The body of the former head of Rosvooruzhenie, 64-year-old Alexei Ogarev, was found 14 km from the Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway in the summer village of Balaton near Moscow.
The body of Alexei Ogarev was found on Thursday afternoon in a house in the cottage settlement of Balaton. Previously, death is not a crime, ”said RIA Novosti, citing a source.
No wounds or other signs of violent death were found on the body, which was found by relatives. The Department of the Investigative Committee of the Moscow Region of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor’s Office of the Moscow Region began checks on the death of the former head of Rosvooruzhenie. Based on its results, a decision will be made to open a criminal case and initiate a full-fledged investigation or refuse to do so.
“The exact cause of death will be determined according to the results of the examination. The Investigation Committee said, “A pre-investigation control was held.”
Kommersant was told that until now, the Russian Investigative Committee had found no reason for an investigation.
“According to his wife, he died himself,” a source close to Rosoboronexport told RBC. He explained that Ogarev did not work at Rosoboronexport: “He never worked at Rosoboronexport. He resigned during the merger of Promexport and Rosvooruzhenie and did not maintain relations with Rosoboronexport.
What is known about the deceased
Alexey Ogarev was born in 1957 in Moscow. In 1981, he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, where the daughter of the first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin Tatiana, studied with Alexei Dyachenko. According to Forbes, Ogarev was close to the “family” of former President Boris Yeltsin and represented his interests.
From the late eighties Ogarev worked within the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and until 1997 was the permanent representative of Russia to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Participated in disarmament negotiations.
Appointed in June 1997. vice president of the presidential administration (Valentina Yumasheva at that time). At the same time, he became deputy chairman of the commission on military-technical cooperation with foreign states under the President of the Russian Federation.
He took over the post in February 1999. Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian FederationWhere it oversees matters of military-technical cooperation between Russia and foreign partners.
In the late 1990s, two state agents worked in Russia for the export and import of weapons and dual-use products: State Corporation Rosvooruzhenie and Promexport. Since August 1999, the first was headed by Ogarev, and since September of the same year, the second – Sergey Chemezov (now the general director of Rostec).
Forbes in 2004 knowledgeableA conflict broke out between Ogarev and Chemezov. After a while, the businesses were merged and Rosoboronexport was established in 2000. As Forbes writes, Ogarev was offered a leadership positionHowever, he refused and left the structure. Chemezov headed Rosoboronexport (until November 2007) three and a half years later. Since 1 July 2011, 100% of Rosoboronexport’s shares are owned by Rostec.
Source: Gazeta
