Vitaly Robertus, 54, is reportedly the fourth Lukoil supervisor to die in two years.
Russian information media reported on Thursday the sudden demise of Vitaly Robertus, Vice President of the nation’s oil and gasoline big Lukoil, writing that the supervisor died from suicide in his workplace this week.
Simply earlier than his demise, native media wrote that Robertus had complained of struggling complications and asking for drugs earlier than going to his workplace.
He was later discovered hanged within the room.
“He did not depart for a number of hours and didn’t reply his telephone. The staff determined to enter his workplace and located his physique. The highest supervisor died by suicide of asphyxia. He had labored on the firm for about 30 years,” Baza wrote on Telegram reporting the supervisor’s demise.
In keeping with the publication, Lukoil introduced the demise of Robertus on March 12.
In March 2022, the board of the privately owned firm known as for an finish to the battle in Ukraine.
They expressed “empathy for all victims who’re affected by this tragedy” and urged a “settlement of issues via severe negotiations and diplomacy.”
The corporate, estimated to supply 2% of the world’s crude oil, suffered significantly from sanctions imposed on Moscow by the US following the Ukraine invasion.
The power big did not incur EU sanctions, nevertheless.
Robertus is the fourth Lukoil’s supervisor and the newest in a protracted record of tycoons and billionaires to abruptly die beneath mysterious circumstances for the reason that Russian invasion of Ukraine started on February 24, 2022.
Former Lukoil’s high supervisor Alexander Subbotin, 43, was discovered useless in Could 2022 within the basement of a home within the city of Mytishchi of an alleged drug-induced coronary heart assault.
Lukoil’s former chairman Ravil Maganov, 67, died in September 2022 after falling from a window of Moscow’s Central Scientific Hospital.
In late October 2023, Vladimir Nekrasov, chairman of Lukoil’s board, died of what the corporate stated was coronary heart failure on the age of 66.
