Andrei Badalov, vice president of Russia's state oil pipeline, told Russian state media on Friday that he was found dead after allegedly falling from a window of a house in the suburbs of Moscow.
The body of the former businessman was found in an upscale residential area in the outskirts of the Russian capital, a high-end residential area in Tass, Russia's state news agency.
According to the Russian independent newspaper Moscow Times, the state-owned oil group also confirmed Batalov's death, but he said his work was in “hard and stressful times” due to wartime sanctions. Badalov has served as Vice President of Transneft since 2021.
Law enforcement officers told the agency that the deceased had left a farewell vote and preliminary findings showed that his death was suicide, Tas said.
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An investigation into the incident is underway.
This is the latest in an unexplained wave of deaths of Russian characters since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022.
A dozen others died too:
- Anatoly Gerashchenko, former head of the Russian Aeronautics Institute, died on the grounds of the institute after accidentally falling many stairs in late September 2022.
- According to the paper he once took the helm, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin was the editor-in-chief of the major national newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, who died “suddenly” and “suddenly”.
- Energy director Ivan Pechorin died after falling in a fast ship.
- Ravil Maganov, chairman of the board of directors of Russia's largest private oil company, died after falling from a window on the sixth floor of the hospital.
- Lukoil's former senior manager Alexander Subbotin was found dead in the basement of the shaman's house after allegedly undergoing hangover treatment involving Toad Venom.
- Sergey Protosenya, the former executive of Novatek, is Russia's largest independent gas producer, found hanged outside a Spanish villa along with the bodies of his wife and 18-year-old daughter. Death seems to be a suicide.
- Vladislav Avayev, vice president of Russia, Russia's third largest bank, Russia, was found dead in his Moscow apartment along with the bodies of his wife and 13-year-old daughter. Death seems to be a murder case.
- Medstom owner Vasily Melnikov, a company that imports medical equipment to Russia, was found dead in a luxury apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. Melnikov, his wife and their 10- and four-year-old sons were stabbed to death, and the murder weapon was found at the crime scene. Investigators again concluded that death was the result of murder and suicide.
- Mikhail Watford, a Ukrainian-born oligarch who made millions of dollars as an oil and gas tycoon, was found hanged in the garage of his wife and children's house in Uk Watford, England, at home and without any harm. Watford changed its name from Tolstosheya after moving to the UK in the early 2000s.
- Alexander Tyulyakov, deputy director of the Finance Department of Gazprom, Gazprom, is the world's largest publicly listed gas company, found hanging in the garage of his hut. The discovery of his body leads investigators to conclude that Telulikov died of suicide.
- Leonid Shulman, an executive of Gazprom, was found dead in the bathroom of his cottage, next to an apparent suicide note, and Tyulyakov died a month later.
- Defense official Major General Vladimir Makarov is Death was found in an obvious suicide After being fired after being fired by Putin.
- Marina Yankina, head of finance and procurement for the Western Military Region of the Russian Ministry of Defense, was found dead after falling from the 16th floor of a high-end apartment in St. Petersburg in February 2023.
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