Yuri Voronov, a tycoon, was found dead in his swimming pool with a bullet in his head early Monday morning at his St. Petersburg mansion Yuri Voronov, head of a logistics company that significantly contracts with Gazprom for the Arctic.
A Grand Power pistol was found in the pool area, and several bullets were found at the bottom.
Voronov is the sixth Russian multimillionaire with ties to Gazprom to die mysteriously since the beginning of the year.
According to the relevant investigative committee, the 61-year-old's death was due to "disputes with business partners."
His wife told investigators that Voronov believed he was the victim of a fraud perpetrated by dishonest contractors and other professionals.
Allegations of staged "suicides"
However, many speculate that the large number of deaths in the mansions in the wealthy areas of St. Petersburg are due to murders, which are nevertheless staged to suggest suicides.
Last February, Gazprom's senior finance and security official Alexander Tiumlakov, aged 61, was found hanged in his mansion. Police said he committed suicide. But local media reported that the body bore signs of a beating, suggesting the suicide was staged.
In the same complex, three weeks later, Leonid Shulman, who was head of transportation at Gazprom Invest, a Gazprom branch that handles investment projects, was found dead of a knife wound in the toilet.
Meanwhile, 43-year-old billionaire Alexander Subotin, a former executive of another Russian energy giant Lukoil, was found dead in May. One theory suggests a heart attack caused by frog poison.
Earlier in April, 51-year-old former Kremlin official Vladislav Avaya allegedly committed suicide after killing his 47-year-old wife and their 13-year-old daughter. He had links to the Gazprombank bank. Friends of the couple denied rumours that the official killed his wife out of jealousy after she admitted she was pregnant with their driver's child and claimed he had access to financial secrets of the Kremlin elite.
Multimillionaire Sergei Protoshenya was also found hanged in Spain, after he too had killed his 53-year-old wife Natalia and their teenage daughter Maria with an axe. And in the case of the tycoon, who was a former vice president of the Novatek company with close ties to the Kremlin, many believe it was a murder case, staged to look like a suicide.
Source: Proto Thema
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