The Russian oil tycoon who fell to his death from the sixth floor of a Moscow hospital yesterday was assassinated ‘with Vladimir Putin’s knowledge’, an alleged ex-Kremlin insider has claimed. Putin has turned into Stalin 2.0 with political purges. Whoever criticizes him in Russia, gets assassinated or imprisoned.
Ravil Maganov, 67, chairman of Russian oil giant Lukoil, died on the spot after suspiciously plunging from the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow at around 7.30am local time yesterday.
Russian state media quickly said his death was a suicide but law enforcement sources said there was no suicide note and there were no CCTV cameras on the section of the building where Maganov fell.
General SVR, a Russian Telegram channel which regularly posts alleged insider information about Putin and the Kremlin, said Maganov was ‘beaten’ before he was ‘thrown out of a window’.
His company Lukoil was one of the few major Russian companies to call for the end of fighting in Ukraine after Moscow invaded.
General SVR said: ‘The reason for the murder was Maganov’s ‘special opinion’ different from the opinion of Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the creeping nationalisation of Lukoil.
‘Putin not only knew about the preparation of the assassination attempt, but also gave his consent by approving the method and timing of the liquidation.’
The anti-Putin channel gave no evidence for its allegation, nor additional detail, but does claim inside knowledge from the Kremlin, which is reportedly seeking to shut it down.
The Telegram channel has previously published claims about Putin’s alleged illnesses and other oil tycoons who have died mysteriously in recent months.
While some are sceptical of General SVR, others say it is one of the few prominent anti-Putin channels in Russia that provides an insight into the true goings-on at the Kremlin.
One report in May said the mysterious deaths of multiple Russian businessmen linked to Gazprom were carried out by the FSB, its director Alexander Bortnikov and Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, with Putin’s approval.
The Telegram claimed: ‘It should be understood that the financing of secret operations [of the security services and armed forces] took place precisely through the structures of Gazprom and Novatek, and Gazprombank played a central role, and the active attempts of the Russian leadership to withdraw Gazprombank from sanctions are connected with this.
‘At the end of last year, Putin was informed about the leak of information about the financing of secret operations and… the scheme of financing the agents of the 5th FSB service through employees of Gazprom structures.’
An investigation took place, claimed the report. The deaths followed. ‘Putin approved the entire list for liquidation without looking,’ it was alleged.
Putin’s bloody ‘housekeeping’ is corroborated in Catherine Belton’s recent, highly acclaimed book, Putin’s People: How The KGB Took Back Russia And Then Took On The West.
Hours after Maganov’s body was found yesterday, Putin was at the same Central Clinical Hospital to pay his respects to the final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died there on Tuesday.
Officially police are investigating Maganov’s fall and are interrogating staff and patients at the Moscow hospital, as pro-state media outlets appeared in unison to stress there was nothing suspicions.
They noted that the oil executive – close to Lukoil’s oligarch founder Vagit Alekperov – had been suffering from heart problems.
The main public version of his death is that he took his own life while having an early morning smoke, with his wife in the next room at the hospital.
His death came on Alekperov’s 72nd birthday.
The theory Maganov’s demise was an assassination was echoed by Anastasia Kashevarova, co-founder of independent Daily Storm, and a previous advisor to close Putin ally Vyacheslav Volodin, powerful speaker of the Russian parliament.
‘It turned out that this was not a natural death, but a man-made one,’ she posted to her 36,800 Telegram followers.
‘Moreover, the death [was] on the birthday of Lukoil co-owner Vagit Alekperov.
‘Moreover, death [was] on the day of Putin’s arrival to say goodbye to Gorbachev.
‘This is some kind of ‘hello’ to our structures. But from whom?’
The dead tycoon’s younger brother Nail Maganov, 64, declined to comment but a source close to his Tatneft oil company was quoted by Readovka as saying: ‘His departure is certainly a tragedy, but it [such tragedies] happens.’
Nail is the head of another oil company Tatneft, was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky – a medal bestowed to civil servants for 20 years or more of highly meritorious service – in 2019 by Putin.
His wife Fania is the head of the English First language school in Almetyevsk while his son Ravil is a racing car driver.
His death is the latest of a number of top Russian officials who have died in suspicious circumstances in recent months – with many mysteriously falling out of windows.
Maganov is also now among a series of Russian energy tycoons killed in suspicious circumstances.
An anti-Putin, Latvian-American businessman was found dead in Washington DC, US, on August 14 after he fell from the window of a luxury apartment building.
Dan Rapoport, 52, was found outside 2400 M Apartments on August 14th shortly before 6pm. His body was discovered in the street along with his cracked cellphone, $2,620 cash, a keyring with a lanyard and a cracked white headphone.
Rapoport, a businessman who ran the iconic Soho Rooms nightclub in Moscow, lived in DC from 2012 until 2016 with his first wife, Irina.
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Gazprom = USA= Columbian cartels, how much money you need to have your belly full?
Almost certainly killed by the same people who assassinated Daria Dugina. Ukraine and the West will do anything to get a response from Russia.