Assault Conviction
On November 9, 1999, Platonov was to appear in court on a bail hearing on a charge of attempted murder for an attack on his wife. He was convicted of assaulting his wife. The court gave him a conditional sentence of two years. Later, in September 2001, Platonov took early retirement as a professor of the University of Waterloo.
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