SK will check the data on the actions of the assistant professor of St. Petersburg State University against another student

This is stated in a message on the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

“Also, Alexander Bastrykin instructed the leadership of the State Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in St. Petersburg as part of the investigation to verify the information voiced by some media about the facts of unlawful actions of the accused in relation to another student and to make an informed procedural decision based on the results of the audit,” the IC said.

It is noted that Bastrykin sent to St. Petersburg experienced employees of the Main Department of Criminalistics of the UK to provide practical assistance in the investigation of the murder of graduate student Anastasia Yeshenko, who is accused of Sokolov.

Investigators have ordered expert examinations; they are conducting interrogations of persons from the immediate environment of the accused. Also, agency officials interrogated the parents of the murdered girl.

Sokolov was previously charged with murder. The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg decided to detain him until January 8, 2020.

According to investigators, Sokolov shot dead graduate student Anastasia Yeshenko on November 7, and on the night of November 9 decided to get rid of the body and dismembered it. On the morning of November 9, an associate professor of St. Petersburg State University was picked up from the water near the Moika embankment with a backpack in which severed female hands and a traumatic gun were found.