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A third Russian national was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Indian province of Odisha less than a fortnight after two others died in a luxury hotel.
Sergey Milyakov, 51, was found dead in his room aboard a ship anchored in Jagatsingpur’s Paradip port at 4:30am local time this morning.
Sergey Milyakov, 51, was found dead in his room aboard a ship anchored in Jagatsingpur’s Paradip port at 4:30 a.m. local time this morning, authorities said, though they did not specify a cause of death. .
Milyakov was listed as the chief engineer aboard the MB Aldnah, which was intended to sail to Mumbai from Bangladesh. Paradip Port Trust Chairman PL Haranand confirmed the engineer’s death and said an investigation had been launched.
It comes just days after that of prominent Russian parliamentarian and sausage magnate Pavel Antov, who appeared to fall to his death from the roof of his hotel in Rayagada two days after one of his travel companions, Vladimir Bydanov, allegedly suffered a concussion. fatal heart attack .
Milyakov was the chief engineer aboard the MB Aldnah, which was moored in a port in Odisha state.
Dozens of Russian elites have met a premature end in the months since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Billionaire Antov, a lawmaker from the pro-Putin United Russia party, was celebrating his upcoming 66th birthday in Rayagada when he was found dead in a pool of blood outside a luxury hotel on Saturday, December 24.
His body was discovered two days after his partner Bydanov, 61, died in hospital after taking sudden illness.
“All possible angles regarding the death of two Russian citizens are being checked,” regional police chief Rajesh Pandit told the AFP news agency.
“So far, it seems that Antov accidentally fell off the hotel terrace,” he said, before adding Bydanov’s death. it had probably been caused by excessive alcohol consumption and a possible drug overdose.
Russian parliamentarian Pavel Antov, 65, who previously criticized the war in Ukraine, was found dead in India on Saturday, apparently falling from a hotel roof.
Vladimir Bydanov, 61, died in hospital after suddenly falling ill. Indian police insisted that he died of a heart attack, possibly caused by alcohol and drug use.
Police chief Pandit postulated that Antov may have committed suicide by jumping from the roof terrace of the Sai International Hotel in a fit of grief over the death of his partner Bydanov.
“He was probably distraught by the death of his friend and went to the terrace of the hotel and probably fell to his death from there,” the police chief said.
But the circumstances surrounding the couple’s death are far from conclusive.
Russian Consul General in Calcutta Alexei Idamkin told TASS that Antov “fell” out of a hotel window, rather than falling or jumping from the hotel roof.
“We are closely following the investigation and receiving all the information from the Odisha police,” the diplomat said.
Police said they were reviewing CCTV footage and questioning things, but there were no reports of foul play. Both bodies were cremated two days after their respective deaths.
Antov died at the Sai International Hotel, Rayagada, India, but the events surrounding his death are disputed.
Antov, a parliamentarian in the legislative assembly of the Vladimir region near Moscow, was listed as Russia’s highest-earning elected official in 2019 by Forbes Russia, having earned £130 million that year.
The legislator made his fortune in the meat industry, having founded the ‘Vladimirsky Standart’ food processing company.
In June, Antov criticized the war and airstrikes in Kyiv as Russian “terror” that injured Ukrainian civilians.
He highlighted a Russian missile attack, saying: “A girl has been pulled from under the rubble, the girl’s father appears to have died.”
‘The mother is trying to be lifted out with a crane, she is trapped under a slab. In truth, it’s extremely difficult to call this anything other than terror.
But he quickly withdrew the comment and made a humiliating apology. stating that his social media post had been “an unfortunate misunderstanding” and a “technical error”.
He insisted that he “always supported the president” and “sincerely” backed the goals of Putin’s military operation, but was strongly disputed by local journalists.
The married tycoon, a deputy in the legislative assembly of the Vladimir region, was listed as Russia’s highest-earning elected official in 2019.
Antov’s death at the Sai International Hotel was confirmed by the deputy chairman of the Vladimir legislative assembly, Vyacheslav Kartukhin.
“As a result of tragic circumstances, our colleague, a successful businessman and philanthropist Pavel Genrihovich Antov, passed away,” his post read.
“On behalf of the deputies of the United Russia faction, I express my deepest condolences to the family and friends.”
Dmitry Zelenov, a real estate magnate, died on December 9 in the city of Antibes on the French Riviera.
The 50-year-old oligarch was out for dinner with some friends when he began to feel unwell and fell down a flight of stairs, sustaining serious head injuries, according to Russian news outlet Baza and local French outlet. Var Matin.
He was rushed to hospital, but doctors were unable to save him and his death was confirmed by the prosecutor of the nearby municipality of Grasse the next day.