THE decapitated body of a top Russian boss has been found in what marks the latest in a string of suspicious deaths among Putin’s elite.
Alexei Sinitsyn, 49, was discovered under a bridge in Kaliningrad with a tow rope tied to his corpse, local media report.
East2WestAlexei Sinitsyn, 49 – pictured here with wife Elena – was found lying dead in Kaliningrad in latest mystery death[/caption]
East2WestSinitsyn was general director of K-Potash Service[/caption]
East2WestK-Potash Service company in Kaliningrad, Russia[/caption]
Russian state media labelled the death a “suicide” before any investigation into Sinitsyn’s cause of death was launched.
Sinitsyn was the general director of K-Potash Service, a company that extracts potassium, magnesium and salt products.
The company was locked in repeated legal battles with Rosprirodnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources.
Sinitsyn’s company – which had ties to the Netherlands and Cyprus – was overseeing the largest extraction of potassium sulphate and magnesium sulphate at the Nivenskoye deposit in Kaliningrad.
Reports say £528 million in investments were planned.
The project was touted as set to become a “world leader in the production of chlorine-free mineral fertilisers based on potassium and magnesium”, according to Anton Alikhanov, former Kaliningrad governor and now Kremlin’s minister for industry and trade.
The Russian Investigative Committee has opened an investigation into Sinitsyn’s mysterious death.
“The body was found ‘without a head,’” a law enforcement source said.
Sinitsyn leaves behind his wife, Elena, and their two daughters.
Local media reported on Monday that said Sinitsyn had financial links to former Lukoil top manager, Alexander Subbotin, who was found dead in May 2022 in the basement of a house in Mytishchi.
Sinitsyn’s and Subbotin’s mysterious deaths fit a growing pattern that’s been unfolding since just before the war in Ukraine began.
In July, Russia’s top judge Irina Podnosova, 71, died after battling cancer, according to official sources.
But Ukrainian commentators at the time called it the latest in a string of “mysterious” deaths among Russia’s elite.
The Ukrainian Telegram channel Pravda Gerashchenko reported: “A series of deaths of high-ranking government officials continues in Russia – a classmate of Putin, appointed just over a year ago as the head of the supreme court, has died.”
That same July, Putin’s transport minister Roman Starovoit, 53, died from gunshot wounds on the day he was fired – a death officially ruled a suicide.
Several days earlier, Andrey Badalov, a 62-year-old oil tycoon, fell from the 17th floor of a luxury Moscow tower block.
A suicide note, allegedly written by Badalov, was reportedly found.
Badalov was the vice president of Transneft – Russia’s state-owned oil pipeline operator and the largest company of its kind in the world.
In 2023, Marina Yankina, 58, a finance official at Russia’s Ministry of Defence, was found dead after falling 160 feet from a 16th-floor window in St. Petersburg.
In 2022, Ravil Maganov, chairman of Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil company, died after plunging from a sixth-floor window at Moscow’s elite Central Clinical Hospital – also known as the Kremlin Clinic.
On the same morning, Putin – who had earlier decorated Maganov, 67, with a top honour – swept into the hospital to pay his final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who had died that same week.
East2WestBillionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, former Lukoil executive, was found dead on May 8 2022[/caption]
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