On the identical day that a Russian minister was found dead hours after being sacked, a second man in the identical department dropped dead.
Deputy head of Russia’s Federal Road Agency’s Property Management Department, Andrey Korneichuk, reportedly stood up and collapsed in his office.
Paramedics declared the 42-year-old dead on the scene, with initial reports finding his heart just ‘stopped’.
The sudden death has raised eyebrows, provided that his boss, Transportation Minister Roman Starovoit, was found dead with gunshot wounds on the identical day.
There’s no indication the incidents are linked, however the timing of the boys’s sudden deaths is difficult to disregard, given the high level of Russian officials who appear to die after being dismissed from their jobs or speaking out against President Vladimir Putin.
Starovoit, 53, was sacked after barely a yr as transport minister without an official explanation.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, the highest criminal investigation agency, said the body of Starovoit was found with a gunshot wound in Odintsovo, a neighbourhood just west of the capital where many members of Russia’s elite live.
He’s probably the most recent Russian politician near Putin to die in mysterious circumstances.
Sergei Markov, director of Russia’s Institute of Political Studies, shocked the country when he went on the record and suggested Starovoit was murdered.
‘The Russian elite was shocked by the suicide of Roman Starovoit, the previous Minister of Transport, just just a few hours after Putin removed him,’ he said.
‘But it surely seems to me that those that eliminated him – that’s, those against whom he could have testified after his arrest – try to cover his real murder through the use of the suicide version.’
Starovoit was last seen in public on Sunday morning when an official video from the ministry’s situation room featured him receiving reports from officials.
The death got here days after an oil tycoon who had links to the KGB became the most recent high-profile figure to mysteriously fall from a high constructing in Russia.
Transneft vice-president Andrey Badalov, 62, is claimed to have fallen from the penthouse of the posh high rise where in lived in Moscow.
‘Badalov’s body was found under the windows of an [apartment building] on Rublevskoye Highway,’ a source told TASS.
Transneft is Russia’s state oil pipeline monopoly which is run by former KGB spy, Nikolai Tokarev, 74, who served with Vladimir Putin, 72, in Germany within the Cold War.
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