Dmitry Zelenov50-year-old Russian oligarch and co-founder of the Russian real estate group Don-Stroydied mysteriously last December 9thaccidentally falling down the stairs, according to what was reconstructed by the French investigators, and banging his head against a railing, after a dinner with some friends in Antibesin France. Medical and health workers immediately intervened and took the oligarch to the hospital. And after a night spent in serious condition in intensive care, local law enforcement officials told friends and relatives of the businessman the next morning that he was dead. The news was reported by the Russian press agency Baza, who recalls how Zelenov had already undergone heart surgery for heart problems. The oligarch would have repeatedly sided against Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Zelenov was a co-owner of the Don-Stroy construction company, one of the leading construction and real estate companies of Fly. The company was the first to build elite residential complexes in the Russian capital. Dmitry Zelenov’s death adds to the long list of suspicious deaths and disappearances of Russian oligarchs since the start of the war againstUkraine.
The other Russian oligarchs died under suspicious circumstances
Among these, the death of Alexander Tyulakov, 61, senior financial officer of Gazprom. He was found hanged in the garage of his St. Petersburg home the day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On March 24, the Russian media Kommersant reported the death of the 41-year-old oligarch Vasily Melnikov, died with his wife and two children in their luxury apartment in Nizhny Novgorov following an assault on their home. On April 18, a former vice president of Gazprombank, Vladislav Avaev, was found dead in his Moscow home. There were gunshot wounds on his body. The lifeless bodies of his wife and daughter also lay in the apartment. Same fate, on April 19, for the former vice president of the gas company Novatek, Sergey Protosenya. His lifeless body was found in a Spanish villa. The man lived in Bordeaux and was on vacation in Lloret de Mar. His body also lay next to the bodies of his wife and daughter. Last May 8 he died at the age of 43 also Alexander Subbotin, former executive of the Russian oil company Lukoil. The Russian billionaire reportedly died of poisoning after ingesting toad venom.
On July 4th, the CEO and founder of Astra Shippinga company that worked on arctic contracts for Gazprom, Yuri Voronov, 61, was found dead in the swimming pool of his St. Petersburg villa. He had a gunshot wound to the head. The chairman of the Russian private oil and gas company also died in September LukoilRavil Maganov. He allegedly fell from a window of a Moscow hospital, according to the Russian agency TAX, who spoke of “suicide”. Lukoil was one of the very few Russian companies to ask to stop the Russian offensive in Ukraine. They also add to the list Pavel Pchelnikov52-year-old former Russian Railways manager found dead in his Moscow apartment. Same fate for Dmitry Goloshchapov, son of oligarch Konstantin Goloshchapov, who died four days after his father fled to Belarus. Russian President Putin used to frequent Goloshchapov’s Spa in St. Petersburg. Even the oligarch Yevgeny Palant47, and his wife Olga Palant, 50, were found stabbed to death in their family home in the Moscow region.
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