Russian oligarch passes away by suicide after falling from 6th flooring window

A Russian oligarch has actually been reported by state media to have actually passed away by suicide after a fall from a window at a healthcare facility in Moscow.

Ravil Maganov, 67, chair of Russian oil giant LUKOIL obviously passed away on the area following his fall.

He fell from the window at Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital at around 7.30 am today.

It is uncertain what Mr Maganov was carrying out in the medical facility prior to his fall, however his death is the most recent in a line of Russian oligarchs and energy executives who have actually passed away in strange situations this year following Putin’s intrusion of Ukraine.

Former Gazprom vice president Vladislav Avayev and his partner were discovered dead from gunshot injuries in May in an obvious murder-suicide.

Several days later on another oligarch– Sergei Protosenya– was discovered hanged, with his other half and child stabbed to death along with him at a vacation home in Spain.

Mr Protosenya was a previous vice president of Russian gas giant Novatek, and his death was likewise identified a murder-suicide by Russian authorities.

Mr Maganov had actually been chairman of LUKOIL given that 2020, and was executive vice president from 2006 to 2020 prior to that.

He had actually remained in senior positions with the business given that signing up with the board in the early 1990 s, and had actually formerly been embellished by Vladimir Putin himself.

An preliminary report from Russian Telegram channel MASH media, a Kremlin- lined up outlet typically implicated of spreading out phony news and false information, has actually declared Maganov was discovered by medical personnel after he ‘threw himself out of the window’.

But there has yet to be any main declaration on the cause of death and authorities are still examining the event, reports state.

The medical facility, situated on Marshal Timoshenko Street in Moscow, is the exact same one where the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev passed away previously today.

The medical facility falls under the Kremlin governmental administration in Russia.

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic there were numerous reports of clients leaping out of medical facility windows in Russia and other ex-Soviet nations, which some thought were set off by drugs they were administered.

But there was no sign Mr Maganov was struggling with coronavirus at the time of his death.

The dead magnate’s bro Nail Maganov is head of another oil business, Tatneft.

Both followed in their father’s steps and linked their lives with the oil market.

Putin had actually granted Mr Maganov the Order of Alexander Nevsky in 2019.

His other half, Fania, is the head of the English First language school in Almetyevsk, while his boy Ravil is a racing cars and truck chauffeur.

Mr Maganov is the seventh recognized oligarch to have actually been discovered dead given that the start of the year, with fellow LUKOIL executive Aleksandr Subbotin likewise passing away in uncommon situations numerous months back.

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