Alexey Korshenko, the former head of the business aviation terminal at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, was found dead in his apartment, The Moscow Times reported on July 21.

The facility serviced Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane before its fatal 2023 crash.

The 57-year-old former executive was found hanged on the balcony of his Moscow residence on June 6, with Russian investigators treating the incident as a suspected suicide.

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When a replacement component imported from the United States proved damaged, a local firm supplied an alternative unit in which an explosive device may have been planted, intelligence alleged.

The Moscow Times noted that the supplier firm, Protector, is linked through its owner to figures associated with organized crime and Russian intelligence-adjacent networks. On the morning of the departure, representatives of a separate aviation company also inspected Prigozhin’s jet under the pretext of a prospective purchase.

Following the crash, Russian transport security officials dispatched to inspect the terminal were denied access to security camera footage and documentation, with FSB officers immediately seizing the aircraft’s inspection report, the outlet reported.