“I knew him (Sokolov. - RT) only in absentia. I was not personally acquainted with him. But Nastya never said anything bad about him. Therefore, what happened plunged us into shock, ”kp.ru quotes his words.
Earlier it became known that the murdered Anastasia Yeshchenko was the daughter of a policeman from the Kuban and the sister of the goalkeeper of the Russian youth football team.
On the eve of the Investigative Committee of Russia, a criminal case was opened about the murder after a man was picked up from the Moika River in St. Petersburg, in whose backpack lay two female hands and a traumatic gun.
Oleg Sokolov, Associate Professor of St. Petersburg State University, is suspected of murder. Presumably, the victim is a 24-year-old girl who studied with him and was a co-author of a number of his scientific works.
Later, lawyer Alexander Pochuev said that Sokolov confessed to the murder of the girl and issued a confession.