After falling from a sixth-floor window at a Moscow hospital, the head of a Russian oil business who criticised Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was discovered dead in strange circumstances.
Around 7.30am local time, Ravil Maganov, 67, the head of the Russian oil firm Lukoil, fell from a window on the sixth floor of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow and perished instantly.
While law enforcement officials said there was no suicide note and no CCTV cameras on the part of the building where Maganov fell, Russian state media swiftly reported that his death was a suicide.
One of the few significant Russian businesses to call for a stop to hostilities in Ukraine when Moscow invaded was Lukoil, of which Maganov served as chairman.
The Lukoil board called for a “rapid” stop to the conflict in a statement released in the days after the invasion, offering their condolences to anyone impacted by the “tragedy”
Maganov was discovered dead after falling from the hospital window seven months later.
His death is the most recent of many high-ranking Russian officials who have passed away in unexplained ways recently, many of whom inexplicably fell out of windows.
Maganov is now one of many Russian oil tycoons who have died under questionable circumstances.
Maganov, who received a medal from Russian President Vladimir Putin, has served as chairman of Lukoil since 2020. From 2006 until 2020, he served as executive vice president.
According to early accounts, Maganov “threw himself out of the window” before being discovered dead by emergency personnel. Police, however, are still looking into whether this death was a suicide or a suspicious one.
Maganov’s fall from a window is thought to have been caused by a package of cigarettes, which raises the possibility that he was smoking when he fell.
It was also said that his wife was in the room next to him when he fell at the prestigious hospital.
According to reports, the oil executive was being treated for a chronic heart condition as part of a normal checkup.
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Maganov received the Order of Alexander Nevsky, a medal given to public officials for 20 years or more of exceptionally distinguished service, in 2019 from Putin. Maganov’s brother Nail Maganov is the CEO of another oil business, Tatneft.
His son Ravil is a race car driver, and his wife Fania is the principal of the English First Language School in Almetyevsk.
Magonov’s enigmatic demise follows that of a businessman who opposed Putin and was a Latvian-American who was discovered dead in Washington, DC, on August 14 after falling from a high-end apartment building’s window.
On August 14, just before 6 o’clock in the evening, Dan Rapoport, 52, was discovered outside the 2400 M Apartments. Along with his corpse, his broken smartphone, $2,620 in cash, a keychain with a lanyard, and a broken white headphone, they were all found in the street.
Rapoport, a businessman who oversaw the renowned Soho Rooms nightclub in Moscow, resided in Washington, DC, with his first wife, Irina, from 2012 until 2016.
Police said that Dan Rapoport was staying in a DC apartment complex when he was discovered dead outdoors. He died that day, August 14, after falling.
the eight-story apartment complex that Rapoport allegedly fell to his death from
He had been residing in Kyiv with his small daughter up until last year, together with his second wife, the Ukrainian virologist Alena. He sent them to Denmark when the war broke out in February and then went back to the US with the intention of bringing them across.
Rapoport reportedly took his own life after releasing his dog, Boy, while carrying a suicide note and money, according to the early reports.
Alena, his widow, claims that Pugacheva’s sources are unreliable and that he did not commit suicide.
Rapoport uploaded a chilling picture of Marilyn Brando as Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now on Facebook three days before he passed away, captioned: “The horror, the horror.”
He had always been a vocal opponent of the government and had become infatuated with the conflict in Ukraine and Putin’s Army.
A Russian nationalist who criticised Putin and foresaw civil war unexpectedly died in December after falling from a Moscow fifth-floor window.
Yegor Prosvirnin, 35, a citizen of Vladivostok, Russia, was discovered nude on Tverskaya Street in the heart of Moscow “under the windows of a residential building.”
According to BBC Russia, Mr. Prosvirnin reportedly hurled a “knife and gas canister” out the fifth-floor window as neighbours heard him “screaming and yelling” before he fell.
In addition to harshly criticising Putin and forecasting a civil war, Mr. Prosvirnin launched the contentious right-wing blog Sputnik and Pogrom and prophesied that the Russian Federation would “collapse.”
A number of patients were discovered dead in Russia after leaping out of hospital windows during the Covid epidemic, including the case of Maganov.
There was no indication that the chairman of LUKOIL had Covid.
A renowned Russian scientist with connections to Edinburgh University who was “working on a Covid-19 vaccine” was discovered dead in St. Petersburg in December 2020 under strange circumstances.
Alexander “Sasha” Kagansky, a 45-year-old biologist best renowned for his research on cancer treatment, is said to have fallen in his underpants from a high-rise residential building’s 14th story window.
Moskovsky Komsomolets reportedly reported that he had a knife wound on his torso (MK).
The incident came after six Russians died earlier that year after falling from hospital windows.
While one casualty was a doctor who had complained about PPE shortages, five of the victims were being treated for coronavirus. Yet another doctor managed to survive his fall from a hospital window.
Several mysterious deaths among some of Putin’s closest allies and associates have occurred over the past year, particularly among gas executives like Magonov.
A 43-year-old former senior executive for the energy firm Lukoil, millionaire Alexander Subbotin was discovered dead in unexplained circumstances in May.
The oligarch, who ran a successful shipping business, allegedly had treatment with toad venom, which was injected into a skin incision.
Subbotin had a heart attack shortly after and was given a tranquillizer made of the valerian plant.
According to the official account of what happened, the entrepreneur had sought the counsel of shamans to treat a hangover, but his passing comes as other important businessmen are dying, deaths that Putin’s opponents have said may have been murders.
In April, the bodies of Sergei Protosenya, 55, his wife Natalia, 33, and their adolescent daughter Maria were discovered inside a Spanish property after being found hung outdoors.
Investigators first believed that Protosenya, who had a £330 million fortune, had committed suicide at the property in Lloret de Mar on the Costa Brava.
However, according to local accounts, there was no suicide note discovered on the property, and it looked that measures had been made to ensure that there were no fingerprints on the murder weapons. As a result, the evidence does not prove that this is the case.
The billionaire had previously held the position of vice chairman of the Kremlin-affiliated Novotek natural gas firm.
Only a few days before, Vladislav Avayev, 51, his wife Yelena, 47, and their 13-year-old daughter Maria were discovered dead in another apparent murder-suicide in their opulent Moscow apartment.
Avayev was once a vice president of Gazprombank, a bank established to serve the needs of Russian gas giant Gazprom, as well as a member of the Kremlin.
Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a top Gazprom finance and security executive at deputy general director level, was found dead on February 25, the first day of the Ukraine conflict, by his boyfriend.
In his £500,000 house, he had a noose around his neck.
Alexander Tyulakov (left) and Leonid Shulman (right) both died in mysterious circumstances earlier this year.
But according to sources, he was severely battered just before he’suicided,’ raising the possibility that he was under a lot of stress.
Three weeks earlier, 60-year-old Leonid Shulman, the chief of transport at Gazprom Invest, was discovered dead with numerous knife wounds in a pool of blood on the floor of the same upscale Leninsky gated housing complex in the Leningrad area.
The Russian Investigative Committee is said to have declined to speak about the killings and a letter was discovered, the contents of which have not been made public.
On the bathtub, apparently out of reach, a knife was discovered.