Pavel Antov, a Russian businessman who made his fortune in the sausage industry, was discovered dead in an Indian hotel two days after a friend also passed away while on the same vacation.
They were on a trip through the eastern state of Odisha when the millionaire, who was also a politician in the area, decided to celebrate his birthday at the hotel where they were staying.
In the city of Vladimir, which is located east of Moscow, Antov was a well-known figure.
After a message was sent to his WhatsApp account in the summer of 2016, he denied having made statements criticizing Russia’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, there have been a string of mysterious deaths involving Russian tycoons, many of whom have been vocal in their opposition to the war. The death of the millionaire is the most recent in this line of mysterious deaths.
On Sunday, it was reported in the Russian media that Mr. Antov, who was 65 years old, had fallen from a window at the hotel located in the city of Rayagada. On Friday, Vladimir Budanov learned that another member of his Russian group, which consisted of four people, had passed away at the hotel.
It was discovered that Mr. Budanov had suffered a stroke while his companion “was depressed after his death and he too died,” according to Superintendent Vivekananda Sharma of the Odisha police department. According to the Tass news agency, the Russian consul in Kolkata, Alexei Idamkin, stated that the police did not perceive a “criminal role in these unfortunate occurrences.”
According to the tour guide, Jitendra Singh, who was speaking to the media, Mr. Budanov “may have consumed a lot of booze as he had liquor bottles.”
In 2019, Forbes reported that Pavel Antov’s fortune was over $140 million (£118 million), placing him at the top of Russia’s rich list of politicians and civil servants. Antov is the founder of the Vladimir Standard meat processing facility.
He headed a committee on agrarian policy and ecology, which gave him a prominent role in the legislative assembly in Vladimir, which was located in Vladimir. Vyacheslav Kartukhin, the deputy head of the assembly, stated that the circumstances surrounding his death were “tragic.”
Late in the month of June of the previous year, he seemed to react to a Russian missile attack that had been carried out on a residential block in the Shevchenkivskyi neighbourhood of Kyiv. The attack had resulted in the injury or death of one man as well as the wounding of his daughter, who was seven years old, and her mother.
Antov’s account on WhatsApp received a message that detailed the process of rescuing his family from the debris. It is really challenging to characterize all of this as anything other than terrifying.
After the message was removed, Antov took to social media to declare that he was a fan of the president, a “patriot of my country,” and that he agreed with the decision to go to war.
He stated that the WhatsApp message had come from a person whose viewpoint he strongly disagreed with about the “special military operation in Ukraine.” The viewpoint was discussed in the context of the “special military operation in Ukraine.” According to him, it was a very infuriating misunderstanding that had been shared unintentionally on his messenger. He said that it had happened by accident.
Since the beginning of the war, a number of prominent Russian tycoons have been found dead under unexplained circumstances.
Ravil Maganov, the head of Russia’s oil firm Lukoil, is believed to have fallen from a hospital window in Moscow in the month of September.