A RUSSIAN transport boss was found dead at a five star hotel in Moscow in the latest suspicious death under Putin’s regime.
The death of ex-St Petersburg official Alexander Fedotov, 49, was announced this week.
East2WestAlexander Fedotov, 49, whose death was announced this week[/caption]
East2WestHis body was found outside the five-star Skypoint Luxe hotel[/caption]
APIt is the latest suspicious death of Russian officials and millionaires under Putin’s regime in recent weeks[/caption]
His body was found outside the five-star Skypoint Luxe hotel at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international airport.
Fedotov had been staying there on a business trip, and was in a “high floor” room in the hotel, according to reports.
A criminal investigation is underway into his death, and no suicide note was found.
It is the latest suspicious death of Russian officials and millionaires in recent weeks.
Fedotov had suddenly quit as transport chief for St Petersburg just last year.
It came amid reports of a probe by the FSB, Russia’s feared counterintelligence service.
Vladimir Putin’s transport minister Roman Starovoit, 53, died the same day he was fired by the Russian tyrant in July.
Fedotov had been linked to Starovoit, whose death remains highly suspicious to many observers.
Widely circulated claims suggest he had been “tortured” before being “murdered”.
“Both deceased were members of the same team,” reported law enforcement-linked channel VChK-OGPU.
It added that another official who was close to both men has also gone missing.
Fedotov’s death comes just one day after the body of a multi-millionaire ex-customs chief was found in a toilet after fleeing a court case.
Boris Avakyan’s corpse was found with “slit wrists” inside the Armenian consulate in St Petersburg.
The 43-year-old had been married to former Mrs World 2014 winner Yulia Ionina, 39.
East2WestRussian ex-transport minister Roman Starovoit died on the day he was fired by Vladimir Putin[/caption]
East2WestBoris Avakyan was found dead in the Armenian consulate in St Petersburg[/caption]
He had escaped a Russian courtroom by sneaking outside for a cigarette before slipping into a car.
Avakyan had been seeking extradition to Armenia, where he held dual citizenship, at time of his death.
Russian outlets immediately claimed it was a suicide, but lawyers Konstantin Tarasenko and Natalya Chernikova strongly dispute this account.
Avakyan and his wife had two children.
And last week, a top Russian executive from a military-linked chemical composites plant was found dead from a gunshot wound.
Alexander Tyunin, 50, oversaw a major company that had close links to Putin’s vicious war machine.
Russia has seen a spate of deaths of top company bosses during and immediately before the invasion of Ukraine.
There have been repeated claims that at least some previous “suicides” in fact have been contract killings.
Proponents of this theory argue this could be linked to business feuds.
APRussia has seen a spate of deaths of top company bosses during and immediately before the invasion of Ukraine[/caption]
East2WestA criminal investigation is underway into Fedotov’s death[/caption]