ANOTHER top executive at Russia’s second largest oil company has died, marking the third mysterious death in the last 18 months.
Vladimir Nekrasov, 66, chairman of the Lukoil board of directors, died “suddenly” – marking the latest in a series of high-profile deaths of Russian oil tycoons.
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Many mysterious deaths have been linked to the energy sector since the start of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Russian state media said the “preliminary” conclusions of doctors was that Nekrasov suffered “acute heart failure”.
His death follows that of tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, who fell from a window of Moscow’s elite Central Clinical Hospital, also known as the Kremlin clinic, in September last year.
There were suspicions of murder but officially Maganov had been in hospital for a longstanding heart problem and fell from a sixth floor window, dying on the spot.
On the same morning, Putin – who had earlier decorated Maganov with a top honour – swept into the hospital to pay his final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who had died the same week.
Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, also linked to energy giant Lukoil where he was a top manager, was found dead in May after “taking advice from shamans”.
One thery is that Subbotin – who also owned a shipping company – was poisoned by toad venom triggering a heart attack.