Roman Starovoit, Russia’s Transportation Minister, Found Dead In What Officials Say Was An Apparent Suicide
Moscow (AP) – Inspectors on Monday, Kremlin’s dismissal by President Vladimir Putin announced hours after the news broken news, a suicide was found dead in a suicide.
The Kremlin did not give any reason to ignite the Rome Starovoid, who has been serving as Minister of Transportation since May 2024, and as some Russian media suggested, it was uncertain when he died and was associated with a claim to a alleged embezzlement.
The best criminal investigation agency, Russia’s investigation committee, said the body of 53 -year -old Starovoid was found with a fiery gun in his car parked in Odintsovo just west of the capital, where Russia’s elite members live. Next to his body was found a weapon that was previously presented as an official gift.
According to Svetlana Petrenko, the spokesman of the committee, who did not say when Starovoit died, a criminal investigation was launched and the inspectors saw suicide as the most likely reason.
The Russian media reported that the dismissal of Starovoid may be due to an investigation of the fact that the state funds allocated for the building fortifications have passed money. In the Kursk regionBefore he was appointed as Minister of Transportation, he served as governor.
The alleged embezzlement money was mentioned as one of the reasons for deficiencies in the defense lines that could not make a surprise Ukrainian attack in the region initiated in August 2024. In a striking attack. Ukraine’s hardened mechanized units Rapidly overwhelmed Russian border guards and inexperienced army exceptions. Hundreds of prisoners were taken.
İncursion was a humiliating blow to the Kremlin – the region of the country II. It was occupied for the first time by an invader since World War II.
Russian army announced that the troops were completely He took back the border area In April – about nine months after losing the parts of the region.
As Starovoit’s Kursk Governor Alexei Smirnov, his successor resigned in December and was arrested in April for improving money. Some Russian media claimed that Starovoit might also face charges as part of the investigation.
His dismissal, Russian airports had to ground hundreds of flights, while one weekend travel chaos followed. Ukrainian drone attacks. However, most commentators said that air traffic cuts are often traditional among Ukrainian drone raids and that it is not possible to trigger their dismissal.
An official order that published Starovoit from his post was published on the Kremlin’s website on Monday morning without giving any reason to dismiss.
Shortly after the news of Starovoit’s death, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the reasons behind his dismissal.
Peskov praised Andrei Nikitin, who was appointed as Deputy Minister of Transport five months ago.
