate the circumstances of his death with utmost care.
[Newsru.com report of September 25]