Another top manager fell out of the window from the window: found dead Vice President "Transneft" Andrei Badalov
Investigators find out the circumstances of what happened. The TASS source reports that "the previous cause of death is suicide. " Some media outlets say that the top manager wrote a farewell to his wife. But her text is not provided. Mash reports that Andrei Badalov had heart problems. When the body of Vice President "Transneft" was found by a guardian of the LCD on the Rublevsky highway, a toplesser was a holter - a medical device for daily monitoring of cardio -indicators.
Badalov held the position of Vice President "Transneft" since 2021 - in particular, he was involved in digital transformation, information technologies and production automation. Prior to that, he worked at the Research Institute, which is engaged in the development of state automated systems, including the DAS "Elections" and the DAS "Justice".
It is at least the 11th mysterious death of the oil and gas top manager after a full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine and the 12th-from the beginning of 2022. PJSC "Transneft" is the largest pipeline operator in Russia and one of the key companies in the world for oil transportation. According to open sources, the main shareholders are state structures: yes, 50% of the company belongs to the Pension Fund of Russia, up to 30% - the Bank of Russia.
The balance sheet has more than 24 thousand kilometers of main oil pipelines, more than 60 compressor and pumping stations, oil depots and terminals. We will remind, Focus wrote about some mysterious deaths of Russian top executives. Thus, the chairman of the board of directors of "Lukoil" Ravil Maganov, who came up with the name of the company, died on September 1, 2022, falling out of the window of the sixth floor of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. Death is classified as suicide.
Maganov was 67 years old. And the former Vice president of Gazprombank Vladislav Avayev died on April 18, 2022 in his apartment in Moscow. According to the official version, 51-year-old Avayev shot his wife and a 14-year-old daughter, then committed suicide. The former topleman of Novatek, Sergei Protosen, was found dead on April 19, 2022 in Spain, in his home in Laret de Mar. According to local police, a 55-year-old Protosian killed his wife and daughter with an ax, after which he hanged himself.
Only the son of Protosen, who was not at home, survive. But the former member of the Board of Directors of Lukoil, Alexander Subotin, died most strikingly. He was found dead on May 8, 2022 in the Moscow House of Shaman, where he was allegedly treated with poisonous frogs from a hangover. The official cause of death was called heart failure, but some sources have mentioned possible poisoning. Subotin was 43 years old, and he had previously been engaged in the big projects of the company.