Russian President Vladimir Putin stands up coming to First Government Vice President of oil producer Lukoil Ravil Maganov right after decorating him with the Order of Alexander Nevsky in the course of an awarding ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, November 21, 2019.
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WASHINGTON — The dying of Ravil Maganov, chairman of the Russian oil giant Lukoil, at a clinic in Moscow on Thursday seems to mark the eighth time this yr that a Russian electricity government has died out of the blue and under uncommon instances.
Maganov died right after falling out of the window of the capital’s Central Medical Healthcare facility, in accordance to the Russian condition-sponsored information outlet Interfax. The conditions of Maganov’s demise were being confirmed by Reuters, citing two anonymous sources.
But Lukoil, the company that Maganov served to develop, claimed the 67 12 months aged experienced “handed away next a severe ailment” in a push statement. The Russian embassy in Washington did not answer to a ask for from CNBC for an formal statement.
The circumstances encompassing Maganov’s sudden demise have drawn international notice, in part, because seven other top rated Russian energy executives have been victims of untimely fatalities since January, according to experiences by Russian and global information companies.
Underneath is a list of these cases, in chronological purchase.
- In late January, Leonid Shulman, a top executive at the Russian pure gas huge Gazprom, was uncovered lifeless in the bathroom of a cottage in the village of Leninsky. The Russian media group RBC noted his death, but did not cite a result in.
- On Feb. 25, an additional Gazprom government, Alexander Tyulakov, was discovered dead in the very same village as Shulman, this time in a garage. In accordance to the Russian media outlet Novaya Gazeta, investigators identified a note in the vicinity of Tyulakov’s entire body.
- On Feb. 28, a few days immediately after Tyulakov died, a Russian oil and gas billionaire dwelling in England, Mikhail Watford, was observed hanged in the garage of his region estate. At the time, investigators reportedly stated Watford’s loss of life was “unexplained,” but did not seem suspicious.
- On April 18, a previous vice president of Gazprombank, Vladislav Avayev, was found lifeless in his Moscow apartment, alongside his spouse and daughter, who also died. Authorities taken care of the circumstance as a murder-suicide, Radio Free Europe described at the time. Gazprombank is Russia’s third greatest lender and has shut ties to the power sector.
- On April 19, a former deputy chairman of Novatek, Russia’s major liquefied all-natural fuel producer, was found useless in a getaway residence in Spain. Like Avayev in Moscow, Sergei Protosenya was observed with his wife and daughter, who have been also deceased. And like Avayev, law enforcement investigating the scene mentioned they thought it was a murder-suicide, a principle that Avayev’s surviving son has publicly rejected.
- In May, the body of billionaire and former Lukoil govt Alexander Subbotin was identified in the basement of a nation house in the Moscow region. The home wherever Subbotin died was allegedly utilised for “Jamaican voodoo rituals,” the Russian state media outlet TASS described, quoting nearby authorities.
- In July, Yury Voronov, the CEO and founder of a transport contractor that solutions Gazprom’s Arctic tasks was uncovered dead of an obvious gunshot wound in a swimming pool at his home in Leninsky, the same elite St. Petersburg gated local community the place Shulman and Tyulakov died previously in the yr.
