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The chairman of Russian oil giant Lukoil, who along with his company had criticized the Ukrainian aggression, reportedly died Thursday after falling from a sixth-floor window at a Moscow hospital.
According to Russian news reports, Ravil Maganov died in what sources called a possible suicide after his body was found on the ground of Moscow’s elite Central Clinical Hospital.
A statement from Lukoil said Maganov had “died after a serious illness,” but did not provide further information.
Citing an unnamed law enforcement source, state news agency TASS reported that Maganov had committed suicide after being hospitalized for a heart attack. It was reported that there was an investigation.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Lukoil’s board was one of the few companies to call for a speedy end to the armed conflict, calling it a “tragedy” and expressing sympathy for the victims.
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Former Defense Intelligence Agency official Rebekah Koffler, author of “Putin’s Playbook,” told Fox News Digital that “we will never know exactly what happened to Maganov,” but this doctrine As for, he said that death by spaying was a “standard Russian intelligence operation”. The Russian translation of “wet affairs”, referring to bloodshed operations.
“The ‘Wet Case’ is a targeted assassination,” Koffler said. “Russia and the former Soviet Union are known to orchestrate the mysterious deaths of Kremlin opponents. Violent Death in a Different Form. In my book which explains this doctrine and gives examples of notable cases.”
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Koffler explained that Russian news agencies are under the control of, or at least influenced by, the Russian government, and that the Russian media are “getting straight today’s story about what happened to Maganov.” I couldn’t do it,” he said.
“Interfax said he died after falling out of a window, and Tass wrote it was a suicide. Yet another newspaper speculated that he was trying to get out of the balcony to inhale the fumes. , so investigators were unable to identify any wrongdoing.
Maganov’s death follows a similar mysterious death in August when Soviet-born businessman and Putin critic Dan Rapoport reportedly jumped to his death from a luxury apartment in Washington, D.C. Maganov. Similarly, Rapoport openly criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The former chief executive of Lukoil was found dead in the basement of a house on the outskirts of Moscow in May.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.