The chairman of the board of directors of the Russian private oil group Loukoil, Ravil Maganov, has died as a result of a “serious illness”, the company announced in a statement on Thursday, without giving further details. Earlier in the day, various Russian media and news agencies, citing unnamed sources, claimed that Ravil Maganov had died in the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. Some of these sources claimed that he fell from a window.
At the moment, the police have not given official information about the tragedy. Ravil Maganov, born in 1954, was one of the historical leaders of the group, founded in November 1991. According to Loukoil, he imagined and proposed the name of the company.
Call to end the war in Ukraine
In March, Lukoïl was one of the few Russian companies to call for an end to Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, followed by a spate of Western sanctions against large Russian groups and senior officials. At the end of April, the billionaire Vaguit Alekperov, then president of the group, had resigned a week after being placed on the list of Russian personalities sanctioned by the United Kingdom.
Source: BFM TV
