Mikhail Rogachev, 64, had fallen 110ft from a window at his home, according to reports. He had been vice-president of Yukos, an oil giant which had opposed Vladimir Putin and was forced out of business by the dictator. Another top energy company manager has been found dead in Moscow, with his body ‘discovered by an employee of Russia’s foreign spy service’. Mikhail Rogachev, 64, had fallen 110ft from a window at his home, according to reports. He had been vice-president of Yukos, an oil giant which had opposed Vladimir Putin and was forced out of business by the dictator. Rogachev also had a distinguished career as executive director of the Onexim group and later deputy general director of the Norilsk Nickel mining giant. Initial reports in Moscow media outlets said that he had been suffering from “a severe form of cancer”, but these were strenuously denied by his circle, according to Telegram channel VCHK-OGPU which has links to law enforcement and the security services. His relatives insisted there were no signs that he was suicidal and he was in a “good mood” shortly before his death. His body was found in the courtyard of his tenth floor flat by an SVR employee linked to a former Russian spymaster. He was the personal driver of Sergei Vinokurov, ex-deputy director of the foreign intelligence service. The SVR operative said he had been walking his boss’s dog when he saw the body.
via mirror: Russian tycoon’s body ‘found by Putin spies’ after dying in ‘mysterious’ 110ft plunge
siehe auch: Oil boss’s tenth-floor fall is latest in strange Russian deaths Mikhail Rogachev, the former vice-president of Yukos, a now-defunct oil and gas company, fell from a window in Moscow, according to Russian media, A Russian businessman has died in Moscow after falling out of a window, according to reports in local media. Mikhail Rogachev, the former vice-president of Yukos, once one of Russia’s most prominent oil and gas companies, was found at the entrance to his living quarters at the weekend, having sustained injuries characteristic of having fallen from a great height, Russian media stated. News channels said that Rogachev, 64, lived on the tenth floor, and referred to the death as a suicide, claiming that he left a suicide note and had been suffering from cancer. Police are said to be “studying” the note. (…) Since 2022 there have been several suspicious deaths of prominent members of Russia’s oil and gas industry. Top managers at both Gazprom and Lukoil have died under strange circumstances in the period after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.