Overview

• On July 4, investigators found Andrej Badalow’s body beneath a window of his Moscow villa on Rublevskoye-Chaussee and have provisionally ruled the fall a suicide.
• Badalow, 62, had overseen Transneft’s digital transformation since 2021 after earlier roles in defense research and election technology.
• Transneft, the Kremlin-owned operator of over 67,000 kilometers of oil pipelines, has been grappling with revenue declines and operational challenges under Western sanctions.
• Since September 2022, at least seven senior energy sector executives—including Lukoil’s Ravil Maganov and former Yukos vice president Michail Rogachev—have died in similar unexplained window falls.
• Authorities have offered scant public detail in this and past inquiries, fueling ongoing speculation about the true circumstances of these recurring incidents.