Former Detective Anatolijs Zeiļuks Recalls Crimes of the 1980s
Anatolijs Zeiļuks spent 32 years in Latvia's interior ministry system and helped solve some of the most high-profile crimes of the 1980s. In an interview with TVNET+ he reveals previously unknown details, and one case still haunts him.
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Former criminal investigator Anatolijs Zeiļuks worked for 32 years in the interior ministry system. During that time he took part in solving some of the most high-profile crimes of the 1980s. He has now shared new, previously unknown details about several of the cases he worked on with the news portal TVNET+. By his own account, one of them lodged itself in his memory especially deeply and still gives him no peace.
Notorious cases
Zeiļuks joined the search for Staņislavs Rogoļevs, a murderer and rapist. Together with colleagues he also investigated the case of Ādolfs Krieviņš, a double murderer. Another case involved Aleksandrs Nosovs, who killed a young girl and was nicknamed the "coat flasher".
Life after service
After retiring on a length-of-service pension, Zeiļuks turned to beekeeping. He still keeps a farm in Malnava, in the Ludza area.
The article comes from the TVNET+ archive and was first published in April 2025.
