The body of one of the senior managers associated with the Russian energy giant “Gazprom” was found in the swimming pool of his mansion.
According to the Sun, 61-year-old millionaire Yuri Voronov is the latest Russian millionaire to die mysteriously recently.
Voronov was the head of the “Transport and Logistics” company, which had “profitable contracts” with the Russian gas giant in the Arctic.
Since the beginning of this year, four managers of the gas industry and a senior medical official have lost their lives in mysterious circumstances.
Voronov’s body was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the pool of his mansion in the village of “Elite” near St. Petersburg.
A Colt Camry Grand Power was also discovered near the crime scene and empty bullets were also discovered at the bottom of the pool.
The newspaper notes that the “Russian Investigative Committee” is investigating the circumstances of his death, which it initially linked to a “conflict with accomplices.”
His wife told investigators that Voronov believed for several weeks that he was being defrauded by contractors and accomplices who “behaved dishonestly.”
The newspaper said the Russian businessman feared he had “lost a lot of money”. CCTV cameras did not record any visitors to his palace in the “Leningrad” region.
The deaths of two executives linked to Gazprom, previously reported in an area of elite homes near St. Petersburg, have raised suspicions that the apparent suicides may have been murders, The Sun reported.
Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom finance and security official, was found dead in February, severely beaten shortly before his “suicide”, prompting speculation that he was under extreme stress.
And in the same “Leninsky complex” in the Leningrad Region, three weeks ago, Leonid Shulman, 60, the head of transport at Gazprom Invest, was found dead on his bathroom floor with multiple stab wounds.
Billionaire Alexander Sobotin, 43, a former director of Lukoil, close to the Kremlin and owner of a shipping company, was also found dead in May, and the newspaper cited mysterious deaths of officials and other wealthy people.
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