To the date, 8 executives involved in the energy industry from Russia have died in mysterious circumstances since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraineaccording to information from the British newspaper ‘The Telegraph’.
Several had expressed their disagreement with the war.
Very few companies have raised their voices against the invasion, as the Kremlin has severely cracked down on any form of dissent within Russia: There are more than 16,000 arrests of citizens who have asked for an end to the waraccording to the human rights organization OVD-Info.
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Ravil Maganov
He was the chairman of Russia’s largest private oil company, Lukoil, and His death occurred after falling out of the window of the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. There he was treated for a heart attack.
Months ago, his company positioned itself against the invasion of Ukraine.
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Alexander Subbotin
He was also a top executive at Lukoil and, in May, was found dead in the basement of a shaman’s house in Mytishchi, a town northeast of Moscow.
According to the information provided by ‘ABC’, from Spain, he was “in a state of severe alcohol and drug intoxication“.
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Michael Watford
The Russian billionaire was involved in the oil and gas industry and was of Ukrainian origin, so he was against the invasion. He was found hanged in the garage of his home in Surrey, England, in late February.
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Vladislav Avayev and Sergei Protonsenya
They both died on the same day, April 19, and their cases are eerily similar: according to Russian authorities, they killed their families and committed suicide.
Protonsenya was Vice President of Novatek and was in Lloret de Mar, Spain.
For his part, the former Kremlin official and former vice president of the state gas company Gazprombank, Vladislav Avayev, was in Moscow.
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Alexander Tyulyakov
Three days before Watford’s death, on February 25, the head of the financial and security area of the Russian energy company Gazprom Tyulyakov He was found dead in a country house near St. Petersburg.
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Leonid Shulman
Shulman’s case is different because he died before the Russian invasion. He was also a top executive at Gazprom and his body was found in a cabin bathroom along with a suicide note.
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Vasily Melnikov
On March 24, the owner of the medical equipment supply company Medstom and his family, his wife and two children, were found dead in their apartment.
Authorities concluded that it was Melnikov who stabbed his family and killed himself.
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