A multi-millionaire Russian entrepreneur has actually been discovered shot dead at his estate.
He is the 6th rich entrepreneur with links to the Russian state-owned gas business Gazprom to have actually been discovered dead in abnormal scenarios given that the start of the year.
Yuri Voronov, 61, was head of a logistics business that held rewarding agreements with Gazprom in the Arctic.
His body was found drifting in the pool of his estate in an elite town near St Petersburg on Monday.
He had actually suffered a gunshot injury to the head.
A handgun is stated to have actually been discovered close by, with ‘several spent cartridges’ presumably situated at the bottom of the swimming pool.
The Russian Investigative Committee is examining his death which is thought to be connected to ‘a quarrel with partners’.
His partner has actually apparently informed private investigators that Voronov had actually thought he was being scammed by professionals and partners who had ‘behaved dishonourably’ for numerous weeks.
The entrepreneur is comprehended to have actually feared he had ‘lost a lot of money’.
No visitors to his house in the Leningrad area were identified by security electronic cameras.
Mr Voronov’s death follows reports of a variety of other deaths at estates in the elite suburban area of St Petersburg sustaining rumours murders are being staged to appear like suicides.
Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom monetary and security authorities at deputy basic director level, was discovered dead in his estate the day after Russia attacked Ukraine in February.
His body was found in his ₤500,000 estate in an obvious suicide however reports recommend he had actually been terribly beaten soon prior to he ‘took his own life’.
Three weeks previously, in the exact same gated neighborhood, Leonid Shulman, 60, head of transportation at Gazprom Invest, was discovered stabbed to death his restroom flooring.
Billionaire Alexander Subbotin was discovered dead in May after ‘taking advice from shamans’.
The 42- year-old was previous leading supervisor at energy giant Lukoil and owner of a shipping business.
One theory surrounding his death is that he was poisoned by toad venom setting off a cardiovascular disease.
In April, rich Vladislav Avayev, 51, a previous Kremlin authorities, appeared to have actually taken his own life after eliminating his partner Yelena, 47, and child, 13.
He had top-level links to the leading Russian banks Gazprombank.
Friends have actually contested reports he was envious after his partner confessed she was pregnant by their motorist.
Several days later on multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was discovered dead in Spain after appearing to eliminate his partner Natalia, 53, and their teenage child, Maria.
He was a previous deputy chairman of Novatek, a business likewise carefully connected to the Kremlin.
As with Mr Avayev, it is recommended Mr Protosenya’s death might have been an assassination staged to appear like a murder-and-suicide.
Last week Yevgeny Palant, 47, and his partner Olga, 50, both Ukrainian- born, were discovered with several knife injuries by their child Polina, 20.
An instant rundown to the media declared Olga took her own life in an envious rage after her spouse, who made his fortune in cellphones, stated he was leaving her.
Yet this was highly contested by the couple’s friend.
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