King of spam comes to a violent end
From Jeremy Page in Moscow
ONE of Russia?s most infamous spammers has been found beaten to death in his apartment, prompting thinly veiled jubilation among many of the country?s estimated 14 million internet users.
Vardan Kushnir, 35, had bombarded almost every e-mail user in the country for years with unsolicited adverts for the American Language Centre that he ran. Police, who found his body on Monday, said that he had been hit several times on the head with a heavy object and his apartment in central Moscow had been ransacked. They declined to comment on a motive for the murder.
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