Gazprom Finance Manager Found Dead

(Moscow, Russia) A top finance manager for Russia's huge energy company Gazprom, Sergei Klyuka, was found dead Saturday from a single gunshot to the head. He reportedly was found in his car on a Moscow street.

Investigators believe that Klyuka could have committed suicide because police found the body and a Czech-made CZ-75 automatic pistol in a garage that belonged to the victim.

Klyuka, 36, left home early on Saturday morning to meet a relative at a railway station. He never showed up at the meeting and did not answer phone calls, which prompted his wife to call the police.

Interestingly, Ria Novosti says Klyuka was found in his car on the street AND he was found in his garage where the gun was found. Speculatively, it appears Klyuka must have shot himself in the head in his car on a Moscow street, then exited the car and returned the gun to the garage and, finally, he returned to the car to die and be found.

Another report (Interfax) states that Klyuka was "found overnight slumped behind the wheel of his Range Rover in an underground garage in the capital, with a pistol on the seat."

Frankly, I don't know what to believe. I am suspicious. In Russia, too often it seems that important people in influential positions are suicidal.