Former VTB executive Yury Kotler found dead of an apparent "suicide."

[kpete]

Childhood friend of Cohen, convicted felon and operative of Trump, Felix Sater said he lined up financing for the Trump Tower Moscow deal with ... VTB bank.

Just in - dead Russian

A former official from Russia’s ruling party and top state executive has been found dead inside his apartment in what appears to be a suicide.

Yury Kotler, 50, a former state-run RIA Novosti, Time magazine and The New York Times journalist, served on the United Russia party’s supreme council in 2012-2016 and on its expert council since February 2018. He was a senior manager at several state-owned companies, including VTB bank and Russia’s largest port operator Novorossiisk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP).

“A note was found at the scene of the incident, making it clear that he committed suicide for personal reasons,” the RBC business portal cited an unnamed Moscow police officer as saying Wednesday.

Investigators noted that no signs of violence were uncovered in the apartment where Kotler was found with a gunshot wound to the head.


https://themoscowtimes.com/news/former-russian-ruling-party-official-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide-61477

Link to tweet

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. "For personal reasons."

[mopinko]

2. yeah, that's what i would write in my suicide note.

jeebus, these people cant even do this shit right. you would think w all the practice they would at least be able to forge a convincing suicide note.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. signed, Epstein's mother. nt

[NatBurner]

5. lulz

[unblock]

19. how many suicides are for business reasons?

ahhhhh, i see...!

[lagomorph777]

23. How many bullet wounds to the head? Front or back of head?

Sounds a lot like the Russian in DC who apparently got drunk and fell on a baseball bat hundreds of times until dead.

[louis-t]

26. May have accidentally shot himself in the back

with a spear gun.

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Remember the suicide who shot himself in his garage with a nail gun?

8 times.

He was one of many related to Bank Of America linked "suicides" several years back.

[lagomorph777]

35. I don't remember that whole thing

I must be getting scandal-fatigue.

[Achilleaze]

3. freaking KGOP republicans have embraced russian "family values"

Something stinks here...

[oberliner]

6. This person was not a childhood friend of Michael Cohen

[druidity33]

36. How do you know? nt.

[oberliner]

40. Because I can read?

[marble falls]

7. Where does "childhood friend" fit into the story????????? The title promises and never delivers.

[griloco]

8. NMH...uh huh...Hillary

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strikes again! (now if she could only take out Putin)

[zaj]

9. I thought felix safer was found dead

Very misleading title

[kpete]

14. You are right

in trying to shorten the title, I blew it

I have changed it

thanks
kp

[bitterross]

10. This Russis-Trump thing is going to make a lot of people "suicidal" I bet

Hmmm, won't be surprised if this is the first of many in a suicide pact to which they didn't realized they belonged.

[Blue_true]

11. The Putin suicide. No signs of foul play, just a dead body with a note not in his hand writing.

Putie strikes again. Wonder whether Cohen gets the message. He need to turn state's witness and get his family in protection. The FBI hates Trump, they will protect them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. The "fall from a height" modus operandi was wearing thin and they had to change tack. . . nt

[Blue_true]

33. Yeah, they had to reach into their tool box some.

Radiation poison and falls were getting figured out.

[Still In Wisconsin]

12. I'm expecting a lot more of this kind of thing as Mueller closes in on TRUMP's inner circle.

People will start to "disappear." People who know things will suddenly start falling from high places, or accidentally ingest poison, or somehow have the misfortune of being on small planes that crash. They might mysteriously drown in their own swimming pools, or go missing on their way to work. But if I was a former or current TRUMP associate, I'd be putting my affairs in order, that's for sure.

[Ptah]

13. Analyze This - Guy falls from balcony

[LiberalArkie]

15. Not to worry, he was a banker

It must be that time of year to exercise caution in walking near large financial buildings.

[PatSeg]

16. There are things in the world scarier

than Mueller. I would think that Manafort knows that all too well and realizes that cooperation could be a death sentence.

[aggiesal]

17. He looks like the Murphy Brown character Miles Silverberg, played by Grant Shaud, ...

[liberalla]

37. he sure does!

[lark]

18. Cohen better watch his back.

Putin has permanent "remedies" for anyone who could threaten his goals.

[aggiesal]

20. "... Kotler was found with a gunshot wound to the head ..."

They didn't tell us it was the back of the head!

[olegramps]

21. That left out being strangled, stabbed 12 times, both legs and arms broken and semi-tire marks.

[aggiesal]

34. I can see now, why he killed himself ...

[longship]

24. Yes! It was a particularly horrible case of suicide.

[Honeycombe8]

22. A lot of high-level or well connected Russians sure do die often. Hmmmmmm.

He worked for Time Mag. & NYT? I wonder why they'd hire a Russian? I wonder if he said something Putin didn't like. I wonder if he knew something, so Putin took care of it before Mueller or NY prosecutor could get to him.

[Shipwack]

25. Had he had any salad lately?

Was he tested for polonium?

[LittleGirl]

28. Sounds Mob-like n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. OH SHIT!

That is all.

[spanone]

30. i thought trump had no dealings with russia?

what, he lied?????

[oasis]

31. In a subtle message to potential flippers.

"stay silent"

[tblue37]

38. A person can be forced to commit suicide, so I can't help feeling suspicious. nt

[Takket]

39. i'm sure the Russians will perform a thorough and exhaustive investigation

[Nevernose]

41. Trotsky stabbed himself with an ice pick

In the back of the head. Multiple times. Suicide.

Russians must go to school at Hogwarts, because both our reality and the Harry Potter reality have the same level of verisimilitude.