The body found on a Cyprus beach belongs to a missing 56-year-old Russian businessman

All evidence indicates that it is 56-year-old Russian Vladislav Baumgartner, who had disappeared under strange circumstances the day after Christmas. As police sources in Cyprus told protothema.gr, “the case regarding the location has been closed, as no one expected that after so many days he could be found alive.”

What remains is the formal identification of the body and identification with DNA. The autopsy is expected to demonstrate the causes of death, although the body is in advanced decomposition and has been exposed to bad weather and environmental conditions for days.

Conspiracy theories or not?

Limassol, of towers and plenty of money, is no longer just the refuge of the Russian elite, but also the place where scores from the past are settled in the most abrupt and macabre way.

The news that Vladislav Baumgartner, the man who once pulled the strings of the global fertilizer trade as boss of Uralkali, was found dead came as no surprise to those who follow the long list of “unfortunate” coincidences that befall those who have fallen out of Moscow’s favor.

This is why every death is followed by various theories, especially if the circumstances are strange, as in the case of Baumgartner

The body was found in advanced decomposition by a citizen who found it on the beach of Avdimou, in an area that the Cypriot authorities and the authorities of the British Bases had been scanning for days with drones and helicopters, without detecting anything. Baumgartner, who had lived in Limassol for the last few years, had given his last trace on January 7, when his mobile phone transmitted from Kavo Aspro. From then on, absolute darkness and a flood of rumors and suspicions.

It raises questions
It cannot help but raise questions that the death of the 56-year-old businessman coincides with the case of Alexei Panov, the Russian embassy official who was found dead in his office just twenty-four hours after Baumgartner's disappearance.

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It is said that Panov was an officer of the Russian secret services. In Panov's case, the Kremlin rushed to raise the diplomatic walls of immunity, banning the Cypriot police from entering the building and delivering the body to the courtyard, labeled a "suicide" by hanging. The note that Panov supposedly left traveled directly to Moscow, leaving the Cypriot authorities empty-handed and with many questions.

Baumgartner was no random Russian exile. In 2013, he became the focus of an international crisis when he was arrested in Minsk by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, as part of the “potassium war.” At the time, Moscow mobilized gods and demons to free him. Today, its silence is deafening.