Drowning of Russian Executive Latest in a String of Mysterious Deaths

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    from The Epoch Times:

    The recent death of a Russian executive who fell into the sea is the latest in a string of mysterious deaths among Russian executives, many with ties to the energy industry.

    According to local media in the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok, Ivan Pechorin, the aviation director of Far East and Arctic Development Company (KRDV), sailed near the Russian island on Sept. 10 and fell overboard from the boat while drunk. His body was found washed ashore 100 miles from Vladivostok after a two-day search.

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    Two days before his death, he had attended the Eastern Economic Forum in the city, where he gave a speech on transportation. The forum focused on the economic development of Russia’s energy and mineral-rich far east. Russian President Vladimir Putin also attended the forum on Sept. 7 and gave a speech.

    Pechorin, 39, was known as “Putin’s man” in the region. It was reported that Putin personally placed him in that position. Many consider his accident unusual.

    He is not the first executive of the company to have died mysteriously. In February, the company’s 43-year-old chief executive, Igor Nosov, died of a stroke. According to Russian economic daily RBC, Nosov fell ill after learning of his dismissal from the company at a meeting and died shortly thereafter. The report did not mention the reason for his dismissal.

    Nosov had been in the post for just nine months, while his predecessor, Eduard Cherkin, who was also appointed by the government, had only been in office for four months.

    KRDV is a key corporation in Putin’s project to develop the rich energy and mining resources of Russia’s easternmost region. Pechorin was responsible for improving aviation accessibility in the area by modernizing airport infrastructure.

    The development of Russia’s far east, including the Arctic, has become increasingly important for the Russian economy in the face of severe sanctions from the West.

    Experts: Energy Industry Secretly Funds Russian Intelligence Operations

    In regards to the string of unusual deaths of Russian energy executives this year, Swedish economist Anders Aslund, author of the book “Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy,” feels that special agents are responsible.

    “There is a cleaning out going on and it’s difficult to pin down any one person … who’s doing it,” he told the New York Post. “But this looks like Kremlin murders to me.”

    Citing his own Russian sources, Aslund told the newspaper that Russian intelligence drew up two lists of executives in the country’s energy sector, one in late 2021 and the other in early March. He said authorities suspected someone in the energy industry of leaking information about its funding of secret operations undertaken by Russian foreign intelligence, including the invasion of Ukraine.

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