Russian Sausage Tycoon 'Falls Out Of A Window' To His Death

Russian sausage tycoon, Pavel Antov, who criticized Ukraine invasion has been found dead after a mysterious fall from a hotel window in an Indian hotel. This comes two days after his friend's death during the same trip.

They had recently celebrated Antov's birthday at the hotel while they were in the eastern state of Odisha.

In the east of Moscow city of Vladimir, Antov was a well-known figure.

After a message showed up on his WhatsApp account in the summer of last year, he denied criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, a number of Russian tycoons have mysteriously passed away, the latest of which was the millionaire. Many of these individuals have publicly criticized the war.

According to reports in Russian media, Mr. Antov, 65, fell from a hotel window on Sunday in the city of Rayagada. Vladimir Budanov, another member of his four-person Russian group, died on Friday at the hotel.

According to Odisha police superintendent Vivekananda Sharma, Mr. Budanov was reported to have had a stroke while his companion "was depressed after his death and he too died." According to Alexei Idamkin, the Russian consul in Kolkata, the police did not perceive a "criminal element in these tragic events."

Reporters were told by tour guide Jitendra Singh that Mr. Budanov might have "consumed a lot of alcohol as he had liquor bottles."

Pavel Antov built the Vladimir Standard meat processing facility, and according to a 2019 Forbes estimate, he is the richest politician and state official in Russia with a net worth of about $140 million (£118 million).

He presided over a committee on agrarian policy and ecology at the Vladimir legislative assembly, where he played a significant role. He died under "tragic circumstances," according to the assembly's vice chairman Vyacheslav Kartukhin.

Late in June of last year, he responded to a Russian missile attack on a house in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi neighborhood that killed a man and injured his mother, seven-year-old daughter, and other family members.

Antov's account received a WhatsApp message that detailed how the family was rescued from the debris: " It's extremely difficult to call all this anything but terror."

Antov later commented on social media that he supported the president, was a "patriot of my country," and supported the war after the message was deleted.

He stated that the WhatsApp message originated from a person with whose viewpoint he strongly opposed about the "special military operation in Ukraine." It was a very frustrating mistake that had unintentionally been shared on his messenger, he said.

Since the start of the conflict, a number of prominent Russian businessmen have perished in enigmatic circumstances.

Ravil Maganov, the CEO of Russia's largest oil company Lukoil, is believed to have fallen from a Moscow hospital window in September.