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Oil tycoon linked to ex-KGB spy dies after plunging from luxury Moscow apartment in latest mystery Russian exec death

Oil tycoon linked to ex-KGB spy dies after plunging from luxury Moscow apartment in latest mystery Russian exec death

The Irish Sun19 hours ago
A RUSSIAN oil tycoon has died after falling from a tower block in the latest of a string of mysterious deaths.
Andrey Badalov, 62, fell from the luxury tower block where he lived in Moscow, according to local reports.
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Andrey Badalov, 62, was found dead after falling from his elite penthouse
Credit: East2West
Badalov was married with two children.
Investigators were reportedly working at the scene to understand the circumstances of his fall.
Kremlin media cited a source as saying: 'Badalov's body was found under the windows of an [apartment building] on Rublevskoye Highway."
Badalov was vice-president of Transneft - Russia's state oil pipeline operator.
The firm is headed up by former KGB spy, Nikolai Tokarev, 74, who served alongside Putin in Germany during the Cold War.
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