RUSSIAN OIL GIANT LUKOIL’S CHAIRMAN WHO CRITICISED UKRAINE WAR DIES AFTER FALLING FROM A HOSPITAL WINDOW

Ravil Maganov, chairman of Lukoil, with Russian president Vladimir Putin (left).

Thu 01 September 2022:

Chairman of Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, died on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, according to Russian media reports.

No immediate comment was available from Lukoil.

The hospital, known as the Kremlin Clinic for its treatment of patients from Russia’s political and business elite, confirmed Maganov’s passing to state-run news agency RIA Novosti without disclosing the circumstances of his death.

The leading Russian oil tycoon was been found dead in suspicious circumstances after he plunged from a sixth floor window at the Moscow hospital.

Maganov is the second top LUKoil executive to die in mysterious circumstances in recent months.

Lukoil, which is Russia’s second-largest oil producer, was one of the few companies in the country to come out in opposition to the war in Ukraine.

In a statement in March it said: “Calling for the soonest termination of the armed conflict, we express our sincere empathy for all victims, who are affected by this tragedy.

“We strongly support a lasting ceasefire and a settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy.”

Russian police opened a criminal case after the death of former LUKoil executive Alexander Subbotin in early May.

LUKoil, Russia’s second-largest oil company, was one of a handful of domestic corporations to openly call for an end to the country’s invasion of Ukraine in early March.

“We stand for the immediate cessation of the armed conflict and duly support its resolution through the negotiation process and through diplomatic means,” LUKoil said in a letter to shareholders at the time.

Alekperov, a former Soviet deputy oil minister, resigned as president of Lukoil in April, a week after Britain imposed an asset freeze and travel ban on him as part of sanctions over Russia’s military actions in Ukraine.

The news follows the death of Yury Voronov, a top Russian businessman with connections to Russian oil company Gazprom, who was found dead after reportedly being shot in the head.

The body of the 61-year-old was allegedly found in his cottage in the village of Morskie Terasy near the Gulf of Finland.

The man was lying in a pool with his head shot, and law enforcers found a gun nearby. Who it belonged to was not clear.

Yury Voronov was the CEO of the Astra Shipping transport company, which, among other things, worked on Gazprom’s Arctic contracts.

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