Russia’s state investigative authority said on Monday that the country’s transport minister Roman Starovoyt, 53, had died from a suspected suicide, on the same day he was fired by President Vladimir Putin.
Several Telegram channels with close ties to the Russian security services reported that Starovoyt, a former head of the Ukraine-bordering Kursk region, shot himself in his Tesla Model X, in a town west of Moscow.
The Investigative Committee said the body was found inside the car, but several Telegram channels and a reporter at the scene from a Russian business outlet claimed it was discovered in nearby bushes, several metres from the vehicle.
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