Andrei Badalov, the vice-president of Russia‘s nationwide oil pipeline, Transneft, has been discovered lifeless after allegedly falling out of a window of his dwelling in suburban Moscow, regulation enforcement advised Russian state media on Friday.
The previous businessman’s physique was found beneath a window of a home in Rublyovka, an upscale residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Russian capital, TASS, Russia’s nationwide information company, says.
The state-run oil conglomerate additionally confirmed Badalov’s demise, with out elaborating on the circumstances, however stated his work got here throughout a “troublesome and annoying interval” as a result of wartime sanctions, in keeping with the impartial Russian newspaper, The Moscow Instances. Badalov had served as Transneft’s vice-president since 2021.
TASS says regulation enforcement officers advised the company that the deceased had left a farewell observe and that preliminary findings recommend his reason behind demise was suicide.
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An investigation into the incident is underway.
That is the newest in a wave of unexplained deaths of high-profile Russian figures since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Greater than a dozen others have additionally died:
- Anatoly Gerashchenko, the previous head of a Russian aviation analysis college, died on the institute’s grounds after reportedly by accident falling down quite a few flights of stairs in late September 2022.
- Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin, the editor-in-chief of the most important state newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, died “all of a sudden” after showing to suffocate, in keeping with the paper he used to helm.
- Ivan Pechorin, an vitality govt, died after falling overboard from a speedboat.
- Ravil Maganov, chairman of the board of Russia’s largest non-public oil firm, Lukoil, died after falling out of the sixth-storey window of a hospital.
- Alexander Subbotin, a former high supervisor for Lukoil, was discovered lifeless within the basement of a shaman’s home after allegedly receiving a hangover therapy involving toad venom.
- Sergey Protosenya, a former govt at Novatek, the most important impartial pure gasoline producer in Russia, was discovered hanged outdoors a Spanish villa together with the our bodies of his spouse and 18-year-old daughter. The deaths seemed to be a murder-suicide.
- Vladislav Avayev, former vice-president of Gazprombank, Russia’s third-largest financial institution, was discovered lifeless in his Moscow house together with the our bodies of his spouse and 13-year-old daughter. The deaths additionally seemed to be a murder-suicide.
- Vasily Melnikov, proprietor of Medstom, an organization that imports medical gear into Russia, and his household had been all discovered lifeless of their luxurious house in Nizhny Novgorod. Melnikov, his spouse, and their 10-year-old and four-year-old sons had been stabbed to demise and the homicide weapons had been discovered on the crime scene. Investigators once more concluded that the deaths had been a results of a murder-suicide.
- Mikhail Watford, a Ukrainian-born oligarch who made his thousands and thousands as an oil and gasoline tycoon, was discovered hanged within the storage of his dwelling in Surrey, U.Okay. Watford’s spouse and youngsters, who had been dwelling on the time, weren’t harmed. Watford modified his final identify from Tolstosheya after shifting to the U.Okay. within the early 2000s.
- Alexander Tyulyakov, deputy normal director of the treasury division for Gazprom, the most important publicly-listed pure gasoline firm on the planet, was discovered hanged within the storage of his cottage. A observe was discovered together with his physique main investigators to conclude that Tyulyakov died by suicide.
- Leonid Shulman, a high govt at Gazprom, was discovered lifeless within the toilet of his cottage subsequent to an obvious suicide observe in the identical neighbourhood the place Tyulyakov would die a month later.
- Maj. Gen. Vladimir Makarov, a defence official, was discovered lifeless in an obvious suicide after having been fired from his job by Putin.
- Marina Yankina, head of finance and procurement for the Russian Defence Ministry’s Western Army District, was discovered lifeless after apparently falling from the sixteenth flooring of a highrise house in St. Petersburg in February 2023.
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