In the Moscow region, the 64-year-old ex-head of Rosvooruzhenie, Alexei Ogarev, was found dead. The exact cause of death is unknown. As RIA Novosti writes with reference to Olga Vradiy, senior assistant to the head of the head office of the Moscow Region Investigative Committee, according to preliminary data, the death is not of a criminal nature.

Ogarev headed Rosvooruzhenie in 1999-2000, after which he worked as Russia's Permanent Representative to the OSCE, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration and Deputy Secretary of the Security Council

In mid-April, Vice President of Gazprombank Vladislav Avaev and his family were found dead in Moscow. According to the preliminary version of the investigators, 51-year-old Vladislav shot his 47-year-old wife Elena and 13-year-old daughter Maria with a pistol, and then committed suicide.

Under similar circumstances, former top manager of Novatek Sergey Protosenya, his wife and daughter were found dead in Spain.

On February 25, 61-year-old Alexander Tyulyakov, deputy general director of the Gazprom Unified Settlement Center for corporate security, was found dead in a cottage near St. Petersburg. According to the preliminary version, the man committed suicide.