Yet one more oligarch has met a mysterious finish because the loss of life toll among the many Russian elite continues to climb amid Vladimir Putin’s warfare in Ukraine.
Dmitry Zelenov, an actual property tycoon, died on December 9 within the French Riviera city of Antibes.
The oligarch, 50, was out to dinner with some associates when he started feeling unwell and tumbled down a flight of stairs, sustaining critical head accidents, in keeping with Russian information outlet Baza and native French outlet Var Matin.
He was rushed to hospital however medical doctors have been unable to avoid wasting him and his loss of life was confirmed by the general public prosecutor within the close by municipality of Grasse the next day.
Russian oligarch Dmitry Zelenov died in France after allegedly falling down a flight of stairs
Zelenov died on December 9 within the French Riviera city of Antibes (pictured)
In response to Baza’s Telegram channel, Zelenov underwent surgical procedure associated to undisclosed coronary heart issues within the weeks previous to his loss of life, although no additional info was offered.
Zelenov was a co-founder of Don-Stroy, as soon as considered one of Moscow’s most vital actual property funding and growth empires.
Having arrange Don-Stroy in 1994 shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Zelenov quickly racked up a fortune and recurrently featured on the Forbes listing of most rich Russians till 2008, when the monetary disaster noticed Don-Story undergo appreciable monetary losses.
The circumstances round the true property tycoon’s loss of life are remarkably much like these of Anatoly Gerashchenko, the previous head of Moscow’s Aviation Institute (MAI) who is claimed to have tumbled down a flight of stairs on the institute’s headquarters within the Russian capital in September.
‘On September 21, 2022, Anatoly Nikolaevich Gerashchenko, Physician of Technical Sciences, professor, adviser to the rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute, handed away on account of an accident,’ the organisation’s press service stated.
‘This can be a colossal loss for the MAI and the scientific and pedagogical neighborhood.’
MAI is considered one of Russia’s main scientific analysis universities liable for the event of aerospace know-how and is carefully linked to Putin’s Defence Ministry.
Gerashchenko, 73, spent a lifetime working with the institute, attending the college as an engineer earlier than working his means as much as run the operation for eight years.
He had obtained Russia’s Medal of the Order for Companies to the Fatherland, First Class, and was a distinguished professor with greater than 50 scientific publications who remained on as an influential advisor after retiring in 2015.
Anatoly Gerashchenko, the previous head of Moscow’s Aviation Institute (MAI) reportedly slipped and tumbled down a flight of stairs on the institutes headquarters within the Russian capital this morning – the most recent in a protracted listing of senior Russian officers to have died in unusual circumstances
MAI is considered one of Russia’s main scientific analysis universities liable for the event of aerospace know-how and is carefully linked to Putin’s Defence Ministry
Gerashchenko’s extremely suspicious loss of life got here lower than two weeks after Vladimir Putin’s level man for creating Russia’s huge Arctic assets ‘fell overboard’ whereas crusing off the nation’s Pacific coast.
Ivan Pechorin, 39, was managing director of Putin’s Far East and Arctic Improvement Company and had just lately attended a significant convention hosted by the Kremlin warmonger in Vladivostok.
The pair are the most recent in a protracted line of senior officers from Russia’s power, know-how and finance sectors linked to the Kremlin to die in suspicious circumstances in latest months.
Pechorin fell off the aspect of a ship within the waters near Russky Island close to Cape Ignatiev, stated Russian each day Komsomolskaya Pravda.
His physique was discovered after a search lasting greater than a day.
‘Ivan’s loss of life is an irreparable loss for associates and colleagues, an important loss for the company,’ an official assertion from the company learn.
‘We provide our honest condolences to the household and associates.’
The company’s former CEO Igor Nosov, 43, additionally died out of the blue in February, reportedly from a stroke.
A Russian MiG 27 fighter plane is pictured within the courtyard of Moscow’s Aviation Institute
Ivan Pechorin (L), level man for Vladimir Putin’s growth of the Arctic, died earlier this month after ‘falling overboard’ into the ocean from a ship close to Vladivostok. Igor Nosov (R), CEO of the Company for the Improvement of the Far East and the Arctic, additionally died earlier this 12 months in his early 40s, reportedly from a ‘stroke’
Improvement of the Arctic – a wealthy supply of oil and gasoline for Russia – is seen as important amid sanctions and unprecedented financial issues going through Putin’s financial system on account of his warfare in Ukraine.
