Russian billionaire Pavel Antov was found dead in India on Sunday. Several Indian media reports. He died in the city of Rayagada, in the east of the country, where he had just celebrated his 65th birthday with a small group of Russians. According to Indian police, he fell three floors of the hotel. This is reported by CNN, among others. The autopsy report has not been made public, but the police believe that Antov took his own life. One of Antov’s traveling companions, Vladimir Budanov, died of a heart attack two days earlier, according to CNN, citing a representative of the Indian police, Vivekanand Sharma. – We are aware that two Russian citizens have died. We are in contact with the people’s relatives and the police department in the city this happened, says Russian Consul General Alexey Idamkin to the Ria Novosti news agency. Pavel Antov was a member of the regional parliament in Vladimir, central Russia. Photo: PAVEL ANTOV/VK Criticized the war According to the independent Russian website Meduza, in June Antov published a post on the messaging service WhatsApp in which he wrote that Russia’s warfare in Ukraine was terror. The starting point was a rocket attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. – A girl has been taken out of the crowd. The girl’s father appears to have died. They try to get the mother out with a crane because she is trapped under a slab. To be honest, it is extremely difficult to call this anything other than terror, Antov wrote on WhatsApp. He later claimed that the post was due to a technical error and was an unfortunate misunderstanding. According to the state-run Russian news agency TASS, Pavel Antov celebrated his birthday on December 22. The picture is from another occasion. Photo: Pavel Antov/VK Antov was a member of the regional parliament in Vladimir, central Russia, and represented President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. He was known as one of the largest producers of sausages in Russia. In 2018, he was one of the richest politicians in the country, with an income of around 9.97 billion rubles, roughly NOK 1.4 billion, according to Forbes. Unclear sequence of events In the past year, a number of Russian oligarchs have died under unclear circumstances. The chairman of Russia’s largest private oil company Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, was found dead in September – six months after he criticized Putin’s war in Ukraine. Maganov is said to have fallen from the sixth floor while he was admitted to a hospital in the Russian capital Moscow. According to state Russian media, the investigators suspected that it could be suicide. However, the oil company wrote in a press release that he passed away “after a long course of illness”. Several dead business people Yuri Voronov The Russian multi-millionaire was found dead in his house in St.Petersburg in July this year. He was found in his pool, shot in the head, writes the British newspaper The Times. Voronov, who headed Astra Shipping, a transport company that has worked with Gazprom. Aleksander Tyulakov was found dead in his garage on February 25, 2022. The cause of death is said to have been suicide, writes Novaya Gazeta. Was director of Gazprom. Mikhail Watford Found dead at his home in Surrey, England. According to the Daily Mail, the 66-year-old was found by an employee. The police have stated, according to the Guardian, that the death is not considered suspicious. Was a Ukrainian-born Russian billionaire. Vasilij Melnikov was found dead on March 23 with his family in Nizhny Novgorod, which lies east of Moscow. He, his wife, and the children were all found stabbed. According to investigators, there were no signs of a break-in in the apartment. Melnikov owned the company MedStrom, which supplies medical equipment. Vladislav Avajev was found dead with his wife and daughter in their apartment in Moscow on April 18 this year. They were all found with gunshot wounds. According to the state news agency Tass, it is a case of murder and suicide. He was former vice-president of Gazprom branch Sergey Protosenja He was found dead in the garden outside the family’s holiday home in Lloret del Mar in Catalonia. The wife and daughter were found dead inside the house.Former vice-president and chief accounting officer of NovatekRavil MaganovHe is said to have fallen from the sixth floor of Moscow’s central hospital, according to the newspaper RBC. According to the website Mash, he died at the scene from his injuries. Chairman of Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil company. Anatoly Gerashchenko Former head of Moscow’s aviation institute. The institute says the death was an accident. The Russian newspaper Izvestia has reported that he fell from a great height. The doctor must have pronounced him dead on the spot.
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