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Russian sausage tycoon turned lawmaker Pavel Antov died in India on Saturday after falling from the third floor of his hotel, according to Indian police.
Antov’s death came after his friend and fellow traveler Vladimir Budanov died of a heart attack on Antov’s 65th birthday two days earlier, senior police official Vivekanand Sharma said on Tuesday. from the state of Odisha in northeastern India.
Budanov was 61 and had pre-existing heart disease, Sharma said.
Police believe Antov committed suicide after falling from the third floor of his hotel in the Rayagada district, although a post-mortem report has not yet been released, Sharma said. He said the case was ruled as an “unnatural death”, which includes deaths resulting from accidents and suicides.
According to the Russian state news agency TASS, Antov, who was a businessman and a member of a regional parliament in the Vladimir region in western Russia, had celebrated his 65th birthday on December 22. .
In 2018, Antov topped the Forbes list of Russia’s 100 richest civil servants. Its revenue in 2018 was around 9.97 billion rubles, according to Forbes Russia.
He was a member of the United Russia party in the Russian parliament, which was previously led by Vladimir Putin and still strongly supports the Russian president.
Antonov pledged his support for Putin last June when he was forced to deny posting an anti-war message on WhatsApp. He blamed an “unfortunate misunderstanding and technical error” and said the status had been deleted.
Sharma said the Russian embassy was contacted and procedures were followed. Permission had been given for the cremation of the two men’s bodies, he said.
Russia’s Consul General in Calcutta Alexey Idamkin told Russian state media RIA Novosti on Monday that Odisha State Police and the Consulate General in Calcutta saw nothing suspicious in the deaths of two Russians. in India.
“We are aware of the deaths of two Russian citizens. We are in contact with the relatives of these people and the police department of the city where it happened. We will provide the relatives of the deceased with all necessary assistance with the paperwork,” Idamkin told RIA Novosti.
At least a dozen prominent Russian businessmen have He would have died by suicide or in unexplained accidents this year, six of them being associated with the two largest Russian energy companies.
Alexander Buzakovthe head of a major Russian shipyard specializing in the construction of non-nuclear submarines, died suddenly last week, without a cause of death being given by the authorities, the news agency reported Reuters.
Anatoly Gerashchenko, the former rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute, died in an unspecified accident in September, according to a statement from the institute.
Lukoil chairman Ravil Maganov died in early September after falling out of a Moscow hospital window, according to TASS.
In mid-September, Russian businessman Ivan Pechorin, who was the general director of the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and Arctic, was found dead in Vladivostok, according to local media. Russian state. Pechorin drowned on September 10 near Cape Ignatiev in Vladivostok, regional media reported.
Another senior Lukoil official, Alexander Subbotin, was found dead near Moscow in May after apparently visiting a shaman, TASS reported.
How to get help: In the United States, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide can also provide contact information for crisis centers around the world.
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