Oil tycoon falls to his death from elite Moscow apartment

Daily Mail​

05-07-2025

A top Russian oil tycoon has died after mysteriously plunging 180ft from a window at his luxury Moscow home. The body of Andrey Badalov (pictured), 62, was discovered this morning at the bottom of an exclusive high-rise apartment building in Moscow's affluent Rublevskoye neighbourhood.
Badalov had been appointed vice-president for the oil giant in 2021 during a 'complex and tense period' and had been credited with helping the company 'overcome the challenges' posed by Western sanctions. He previously worked at the state-owned Voskhod Scientific Research Institute. He had also studied at the General Staff Academy of the Armed Forces, which trains high-level officers and state managers. The tycoon leaves behind a wife and two daughters. His sudden death is the latest in a s pate of unexplained deaths of leading Russian figures under mysterious circumstances.
In these cases, individuals have died falling from windows, apparent [self-murder] and in accidents. Some have been known to be critics of Vladimir Putin. Top Russian oligarch Mikhail Rogachev, 64, was found dead back in October after mysteriously falling from a 110ft window in Moscow. Rogachev was the vice-president of Russian oil giant Yukos, which was forced out of business for turning against Putin.
TV channels reported that he lived on the tenth floor and that it was a [self-murder], claiming he had cancer and left a note. But these reports were vehemently denied by his close friends and relatives. His family insisted there were no signs that he was [self-murdered] and he was in a 'good mood' shortly before his death. Rogachev had a long and successful career in some of post-Soviet Russia's leading companies. Separately, Lukoil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, fell from a window of Moscow's elite Central Clinical Hospital, also known as the Kremlin Clinic, in September 2022.
Russian state media quickly said his death was a [self-murder] but law enforcement sources said there was no [self-murder]note and there were no CCTV cameras on the section of the building where Maganov fell. Lukoil is a major Russian energy company and of of the largest oil producers worldwide. Maganov was then replaced by Vladimir Nekrasov - in October 2023, who died aged 66 of 'acute heart failure' in October 2023. The following month, Russian senator and war backer, Vladimir Lebedev, with close Lukoil links, died suddenly in an unexplained 'terrible tragedy' aged 60. The Russian tycoon was found hanged in his office toilet by his boss.
Last March, Lukoil's vice-president Vitaly Robertus (pictured), 53, became victim to the firm's death curse. Then a prominent female judge was found dead after falling from a Moscow high-rise building. Natalia Larina, 50, was notorious for handling high-profile political and criminal cases, punishing traitors of the Kremlin. She had been a criminal judge for more than 15 years - and had a reputation for ruling verdicts on cases against opposition political activists.
In December 2023, Vladimir Egorov (pictured), an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, plunged to his death from a third-floor window in Moscow. The 46-year-old Egorov was a wealthy and prominent politician in oil-rich Tobolsk in western Siberia. His body was found in the yard of his house, according to reports. Just weeks prior, the deputy editor of Putin's favourite propaganda newspaper was found dead aged only 35.