Arthur Greene
Russian billionaire Alexander Subbotin has died after a shaman gave him frog venom to treat a deathly hungover.
Subbotin, who was formerly a top manager at the Russian energy company Lukoil, visited his local shaman called Magua Flores in Mytishchi, a city northeast of Russia’s capital Moscow.
Magua Flores and his wife Tina Cordoba (whose real names are Alexey Pindyurin and Kristina Teikhrib respectively) are well known shamans in Russia, famous for holding rituals in which they sacrifice animals and bateh their clients in cockerel blood.
When he arrived at their home, the 43-year-old Subbotin was complaining of a terrible hangover, so Flores – who the oligarch is said to have regularly visited – administered a potent “cure”.
“They made an incision on the skin, dripped toad poison there – and after vomiting the patient allegedly got better,” the Telegram channel Mash reported.
The channel reported that Subbotin began complaining that his heart was aching, but Flores opted not to call an ambulance and instead decided to send him for a lie down in his basement.
The following morning his lifeless body was discovered by Flores and Cordoba.
“The preliminary cause of death is cardiac arrest,” a law enforcement source told KP news outlet.
Subbotin is one of a number of high-ranking officials in Russia’s energy sector to have died under mysterious circumstances since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
Aside from him, four billionaires and two executives connected to the state-run gas and oil company Gazprom have died in that time.
Former Kremlin official Vladislav Avayev, 51, seemingly committed suicide after killing his wife and 13-year-old daughter.
Just days later, Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found dead in Spain. He is said to have hanged himself after killing his wife and daughter with an axe.
Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom financial, and Leonid Shulman, 60, head of transport at Gazprom Invest, also died suspicious deaths which have been labelled as “suicides”.
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