Indian police are investigating the sudden deaths of a wealthy Russian politician, who reportedly criticized the Ukraine war, and his travelling companion at a luxury hotel, authorities said this week.
and his travelling companion at a luxury hotel, authorities said this week. The body of Pavel Antov, 65, was found Saturday in a pool of blood outside his lodgings in eastern Odisha state, where he was on holiday with three other Russian nationals.
"All possible angles as regards to the deaths of two Russian nationals are being verified," regional police chief Rajesh Pandit told AFP. Two local travel agents accompanying the party had also been questioned, along with the other two Russian members of the holiday group.that Antov was a well-known sausage tycoon who founded the Vladimir Standard meat processing plant. In 2019 Forbes estimated his fortune at some $140 million at the top of Russia's rich list of lawmakers and civil servants, the BBC reported.
In June, Russian media published a WhatsApp message attributed to Antov that said a Kremlin missile bombardment on Ukraine was"terrorism."
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