Top Russian Oil Executive Dies in Moscow Window Fall

A top Russian oil executive was found dead beneath his Moscow home in what authorities said was an apparent suicide, state media reported.

Andrei Badalov, 62, had been vice president of the state-owned oil pipeline company Transneft since 2021.

His body was found at the bottom of a house along Rublevskoye Highway after falling from a window, TASS reported.

Police told TASS that Badalov had left a suicide note.

Badalov’s death is the latest in a long line of high-profile and wealthy Russians in recent years, many of whom have fallen from windows.

The deaths come amid Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s war on Ukraine, which has seen his country’s oil sector hit hard with Western sanctions.

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