Russian entrepreneur and local lawmaker Pavel Antonov – who on a brief occasion criticized the Kremlin’s attack on Ukraine – was found dead on Christmas Eve while on holiday in India, with authorities reportedly saying he fell from his hotel window. They went.
A friend of Antonov’s named Vladimir Budanov had died a few days earlier in the same hotel. Vivekananda Sharma, a police officer from the Indian state of Odisha, Said that Budanov was traumatized, while Antonov “was depressed after her death and he also died.”
Local police, citing Indian outlet NDTV Reported That a Russian tourist had died after falling from the third floor of a hotel. Russian Consul in Kolkata Alexey Idamkin, told Russian state news agency TASS said police did not see a “criminal element in these tragic events”. Antonov recently celebrated his 65th birthday at the hotel.
Antonov, who made his €130 million fortune through a meat processing plant, was a local politician in the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow.
Last June, Antonov appeared in a message from his WhatsApp account slam Russian missile attack on a residential building in Ukraine, stating that “it is extremely difficult to call all this anything other than terror.”
Shortly after the message was deleted. Antonov then posted on other social media that he was a supporter of the president, “a patriot of my country” and that the message came from someone whose opinion on “special military operations in Ukraine” he mistakenly disagreed with in his messenger. Posted on
The millionaire has become the latest in a series of Russian tycoons who have died under mysterious circumstances, many of whom have openly criticized President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. In September, Ravil Maganov, chairman of Russian oil giant Lukoil, who called Describing the invasion of Russia as a “tragedy” and sympathizing with its victims, he died by falling from a hospital window in Moscow.