Russian energy firm Lukoil said Thursday its chairman Ravil Maganov had died following a “serious illness”, after Russian media reports he died after falling out of a hospital window.
Lukoil was one of the few major Russian companies to call for end of fighting in Ukraine after Moscow sent its troops to the pro-Western country in February.
In a statement at the time, the Lukoil board called for an “immediate” end to the fighting, expressing its sympathy to those affected by the “tragedy”.
“We deeply regret to announce that Ravil Maganov… passed away following a serious illness,” Lukoil said on Thursday.
Several Russian media had earlier reported that Maganov died after falling out of a window of a Moscow hospital that is often called the Kremlin Hospital because it counts Russia’s political and business elites among its patients.
“This morning Maganov fell out of a window of the Central Clinical Hospital. He died from his injuries,” Interfax news agency reported quoting an “informed” source.
According to a police source of RBC business daily, Maganov fell from the sixth-floor window of the hospital.
Maganov was born in 1954. He had worked at Lukoil since 1993 and was also the company’s president.
Maganov was appointed chairman in 2020.
At the start of the war, Lukoil had expressed “its deepest concerns about the tragic events in Ukraine,” and urging “for the soonest termination of the armed conflict.”
Alexander Subbotin, former manager of Lukoil, died in early May. His body was found in the basement of a shaman’s house. Local news reported that Subbotin had been seeking a hangover cure and was poisoned.
Two top Gazprom executives were also found dead at the beginning of the year. Both allegedly died by suicide.
Sergey Protosenya, a Russian oligarch who formerly served as deputy chairman of gas company Novatek, was found dead by hanging in April in a villa in Spain. His wife and daughter were also found at the scene after having been stabbed to death.
Just a day after Protosenya’s death, a former Kremlin official, Vladislav Avayev, and his family were found dead with gunshot wounds in Moscow. Avayev had previously worked for Gazprombank, one of Russia’s largest banks. In both cases, the police said they had died by suicide.
