“Russian oil tycoon and ex-spy with Belgian connection found dead under mysterious circumstances”

Russian Vyacheslav Rovenko was found “unconscious” late at night at his home near Moscow. Doctors arrived at the scene, but they could do nothing for him. To write in the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. According to the newspaper, “no violent signs of his death were found on his body,” but his death is still moving. He is on the list of many senior Russians who have died since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

According to foreign media, the man could have been active as a KGB spy during the Cold War and would therefore have lived in Belgium for a while. He is said to have worked here with Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, Slugba-Venechny Razvidky. Until shortly before the war in Ukraine, Rovenko was also active in at least three Belgian companies, but all of them would now have gone bankrupt. According to foreign media, the man held a Belgian passport until 2006.

He is also said to have connections with companies in the UK, Luxembourg and Cyprus and was a good friend of Gennady Timchenko, one of Putin’s most loyal oligarchs.

(sgg)