Police investigators in Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Monday discovered the decapitated body of the CEO of a local fertilizer company.
The chief executive, Alexei Sinitsyn, is believed to have died by suicide, according to a law enforcement source cited by the Vedomosti business newspaper.
Investigators told state news agencies that Sinitsyn’s body was found with an attached towing cable under a bridge outside the city of Kaliningrad. They said they were establishing the circumstances of his death.
Sinitsyn, 43, was the CEO of K-Potash Service, which has been developing the Nivensky-1 potassium-magnesium deposit in Kaliningrad since 2014. The ambitious project was originally planned to be launched in 2021, but has since been pushed back to 2032.
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I literally LOL’d.
Russia is basically hardcore Anhk-Morpork, but with an even less subtle dictator.
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Decapitation is one of the potential outcomes of an improperly orchestrated hanging, though that’s more for a capital punishment. Usually people hang themselves with a short rope and choke themselves out.
So you’re saying he wasn’t well hung?
Hahaaaaa…
Very good, but it’s ‘hanged’.
But hung also works, my apologies.
Hung also works; a lot of people stopped making the distinction, going back decades
This feels like one of them literally and figuratively things.
As an englishperson i feel inclined to despair. About a lot of things, not so much this though. Thanks for setting me straight
Sounds like it was a metal towing cable, like from a winch? I could definitely see that taking a head off easier than a sturdy rope.
Wasn’t one of Sadam’s sons decapitated at his hanging?
These Russian oligarchs sure get inventive with their suicides.
The Japanese used a second to help preform a self-decapitation. These Russians are so fiercely independent that they do it all by themselves.