The vice president of the Transneft Pipeline Company, Andréi Badalov, was found dead last Friday in Moscow.
“Badalov’s body was found in the street under the windows of his house. The preliminary cause of death is suicide,” said a source cited by the Tass agency, although the investigation is still ongoing.
The body lay near Rublóvskoye Avenue, on the outskirts of the Russian capital.
Badálov, 62, held the position of Vice President of Transneft since 2021 as responsible for the digital transformation, information technologies and the production of the production of the state company in charge of the country’s pipeline network.
Transneft, founded in 1993, has the largest pipeline system in the world, with a network whose length is almost 50,000 kilometers.
The president of the Board of Directors of the Company is Alexandr Nóvak, Vice Primer Russian Minister since 2020.
Other suicides and violent deaths more sounded in Russia since the beginning of the war
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, dozens of popular suicides and deaths have occurred in Russia, starring senior officials, managers, culture personalities, journalists or citizens persecuted for their opposition to the Kremlin.
Some of the deaths were consummated when the victim fell from the window of a building, which has fired the speculation that, in reality, it was not always a suicide, but of a death staged by the security forces.
These are the main cases since February 24, 2022:
Senior officials
The Minister of Transportation Román Starovoit was found dead near his car on the outskirts of Moscow, where he shot with a Makárov gun, according to the authorities.
Although it is unknown when life was removed, the news of the death of Starovoit jumped to light this Monday, hours after his dismissal was known by order of the president, Vladimir Putin.
The reason for this decision is unknown, although the media point to the collapse of airport transport caused by Ukrainian drones and corruption cases during their mandate as governor of a border region of Ukraine.
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Enemies of Kremlin
Russian opposition leader Alexéi Navalni died in February 2024 while serving a long penalty in an Arctic prison. The authorities reported on the sudden death of the politician, but both the family and the opposition and the Western Chancellors held the Kremlin.
His main collaborators accused the Russian president of obstructing his exchange for Russian prisoners in Western prisons, which would have saved his life.
Meanwhile, hundreds of doctors had addressed on more than one occasion to Putin to guarantee the medical care of the opponent, who had already been a victim in 2020 of an attempt at poisoning murder.
The businessman and founder of the Wagner Group Yevgueni Prigozhin died in August 2023 when he crashed into the private plane in which he was traveling northwest of Moscow.
The incident took place three months after he starred in an armed uprising of just 24 hours during which he took several military garrisons in the south of the country and even advanced with a mechanized column towards Moscow.
Putin, who in a first moment of betrayal of Prigozhin, although he later received him personally at the Kremlin, explained that the reason for the accident had been an accidental explosion and not the demolition of the device with a missile, as the press, the close friends and co -religionists of Prigozhin.
State Corporations Managers
In September 2022, the president of the oil company Lukoil Ravil Magánov died, who fell through a window of the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital where he was admitted.
Magánov, 67 and dragging a long illness, according to company sources, had been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. Although he took antidepressants, close to the deceased discarded suicide.
His vice president Vitali Robertus had committed suicide in his office in March of that same year. The press later reported that this manager was investigated for receiving bribes. In total, there are four dead Lukoil managers in the first months of war.
In April 2022, the former Gazprombank Vladislav Aváev was found dead, along with the bodies of his wife and daughter in a house southwest of Moscow.
Later, in a very similar case, the lifeless bodies were also found in a house in the Spanish coastal town of Lloret del Mar de Serguéi Protosis, director of the Novatek consortium, his wife and daughter.
Military, artists and journalists
The Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who had defected Ukraine, was shot in February 2024 in the Spanish town of Villajoyosa, which was confirmed by Ukrainian military intelligence.
The head of the Russian exterior espionage service, Serguéi Narishkin, said that Kuzminov was a “traitor”, which “became a moral corpse at the time he planned his dirty and terrible crime.”
A famous dancer of the Mariunski theater in St. Petersburg, Vladimir Shkliarov, died in November 2024 after falling from the fifth floor of a building. The 39 -year -old artist who dragged back problems, had been very critical of Kremlin for his actions in Ukraine.
In February 2024, the popular military volunteer and blogger Andréi Morózov, commonly known with the alias de Murz, was committed. He left a note in which he denounced pressures to delete a publication in which he warned about the large number of casualties in the battle for the control of Avdivka, in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roschina died in a Russian prison in September 2024. She had been arrested after informing about the Russian brutal siege in the city of Mariupol. The Ukrainian Justice denounced that the reporter, whose body was delivered to the kyiv authorities, was killed after being brutally tortured.
Earlier this year, singer -songwriter Vadim Stroikin committed suicide in St. Petersburg, who fell out the window while the police recorded his home for allegedly donating money to the Ukrainian army.
With EFE information.
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