Russian oil executive Ravil Maganov dies in fall from Moscow hospital window

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Russian oil executive dies in fall from Moscow hospital window

Ravil Maganov was chair of Russia’s biggest private oil company, Lukoil, which has criticised Ukraine invasion

Andrew Roth in Moscow
Thu 1 Sep 2022 12.08 BST
Last modified on Thu 1 Sep 2022 12.34 BST

A senior Russian oil executive has died after falling from the window of a Moscow hospital, months after his company criticised the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ravil Maganov, the chair of the board of directors of Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil company, “fell from a window at Central clinical hospital,” the Interfax news agency wrote on Thursday, citing a source. “He died from injuries sustained.”

Lukoil said Maganov had “passed away following a severe illness”. The company did not say what Maganov was being treated for.

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Baza, a Russian news site with close ties to the police, suggested he may have slipped from a balcony while smoking.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/russian-oil-executive-dies-in-fall-from-moscow-hospital-window

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. "slipped from a balcony while smoking" - that's really taking the piss

It's laughing in the face of his relatives. Suicide would at least be a believable cause (the BBC has "Tass news agency quoted sources saying he had fallen out of a sixth-floor window, adding later that he had taken his own life" ) but the idea that hospital balconies are so precarious that you can fall off them is ridiculous. Suggesting it indicates the police are so secure in their criminality that they don't bother trying to cover a killing up.

[Bayard]

2. Not even subtle

[mopinko]

3. wonder how many of these guys are assets that the monster unmasked.

[Beatlelvr]

4. Gee, that doesn't sound suspicious at all.

Not!

[MLAA]

5. I read somewhere he was hospitalized for a heart attack. In which case he would have

been attached to all kinds of monitors that would beep like crazy if he in plugged them. Hmmmm.

[mitch96]

6. "Lukoil, which has criticized Ukraine invasion "... ahhh he was pushed...aka

"assisted suicide" in russian... Maybe yes? maybe no? Do you smell fish?
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