A RUSSIAN chief prosecutor has been found dead in a river but reportedly "did not drown" in the latest mystery death surrounding Putin's cronies.
Andrey Fomin was swimming in the Volga, Europe's longest river, when he suddenly died at the weekend.
The 57-year-old was the chief prosecutor of Chuvashia, a region about 420 miles east of Moscow, and was an ardent supporter of despot Putin.
According to Telegram channel A Siren, Fomin was reported dead on Saturday, July 1.
He was reportedly swimming about 500ft offshore but did not make it back to the river bank.
Fomin was allegedly within a 1.4 mile designated swimming area as he was crossing the Volga during a local Chebswim event.
A spokesman for Chuvashia's prosecutor's office told Russian media that an audit was underway and that "no details" surrounding the man's death had been confirmed.
Although, news agency 76RU later claimed that preliminary reports suggested he died of cardiac arrest.
A source also told REN TV that during the swim, Fomin became ill and therefore was "promptly pulled out of the water."
The source added: "Doctors were unable to save him. He died as a result of acute cardiovascular failure."
But as rumours swirled around Fomin's mystery death, another group of experts suggested he did not drown.
According to the Baza telegram channel, investigators established the preliminary cause of Fomin’s death and it "turned out that no water was found in the prosecutor’s lungs".
They further claimed he did not choke and that Fomin also had a very low level of glucose in his blood.
The mysterious circumstances come as more than 30 high profile Russians have died since Putin invaded Ukraine.
And experts believe the deaths of at least 39 people - ranging from oligarchs to scientists - could show the shadowy and bloodstained hand of the Kremlin.
Many of the movers and shakers died in odd circumstances, such as sudden "suicides" and falls from windows.
It has led Jon Sweet, a retired US Army Military Intelligence Officer, to describe Putin as running a "modern-day FSB version of Murder Inc."
"Anyone seen as a potential threat seems to have an attraction to an open window," Sweet told The Sun Online.
The pile of dead bodies has appeared to have grown at an alarming rate in the last 18 months.
The Sun Online totalled up at least 39 deaths since January 2022.
Fomin was believed to be a supporter of Putin and was also part of Russia's infamous "list of 6000".
The document listed bribe-takers and warmongers and was created by the Anti-Corruption Foundation to publicly identify "enablers of Putin's invasion of Ukraine".
The Chuvashia prosecutor was included as one of the key Russian security officials who refused to protect the rule of law in the conditions of the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine.
The former state official was born in the Vladimir region and began his rise as a senior law enforcement officer after he graduated from Yaroslavl State University, PG Demidov.
He then took a job in the Yaroslavl office in 1992, where he became the deputy prosecutor of the region, it was reported.
And from 2014 to 2020, he was promoted to deputy prosecutor in the annexed Crimea.
It follows the death of Sergey Grishin - the so-called "Scarface" oligarch who sold Meghan and Harry their California mansion - who died from sepsis after criticising Putin.
That same month, Russian scientist Andrey Botikov - who created the "Sputnik V" vaccine - was strangled with a belt in his apartment.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22906323/russian-chief-prosecutor-dead-river-mystery-death-putin-cronies/
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