A "SUGAR baby" has been found stabbed to death by a lover in an attack so brutal she could only be recognised by her tattoos.
Sofya Krasilnikova’s death came three months after her "sugar daddy" boyfriend Vyacheslav Popov, 42, appeared on Russian TV bragging about his life with her and other young women.
The 18-year-old was found in her flat by her mother with at least 15 stab wounds, mostly in the chest.
Her body was so disfigured her mother “only recognised her by her tattoos”.
Two days earlier Sofya was seen entering her Moscow home with a man believed to be Popov, said law enforcement.
He left 12 minutes later after which she wasn't seen alive again, it is alleged.
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A murder probe has been launched and a major manhunt is now underway for Popov, who has disappeared.
In April, he had told the TV show ‘I Want and I Will’ that for ten years he had only been in relationships with women looking for wealthy male partners.
The pair met in St Petersburg when she was 17 in December 2021 after, he claimed, he replied to her advertisement on a sugar daddies online site.
“The story was like a fairytale,” he said.
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“On December 26, I saw a message from this girl in an online [sugar daddies] group saying: ‘Want to date. With material support. Urgent.’
“I replied asking: ‘Are you a prostitute or looking for one constant man?’
“She said a constant man.
“I asked about the cost of a meeting with her, and she said from 15,000 roubles [£200].”
She had claimed to be 18 but was in fact 17, he said.
“Some say, ‘Wow, she is just 18, how can you?’ I'm 41 [now 42], but look younger,” said Popov, whose source of wealth remains a mystery.
“So I can afford a young mistress…”
He said: “We met and were not asleep until midnight, we were chatting.
“This had never happened to me before [as a sugar daddy]…. Soon we began to live together.”
Later, strains in their relationship were beginning to appear and she reported a rape to police.
He claimed this was staged as part of his bizarre PR campaign and police took no action after she withdrew her complaint.
The pair split and her mother said she was “stalked” by Popov, but he again claimed this was part of a PR campaign to make him more famous as an influencer nicknamed Malmygin.
When she died, the couple were apparently intending to move to St Petersburg to set up a new home.
Famous anti-Western showman Stas Baretsky, said he was a friend of suspect Popov.
"He wouldn't kill a woman,” he said.
“What's the point? What would he get out of it?
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“His head seemed to be in order, I did not see any deviations.”
The Russian Investigative Committee said: "The circumstances of the incident and the location of the person involved in the commission of the crime are being established."
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