The 67-year-old Chairman of the Board of the Russian oil company Ravil Maganov died this Thursday (1st) in the Central Hospital Clinic in Moscow. In an official note, Luk Oil reported that the manager died “after battling a serious illness” without providing more precise information on death.
“Maganov fell out of his hospital room window this morning. He died of his wounds,” a source told the state news agency. interfax, Pointing out that the police officers are currently working on the incident in the outer area of the building, Dr.
Rus has worked for the company, which has been the second largest Russian oil company since 1993, and has worked in various industries such as refining, fossil fuel production and exploration. He became the Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2020.
Recently, the oligarch publicly lamented the “tragic events in Ukraine”, a country occupied on February 24 by order of Vladimir Putin.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, eight Russian oligarchs close to Putin have died in suspicious or mysterious circumstances: the deaths are attributed to suicides or accidents, but to observers accustomed to the Russian leader’s familiarity, they could also be murders in disguise. revenge methods.
They were all executives of giant companies affiliated with the Russian government, such as the state-owned energy company Gazprom and LukOil.
Data on the deaths of the oligarchs are compiled by the international press, who see the similarities too great to arouse suspicion.
The fact that these deaths occurred in the context of the economic sanctions of the European Union and the USA against the Russian oligarchs, especially in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which led to the freezing of assets raises suspicions.
The suicide hypothesis may be related to the fear of bankruptcy due to Western sanctions. But the eventual assassinations motivated by betrayal of President Putin cannot be ruled out, according to analysts.
Russian billionaires have to reaffirm their allegiance to the monarch at this point.
Although there is talk by the relatives of these oligarchs that they will be eliminated by the Russian intelligence services, there is a clear fear that this will be talked about. If that’s true, no one wants to be the next victim.
Le Figaro newspaper reported that police investigations could not clearly reveal the circumstances of the deaths, but in any case, a way of working.
Who are they?
Alexander Subbotin
He was 43 years old and was the director of LukOil, a Russian oil company, was a board member of Lukoil Trading House LLC and owned a shipping company on the shores of the Gulf of Finland. He is the brother of Valery Subbotin, former vice president of LukOil. By communication channel pureeHis body was found by two shamans at their home in the city. Russian inside Mytishchiafter a healing ritual that uses frog poison to cure a hangover.
Sergey Protosenia
The ex-CEO of Novatek, Russia’s second largest gas company, was found hanging dead on April 20, aged 55, in the garden of a mansion in Lloret del Mar, Spain, along with the stabbed bodies of his wife. Maria, 16. Spanish police are investigating the hypothesis of a double murder and subsequent suicide by the oligarch. Protosenia was worth more than $400 million.
Vladislav Avaev
The day before, on April 19, the bodies of Avaev, 51, a former vice-president of the Russian bank Gazprom and a former Kremlin official, and his pregnant wife and 13-year-old daughter were found in a Moscow apartment. lead traces. Since a gun was found next to Vladislav’s body and the apartment was locked from the inside, the police give priority to the suicide hypothesis.
Leonid Schulman
The 60-year-old Gazprom director was found dead in the bathroom of his St Petersburg home in late January. A letter about suicide was found at the scene.
Alexander Tyulyakov
The 61-year-old deputy director of Gazprom, St. He was found hanged in a chalet in the St. Petersburg region. A farewell letter was found.
Michael Watford
The 66-year-old oil tycoon was found hanging in the garage of his mansion in suburban London.
Vasily Melnikov
A former employee of the medical equipment company MedStom was found dead in his apartment in the city of Nizhny Novgorod with his wife and two children aged 4 and 10. No signs of conflict or trespassing were recorded.
Recently, the oligarch and head of the Chelsea football team, Roman Abramovich, claimed that he was poisoned after showing symptoms after a meeting in Ukraine.
Image: Andrew Winning/Reuters
date of poisoning
Since the 2000s, when he assumed the presidency of Russia, Putin has been accused of poisoning his opponents, a practice inherited from the extinct USSR (Soviet Union) era.
It is worth remembering that he was an officer of the Soviet KGB secret service.
One of the first cases of poisoning under his rule occurred when opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko in the Ukrainian presidential election in September 2004 fell seriously ill and survived despite his disfigured face.
The disease was caused by dioxin, which he swallowed during his meal.
Below are other situations:
Alexey Navalny
Image: Sefa Karacan / via Anadolu Agency Getty Images
Russia’s biggest opposition leader in 2020 was poisoned and went through a long recovery. In early 2021, months after leaving Russia, he returned to the country for the first time since his poisoning and was arrested. Now, a wave of protests is calling for his release.
The German government said that Navalny was poisoned by a sophisticated substance known as Novichok, adding even more attention to the case, bolstering suspicions that the Russian state was behind the poisoning. Most of the chemical was embedded in his underwear. The Kremlin denied the allegations about the incident.
Alexander Litvinenko
Image: AFP
Litvinenko, a Russian spy from 1988 to 1998, was expelled from the country after giving an interview saying he was ordered to kill a former spy accused of revealing state secrets and kidnapping a businessman. Since 2001, he has been a critic of Putin, a journalist, and a refugee in the UK.
He was admitted with a sudden illness on November 1 and died of a heart attack 22 days later. According to the British investigation, it was contaminated with polonium-210, which was found in the tea he drank during his meeting with Russian agents. Moscow refuses.
Alexander Perepilichny
The businessman left Moscow in 2009 to live in the UK. The following year, he handed over documents to Swiss prosecutors accusing senior Russian officials of a $220 million fraud to the Treasury through an investment fund. He was found dead in a park in London in 2012. Last year, US documents surfaced accusing Russia of killing him.
Sergey and Yulia Skripal
Image: Paper via The New York Times
Sergei was a Russian intelligence agent until 1999, and after serving in the British secret service for the past four years, he was discovered and sentenced to 13 years in prison for treason. He moved to the UK in 2010 in a spy swap with the US. One day, he was found unconscious next to his daughter on a bench in a shopping center in Salisbury, England. They survived. The British government said they were poisoned with the chemical agent Novitchok.
Peter Verzilov
Image: Vasily Maximov/AFP
Verzilov, a Pussy Riot activist, occupied the grounds of the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium in Moscow during the 2018 World Cup final in Russia and suddenly lost the ability to speak, see and walk after a court hearing. He was hospitalized in Moscow and transferred five days later to Berlin, where a doctor said he had been poisoned by an unknown agent. (with international organizations)
source: Noticias
