Russian businessman Ivan Pechorin, the top manager of the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, was found dead in Vladivostok, the latest in a series of mysterious deaths among Russian executives.
“On September 12, 2022, we learned of the tragic death of our colleague, Ivan Pechorin, Managing Director of the Aviation Industry at the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and Arctic,” reads a company statement published on Monday. (12).
“Ivan’s death is an irreparable loss to friends and colleagues, a great loss to the corporation. We offer our sincere condolences to his family and friends.”
According to Russian state media RIA Novosti, the administration of Vladivostok said a body was found near the village of Beregovoe. Pechorin drowned on September 10 near Cape Ignatyev in Vladivostok, according to regional media.
Pechorin is at least the ninth high-profile Russian businessman to have died by suicide or in unexplained accidents since late January, with six of them associated with Russia’s two biggest energy companies.
Four of those six were linked to Russian state energy giant Gazprom or one of its subsidiaries, while the other two were linked to Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil and gas company.
Earlier this year, the company took the unusual public stance of speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine, asking for sympathy for the victims and for an end to the conflict.
Lukoil chairman Ravil Maganov died in early September after falling out of a Moscow hospital window, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
Source: CNN Brasil
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