Yuri Voronov, 61, was found dead on his estate in the suburbs of St. Petersburg. He ran a transportation company that held contracts with Russian gas giant Gazprom. Voronov was found floating in the pool of his estate with a ball in his head. He is the sixth richest Russian, and the third in the same suburb of St. Petersburg who has died under mysterious circumstances since the beginning of the year
A multi-millionaire Russian businessman was shot dead at his estate. The man is from the Russian elite with extensive connections to the energy giant Gazprom. Yuri Voronov, 61, head of a transport and logistics company that held lucrative contracts with Gazprom, was found dead at his home in a particularly affluent suburb of St. Petersburg around 2 p.m. Monday. This was reported by the Daily Mail.
Voronov is the wealthy Russian businessman on Friday who has died under mysterious circumstances since the beginning of the year, many of them with ties to Gazprom, and two of whom died in the same suburb of St. Petersburg as Voronov.
The Russian commission of inquiry is investigating the death of Voronov, whom they now attribute to a ‘conflict with business partners’. According to reports, his wife told investigators that Voronov believed he had been cheated of a lot of money “by disrespectful contractors and partners.” But a number of deaths at other estates near St. Petersburg have led to rumors of murders committed by the Kremlin.
Alexander Tiolkov, 61, a senior financial and security official at Gazprom, was found dead at his home two months ago, investigators said he committed suicide, but local reports said his body showed signs of violence, suggesting the death was staged.
Three weeks earlier, in the same housing unit, 60-year-old Leonid Schulman was found stabbed to death in his bathroom. Shulman was the head of transportation for the energy giant that handles its investments.
Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, a former senior executive at energy giant Lokoil, was also found dead last May. In addition, four more millionaires have died in Russia in the past two months.