The head of a Russian oil large that criticized President Vladimir Putin’s struggle in Ukraine died Thursday after reportedly falling out of his hospital window.
Lukoil chairman Ravil Maganov died after falling from a window of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, Reuters reported, citing two sources acquainted with the scenario.
The firm issued an announcement early Thursday confirming the demise of Maganov, 67, “after a severe illness,” however didn’t specify the trigger.
“Ravil Maganov immensely contributed to the development of not only the Company, but of the entire Russian oil and gas sector,” the assertion learn.
NBC News has not verified how he died. The hospital declined to remark and referred remark to the police, who declined to remark when contacted by NBC News.
Lukoil is Russia’s second-largest oil producer. It was a uncommon Russian enterprise to come back out in opposition to Putin’s struggle in Ukraine, which the Kremlin insists on calling its “special military operation.”
The firm’s board of administrators referred to as for an finish to the struggle in early March, inside days of the full-scale invasion of Russia’s neighbor.
“Calling for the soonest termination of the armed conflict, we express our sincere empathy for all victims, who are affected by this tragedy,” an announcement from its board of administrators learn.
The Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow steadily treats Russia’s political and enterprise elites, and was the place the ultimate Soviet chief Mikhail Gorbachev handed away earlier this week.
Maganov had served on Lukoil’s board of administrators since 2020, and served as the corporate’s First Executive Vice President since 1994.
His demise raised eyebrows given the corporate’s opposition to the struggle and related unexplained deaths lately.
Alexander Subbotin, a former Lukoil supervisor, was discovered useless in his basement outdoors Moscow in May, in accordance with Reuters, citing native media.
In November 2021, a Russian diplomat was discovered useless on the streets of Berlin after falling from an higher ground of the embassy, German outlet Der Spiegel reported, citing safety sources.
Investigative journalist Maxim Borodin, who wrote tales about corrupt officers and the Russian army, died in 2018 after falling from his fifth-story balcony, in accordance with the news company he labored for.
Reuters contributed.
