Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov dies in Indian hotel fall - BBC

Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov has been recovered dormant astatine an Indian hotel, 2 days aft a person died during the aforesaid trip.

They were visiting the eastbound authorities of Odisha and the millionaire, who was besides a section politician, had conscionable celebrated his day astatine the hotel.

Antov was a good known fig successful the metropolis of Vladimir, eastbound of Moscow.

Last summertime helium denied criticising Russia's warfare successful Ukraine aft a connection appeared connected his WhatsApp account.

The millionaire's decease is the latest successful a bid of unexplained deaths involving Russian tycoons since the commencement of the Russian invasion, galore of whom person openly criticised the war.

Reports successful Russian media said Mr Antov, 65, had fallen from a model astatine the edifice successful the metropolis of Rayagada connected Sunday. Another subordinate of his four-strong Russian group, Vladimir Budanov, died astatine the edifice connected Friday.

Superintendent Vivekananda Sharma of Odisha constabulary said Mr Budanov was recovered to person suffered a changeable portion his person "was depressed aft his decease and helium excessively died". The Russian consul successful Kolkata, Alexei Idamkin, told the Tass quality bureau that constabulary did not spot a "criminal constituent successful these tragic events".

Tourist usher Jitendra Singh told reporters that Mr Budanov whitethorn person "consumed a batch of intoxicant arsenic helium had liquor bottles".

Pavel Antov founded the Vladimir Standard nutrient processing works and successful 2019 Forbes estimated his luck astatine immoderate $140m (£118m) astatine the apical of Russia's affluent database of lawmakers and civilian servants.

He played an important relation astatine the legislative assembly successful Vladimir, heading a committee connected agrarian argumentation and ecology. The assembly's lawman president Vyacheslav Kartukhin said helium had died successful "tragic circumstances".

Late past June helium appeared to respond to a Russian rocket onslaught connected a residential artifact successful the Shevchenkivskyi territory of Kyiv that near a antheral dormant and his seven-year-old girl and her parent wounded.

A WhatsApp connection connected Antov's relationship described however the household were pulled retired of the rubble: "It's highly hard to telephone each this thing but terror."

The connection was deleted and Antov past posted connected societal media that helium was a protagonist of the president, a "patriot of my country" and backed the war.

The WhatsApp connection had travel from idiosyncratic whose sentiment connected the "special subject cognition successful Ukraine" helium powerfully disagreed with, helium insisted. It had been posted accidentally connected his messenger and was a highly annoying misunderstanding, helium said.

Several high-profile Russian tycoons person died successful mysterious circumstances since the warfare began.

In September the caput of Russia's lipid elephantine Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, seemingly fell from a infirmary model successful Moscow.