Roman older will, Former Russian Minister of Transport, poverty This Monday president Russia, Vladimir PutinThe Russian Education Committee said that it was found dead on the outskirts of Moscow, which is considering suicide as the main cause of his death.
“The investigation is to establish the circumstances of the death of Roman Old Roman,” the institution said in its telegram said in a statement of the institution.
The note indicates that the body of the former Minister of Russian Transport was located with a “bullet wound in its private car” in the city OdinovoOn the outskirts of Moscow.
The main hypothesis is suicide, ”according to the researchers.
Starvait, 53 years old and the former governor of the Kursk region, accepted the transport portfolio in May 2024.
At the head of the Kursk region, Starvoit was replaced by Aleksai Smirnov, who was arrested in April last year, accused of crime of corruption and fraud for the construction of defensive lines near the border with Ukraine.
In August 2024, three months after Starvo left Kursk to take his position in the government, the Armed Forces of Ukraine invaded and occupied part of this region, from which they were expelled only in April last year.
A few hours after the dismissal of Starovoit, Putin appointed him a replacement at the head of the Ministry of Transport Andrei Nikitin, a former vice -minister of the same portfolio.
The press secretary of the Russian presidency Dmitry Peskov said today that the dismissal of Starovoit was not related to the loss of confidence in his figure.
“The decree (dismissal) usually indicates what this is the loss of confidence when this is happening,” said Peskov, who insisted that this time the official document does not include this clarification.
With information EFE
