A top Russian oligarch has been found dead by Putins spies after mysteriously falling 110ft from a window at his Moscow home.
Mikhail Rogachev, 64, was the vice-president of Russian oil giant Yukos which was forced out of business for turning against the tyrant president Vladimir Putin.
The former to manager was found at the entrance to his building by an SVR employee linked to a former Russian spymaster, and with injuries characteristic of a plunge, local media said.
TV channels reported that he lived on the tenth floor and that it was a suicide, claiming he had cancer and left a note - which police are now investigating.
But these reports were vehemently denied by his close friends and relatives.
Mikhail Rogachev, 64, a former top manager at Yukos oil company which was in conflict with Vladimir Putin, mysteriously fell to his death from a window in Moscow
His body was found in Moscow by an employee of Russias SVR foreign intelligence agency
Many leading Russian figures have died under mysterious circumstances during Putins regime
His relatives insisted there were no signs that he was suicidal and he was in a good mood shortly before his death.
Rogachev had a long and successful career in some of post-Soviet Russias leading companies.
Rogachev now joins a long string of unexplained deaths of leading Russian figures under mysterious circumstances.
Lukoil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, fell from a window of Moscows elite Central Clinical Hospital, also known as the Kremlin Clinic, in September 2022.
Russian state media quickly said his death was a suicide but law enforcement sources said there was no suicide note and there were no CCTV cameras on the section of the building where Maganov fell.
He was then replaced by Vladimir Nekrasov - in October 2023, who died aged 66 of acute heart failure in October 2023.
The following month, Russian senator and war backer, Vladimir Lebedev, with close Lukoil links, died suddenly in an unexplained terrible tragedy aged 60.
The ussian tycoon was found hanged in his office toilet by his boss.
In March, Lukoil vice-president Vitaly Robertus, 53, became the latest victim of a death curse to haunt Lukoil, a prominent company propping up Putin’s regime.
Then a prominent female judge was found dead after falling from a Moscow high-rise building.
Ravil Maganov, 67, (pictured with Putin after receiving a medal) chairman of Russian oil giant LUKOIL, died on the spot after falling from a window on the 6th floor of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow in 2022
Vladimir Nekrasov, chairman of the board of directors of Lukoil died in October last year
Vitaly Robertus, 53, (pictured) in March became the latest victim of a death curse to haunt Lukoil
Natalia Larina (pictured), was found dead after falling from a Moscow high-rise building
Vladimir Egorov. His corpse was found in the yard of his house in December 2023
Anna Tsareva, the deputy editor of pro-Putin newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, was found dead by her father aged just 35
Marina Yankina (pictured), 58, was discovered by a passerby at the entrance of a house on Zamshina Street in St Petersburg. She is believed to have fallen 160ft to her death
Earlier this year, Zoya Konovalova (pictured), 48, chief editor of Russian state TV company Kuban, was found alongside her ex-husband
Natalia Larina, 50, was notorious for handling high-profile political and criminal cases, punishing traitors of the Kremlin.
She had been a criminal judge for more than 15 years - and had a reputation for ruling verdicts on cases against opposition political activists.
In December 2023, Vladimir Egorov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, plunged to his death from a third-floor window in Moscow.
The 46-year-old Egorov was a wealthy and prominent politician in oil-rich Tobolsk in western Siberia.
His corpse was found in the yard of his house, according to reports.
Just weeks prior, the deputy editor of Putins favourite propaganda newspaper was found dead aged only 35.
The body of Anna Tsareva, 35, was discovered at her home in the capitals Bolshoy Tishinsky Lane - nearly a year after the death of her boss Vladimir Sungorkin, 68.
In February of the same year, a top Russian defence official and a key figure in the funding of Putins illegal war in Ukraine Marina Yankina, 58, also fell 160ft to her death in St Petersburg.
She was head of the financial support department of the Ministry of Defence for the Western Military District, which is closely involved in the dictator’s invasion.
Earlier this year, the chief editor of the warmongers state-run TV empire was also discovered lifeless after a suspected poisoning.
Zoya Konovalova, 48, who ran a channel operating near the frontlines of Mad Vlads illegal war, was found alongside her ex-husband.