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Speaker 1: Something strange is going on. Who is killing Russian billionaires?

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Speaker 1: Another Russian oligarch has been found dead. Reports suggests that

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Speaker 1: he hanged himself, fell out of a window, slashed his wrists,

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Speaker 1: was poisoned, murdered his whole family.

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Speaker 2: Last gm more than a dozen Russian oligarchs died in

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Speaker 2: the space of nine months. Many of the deaths are

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Speaker 2: suspicious with links to the Kremlin. This is sad Oligach,

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Speaker 2: an investigation into these recently.

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Speaker 1: Dead Russian billionaires.

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Speaker 2: It's created by me Jake Hanrahan and my colleague Sergei Slipchenkov.

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Speaker 2: Sad Oligach is a H eleven production for Kulso Media

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Speaker 2: and Ieheart Radio. July fourth, twenty twenty two, lenning Grad region,

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Speaker 2: near Saint Petersburg, multimillionaire Russian businessman Yuri Voronov sixty one,

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Speaker 2: is taking a swim in his pool at one of

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Speaker 2: his luxury properties. This one a cottage mansion in the

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Speaker 2: wealthy Marine Terraces. Area is surrounded by tall trees in Greenland.

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Speaker 2: Any urban developments are miles away. It's a peaceful area

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Speaker 2: for rich folk who don't want to be disturbed. As

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Speaker 2: Juri Voronov goes about is downtime, swimming, lounging around relaxing.

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Speaker 2: A man with a gun is sneaking through the trees.

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Speaker 2: He's headed to Voronov's place. Voronov is stood by the

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Speaker 2: side of his pool. The gunman sneaks inside the house,

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Speaker 2: steps out to the pool area and raises his gun

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Speaker 2: to Voronov. He pulls the trigger, several shots ring out.

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Speaker 2: Voronov is hit once in the head. He falls back

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Speaker 2: into the pool dead. The gunman strangely throws them murder

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Speaker 2: weapon into the pool and leaves the bullet casings on

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Speaker 2: the floor before running off back into the trees. At

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Speaker 2: two pm, Voronov is found floating in the now red

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Speaker 2: water of his swimming pool. Those were the last moments

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Speaker 2: of Yuri Voronov, or at least that's the main story.

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Speaker 2: The other theory is that Voronov committed suicide. He fired

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Speaker 2: the gun several times, which left the multiple casings on

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Speaker 2: the floor. He then shot himself in the head before

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Speaker 2: falling into the pool. Now to me, this doesn't really

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Speaker 2: make much sense, but it's worth mentioning because news of

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Speaker 2: this shooting in Russia quickly drifted off into the ether.

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Speaker 2: A multi millionaire was found dead in his pool with

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Speaker 2: several bullet casings and the gun left at the scene,

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Speaker 2: but state media largely went quiet on it after that. Essentially,

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Speaker 2: the possibility of suicide was left in the air when

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Speaker 2: the reality is this doesn't look much like a suicide.

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Speaker 2: The only indication that it might not be a hit

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Speaker 2: is that apparently the gunman wasn't picked up on security

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Speaker 2: cameras at Voronov's home. That's what Russian Knew says anyway.

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Speaker 2: Before his untimely death at his luxury Leningrad cottage, Yurivoranov

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Speaker 2: owned a major logistics company called Astra Shipping. They dealt

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Speaker 2: with construction installations and of course, shipping projects. Astra had

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Speaker 2: lucrative contracts with two major firms we've come across already

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Speaker 2: in this series, Gazprom and Luke Koyok, the two largest

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Speaker 2: oil and gas companies in Russia. By the time of

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Speaker 2: his death. This made Voronov the fourth Gazprom linked business

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Speaker 2: executive to die in twenty twenty two. By twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: there'd be many more. So, Sergiy, what do we know

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Speaker 2: about Voronov's company, Astra Shipping and it's various connections to

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Speaker 3: From what I'm seeing, it's a separate company, but everywhere

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Speaker 3: it's referred to as like a contractor of gas Prom.

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Speaker 3: They actually have other companies that they claim it's just

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Speaker 3: as partners. So I mean, I don't know exactly what

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Speaker 3: It includes a bunch of other gas company including Louke Oil.

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Speaker 3: They do summer Arctic shipping. At the time that was

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Speaker 3: basically about four months in the summer where you can

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Speaker 3: use the northern shipping routes above Russia. It's starting to

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Speaker 2: Now so Uri Voronov's Astra Shipping company would take tankers

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Speaker 2: through Arctic seas, moving equipment, materials and freight for Gazprom

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Speaker 2: and luke Oil, who they were partnered with. This is

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Speaker 2: of course a very big job. Creative contracts Astra Shipping

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Speaker 2: had with the gas and oil companies put a lot

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Speaker 2: of money into play, both to be made and lost

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Speaker 2: if anything was mishandled. Voronov seems to have been very

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Speaker 2: much involved with all facets of the business.

