Russian Scientist Alexander Tsvetkov lived a nightmare for 10 months in prison after an artificial intelligence system used by the police determined that his face was 55% identical to a sketch of a killer drawn by a witness 20 years ago.
Tsvetkov, a scientist at the Institute of Inland Water Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was taken off a plane last February, after a business trip to Krasnoyarsk, and informed that he had been identified as responsible for a series of murders that took place more than 20 years ago.
Investigators claimed that he and his alleged accomplice killed at least two people in Moscow in August 2002, ignoring the testimony of several scientists that Tsvetkov was with them at the time of the murders.
Police said an artificial intelligence system found a 55% match between Tsvetkov and a sketch drawn by a witness more than two decades ago, when the murders Tsvetkov is accused of committing occurred on August 2, 2002.
The story revolves around two men killing a man who was with them after an argument, and then that same night, they robbed a 64-year-old woman, before attacking and killing another woman and her 90-year-old mother under the pretext of wanting to rent an apartment.
While Tsvetkov’s alleged accomplice came forward and confessed to committing the murders, the lawyers questioned his testimony about the suspected scientist, who said that he “was homeless with him in Moscow” and “that he had a circular tattoo on his fingers,” but the scientist’s relatives confirmed that he did not have No tattoos at all, and he has never been homeless his entire life.
Many of Alexander’s fellow scientists testified that he was with them hundreds of kilometers away from the place where the murders occurred, but the authorities did not take their testimony into account. Rather, Russian media, quoted by the “Odeti” website, said that the hydrologist was forced to write a retracting confession. Later, he spent the last 10 months behind bars, while his family desperately tried to get him out.
According to several news sources, despite extensive evidence exonerating Tsvetkov of murder, Russian authorities have chosen to trust AI-powered programs.
It turns out that the hydrologist’s appearance matches that of the wanted killer by 55%, which seems to be enough to justify his imprisonment.
Tsvetkov’s case has been making headlines in Russia for months, and after a campaign demanding his release, the scientist was released earlier this month. However, the charges against him have not yet been dropped, so he has not yet been fully exonerated.
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