The chairman of the board of directors of the Russian company Lukoil Ravil Maganov died on Thursday after allegedly falling from a hospital window in Moscow, according to the TASS news agency, which says it was a suicide. This is the latest in a series of strange deaths, some of which appear to be suicides of “indigos,” influential executives or businessmen in Russia, many of which have been reported since the war in Ukraine began.

The Russian press writes that 68-year-old Ravil Maganov was being treated in the building on the 6th floor of the Central Clinical Hospital of Moscow. According to the Russian financial publication RBC, this hospital is managed by the Presidential Administration.

The authorities reported that the chairman of the board of directors of Lukoil died as a result of hitting the ground after jumping from the floor, writes TASS.

He was hospitalized with a heart attack and also treated with antidepressants, the Russian State News Agency also writes.

Ravil Maganov was 68 years old. Since 1993, he worked at Lukoil in various management positions, was the first executive vice president, supervised the “Exploration and production” unit. In 2020, Lukoil’s board of directors appointed Maganov as chairman of the board to replace Valery Greifer, who died in April 2020.

Lukoil, the first major Russian company to oppose the invasion of Ukraine

In early March, days after Russia launched a war in Ukraine, Lukoil called for a “quick end to the war,” becoming the first major national company to oppose the Russian invasion.

• “We support a quick end to the armed conflict and unconditionally support a solution through the negotiation process and diplomatic means,” Lukoil’s board of directors said in a statement quoted by AFP.

A series of suspicious deaths in Russia

Maganov’s case is the latest in a series of strange deaths of influential executives or businessmen in Russia, some of which appear to be indigo suicides, all recorded since the war in Ukraine began.

In May, the Russian police announced that they had opened a criminal case over the death of Oleksandr Subbotin, the former director of the state oil company Lukoil, who was found dead in the basement of a house in the Moscow region.

Investigators told the Russian state intelligence agency that they will also conduct a toxicological examination for the presence of drugs in Subbotin’s blood.

“A statement about loss of consciousness due to a heart attack was received by the emergency dispatcher on May 8. The doctor who arrived at the scene declared Subbotin dead. According to the fact of his death, a criminal case has been opened, which is being investigated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs,” said a representative of the Russian police at the time.

His lifeless body was found in the basement of a house in Mytishchy, a city in the Moscow Region with a population of almost 160,000.

The owner of the house, Oleksiy Pindurin, told the investigation that Subbotin came to him in a state of strong alcohol and drug intoxication. The body of the former head of “Lukoil” was found in the room used for Jamaican voodoo rituals by Pindurin, who was nicknamed the “Magua shaman” by local residents.

The Moscow Times notes that Subbotin may have died during an “anti-hangover session” with Pindurin and his wife, who were taking clients to their home to give them frog poison treatments.

The first in a series of suspicious deaths that attracted the attention of the media was the case of the former vice president of Gazprombank, Vladyslav Avayev, who was found dead in a Moscow apartment together with his wife and minor daughter. On April 19, Russian police reported that Avaev killed his wife and daughter after a domestic dispute and then committed suicide.

Literally two days later, the Spanish press wrote that Serhii Protosenia, the vice president of the Russian giant Nov, was found dead in his residence in Costa Brava in northeastern Catalonia. A man was found hanged, and his wife and daughter were also found dead in bed.

Later, the mass media found out that since the end of January, in addition to the two of them, at least 3 more Russian executives and businessmen allegedly committed suicide.

In early May, Andrii Krukovsky, the manager of a ski resort owned by Gazprom, was also found dead, Russian authorities said, having slipped on a cliff and died.