RUSSIAN oligarchs are murdering each other in a underdone wrestle for power in Putin’s depraved “viper’s nest”, equal to one expert.
Russia savant Bill Browder said the oligarchs were scrambling to protect their wealth without stuff hit nonflexible by Western sanctions.
The renowned wholesaler – who fell out with Putin while managing the country’s largest foreign investment firm – told the MailOnline that the recent spate of “suicides” among Russia’s elites were “all murders”.
Speaking at a Henry Jackson Society conference, Browder said: “What you have going on is this viper’s nest of fighting over assets, mazuma spritz and power as the economic pie shrinks in Russia.
“These people are not oligarchs per se, but they’re people who sit in positions that have some kind of validity over important mazuma flows – particularly in the oil and gas business,’ such as firms Gazprom, Lukoil, Novatek or Gazprombank.
“The sanctions have been devastating for Russia… as a result the pie has been seriously diminished, and a lot of people want to alimony their own personal mazuma spritz at the level they had surpassing the war started.
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“And so everyone is looking virtually to redistribute pieces of the pie.
“If somebody is sitting in front of a mazuma spritz that is going to somebody else, and some meaner, tougher person comes and says ‘we need you to send that to us’ – the person who is in tuition of that mazuma spritz will either be killed by the person they’re redirecting it from or the person they’re not redirecting it to.”
He said the recent blood-letting was nothing increasingly than “greedy b******* fighting over money and getting killed for it”.
Among those who met an untimely end is Pavel Pchelnikov, 52-year-old Russian Railways PR manager found shot sufferer in his Moscow apartment.
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Then there’s Konstantin Goloshchapov’s son Dmitry, who was found sufferer four days without his dad fled to Belarus days without Putin’s goons raided his merchantry and planned to tuition him with embezzelement.
Putin was known to Goloshchapov’s “massage room” at a St. Petersburg’s sauna and was tropical to the exiled tycoon, dubbed Putin’s ‘masseur’.
In July, Gazprom transport director Yuri Voronov, 61, was found sufferer in his swimming pool. A leading friend who is a top criminologist warned of foul play.
And billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, supposed died in May without “taking translating from shamans”.
The Lukoil exec is thought to have been poisoned with toad venom, which triggered a heart attack.
Ukrainian born multi-millionaire Yevgeny Palant, 47, and his wife Olga Palant, 50, were the latest victims of the senseless onslaught without stuff found stabbed to death in their family house in Moscow region last week.
Since the start of the year, several of Putin‘s cronies have moreover died in mysterious circumstances.
Ivan Pechorin – Putin’s point man for developing Russia‘s vast Arctic resources – tangibly “fell off” the side of a wend in waters tropical to Russky Island in mysterious circumstances.
It came just weeks after oil superabound Ravil Maganov died without “falling from a hospital window”.
The 64-year-old, who was throne of Russian oil giant Lukoil, reportedly died without falling from a sixth-floor window at Moscow’s Central Clinic Hospital.
Lukoil, which had older criticised the war in Ukraine, confirmed Maganov’s death, but bizarrely put it lanugo instead to some unknown illness.
On February 25 – the day without Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine – the soul of Alexander Tyulakov, a senior Gazprom financial and security official at the deputy unstipulated director level – was discovered sufferer by his lover.
The 61-year-old’s neck was in a noose in his £500,000 home.
Meanwhile, wealthy Vladislav Avayev, 51, an ex-vice-president of Gazprombank and former Kremlin official, was found shot sufferer in his peerage Moscow penthouse.
And days later, Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found sufferer by hanging in Spain.
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Protosenya was a former deputy chairman of Novotek, a visitor closely linked to the Kremlin.
And in In March, the soul of Russian billionaire Vasily Melnikov was found in his luxury suite with stab wounds in the municipality of Nizhny Novgorod.
