Sergey BEZSMERTNY

 

 

•  
• Last seen: Friday, 24 October 2014
• State: Northern Territory
• Year of birth: 1969
• Height: 175 cm
• Build: Thin
• Eyes: Brown
• Hair: Bald
• Complexion: Olive
• Gender: Male
• Distinguishing Feature: Has a tattoo of the face of the Russian present, Lenin on the left side of his chest. Also has a small tattoo on his middle finger that looks like a snake wrapped around a sword. His teeth are badly yellowed. He suffers from advance periodontitis and has a missing front second or third tooth.

Circumstances:

Sergey Bezsmertny travelled to Alice Springs Northern Territory, from Victoria via Adelaide on 20 October 2014.
He was in Yulara on 22 October and was last seen walking along the Lasseters Hwy 20km east of Yulara at 2pm on 24 October.
His belongings were located on a salt lake near the Mt Connor lookout, 15km east of Curtain Springs Roadhouse, approximately 100km east of where he was seen walking on the Lasseter Hwy.
If you have information that may assist police to locate Sergey please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Man missing in Central Australia, Sergey Bezsmertny, may have been given lift before disappearance

Updated 12 Nov 2014, 12:57pm

AN artist who went missing from Central Australia last month may have been given a lift in a vehicle shortly after he checked out of his hotel, police say.

NT Police said new information about Victorian man Sergey Bezsmertny had come to hand indicating the missing 45-year-old was seen on the Lasseter Highway on October 24.

The location he was seen in would have been about 20km from where Mr Bezsmertny was last known to have been, when he checked out of the Ayers Rock Resort in Yulara on the same day.

If he had been picked up in a car it would add to the mystery of Mr Bezsmertny's disappearance, as his backpack was found about 100km away on a salt lake on October 25, the day after he was last seen.

"Police believe that Sergey may have been provided a lift within this time frame," Senior Sergeant Michael Potts, from the NT Police Central Desert Division, said.

"Sergey was dressed in a long sleeved white shirt, blue jeans and possibly wearing a white shirt over his head in a makeshift hat."

Mr Bezsmertny was an artist who is believed to have been in Central Australia to paint pictures of the outback as he made his way up to Darwin from his home in Victoria.

Police began a search for Mr Bezsmertny on November 6, but suspended the ground aspect of the search three days later.

An aircraft search covered about 123 square kilometres around the location where his backpack was found, while people on the ground scaled an area about 0.5sq km

Police have not said why they called off the ground search for Mr Bezsmertny, who they hold "grave fears" for.

It is believed Mr Bezsmertny has not touched his bank accounts since his disappearance.