Oil tycoon linked to ex-KGB spy dies after plunging from luxury Moscow apartment in latest mystery Russian exec death
Andrey Badalov, 62, fell from the luxury tower block where he lived in Moscow, according to local reports.
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Badalov was married with two children.
Investigators were reportedly working at the scene to understand the circumstances of his fall.
Kremlin media cited a source as saying: 'Badalov's body was found under the windows of an [apartment building] on Rublevskoye Highway."
Badalov was vice-president of Transneft - Russia's state oil pipeline operator.
The firm is headed up by former KGB spy, Nikolai Tokarev, 74, who served alongside Putin in Germany during the Cold War.
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