Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, on February 24, the announcements of the death of big Russian bosses in mysterious circumstances follow one another.
“Nahil Maganov, chairman of the board of directors of Lukoil (a powerful oil and gas company and Russia’s largest oil producer, editor’s note), died following a serious illness,” the company announced on Thursday in a press release published by Interfax. . A few hours earlier, however, the Russian press agency evoked a completely different cause for the disappearance of the boss of this oil and gas giant. “The chairman of the board of directors of the oil company Lukoil died after falling from the window of the central clinical hospital in Moscow,” she announced. According to the agency, citing a source, he succumbed to his injuries after his fall. This new death of a big Russian boss in dubious circumstances is part of a succession of mysterious disappearances of oligarchs since the invasion of Ukraine. Read also: New mysterious death of a Russian oligarch: a businessman linked to Gazprom found dead in his swimming pool Read also: War in Ukraine: murders or suicides? Several Russian oligarchs have disappeared in mysterious circumstances since the start of the conflict Read also: Death of a Russian oligarch and his family on the Costa Brava: the son supports the thesis of a set up, the investigation continues Hospital of the “24 hour law” The central clinical hospital of Moscow, the Tsentralnaïa Klinitcheskaïa Bolnitsa (or TSKB, pronounced tsékabé), is known to be, since Stalin, “the clinic of the Kremlin”. There are treated, mainly, the high dignitaries and officials of the regime. It is also reputed to be an establishment where the “24-hour” law reigns. As explained in 1997, to the newspaper Le Monde, a doctor who worked there for many years, this means that anyone who has asked “questions” or had “an incorrect attitude”, “has 24 hours to do his suitcases”. A law which dates from the Soviet era and which no one knows if it is still in force but which, as a precaution, everyone respects… To read also: War in Ukraine: Did Vladimir Putin assassinate an oligarch Russian by poisoning him with toad venom?