12 Russian Capitalists and the cause of their death.
According to the French newspaper Figaro, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russian capitalists have been killed one after another and many of them have been found dead in strange circumstances.
The newspaper wrote that within a year, 12 of these Russian elites died in almost the same circumstances and at relatively close times, and the strangest thing is that they are without exception related to Russian energy sector companies, such as Gazprom and Lukoil. were related, and this raises many unanswered questions.
January 30: Leonid Shulman: suicide in the bathroom
One of the first victims was Leonid Shulman, CEO of Gazprom, who was famous for extracting, processing and transporting natural gas. He was also the head of the transportation department of Gazprom Invest, which managed the investment projects of this gas giant.
February 25: Alexander Tyuliakov: Exemption from forensic medicine
A day after the attack on Ukraine, Alexander Tyuliakov (61), the chief financial officer of Gazprom, died suddenly and was found hanged in the garage of his home near St. Petersburg, before the police investigated. To perform a forensic examination, Gazprom officials transferred his body.
28 February: Michael Watford: Hanged himself.
On February 28, it was the turn of billionaire Michael Watford, who made his fortune through oil and gas. Police found his body hanged in the garage of his home in the west suburbs of London. The police described the scene of suicide as “unfortunate”.
March 24: Vasily Melnikov with his family
On March 24, 43-year-old billionaire Vasily Melnikov allegedly committed suicide in his apartment in Nizhny Novgorod, western Russia, and his wife and two sons were found stabbed to death nearby, and he was charged with triple murder.
April 18: Vladislav Avaev: The apartment was locked from the inside
Vladislav Avaev, 51, a former vice president of Gazbom Bank (one of Gazprom’s biggest lenders) and a former Kremlin and State Duma official, was shot dead in his Moscow apartment, next to the bodies of a pregnant woman and her daughter. found.
April 19: Sergei Protosinia: rope, knife and axe
“Sergei Protosini”, 53 years old, billionaire and former director of Novatek (Russia’s second largest gas company), who is still a member of its board of directors. His body was found with his wife and daughter in a house in Lloret de Mar, Spain.
Protosini was hanged from a tree in the garden of the villa, and his wife and daughter were stabbed to death, and an ax and a knife stained with blood were discovered on the spot. Investigators suspected that the businessman killed his wife and daughter while they were sleeping and then committed suicide.
July 4: Yuri Voronov: A gun at the bottom of the pool
“Yuri Voronov”, 61 years old, was a businessman and the head of a partner company of Gazprom Group. His body was found in a swimming pool at his residence in St. Petersburg with a gunshot wound to the head and a gun at the bottom of the pool. Investigators could not determine whether it was suicide or assassination, and his wife believes he was the victim of fraud by his aides.
May 10: Alexander Sabatin: Frog poison
Alexander Subatin, 43, a former senior official of the Russian oil group Lukoil, went to a witch doctor named Magua Flores in the suburbs of Moscow, and the witch cut his skin and poured frog poison into it, and finally died of cardiac arrest. passed away.
September 1: Raul Maganov: fell from a hospital window
Raul Maganov, a businessman, is one of the oldest leaders of the Lukoil oil company and was one of its founders 30 years ago, and although his death was declared due to a serious illness, TASS and Interx news agencies claimed that he jumped from the sixth floor of a hospital. who was hospitalized due to heart problems, committed suicide.
September 10: Ivan Pechorin: Boating
Ivan Pechorin, 40, was the director of Russia’s Far East and Arctic Development Company and was tasked by President Vladimir Putin to develop energy and mining resources in eastern Russia to counter international sanctions. His body was found in the Sea of Japan.
And the Daily Mail reported that he had fallen overboard from a yacht. Russian media said he was drunk when he fell into the water.
September: Anatoly Gerashchenko: accident
72-year-old Anatoly Gerashchenko, a prominent Russian expert and scientist in the field of aviation, died under suspicious circumstances, and the Moscow institute announced in an official statement that he died in an “accident”.
December 9: Dmitry Zelenov: fell down the stairs
Dmitry Zelenov, 50, a Russian real estate tycoon, felt dizzy and fell down the stairs after having dinner with friends and was reported to be suffering from heart problems.