A RUSSIAN oil tycoon has died after falling 180ft from a tower block in the latest in a string of mysterious deaths. Andrey Badalov, 62, fell from the 17th floor of the luxury Moscow tower block - where he lived in a tenth floor penthouse. Badalov was married with two children. Suicide has been recorded as the preliminary cause of death, but investigations are still ongoing.
A letter supposedly written by Badalov to his wife was reportedly found.Kremlin media cited a source as saying: “Badalov's body was found under the windows of an [apartment building] on Rublevskoye Highway." Badalov was vice-president of Transneft - Russia's state oil pipeline operator and the largest such company in the world.
The firm is headed up by former KGB spy, Nikolai Tokarev, 74, who served alongside Putin in Germany during the Cold War. A spate of mysterious deaths of executives linked to the oil and gas industries have hit Russia since Putin started plotting his invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago. This is at least the 12th such death among high-ranking industry figures since the beginning of 2022.
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