Monday, October 21, 2024

Russian Oligarch (former V.P. of Yukos) Found Dead in Moscow after Falling Out of Window

From Newsweek, October 21:

A former senior energy industry executive was found dead following a suspected suicide, Russia's state media reported, in the latest mysterious death of one of the country's elite.

Mikhail Rogachev, 64, who was the former vice president of the disbanded energy firm Yukos, died after falling from a window, the TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies reported at the weekend.

A law enforcement source told Tass that Rogachev's body was found in Protopovsky Lane in the Russian capital and that "the main version of his death is suicide. The man suffered from cancer."....

....Lukoil executive Ravil Maganov, 67, fell from a window of Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital in September 2022 in what Russian state media reported was a suicide. No suicide note was left and no CCTV footage of the section of the building where he fell was available.

The following month, Vladimir Nekrasov, the head of the board of directors at Lukoil, died after what initial medical reports suggested was "acute heart failure." In March 2024, Lukoil vice president Vitaly Robertus died "suddenly" aged 54, the company announced without stating the cause of his death....

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