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A Russian banker has died suddenly of a "heart attack" at the age of 42. His death has raised doubts about the events taking place in Russia, as many businessmen are losing their lives in mysterious ways.
Nikolay Vasyov was senior vice president of Sberbank, the country's largest financial institution.
Initial analysis by doctors concluded that his "untimely death" was due to a "heart attack", the bank said.
However, no further details have been released about the circumstances of his death.
"It is with deep regret that we inform you that today Nikolay Vasyov, Senior Vice President, Head of the B2C Customer Experience Development Block of Sberbank, passed away suddenly. According to the preliminary conclusion of the doctors, the death was caused by a heart attack", the statement said.
His death follows a number of prominent business figures who have died young or in unusual circumstances since Vladimir Putin began his invasion of Ukraine.
His death comes amid deep strains on Russia's financial sector caused by Putin's war and the impact of Western sanctions.
Sberbank's profits fell by almost 80% last year alone.
Vasyov's death follows the mysterious death of the third top executive at Russia's second-largest oil company in a year and a half.
Vladimir Nekrasov, 66, chairman of Lukoil's board of directors, died "suddenly" last month.
Russian state media said at the time that doctors' "preliminary" conclusions were that Nekrasov suffered "acute heart failure."
His death follows that of tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, who fell from the window of Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital, also known as the Kremlin clinic, in September last year.
Murder was suspected, but Maganov had been in hospital for a long-standing heart problem before falling from a sixth-floor window, dying on the spot.
Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, also linked to energy giant Lukoil, where he was a senior manager, was found dead in May 2022 after "taking advice from shamans".
One theory is that Subbotin, who also owned a shipping company, was poisoned by toad venom causing a heart attack.
Among the other deaths during the war was tycoon Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official who appeared to have killed himself after killing his wife Yelena, 47, and daughter, 13.
He had high-level connections with the main Russian financial institution Gazprombank.
Friends disputed reports he was jealous after his wife admitted she was pregnant by their driver.
There were allegations that he had access to the financial secrets of the Kremlin elite.
Days later, multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found hanged in Spain after apparently killing his wife Natalia, 53, and their teenage daughter, Maria, with an axe.
He was a former vice president of Novatek, a company also closely linked to the Kremlin.
As with Avajev, it is suggested that this may have been an assassination attempt made to look like a murder-suicide.
Yevgeny Palant, 47, a mobile phone multimillionaire, and his wife Olga, 50, both of Ukrainian origin, were found with multiple stab wounds inflicted by their daughter Polina, 20.
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