30 minutes agoEven a Russian billionaire dies mysterious
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Lukoil's former manager, Alexandr Subbot, reportedly died under unclear circumstances, as a series of mysterious deaths of Russian businessmen have been reported since Moscow began its unprotested invasion of Ukraine on February 24th. The media reported that sources within regional police in Moscow said forensic tests are under way, since they are suspected in [...]
The media reported that sources within regional police in Moscow said forensics tests are under way, since there may be drugs in Subbot's body. He was found a day earlier in the basement of a house in the town of Mitisci, near Moscow.
According to sources, the owner of the house where the billionaire's lifeless body was found, Alexei Pindyruin, also known as Shaman Magua, has testified before the police that Subbot had come to his home and was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Less than a week ago, on April 21st, Vagit Alekperov, the founder and co-owner of Lukoil Russia's largest private oil company ú resigned from the company after he and other Russian billionaires were sanctioned by Australia and the UK due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The same day, media in Spain reported that two days ago a former manager of Russian oil giant Novatek, Sergei Protosenaya, his wife and daughter were found dead in a rented villa in Lioreta de Mar, near Barcelona.
Protosenya had been found hanging, and his wife and daughter had been slaughtered to death, Spanish police were quoted as saying.
On April 18th, former president of the leading Russian financial institution, Gazprombanka, Vladislav Avayev, was found dead in Moscow, along with his wife and daughter. Police said he had closed his apartment, shot his wife and daughter to death, and then killed himself.
On March 24th, another Russian billionaire, Vasily Melnikov, who owned the pharmaceutical company MedStom, his wife and two sons, were found slaughtered to death in their home in the Russian city of Nizhni Novgorod.
On February 28th, Russian billionaire Mikhail Watford was found hanging from his garage in the United Kingdom. British officials have said they do not suspect this is murder.
On February 25th, a day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian energy giant Gazprom's manager, Alexandr Tyulyakov, was found hanging in his home garage in St Petersburg. Police said they found a letter where he had shown that he had committed suicide.
Even the other senior Gazprom official, Leonid Schulman, was found dead in a house near St. Petersbury in January, weeks before the Ukraine invasion began. At the scene, the police also found a note announcing that he had committed suicide.
