The top of a Russian oil big that criticized President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine died Thursday after reportedly falling out of his hospital window.
Lukoil chairman Ravil Maganov died after falling from a window of the Central Scientific Hospital in Moscow, Reuters reported, citing two sources accustomed to the scenario.
The corporate issued an announcement early Thursday confirming the dying of Maganov, 67, “after a extreme sickness,” however didn’t specify the trigger.
“Ravil Maganov immensely contributed to the event of not solely the Firm, however of the complete Russian oil and fuel sector,” the assertion learn.
NBC Information has not verified how he died. The hospital declined to remark and referred remark to the police, who declined to remark when contacted by NBC Information.
Lukoil is Russia’s second-largest oil producer. It was a uncommon Russian enterprise to come back out towards Putin’s warfare in Ukraine, which the Kremlin insists on calling its “particular navy operation.”
The corporate’s board of administrators referred to as for an finish to the warfare in early March, inside days of the full-scale invasion of Russia’s neighbor.
“Calling for the soonest termination of the armed battle, we categorical our honest empathy for all victims, who’re affected by this tragedy,” an announcement from its board of administrators learn.
The Central Scientific Hospital in Moscow continuously treats Russia’s political and enterprise elites, and was the place the final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev handed away earlier this week.
Maganov had served on Lukoil’s board of administrators since 2020, and served as the corporate’s First Government Vice President since 1994.
His dying raised eyebrows given the corporate’s opposition to the warfare and related unexplained deaths lately.
Alexander Subbotin, a former Lukoil supervisor, was discovered useless in his basement exterior Moscow in Might, in line with Reuters, citing native media.
In November 2021, a Russian diplomat was found dead on the streets of Berlin after falling from an higher flooring of the embassy, German outlet Der Spiegel reported, citing safety sources.
Investigative journalist Maxim Borodin, who wrote tales about corrupt officers and the Russian navy, died in 2018 after falling from his fifth-story balcony, in line with the information company he labored for.
Reuters contributed.
