Lukaoil, the largest private oil and gas company in Russia.
Earlier this year, Lukoil took an unusual stance when it came out against the war in Ukraine. The company's chairman Ravil Maganov died last week after falling from the window of his hospital room in Moscow, according to a report in the Russian news agency TASS. Blockoil confirmed the death of the chairman on Thursday in a statement published on the company's website. Maganov "died after a serious illness," said the announcement, which did not specify the matter of the fall. "Magnov contributed significantly to the development of the company and the entire Russian oil and gas sector."
Another senior figure in Lockville, Alexander Sobotin, was found dead in May near Moscow, after reportedly visiting a shaman. According to the TASS report, the authorities were called to treat an unconscious person after a cardiac arrest and an investigation was opened into the circumstances of the case.
The first case of death this year was that of an executive at Gazprom - Leonid Shulman - who was found dead in his cabin in the town of Leninsky on January 30. According to the reports in the Russian media, a suicide note was found at the scene and accordingly the case was determined to be a suicide. Shulman was the head of the transportation division in Gazprom's investment arm.
Only a month later the second death occurred. Alexander Tyulkov was found dead in his parking lot on February 25, the day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. In this case too, the death was determined to be suicide. There were no responses to the reports from Gazprom and the Russian authorities.
Two Russian businessmen with ties to Gazprom died in April in murder-suicide incidents. One of them was Vladislav Abayev, former vice president of Gazprombank. His body was discovered in his apartment in Moscow on April 18 together with his wife and daughter.
Authorities are apparently investigating the incident as a murder-suicide. The representative of the investigators in the case said that the bodies were found after the family's driver and the nanny reported that they had not been answered on the phone and the apartment was locked from the inside. However, Igor Voloev, a former Gazprombank executive who recently left Russia for Ukraine, told CNN that he does not believe Abayev committed suicide. "His role was to deal with private banking, that is, managing AHC customers. He was responsible for large sums of money, so did he kill himself? i don't think I think he knew something that was a risk," he said.
On April 19, the day after the bodies of Abayev and his family were found, Sergei Protosnia, a former executive at gas producer Novtec, which is partially owned by Gazprom, died. He was found dead in his home near Barcelona. In this case too, his wife and daughter were murdered. The police in Catalonia determined that it was a double murder and suicide. However, Protusania's son questioned this statement, claiming that his father had been murdered.
Another businessman who died this year and is connected to the Russian oil and gas industry is Mikhail Watford, who was found dead at his home in Surrey, England on February 28. Local police said they ruled out suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
The businessman Vassili Melnikov, the owner of Medstom, a medical equipment manufacturer, died together with his wife and their two children aged 4 and 10. They were found strangled in their home on March 23. "The researchers are considering several possible versions of what happened, including the murder of the children and the woman by the father of the family and then suicide," the investigating team said.
I send my blessing to all lost souls.
