The 35-year-old “complained that he felt terrible and was choking”.
Ivan Sechin, the 35-year-old son of Igor Sechin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and CEO of Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft, died on February 5, the Russian Sputnik News Agency reported. Weekly newspaper.
Sechin’s death was not reported until exiled Russian oligarch and Vladimir Putin critic Leonid Nevzlin drew attention to new entries in the state’s register of succession cases. According to Russian independent news media, the entry in the registry is for Ivan Igorevich Sechin, who was born in 1989 and lives in a house previously identified as “the residence of an aide to President Vladimir Putin.” ” in the building.
Mr Nevzlin said on Facebook it was a “strange coincidence”. He added: “Today, as we review with my friends and partners why the Kremlin is waging war on Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s report on corruption at the Russian People’s Party conference , I learned just today that Igor Sechin just lost his son. The same man fabricated every blatant bloody case against us. And still is.”
“It may be hard to believe, but my heart goes out to the father who lost his child. My sympathies go out to the mother of Alexei Navalny. In recent years I have expressed my condolences to the mother of Bori Nemtsov, who left us this month. Sympathy. My condolences to the Schechini family, who have been forced to hide their grief,” he continued.
In addition, a local Russian media stated that the 35-year-old man employed by Rosneft “complained of feeling bad and suffocating” around 4:30 a.m. on February 5. “Those around him lifted Ivan to the floor and attempted to provide initial resuscitative measures,” they wrote. The outlet’s Telegram channel said an ambulance drove for two hours trying to find him. “When the ambulance arrived at the scene, doctors could only determine that Ivan had died,” they wrote, adding that the cause of death was determined to be a “dissociated blood clot.”
The media further stated that Sechin was “buried on the third day after his death.” Rosneft’s CEO “banned employees of the Investigative Committee, Russia’s FSB and other security forces from dealing with the issue of Ivan’s death.”
Since Russia’s Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, several prominent Russian figures have died of unknown causes. Marina YankinaThe head of the financial support department of the Russian Ministry of Defense and a senior Russian defense official fell to his death from a 16-story building in St. Petersburg in February last year.
Marina Yankina’s body was discovered by a bystander on the sidewalk of a residential complex in the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg just before 8 a.m. The 58-year-old is a key figure in financing Putin’s war in Ukraine.
She served as chief financial officer of the Western Military District, one of Russia’s five regional battalions whose commander Putin has replaced several times since the invasion of Ukraine.
