Yuri Shchekochikhin Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin (Russian: ????? ????????? ??????????, IPA: [?jur??j p???trov??t?? ???k??t??ix??n]; 9 June 1950, Kirovabad - 3 July 2003, Moscow) was a Russian investigative journalist, writer, and liberal lawmaker in the Russian parliament. Shchekochikhin made his name writing about and campaigning against the influence of organized crime and corruption. His last non-fiction book was about people who worked as KGB informers.As a journalist for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, he investigated Russian apartment bombings allegedly directed by the Russian secret services and Three Whales Corruption Scandal which involved high-ranking FSB officers and was related to money laundering through the Bank of New York.He died suddenly in July 2003 from a mysterious illness, just a few days before his scheduled departure to the United States where he planned to meet with FBI investigators. His medical documents ended up "classified" by the Russian authorities. The symptoms of his illness fit a pattern of poisoning by radioactive materials and were similar to the symptoms of Nikolai Khokhlov, Roman Tsepov, and Alexander Litvinenko. According to Litvinenko and news reports, the death of Yuri Shchekochikhin was a politically motivated assassination.