Ravil Maganov

Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia's second-largest oil producer Lukoil, died on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, sources said.

Unusually among Russian companies, Lukoil took a stand over Moscow's intervention in Ukraine. His brother Nail is the head of mid-sized Russian oil producer Catalan regional police, investigating the case, have said they believe he killed them and then took his own life. The Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The sources confirmed reports by several Russian media that the 67-year-old had plunged to his death, but the circumstances surrounding his fall were unclear. - The sources confirmed reports by several Russian media that the 67-year-old had plunged to his death, but the circumstances surrounding his fall were unclear.

Yet another Russian energy executive has reportedly died by suicide—but no CCTV was there to record the Lukoil chair's final moments.

[Gazprom](https://fortune.com/company/gazprom) contractor in the Arctic—was [found in his swimming pool](https://fortune.com/2022/07/06/russian-executive-gazprom-ties-found-dead/) with a gunshot wound to the head and a pistol lying nearby. [reportedly](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/22/russias-lukoil-says-longtime-ceo-alekperov-resigns-a77442) to protect Lukoil from being affected by measures taken against him. [bumper profits](https://fortune.com/2022/03/02/lukoil-russia-oil-producer-profit-6-9-billion-energy-price/) in recent months, with soaring oil and gas prices more than making up for Western embargoes. [took the still-rare step](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/04/business/lukoil-end-war/index.html) of “calling for the soonest termination of the armed conflict.” [string of top Russian executives](https://fortune.com/2022/04/26/russian-oligarchs-deaths-strange-circumstances-this-year/)—most with links to the fossil-fuel sector—who have [died in mysterious circumstances](https://fortune.com/2022/07/06/russian-executive-gazprom-ties-found-dead/) since President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. [Lukoil](https://fortune.com/company/lukoil) has announced the death of board chair Ravil Maganov “following a severe illness.”

Ravil Maganov, the chief executive of Lukoil and opponent of the war in Ukraine, died in a six-story plunge from a Moscow hospital window.

A month prior, Sergei Protosenya — a former honcho at liquefied natural gas producer Novatek — was found dead beside his wife and daughter in Spain. Spanish media reported no suicide note and no bloodstains on his body. Another top Lukoil manager, Alexander Subbotin, was found dead in the basement of a house outside Moscow in May — the same month Vladislav Avayev, a former executive at Gazprombank, was discovered fatally shot beside his wife and daughter.

Lukoil chairman Ravil Maganov is just the latest to join a long list of bizarre deaths plaguing figures in the oil and gas industry.

In February, Gazprom executive Alexander Tyulyakov was found hanged in his St. Just as in the case of Avayev, local police said their preliminary theory was murder-suicide. His death came just a few weeks after Gazprom Invest exec Leonid Shulman was found dead at a cottage in the Leningrad region, with law enforcement sources also describing his death as a suicide. Ravil Maganov, the chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil company, is said to have fallen from the 6th floor of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. Investigators said they suspected a murder-suicide. An investigation into his death is

Since January, seven other Russian energy executives have died under unusual circumstances, according to reports by Russian and international news agencies.

28, three days after Tyulakov died, a Russian oil and gas billionaire living in England, Mikhail Watford, was found hanged in the garage of his country estate. Petersburg gated community where Shulman and Tyulakov died earlier in the year. According to the Russian media outlet Novaya Gazeta, [investigators found a note near Tyulakov's body.](https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/03/07/nekhoroshii-poselok?utm_source=tg&utm_medium=novaya&utm_campaign=telo-61-letnego-top-menedzhera-gazproma) The room where Subbotin died was allegedly used for "Jamaican voodoo rituals," And like Avayev, police investigating the scene said they believed it was a murder-suicide, a theory that Avayev's surviving son The Russian media group RBC reported his death, but did not cite a cause.

Lukoil was one of a few Russian companies to publicly call for an end to Russia's military operation in Ukraine.

Maganov is the latest in a series of Russian businessmen, particularly in the energy industry, who have died unexpectedly in unclear circumstances this year. MOSCOW – The chairman of the board of Russia's largest private oil company, which criticized Russia's military operation in Ukraine, fell out of a hospital window and died, Russian news reports said Thursday. Top Russian oil executive Ravil Maganov dies; body found on the grounds of hospital

The chairman of Lukoil, Russia's second-largest oil company, fell to his death from a sixth-floor hospital window in Moscow.

Maganov the company had “evolved from a small oil production group to one of the world’s leading energy companies in next to no time.” Lukoil is one of the most recognizable Russian brands in the United States, where it has a network of more than 200 franchised gasoline stations. Maganov had started his career in the energy industry as an oil operator at a company that later merged with others to form Lukoil, working his way up to become one of Russia’s top oil executives. The statement, from the board of directors, headed by Mr. Putin ordered troops to cross the Ukrainian border, Alexander Tyulakov, a deputy general director of the treasury for Gazprom, Russia’s energy giant, was found dead in his garage near St. The investigators said it appeared that Mr.

Lukoil PJSC Chairman Ravil Maganov died after falling from a window in a Moscow hospital, according to Russian media reports.