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Speaker 3: It seems like he was the only one in charge.

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Speaker 3: He was a director, but like basically in charge of

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Speaker 3: nobody's taken over. That's pretty much has been abandoned since

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Speaker 3: he died. And yeah, the company in the last two

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Speaker 3: years lost about one hundred and sixty million rubles. It

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Speaker 3: wasn't super profitable before, like it made a couple of

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Speaker 3: twenty seventeen, But in the last two years they were

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Speaker 3: just straight up losing. Like I think it was nineteen

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Speaker 2: Voronov's Astra Shipping was losing money handover fist. Now, one

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Speaker 2: thing to understand is is that when multimillionaires have one

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Speaker 2: business that's losing money, it's not the same if your

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Speaker 2: average non rich person loses money. Losing money is often

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Speaker 2: part of the ups and downs of big business, and

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Speaker 2: sometimes it's orchestrated that way for tax dodging purposes. Voronov,

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Speaker 2: it seems, though, was under a lot of pressure. This

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Speaker 2: was serious, This was real. He was apparently drinking heavily

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Speaker 2: in the run up to his murder and complaining regularly

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Speaker 2: to his wife about problems within his business. She told

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Speaker 2: Russian investigators that Voronov believed he'd been conned by contractors

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Speaker 2: and business partners he worked with. He said to his

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Speaker 2: wife that they'd quote behaved dishonorably. He was also arguing

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Speaker 3: His wife said, before he went off to the cottage,

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Speaker 3: he was arguing with someone over losing money or owing money,

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Speaker 3: something along those lines.

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Speaker 2: There were no more specific details on this, but if

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Speaker 2: the partners Voronov was angry about are at Gazprom, one

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Speaker 2: of his major contracts, this is likely relevant. Remember, Gazprom

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Speaker 2: is a major earner for the Kremlin, who owns forty

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Speaker 2: nine percent of it. In twenty twenty two, Gazprom paid

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Speaker 2: the Kremlin and extra eleven billion dollars after record profits

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Speaker 2: of forty five billion dollars. It seems invading Ukraine was

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Speaker 2: very profitable for the Kremlin gas giant. As we've covered

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Speaker 2: already in this series, you don't mess with Gazprom. Doing

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Speaker 2: so can have you feeling depressed and suicidal and unsteady

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Speaker 2: near high windows. There's no indication though that Juri Voronov

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Speaker 2: was messing with Gazprom. If anything, there's more possible signs

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Speaker 2: that it was the other way around. Perhaps Voronov was

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Speaker 2: involved in something else and me discussed this. The thing is, okay,

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Speaker 2: if your business starts losing money and you're making money

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Speaker 2: within the law, you go bankrupt. You know, you don't

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Speaker 2: generally end up killed a mysterious circumstances, Like.

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Speaker 3: You said, yeah, Like you know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: companies that they have better years, worse years. They lose money,

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Speaker 3: they bounce back. A bunch of companies lost money during COVID,

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Speaker 3: which is when this company lost money.

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Speaker 2: Now this is interesting, as Surgery said, looking at the

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Speaker 2: profit records, it's clear that Astra Shipping began to lose

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Speaker 2: money during the COVID pandemic, which spread first in twenty

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Speaker 2: few industries that thrived during COVID. Ocean freights carriers pulled

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Speaker 2: in estimated profits of one hundred and fifty billion dollars

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one. So what happened with Astra Shipping.

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Speaker 2: They had contracts with some of the biggest oil and

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Speaker 2: gas companies in the world, and yet managed to lose

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Speaker 2: money in the midst of a shipping company gold rush.

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Speaker 1: Something doesn't add up.

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Speaker 2: Maybe This is connected to what Yuri Voronov's wife said

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Speaker 2: he was so angry about maybe a deal went wrong

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Speaker 2: and Voronov ended up enraging people you don't want to enrage.

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Speaker 2: Was found dead in his pool with multiple casings on

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Speaker 2: the floor and one bullet in his head.

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Speaker 1: As we said before.

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Speaker 2: Though no one was caught on the security cameras when

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Speaker 3: There was cameras like in the pool surrounding the property,

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Speaker 3: and so it's kind of like, you know, if somebody

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Speaker 3: like tempered with, it should be pretty clear cut to

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Speaker 3: see like what happened, right, But then they just mentioned

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, I don't want to jump the gun,

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Speaker 2: if it was, okay, this is a straight suicide, I

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Speaker 2: just don't think they would even mention it. Why would

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Speaker 2: if someone just lit themselves up at home.

