57-year-old Alexei Korshenko was found hanged on his Moscow balcony on June 6, renewing media scrutiny over his past role handling Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aircraft. <\/p>\n
57-year-old Alexei Korshenko was found hanged on the balcony of his apartment in Moscow on June 6, according to “The Moscow Times”, citing Russian media. Russian investigators are treating the case as a suicide and are not linking his death to the plane crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin from nearly three years ago.<\/p>\n
Body found on a balcony in Moscow. Dismissed three weeks before his death.<\/p>\n
The independent Russian-language portal “Nasha Niva” adds that the Russian newspaper “Moskovskij Komsomolec” was the first to report on Korshenko’s death back in June. However, the publication did not provide the man’s personal details.<\/p>\n
According to accounts from former colleagues cited by “The Moscow Times”, Korshenko was unexpectedly dismissed from his position approximately three weeks before his death, without an official reason given. It was this circumstance, combined with his previous role in servicing Prigozhin’s plane, that prompted the media to take a renewed interest in the case.<\/p>\n
Belarusian outlet “Charter97” outlines Korshenko’s career path: working at Aeroflot starting in 1997, and later at Avia Group, which operates business terminals at Sheremetyevo and Pulkovo. The company also owns a helicopter pad on Valaam Island, which is regularly visited by Vladimir Putin. Since 2011, Korshenko served as the head of AG Terminal, the company managing Terminal A at Sheremetyevo, which was placed on the US sanctions list in 2015 for ties to Russian businessman Gennady Timchenko and was liquidated in 2020.<\/p>\n
The most controversial aspect of the case\u2014the suggestion that Korshenko might have possessed knowledge about technical defects in Prigozhin’s plane just before its fateful flight on August 23, 2023\u2014originally appeared in the Russian-language Telegram channel “VCHK-OGPU”, known for publishing unofficial information from Russian intelligence circles. However, the Ukrainian outlet “UA.News” notes that the channel presented no evidence to support its theory.<\/p>\n
Despite this, the version gained wider circulation via “The Moscow Times”, which cites unofficial intelligence reports stating that during pre-flight checks, technicians allegedly detected two major defects, and a spare part brought from the US turned out to be damaged, after which a local company was supposed to deliver a replacement reportedly containing an explosive device. According to the same reports, the supplier company, Protector, was allegedly linked through its owner to individuals from organized crime circles and Russian special services.<\/p>\n
None of this information has been directly confirmed either by the official Russian investigation or by Western intelligence agencies. The official Russian investigation has maintained from the beginning that the cause of Prigozhin’s plane crash was the detonation of a hand grenade on board, a version long contradicted by Western intelligence findings.<\/p>\n
“The Wall Street Journal” previously reported, citing Western and Russian sources, that the assassination was allegedly orchestrated by Nikolai Patrushev, then-Secretary of the Security Council of Russia. Media outlets recall that after the crash, Russian transport supervision officials who arrived to inspect the terminal were denied access to security footage and documentation, and the plane inspection report was allegedly immediately seized by the FSB.<\/p>\n
So far, the Kremlin has not publicly addressed Korshenko’s death; no official statement has been issued, and Russian police have limited themselves to launching a routine preliminary investigation into the circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n
Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner private military company, died on August 23, 2023, along with nine other people when his plane crashed in the Tver region on a route from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The crash occurred exactly two months after Prigozhin’s brief armed rebellion against the Russian military leadership, which ended with mediation by Alexander Lukashenko. Following the death of Prigozhin and his top commanders, the Wagner Group was largely dismantled, and Russian military intelligence took over some of its recruitment structures, utilizing them\u2014as media previously reported\u2014to coordinate sabotage operations in NATO countries.<\/p>\n
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has repeatedly denied any involvement of Russian authorities in Prigozhin’s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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