Since the beginning of the year, 7 top Russian managers connected with the largest gas and oil companies of Russia, "Gazprom," "Novatek," and "Lukoil," have already died. In most cases, investigators see signs of suicide.

January: 60-year-old Leonid Shulman, head of "Gazprom Invest" transport service, died at the end of the month. The manager's body was found in the bathroom of his house in Leninsky township. According to press reports, there was a note next to Shulman in which he complained about the pain of his broken leg.

February: About a month later, in the same Leninsk, the body of Alexander Tyulyakov, deputy general director for corporate security of Gazprom's unified computing center, was found. The body was found in the attached garage of the house. By all accounts, it was considered a suicide. He also had a note with him, which has not been published.

April: On April 18, Vladislav Avaev, the former vice president of Gazprombank, and his wife and daughter were found dead in his apartment in Moscow. According to the initial version, Avayev discovered his wife's betrayal, after which he took revenge on his family and committed suicide.

April: A few days later, the body of the former top manager of Novatek gas company, Sergey Protoseni, was found in his house in the Spanish city of Lloret de Mar. His wife and daughter are also found stabbed in their beds. According to Telecinco and El Punt Avui, the bodies of the mother and daughter with stab wounds were found in the bed, while the body of Protosenya was found in the garden. An ax and a knife were found next to the man. According to the initial version, Protoseni committed suicide. The bodies were found after the man's son contacted the police. He had been staying in France and raised the alarm when his mother stopped answering calls.

May: On May 8, the body of the former top manager of "Lukoil," Alexander Subotin, was found in an apartment in Mytishchyn. According to Russian law enforcement officers, Subotin died due to heart failure. It is noteworthy that the host was a shaman conducting a voodoo ritual.

July: Another case of the death of a figure related to "Gazprom" occurred in July. The body of Yuri Voronov, the company's main contractor, is found in a swimming pool near St. Petersburg with a headshot wound. The body of 61-year-old Voronov was found on his territory in the cottage village of Marine Terrace near the Gulf of Finland. The man's body was lying in the pool with a headshot, and the law enforcement officers found a traumatic gun nearby. It is not clear who it belonged to.

Yuri Voronov was the general director of the transport company "Astra Shipping" and worked in the arctic channels of "Gazprom." According to the businessman's wife, Voronov left for the Leningrad region on July 1, and before leaving, he had a conflict with his business partners due to the loss of money.

September: Today, it became known that Ravil Maganov, the chairman of the board of directors of the "Lukoil" oil company, died after falling from the window of the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. According to Russian sources, Maganov most likely committed suicide.