Russian media reported, on Monday, that the Russian Minister of Transport committed suicide hours after his dismissal by President Vladimir Putin.
The TASS news agency quoted the Russian Investigation Committee as saying that Roman Starovuet was found dead inside his personal car in Udintsovo.
Svetlana Petrinko, the official representative of the Russian Investigation Committee. The body of the former minister was found with a gunshot wound inside his car.
“The investigation bodies are working on the accident site to determine the circumstances of the accident.”
The official representative of the Russian investigation committee confirmed that “the main novel of what happened is suicide.”
Starovuwit was dismissed by a presidential decree on the morning of July. It was not mentioned in the document the cause of Putin’s decision.
Starovuet has been the Minister of Transport since May 2024.
