A former Russian oil executive has been found dead after apparently falling from the window of his Moscow apartment.
Mikhail Rogachev was found outside his 10th-floor apartment in Moscow with injuries consistent with a fall, Russian media reported.
Russian news agencies said authorities were treating his death as a suicide.
Wire channels close to Russia's security services said his body was discovered by an agent of the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence service, who was walking a senior spymaster's dog in the building's courtyard on Saturday morning.
The 64-year-old was a former vice president of Yukos, the oil giant that was broken up and jailed after billionaire owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky after challenging Vladimir Putin.
He went on to work as executive director of the Onexim group, the investment vehicle of oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, and later deputy general director of Norilsk Nickel, a mining giant.
He is the latest of a dozen Russian energy executives to die under mysterious circumstances in the past two years.
Leonid Shulman, the head of transportation at Gazprom Invest, which handles investment projects for the state gas giant, was found dead in January 2022 in a cottage north of St. Petersburg.
Alexander Tyulakov, another Gazprom executive, was found dead in the garage of his home in St. Petersburg on February 25 that year, the morning after Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian media reported.
Later that year, Ravil Magonov, the chairman of oil giant Lukoil, died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow.
Vladimir Nekrasov, who succeeded him as chairman of the Lukoil board, died of heart failure in October last year.
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