Yet another Russian oligarch — the seventh to die in suspicious circumstances — met his end on Sunday..Alexander Subbotin died from an alleged toad poisoning on the weekend. Subbotin was a former senior manager at Lukoil, a major Russian energy corporation..Russia news agency TASS reported that Subbotin’s body was discovered at the property of a shaman healer in Mytishchi and that the billionaire probably succumbed to a heart attack..The Russian businessman died allegedly after a shamanic treatment using toad venom. The venom was meant to cure a bad hangover, according to reports from number of Western media outlets including The Independent and Newsweek.The toad venom, was reported to have been administered by shaman Alexei Pindyurin and his shaman partner Kristina Teikhrib..The Telegram channel Mash claims the shaman “made an incision on the skin, dripped toad poison there and after vomiting the patient allegedly got better.”.The pair reportedly treat clients by summoning the spirits, sacrificing animals, and bathing them in cockerel blood..They denied treating Subbotin but did say he was a friend of theirs. The oligarch’s official cause of death has been recorded as cardiac arrest..It is the latest in a string of high-profile suspicious deaths since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24..Vladislav Avayev, former Kremlin official, died in an apparent murder-suicide. It was widely reported that Avayev killed his own wife and 13-year-old daughter..Shortly afterwards, multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya was found hanged in Spain. He had allegedly killed his wife Natalia and their teenage daughter with an axe. His son was quick to deny his father would have had anything to do with the deaths..Protosenya was a former deputy chairman of Novatek, a company also with close links to the Kremlin..In total, Subbotin, four other billionaires, and two executives have died since the Ukraine war started..The Western media has reported many of these deaths as suspicious and that they may have been assassinations.
Yet another Russian oligarch — the seventh to die in suspicious circumstances — met his end on Sunday..Alexander Subbotin died from an alleged toad poisoning on the weekend. Subbotin was a former senior manager at Lukoil, a major Russian energy corporation..Russia news agency TASS reported that Subbotin’s body was discovered at the property of a shaman healer in Mytishchi and that the billionaire probably succumbed to a heart attack..The Russian businessman died allegedly after a shamanic treatment using toad venom. The venom was meant to cure a bad hangover, according to reports from number of Western media outlets including The Independent and Newsweek.The toad venom, was reported to have been administered by shaman Alexei Pindyurin and his shaman partner Kristina Teikhrib..The Telegram channel Mash claims the shaman “made an incision on the skin, dripped toad poison there and after vomiting the patient allegedly got better.”.The pair reportedly treat clients by summoning the spirits, sacrificing animals, and bathing them in cockerel blood..They denied treating Subbotin but did say he was a friend of theirs. The oligarch’s official cause of death has been recorded as cardiac arrest..It is the latest in a string of high-profile suspicious deaths since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24..Vladislav Avayev, former Kremlin official, died in an apparent murder-suicide. It was widely reported that Avayev killed his own wife and 13-year-old daughter..Shortly afterwards, multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya was found hanged in Spain. He had allegedly killed his wife Natalia and their teenage daughter with an axe. His son was quick to deny his father would have had anything to do with the deaths..Protosenya was a former deputy chairman of Novatek, a company also with close links to the Kremlin..In total, Subbotin, four other billionaires, and two executives have died since the Ukraine war started..The Western media has reported many of these deaths as suspicious and that they may have been assassinations.