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Speaker 3: They have camera footage. You look at that and you

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Speaker 3: can tell what happened, like it's pretty clear. It should

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Speaker 3: to imagine that they were so perfect that they avoided

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Speaker 3: all the security, all the cameras shot a guy nobody

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Speaker 3: A lot of things had to work out perfectly to

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that or someone was paid to basically make

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Speaker 2: the camera footage disappear. If we look at other things

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Speaker 2: someone's in a rich gaid community they've found hanged and

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Speaker 2: I think that kind of activity suggests to me at

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Speaker 2: least that it's not actually that far fetched that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: someone could have easily got paid off. Someone could have

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Speaker 2: just said, hey, don't worry about looking at those cameras tonight.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think that's too far out

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Speaker 3: It doesn't even have to be any like conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's working together. Like in Russia, it's pretty common to

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Speaker 3: here's some money, gave me the recordings, don't think about it.

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Speaker 3: Of course, we don't know if that happens, but that's

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Speaker 2: Of course, this is just speculation at this point, but

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Speaker 2: I think it's valid when you look at the other

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Speaker 2: mysterious deaths we've already covered. Still, though things are unclear,

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Speaker 2: Voronov was having money problems, blaming business partners and contractors.

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Speaker 2: He then ends up floating in his pool with a

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Speaker 2: bullet in his head, with multiple shots fired, and the

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Speaker 2: authorities seemingly disinterested in the case. So we looked into

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Speaker 2: the business records of Voronov to see if they might

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Speaker 2: reveal any new information related to his death. Again, there

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Speaker 2: was little out there, so on a long shot, we

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Speaker 2: checked to see if Voronov was mentioned in the Panama Papers.

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Speaker 2: Turns out he was, or at least the name is

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Speaker 2: in there, attached to several shell companies. We couldn't confirm

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Speaker 2: if it's the same Yuri Voronov as the one we're

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Speaker 2: talking about, but.

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Speaker 1: It does look likely.

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Speaker 2: Now if you forgot what the Panama Papers are or

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Speaker 2: haven't heard of them at all. That's probably because most

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Speaker 2: of the people named in them completely got away with

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Speaker 2: their crimes. There were no legal consequences for almost everyone involved.

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Speaker 2: The Panama Papers were published on April third, twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 2: and they contain eleven point five million confidential documents from

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Speaker 2: Panamanium law firm Mossak Fonseca. These documents detail how rich

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Speaker 2: people across the world had been using secretive offshore bank

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Speaker 2: accounts for illegal purposes such as tax evasion and fraud. Often,

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Speaker 2: shell companies were used to hide money or quietly move

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Speaker 2: it around. The shell company is a firm that's kept

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Speaker 2: dormant and used if and when various financial maneuvers need

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Speaker 2: to be cycled through it, usually to mask the original

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Speaker 2: source of the funds. The shell company has no other purpose.

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Speaker 2: In the Panama Papers, a Moscow based businessman named Yuri

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Speaker 2: Voronov is linked to several shell companies, including one called

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Speaker 2: Tembusu Holdings. Tembusu Holdings was incorporated on May third, twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: This is weird.

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Speaker 2: The T twelve fires less lethal rounds rubber bullet. This

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Speaker 2: If he was going to shoot himself, why as a

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I've been around a ton of firearms due to my

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Speaker 1: In their actions.

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Speaker 2: Even gorilla forces with limited funding can get their hands

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Speaker 1: Where there's a will, there's a way.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, there's just no way Voronov wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: So to get a better idea of what's.

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Speaker 2: Going on with this converted T twelve Voronov was shot with,

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Speaker 4: Basically, I can say that the Grand Power pistols are

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Speaker 4: basically produced to fire rubber bullets. It's quite easy to

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Speaker 2: So why would somebody convert a less lethal gun to

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Speaker 1: Do you think?

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, not only traumatic pistols, but blank

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Speaker 4: these modifications, and these pistols can be quite reliable for

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Speaker 2: Really, so it's it's not such a big job to

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Speaker 4: Now, if you have the required tools and if you

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Speaker 2: Some people have a theory that this guy wasn't shot,

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Speaker 2: he killed himself, despite the fact that there were several rounds,

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Speaker 2: Like several shots were fired. This guy was a multi millionaire.

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Speaker 2: I can't see why a multi millionaire would have a

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Speaker 2: That seems unusual to me. What do you think, Yeah, well,

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Speaker 4: If he wanted to kill himself, he wouldn't get a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird. Right.

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Speaker 2: Where are these guns manufactured? What do we know about them?

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Speaker 2: also aware that it's it was made in Slovakia, but

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Speaker 2: some of them are made the TI twelve made in Russia.