Pechorin was additionally liable for the event of the air trade throughout the huge east of Russia, a sector below specific pressure from Western financial curbs.
His loss of life was simply considered one of dozens of unexplained incidents from simply earlier than and through the warfare with Ukraine which have seen a slew of Russian powerbrokers meet a sticky finish.
Each loss of life has been handed off as an accident or suicide by authorities, however many imagine that officers who’re seen as a menace to Putin’s energy, more than likely because of the delicate info to which they’re privy, are merely being faraway from the enjoying subject.
On September 1, oil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, fell to his loss of life from the sixth flooring window of a Moscow hospital.
One report stated the chairman of Lukoil – Russia’s second largest oil firm – was ‘overwhelmed’ earlier than he was ‘thrown out of a window’, although this has not been independently confirmed.
Lukoil had beforehand voiced opposition to the warfare in Ukraine.
Maganov’s loss of life got here shortly earlier than Putin arrived on the elite Central Scientific Hospital to pay his final respects to closing Soviet chief Mikhail Gorbachev, who had died on the hospital simply days earlier.
Ravil Maganov, chairman of Russian oil large Lukoil, died after falling from a window at Central Scientific Hospital, Moscow (pictured with Vladimir Putin in 2019)
Yuri Voronov, 61, was discovered lifeless in August
Two extra deaths of Gazprom-linked executives have been reported in elite properties close to St Petersburg, stoking suspicions that the deaths could nicely have been murders
In July, Yuri Voronov, 61, head of a transport and logistics firm for a Gazprom-linked firm, was discovered lifeless in his swimming pool amid stories of foul play.
Two extra deaths of Gazprom-linked executives have been reported in elite properties close to St Petersburg, stoking suspicions that the deaths could nicely have been murders.
Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom monetary and safety official at deputy basic director stage, was found by his lover the day after warfare began in Ukraine in February.
His neck was in a noose in his £500,000 house within the elite Leninsky gated housing growth, but a number of stories declare his physique had been badly overwhelmed, resulting in hypothesis he was below intense stress from dangerous actors.
That got here simply three weeks after Leonid Shulman, 60, head of transport at Gazprom Make investments, was discovered lifeless with a number of stab wounds in a pool of blood on his rest room flooring in the identical gated housing neighborhood.
Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43 former prime govt with power large Lukoil, died in Might
Former Kremlin official and Gazprombank vice-president Vladislav Avayev, 51, appeared to have taken his personal life after killing his spouse and considered one of his daughters in April
Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, additionally linked to Kremlin-friendly power large Lukoil the place he was a prime supervisor, was discovered lifeless in Might.
One concept is that Subbotin – who additionally owned a transport firm – was poisoned by toad venom triggering a coronary heart assault.
And in April, rich Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official carefully linked to Russian monetary establishment Gazprombank, appeared to have taken his personal life after killing his spouse Yelena, 47, and daughter, 13.
Associates have disputed stories that he was jealous after his spouse admitted she was pregnant by their driver, and there are claims he had entry to the monetary secrets and techniques of the Kremlin elite.
Russian gasoline tycoon Sergey Protosenya (pictured), his spouse Natalya, 53, and their teenage daughter Maria have been discovered lifeless of their Spanish mansion, in Lloret de Mar, on April 19
Ukrainian born multi-millionaire Yevgeny Palant, 47, and his spouse Olga Palant, 50, have been discovered stabbed to loss of life of their household home in Moscow area final week
A number of days later multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was discovered hanged in Spain, after evidently killing with an axe his spouse Natalia, 53, and their teenage daughter, Maria.
He was a former deputy chairman of Novatek, an organization additionally carefully linked to the Kremlin.
As with Avayev, it’s advised this may increasingly have been an assassination made to seem as a murder-suicide.
Final week a cell phone multi-millionaire and his spouse have been discovered stabbed to loss of life in yet one more case which raised suspicions additional.
Yevgeny Palant, 47, and his spouse Olga, 50, each Ukrainian-born, have been discovered by their daughter Polina, 20, having suffered a number of stab wounds.
An official briefing to the media claimed the lady took her personal life in a jealous rage after Palant stated he was leaving her – claims which have been strongly disputed by the couple’s greatest good friend.
