After Russia’s February invasion, Ravil Maganov, chairman of the board at Lukoil, urged for the “immediate end of the armed war.”
The chairman of the second-largest oil producer in Russia has reportedly died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow.
The vice president of Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, had openly criticized the war in Ukraine.
In March, the 67-year-old served as chairman of the company’s board, which called for the “immediate end of the violent conflict” and expressed “deep sympathy for all casualties.”
The statement said, “We strongly support a permanent ceasefire and a resolution of issues through serious dialogue and diplomacy.”
This morning, Mr. Maganov died after falling from a window on the sixth floor of the Central Clinical Hospital, according to RBC News in Russia.
According to unidentified sources cited by other Russian media sites and Reuters, Mr. Maganov fell from a window.
The hospital, widely known as the “Kremlin Clinic” for its treatment of Russia’s political and financial elite, confirmed the death to Russia’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti without identifying the cause of death.
Tuesday, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev passed away at the same hospital.
Mr. Maganov is the second top Lukoil executive to die in mysterious circumstances in recent months.
The Moscow Times says that after the death of former Lukoil CEO Alexander Subbotin in early May, Russian authorities started a criminal investigation.
Since 1993, Mr. Maganov oversaw the refining, production, and exploration operations at Lukoil, the largest privately held oil company in Russia.
In 2020, he became chairman.
Mr. Maganov was a close associate of one of the company’s founders, the former Soviet deputy oil minister Vagit Alekperov, who was sanctioned by the United Kingdom following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
His brother Nail is the CEO of Tatneft, a mid-sized Russian oil company.
Lukoil has no immediate comment available.
