According to a purported ex-Kremlin source, the Russian oil mogul who died yesterday after falling to his death from the sixth floor of a hospital in Moscow was killed “with Vladimir Putin’s knowledge.”
The head of the Russian oil major Lukoil, 67-year-old Ravil Maganov, mysteriously fell from the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow at approximately 7.30 a.m. local time yesterday 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.
Maganov was allegedly “beaten” before being “thrown out of a window,” according to General SVR, a Russian Telegram group that often shares supposed insider information on Putin and the Kremlin.
One of the only significant Russian businesses to demand a stop to hostilities in Ukraine after Moscow’s invasion was his own, Lukoil.
According to General SVR, the assassination was motivated by Maganov’s “unique viewpoint” about the gradual nationalisation of Lukoil, which differed from that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin not only was aware of the preparations for the attempted murder, but he also offered his approval by authorising the date and technique of the elimination.
The anti-Putin station claimed inside information from the Kremlin, which is allegedly trying to shut it down, but provided no proof or further information to support its assertion.
Previous reports about Putin’s purported sicknesses and other oil tycoons who inexplicably passed away in recent months have been circulated on the Telegram group.
General SVR is one of the few well-known anti-Putin channels in Russia, according to those who doubt it, but others who believe it offers a window into the real events taking place in the Kremlin.
One story from May claimed that the FSB, its director Alexander Bortnikov, and Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, with Putin’s agreement, were responsible for the unexplained deaths of several Russian businesspeople connected to Gazprom.
‘It should be understood that the financing of secret operations [of the security services and armed forces] took place precisely through the structures of Gazprom and Novatek, and Gazprombank played a central role, and the actively made attempts of the Russian leadership to remove Gazprombank from sanctions are connected with this,’ the Telegram stated.
“At the end of last year, Putin was made aware of the information leak on the funding of covert activities and… the plan to fund the agents of the 5th FSB agency via workers at Gazprom structures.”
The report said that an investigation had been conducted. Deaths then occurred. It was said that “Putin authorised the full list for liquidation without seeing.”
Putin’s People: How The KGB Took Back Russia And Then Took On The West, Catherine Belton’s most recent and much praised book, supports Putin’s murderous “housekeeping.”
Putin visited the same Central Clinical Hospital hours after Maganov’s corpse was discovered there yesterday to pay his condolences to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who passed away there on Tuesday.
Officially, authorities are looking into Maganov’s fall and questioning medical workers and patients while pro-state media sources seemed to agree there were no concerns.
They pointed out that the oil executive, who was connected to Vagit Alekperov, the creator and oligarch of Lukoil, had been experiencing cardiac issues.
The most widely accepted explanation for his death is that he killed himself in the hospital while smoking in the next room to his wife early one morning.
On Alekperov’s 72nd birthday, he passed away.
Anastasia Kashevarova, co-founder of the independent Daily Storm and a former assistant to close Putin supporter and influential Russian parliament speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, reiterated the opinion that Maganov was killed in an assassination.
She wrote to her 36,800 Telegram followers, “It became out that this was not a natural death, but a man-made one.”
Moreover, Vagit Alekperov, a co-owner of Lukoil, celebrated his birthday on the day of the death.
Furthermore, the death occurred the day when Putin was scheduled to arrive to bid Gorbachev farewell.
‘This is some kind of ‘hello’ to our structures. But who, exactly?
A source close to the late tycoon’s Tatneft oil firm was described by Readovka as saying: “His departure is obviously a sorrow, but it [such catastrophes] happened.” The deceased tycoon’s younger brother Nail Maganov, 64, refused to comment.
Putin presented the Order of Alexander Nevsky, a medal given to government officials for 20 years or more of exceptionally distinguished service, to Nail, the CEO of another oil business, Tatneft, in 2019.
His son Ravil is a race car driver, and his wife Fania is the principal of the English First language school in Almetyevsk.
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.
An anti-Putin businessman who was Latvian-American 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.
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 supporters and acquaintances have occurred over the last 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.
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.