2023-12-30 18:29:00
Vladimir Egorov, a politician from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, He was found dead in the backyard of his house. in Tobolsk, in Siberia.
On the body “there are no external signs of violence,” investigators told the local press. Apparently, the politician fell from a window on the third floor of his house.
According to the Russian Telegram channel Baza, which cited security sources, Egorov fell from the third-floor window of a house on Kedrovaya Street, in Tobolsk, located in the Tyumen district.
Meanwhile, the Russian newspaper Izvestia He also mentioned the possibility that Egorov fell out of a window. of a third floor. Local newspaper 72.ru quoted one witness as saying that Egorov fell from a window, while another mentioned that he had “heart problems.”
Investigators in charge of the case ordered an autopsy and are awaiting its results to determine the cause of death.
Russian media reported that the police have not yet established the cause of Egorov’s death46, but the Tobolsk City Duma (parliament) posted an obituary on its social media page saying that Egorov died “as a result of an accident”.
The unofficial Baza Telegram channel, which has ties to Russian security services, said Egorov’s body “was discovered in the yard of his house on Kedrovaya Street on Wednesday.”
Egorov’s death expands the list of deaths in unclear circumstances of prominent Russian figures, including several businessmen linked to Russia’s two largest energy companies.
Among them is Ravil Maganov, president of Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil and gas company, who last year spoke out against Russia’s war in Ukraine. The tycoon died after falling from a Moscow hospital windowaccording to the TASS news agency.
Another name on the list is Pavel Antov, the former “Sausage King” turned deputy for the United Russia party. Antov, who in 2018 topped the Forbes list of the 100 richest public employees in the country, He died almost a year ago in India after falling from the third floor of his hotel.
Months earlier, he had affirmed his support for Putin after denying having published a pacifist message on WhatsApp, explaining it as an “unfortunate misunderstanding and technical error.”
In February, the body of a senior Russian Defense Ministry official was found on the street in front of the apartment complex where she lived in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. The investigation determined that Marina Yankina fell from a window of the building,
In May, the Russian Deputy Minister of Science and Education, Pyotr Kucherenko, died after getting sick while traveling on a plane with a Russian delegation returning from a business trip to Cuba. A journalist who said he had spoken with Kucherenko months earlier reported that the man feared for his safety.
At the beginning of July 2022, Yuri Voronov, a 61-year-old Russian executive linked to the energy giant Gazprom, was found dead in his luxurious mansion on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, with a bullet in his head, floating in the water and with a gun nearby.
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