{"id":1257618,"date":"2025-07-07T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/released-in-the-morning-found-dead-in-the-evening-former-russian-minister-of-transport-dies-in-moscow-region\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:07:25","slug":"released-in-the-morning-found-dead-in-the-evening-former-russian-minister-of-transport-dies-in-moscow-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/released-in-the-morning-found-dead-in-the-evening-former-russian-minister-of-transport-dies-in-moscow-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Released in the morning, found dead in the evening: former Russian Minister of Transport dies in Moscow region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today, July 7, former Russian Minister of Transport Roman Starovoit was found dead in his personal car.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was reported to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and a number of Russian media outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was removed from his position as head of the agency on Monday morning due to suspicions of fraud on a particularly large scale. It is also noted that the dismissal occurred during a large-scale aviation collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, his body with a gunshot wound was found in the Odintsovo city district &#8211; Moscow region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to investigators, the circumstances of the death are currently being investigated. However, some Telegram channels claim that the former minister committed suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starovoit previously served as governor of the Kursk region. In particular, he was a defendant in a case allegedly related to the embezzlement of funds for the construction of fortifications in the border areas with Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investigation is also investigating possible involvement in violations in the procurement of medicines for medical institutions and in the failed transport reform in Kursk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> We will remind, in occupied Luhansk, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/eksholovu-okupatsiynoi-administratsii-luhanska-pilavova-likviduvala-sbu-zmi\/\">the Security Service of Ukraine eliminated the former head of the city administration,<\/a> Manolis Pilavov.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p data-vpb-inserted=\" takcjc.ji\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, July 7, former Russian Minister of Transport Roman Starovoit was found dead in his personal car. This was reported to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and a number of Russian media outlets. He was removed from his position as head of the agency on Monday morning due to suspicions of fraud on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1257614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1257618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}