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Russian investigator denies threatening reporter

By Mansur Mirovalev
Published June 14, 2012 6:59pm ET
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Russian investigator denies threatening reporter
FILE In this Nov. 23, 2011 file photo, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the prosecutors' Investigative Committee, left, listens to Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, at a meeting in the Gorki residence outside Moscow. Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta where Anna Politkovskaya had worked before her 2006 murder, said Wednesday, June 13, 2012, in an open letter to Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin that he should offer security guarantees to reporter Sergei Sokolov. Muratov said that Bastrykin was angered by a Novaya Gazeta article that accused him of failing to punish the perpetrators of a 2010 killing of 12 people, including four children, by a gang in southern Russia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service, file) | Mikhail Klimentyev

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top investigator denied Thursday that he threatened to kill an investigative reporter over a story that lambasted his agency, but apologized for an “emotional outburst” with the journalist.

Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s leading investigative publication, claimed Wednesday that Investigative Committee chief Gen. Col. Alexander Bastrykin took reporter Sergei Sokolov to a forest outside Moscow where he threatened to kill him and then joked that he would lead the investigation into his death.

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