A top Russian financier has died after reportedly falling off of a ship into waters near Moscow.
Georgy Chibisov, the Marketing Director of the Moscow Exchange, drowned on July 27, after he fell from a cruise ship that was making its way down the Moskva River for a bachelor party.
Chibisov, 44, was reported missing by his wife, before his body was found in the river by authorities. According to Russian media, Chibisov was not originally considered missing by other party attendees. His body was found the following day on July 28.
Russian news outlet MKRU reported that "one of the vacationers neglected safety rules", and that Chibisov tried to use the diving platform alone before falling into the water. No passengers saw what happened to Chibisov, as no staff were nearby and the captain was driving the yacht.
Emergency services were alerted on July 27 to a criminal case of operation of water transport. The Western Interregional Investigative Department for Transport are currently investigating the situation as a potential death by negligence through operation of a water transport, which carries a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment.
Chibisov had lived in London for the past two years, only returning to Moscow in June to join a new team at the Moscow Exchange. Before that, he worked as a marketer.
Newsweek contacted the Interregional Investigative Department for Transport for more information on the case.
Unexplained deaths of high-profile Russians have continued throughout 2024, with Chibisov's being the most recent. Earlier this month, Defense Ministery official Magomed Khandayev's death was announced, though a cause was never given.
Similarly, two years ago a string of Russian businessmen fell to their deaths in identical circumstances. Ravil Maganov, Yegor Prosvirnin and Alexander Kagansky, were all found dead after falling out of windows. Maganov fell from a sixth-floor window of a Moscow hospital, following what officials described as "a serious illness."
Prosvirnin, the founder of nationalist website Sputnik and Pogrom, had predicted the collapse of the Russian Federation in the years before his death.
Likewise, two Russian doctors died and another was seriously injured after falls from hospital windows over a two-week period between April and May 2020. Reports said two of the doctors had protested working conditions and the third was being blamed after her colleagues contracted the virus.
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