LUKoil, Russia’s largest private oil company and one of the few to voice opposition to the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, says its chairman has died following a “serious illness,” disputing local media reports that he had plunged to his death from a hospital window. “We deeply regret to announce that Ravil Maganov…passed away following a serious illness,” LUKoil said in a statement on September 1, hours after local media quoted sources and unnamed law enforcement officials as saying the 67-year-old fell out of the window of the Central Clinical Hospital in the Russian capital and died. The state-controlled TASS news agency cited an unnamed law enforcement source as saying Maganov had committed suicide by jumping from a sixth-story window after being admitted to the hospital for a heart attack. The news site RBK also said police were investigating the possibility of suicide. (…) Two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters that Maganov died after falling from a hospital window, but the circumstances of his fall were still unclear. Moscow police referred questions about the death to the state Investigative Committee, according to Reuters. His body was found on the grounds of the Central Clinical Hospital, Russian media reported. (…) LUKoil raised eyebrows in March — just weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine — as one of the only companies to condemn the war, calling it “tragic” while urging for the “earliest [possible] end to the armed conflict.” The LUKoil statement on September 1 gave no further details on Maganov in what is the latest in a series of mysterious deaths of Russian businessmen since Moscow launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
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siehe auch: Russian oil exec dies after mysteriously falling from hospital window, his company criticised the war in Ukraine A Russian oil executive whose company criticised the war in Ukraine has died after falling from a hospital window. Russian oil executive Ravil Maganov has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow. Maganov was the chair of Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil company, which had criticised the war in Ukraine; Russian oil firm chief who fell to his death from sixth-floor hospital window after criticising Ukraine war ‘was beaten up and killed with Putin’s knowledge’, anti-Kremlin sources claim Ravil Maganov fell to his death from Moscow Central Clinical Hospital yesterday Officials say the oil tycoon fell while smoking but others say he was pushed Anti-Putin Telegram channel claims he was killed with Putin’s knowledge His firm Lukoil was one of the few major companies to call for end of Ukraine war. The Russian oil tycoon who fell to his death from the sixth floor of a Moscow hospital yesterday was assassinated ‘with Vladimir Putin’s knowledge’, an alleged ex-Kremlin insider has claimed. Ravil Maganov, 67, chairman of Russian oil giant Lukoil, died on the spot after suspiciously plunging from the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow at around 7.30am local time yesterday. Russian state media quickly said his death was a suicide but law enforcement sources said there was no suicide note and there were no CCTV cameras on the section of the building where Maganov fell. General SVR, a Russian Telegram channel which regularly posts alleged insider information about Putin and the Kremlin, said Maganov was ‘beaten’ before he was ‘thrown out of a window’. His company Lukoil was one of the few major Russian companies to call for the end of fighting in Ukraine after Moscow invaded.