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Speaker 1: What's the reality that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, in general, the brand is originated from Slovakia. However,

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Speaker 4: these pistols are exported to many countries, including Russia, any

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Speaker 4: country you name it. They are quite easy to find

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Speaker 4: It's not originated from Russia, but it's common in there too.

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Speaker 4: The gunpower has a branch in Russia too.

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Speaker 2: This is particularly important as pass just said, converted grand

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Speaker 2: due to whichever dispute was bothering him before his death.

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Speaker 2: Once the gun is converted from the less lethal defense

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Speaker 1: Do they shoot? What bullets will it shoot? Then?

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Speaker 4: Well, it is almost impossible to say anything definite because

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Speaker 4: most of the converted guns are usually chambered in torty

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Speaker 4: Is a name for the ammunition that seven point six

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Speaker 4: to five. They were quite common in some countries. You know,

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Speaker 4: It's basically much smaller than nine millimeters and they're easy

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: I just it's really odd to me that anyone, whether

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Speaker 2: that they would use a converted pistol. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: Have you any theories.

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Speaker 2: As to why they would have would have used this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, First of all, they might have chosen this pistol

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Speaker 2: So, according to Puz, who dedicates his time to identifying

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Speaker 2: T twelve is useful if you want to commit an

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Speaker 2: exactly what happened at Voronov's cottage. He was shot and

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Speaker 2: the gun was thrown into the pool with him, But

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Speaker 2: Guns can be often traced back to the person who

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Speaker 2: used it, apparently, though not so much if it's a

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Speaker 4: Chasing the countered pistols, you know, it's more hard to

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Speaker 1: That's really interesting.

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Speaker 2: It might interest you to know as well that once

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Speaker 2: They didn't take it with them, They threw it, they

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Speaker 4: If it was a real gun, let's say, a Beretta

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Speaker 4: easier to check this pistol to original owner, Mitch. Might

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Speaker 2: You know, right, I don't know if it's any bearing

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Speaker 4: Do you think, well, I don't think that the pul

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Speaker 2: I think Pezz is onto something here. It's looking more

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Speaker 1: Back to anyone.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the business partners who Voronov told his wife were

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Speaker 2: quote behaving dishonorably went a step further into their Dishonor

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Speaker 1: It look like a suicide.

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Speaker 2: In choosing the T twelve, though, he made it look suspicious,

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Speaker 2: that and the multiple gunshots. It's a theory, but I

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Speaker 2: think it's quite solid. It's either that or it's all

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Speaker 2: So if it is just a coincidence, basically, you just

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Speaker 1: It's funny you mentioned that.

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Speaker 3: I was just reading comments and somebody was saying, nobody

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's weird. One is nothing, two is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean literally, I think at that point when

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Speaker 2: As well as dead rich Russian businessman connected to Gazprom.

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Speaker 2: There were other connections to recently deceased people in Voronov's

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Speaker 3: We haven't talked about these guys yet, but actually there's

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Speaker 3: So I mean, again that's exactly the tightest connections, but

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Speaker 3: it's all kind of like close enough that it's like, again,

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Speaker 3: so many of them are dying in this seemingly safe profession.

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Speaker 3: If it's a coincidence, it's, you know, maybe time to

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Speaker 3: get out of that line of industry if you can,

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Speaker 3: And maybe some of these guys tried to, and this

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Speaker 3: is what happened.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, as with the other cases, this one is somewhat

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Speaker 2: left up in the air if you put this all

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Speaker 2: together in a web. Though, so many people in this

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Speaker 2: line of work who've had their lives cut short recently

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Speaker 2: are connected in some way, all within twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Let's look at the timeline. April twenty ninth, Leonoid Shulman,

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Speaker 2: Gazprom Transport executive, death by suicide. He slashed his wrists

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Speaker 2: in the bath. February twenty fifth. Alexander Tyolokov, Gazprom Security executive,

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Speaker 2: death by suicide.

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Speaker 1: He hanged himself in his garage. April nineteenth.

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Speaker 2: Sergey Protozenya Novtech Gas Company executive, death by suicide. He

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Speaker 2: killed his family and then himself.

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Speaker 1: May eighth.

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Speaker 2: Alexander Sabotchin lou Coil board member, death by poisoning. He

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Speaker 2: died after being administered frog Venom July fourth, Yuri Voronov,

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Speaker 2: contractor to both Gazprom and lou Coil death by gunshot.

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Speaker 1: He died via a bullet through the head.

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Speaker 2: All of this happened within the space of seven months,

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Speaker 2: and there's much more we'll hear about in the rest

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Speaker 2: of the series. Make of this what you will, but

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Speaker 2: to me, it seems that being a rich Russian businessman

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Speaker 2: connected to the country's energy companies is very bad for

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