Kremlin through Reuters
A prime Russian oil government died Thursday after purportedly falling out of a hospital window, in accordance with native experiences.
Ravil Maganov, the chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil firm, is claimed to have fallen from the sixth flooring of the Central Medical Hospital in Moscow. The 67-year-old is simply the most recent Russian government linked to the oil and fuel business to die in weird circumstances in latest months.
Russia’s RIA Novosti experiences that the hospital confirmed his dying and stated investigators have been working on the scene, although no additional particulars have been supplied on how he died.
“Maganov fell out the window of his room at [the hospital] this morning. He died of his accidents,” an unnamed supply cited by the Interfax information company stated.
The press service of Lukoil additionally confirmed Maganov’s dying, making no point out of his fall out a window.
“We're deeply saddened to tell you that Ravil Maganov … handed away after a critical sickness. Ravil Ulfatovich made a useful contribution not solely to the event of the corporate, however to your complete Russian oil and fuel business,” the corporate stated in a press launch quoted by Interfax.
Within the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February, Lukoil took the uncommon step of condemning the warfare, telling shareholders in a letter on the time that the corporate stands for “the rapid cessation of the armed battle.”
Maganov’s sudden dying comes only a few months after Alexander Subbotin, a former prime Lukoil government, was discovered lifeless in Might. An investigation into his dying is stated to be ongoing, although Russian state media put out numerous weird particulars on the time, citing sources who stated Subbotin had been discovered lifeless in a shaman’s house the place “voodoo rituals” have been carried out and that he’d been severely intoxicated.
Only a month earlier, Vladislav Avayev, the previous vp of Gazprombank, a privately-owned subsidiary of Gazprom, was discovered lifeless of a gunshot wound in Moscow, alongside along with his spouse and daughter. Investigators stated they suspected a murder-suicide.
A day after Avayev’s physique was discovered, Sergei Protosenya, the previous deputy chairman of fuel firm Novatek, was discovered hanging in a villa in Spain, along with his spouse and daughter additionally discovered lifeless on the premises with stab wounds. Simply as within the case of Avayev, native police stated their preliminary concept was murder-suicide.
In February, Gazprom government Alexander Tyulyakov was discovered hanged in his St. Petersburg storage, with police saying they’d found a suicide word close to his physique. His dying got here only a few weeks after Gazprom Make investments exec Leonid Shulman was discovered lifeless at a cottage within the Leningrad area, with regulation enforcement sources additionally describing his dying as a suicide.