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.