{"id":160775,"date":"2022-07-21T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=160775"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:03:45","slug":"russian-ex-spy-chief-found-dead-in-stairwell-with-soviet-era-gun-after-fellow-kremlin-spook-dies-in-eerily-similar-case-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/russian-ex-spy-chief-found-dead-in-stairwell-with-soviet-era-gun-after-fellow-kremlin-spook-dies-in-eerily-similar-case-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian ex-spy chief found dead in stairwell with Soviet-era gun after fellow Kremlin spook dies in eerily similar case | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A FORMER Russian spy chief has been found dead in the stairwell of an apartment in an apparent suicide, just weeks after his fellow Kremlin boss died in the same mysterious circumstances.<\/p>\n

Both men were found dead next to a TT-30 Tokarev, an out-of-production Soviet semi-automatic pistol, and both deaths were put down to vague "financial" troubles by Russian authorities.<\/p>\n


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The body of retired FSB general Yevgeny Lobachev, 76, was discovered in the entrance to an apartment building in southeast Moscow on Wednesday, according to Russian news agency REN TV.<\/p>\n

His wife called the police to say her husband had gone for a walk in the morning but never returned home.<\/p>\n

Russian publication\u00a0The FTimes\u00a0reported that the ex-KGB man had been suffering from health problems and had experienced "financial difficulties".<\/p>\n

"The cause of death was suicide," a source told Russian state media agency TASS.<\/p>\n

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It claims that Lobachev shot himself with a TT-30 pistol, also known as a Tokarev, a Soviet-era service pistol which was issued between 1930 and 1952 when it was replaced by the Makarov.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement agencies are said to be investigating the death, which has eerie similarities to the death of a fellow former spy less than a month ago.<\/p>\n

On June 15, former Major General of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Lev Sotskov was found dead in his apartment.<\/p>\n

He was 90 years and, according to Russian official sources, had also reportedly been suffering from unspecified health conditions.<\/p>\n

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