The chairman of the supervisory board of the private Russian oil company Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, died on Thursday when he fell out of a Moscow hospital window.

According to the newspaper "Kommersant", the investigative committee is currently assuming a suicide.

The 68-year-old top manager is said to have suffered from a serious heart and vascular disease and therefore underwent treatment on the sixth floor of the hospital.

The Lukoil Group confirmed Maganov's death "after a serious illness".

Catherine Wagner

Business correspondent for Russia and the CIS based in Moscow.

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Maganov was one of the founding executives of Lukoil, which is Russia's second largest oil company after the state-controlled Rosneft.

In early May, another top manager at Lukoil, Alexandr Subbotin, was found dead in a house in the Moscow countryside.

The cause of death was determined by the investigative committee to be heart failure.

The owner of the house is said to have performed voodoo rituals in the basement where Subbotin was found.

Supervisory Board statement for the end of the Ukraine conflict

At the beginning of March, the supervisory board of Lukoil spoke out in favor of "ending the armed conflict" in Ukraine "as quickly as possible" and expressed its "concern in view of the tragic events".

Nevertheless, Great Britain imposed sanctions on the Lukoil boss, founder and largest shareholder of the group, Wagit Alekperow, who then resigned from his management posts at the end of April.

Since then, the group has been managed by Wadim Vorobyov.

At the end of June, Alekperov's deputy and also a major shareholder of Lukoil, Leonid Fedun, announced his departure from the management.

As was also announced on Thursday, the US Department of Justice has received authorization from a court in Texas to confiscate a Lukoil aircraft.

The Boeing 737, valued at $45 million, flew in and out of Russia in violation of sanctions, the Justice Department said.

The plane flew to the United States for the last time in 2019.

At that time, among others, Wagit Alekperow was on board and landed in Houston, Texas.

However, confiscation is likely to be difficult as the plane is probably currently in Russia, according to the Justice Department.