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A PROMINENT female judge has been found dead after a suspected suicide in Russia’s latest mystery death.
Natalia Larina, 50, was notorious for handling high-profile political and criminal cases, punishing traitors of the Kremlin.
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East2WestAccording to the state media, Larina left a suicide note and plunged from a high-rise window just moments away from her home.
It is alleged that the judge fell victim to “telephone scammers” last month and became upset after losing a huge sum of money.
Larina had been a criminal judge for more than 15 years before suddenly quitting Tagansky Court at the start of this year.
She had a reputation for ruling verdicts on cases against opposition political activists.
In 2015, Larina decided to arrest Pyotr Pavlensky who was accused of vandalism for setting fire to the door of the FSB building.
She also sentenced Murat Sabanov, who had carried out a series of poisonings in central Moscow in 2019.
In 2011, Larina was the judge in the trial of a Russian Transport Ministry official who was convicted of sexually abusing his daughter.
The scammers reportedly introduced themselves as Larina’s former boss and told her that her bank account was compromised.
They convinced her that cash would be sent to fund Ukrainian forces and asked to transfer 1million rubles to a “safe account”.
Larina subsequently took out a bank loan for an additional million to be moved, according to Baza.
She reported the incident to the police once she realised she had been deceived.
According to Baza, Larina became distressed after being scammed by the con artists which led to her tragic end.
But this version of events is yet to be officially confirmed.
The officials are probing the cause of her death which occurred close to her apartment on 1st Mashinostroeniya Street in Moscow.
Larina joins a long-list of Russian officials who mysteriously died since the start of Putin’s invasion in Ukraine.
In December 2023, Vladimir Egorov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, plunged to his death from a third-floor window in Moscow.
The 46-year-old Egorov was a wealthy and prominent politician in oil-rich Tobolsk in western Siberia.
Just weeks prior, the deputy editor of Putin’s favourite propaganda newspaper was found dead aged only 35.
The body of Anna Tsareva, 35, was discovered at her home in the capital’s Bolshoy Tishinsky Lane – nearly a year after the death of her boss Vladimir Sungorkin, 68.
In February the same year, top Russian defence official and key figure in the funding of Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine Marina Yankina, 58, also fell 160ft to her death in St Petersburg.
She was head of the financial support department of the Ministry of Defence for the Western Military District, which is closely involved in the dictator’s invasion.
Earlier this year, the chief editor of the warmonger’s state-run TV empire was also discovered lifeless after a suspected poisoning.
Zoya Konovalova, 48, who ran a channel operating near the frontlines of Mad Vlad’s illegal war, was found alongside her ex-husband.
Last July, a multi-millionaire stooge for Putin mysteriously died in his office.
Anton Cherepennikov, 40, a key figure in Putin’s spying operation, was discovered at the property in Moscow.
The latest mystery death came after a high-ranking businessman with links to the despot’s inner circle became the 53rd high-profile figure to die.
Jun Aoki, who worked for one of the Kremlin kingpin‘s most trusted confidants, was discovered inside the iconic Stalin Skyscraper.
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