Another Russian oligarch has been found dead, apparently having “fallen” from the window of his apartment.
It is common in Russia for energy entrepreneurs, oligarchs and former employees of the FSB (secret service) to “fall” from windows.
This time, the vice-president of Transneft, the largest oil pipeline company in Russia and the world, died on Friday (July 4) after having “fallen” from the window of his apartment on Rublyovka Highway in Moscow.
Andrei Badalov’s death was initially reported by the Baza and Mash telegram channels, and the information was later confirmed by the state news agency TASS.
“Badalov’s body was found under the windows of the house on Rublyovka Highway. The preliminary cause of death is suicide,” sources in the law enforcement authorities told TASS.
The source of "Kommersant" in the Russian IC, in turn, said that an investigation is underway, the results of which will allow a procedural decision to be made: to initiate a criminal case on the grounds of suicide (murder) or to refuse to do so.
Badalov "fell" from the balcony of the 17th floor of the house on Rublyovsky Highway, although he himself lived on the 10th floor. Operations services are now working at the scene of the incident.
Andrei Badalov was 62 years old. After graduating from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), he worked at enterprises of the military-industrial complex.
Since July 2019, he was director of the Voskhod Research Institute, a federal state agency engaged in the development of state automated systems, including GAS Vybory, GAS Justice, and information systems and resources of the Prosecutor General's Office.
In recent years, several top managers of oil companies have died under circumstances that Russian media and foreign observers have found suspicious. In April 2022, Vladislav Avaev, the former vice-president of Gazprombank, his wife and their young daughter were found dead in Moscow. According to preliminary information, the banker killed his family and then committed suicide. A few days after Avaev's death, former Novatek director Sergei Protosenya, his wife and daughter were found dead in Spain. At the time, Spanish media wrote that Protosenya had killed his wife and daughter and then committed suicide.
Source: Global News
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