The body of Vladimir Yegorov, an ally of Vladimir Putin, was found on Wednesday, December 27, in the backyard of a house in the city of Tobolsk in the Siberian region.
The police are investigating the cause of death.
Several Russian sources claim the 46yearold tycoon suffered from heart problems.
However, witnesses claim to have seen Egorov fall from a tenmeterhigh window on the third floor of an apartment building.
Yegorov was a member of Putin's puppet party United Russia and also held the post of State Duma deputy from Tobolsk.
In 2016, he was accused of failing to collect rent from entrepreneurs who rented municipal land, but was not convicted.
According to the Russian newspaper RBC, Yegorov was considered one of the richest MPs in Tobolsk, with an estimated monthly income of around $100,000.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, several Russian oligarchs, even Putin's allies like Yegorov, have died in mysterious circumstances, many of them from collapsing windows.
An example is the case of managing director Kristina Baikova, who fell from the 11th floor of a building in Moscow on June 23rd.
That was the same day that thenWagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigoyin began his march to Moscow to negotiate with the Russian Defense Ministry over the bureaucracy of hiring mercenaries.
There are also reports of possible defenestrations involving Ravil Maganov, president of Lukoil, Russia's secondlargest oil producer, and Pavel Antov, a food magnate specializing in sausage products.
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