Washington police continues the investigation of Lesin's death

The cause of the death of the former minister of Russia Mikhail Lesin in Washington has not been established. Local law enforcement officers say that they have not yet received the results of the autopsy from the management of the main pathologist, and therefore the investigation in this case has not yet been closed.

The police are not ready to provide any new information on the fact of Lesin’s death. At the same time, the official representative of the Washington police department, Lieutenant Sean Conbo, told TASS that the investigation is carried out "on the fact of the report of death." The interlocutor of the agency refused more detailed comments.

The body of 57-year-old Lesin was discovered last Thursday in Washington at The Dupont Circle. The hotel room was rented in the name of Lesin, but there were no documents there.

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Autopsy was made on the same day, its undeclared results became the reason for initiating further investigation , Kommersant reports. According to media reports, a Russian attack could have happened to the Russian. The Department of Investigation of the Murders in an official statement asks all to the police who have any information in the case.

The American press indicates the dark past of Lesin

Critics of the Russian government suspect that Lesin did not die of a heart attack, reports The Financial Times in an article with the heading of "Death of the Complete Putin's Conspiracy theory." Alfred Koch, in the past, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Gazprom-Media general director, asked Facebook: “But why do the embassy so want everyone to think that it was a heart attack? Maybe they were afraid that Lesin will tell the FBI about something in exchange for the termination of the investigation?” "Koch meant a potential investigation of Lesin's activities by the Ministry of Justice of the United States and the FBI in connection with accusations of corruption," the article on the website inopressa.ru says.

The Daily Beast website devoted an article to the deceased entitled "The Dark Past of the Putin's Media Head." It goes in it talks about how in 1999 Lesin invited the president to take control of the Russian Internet. As a result, the decision was made on December 28, 1999 at a meeting of Putin, Lesin, Communications Minister Leonid Reiman, as well as the founder of the first Internet provider of Relkom, Alexei Soldatov, lawyer Mikhail Yakushev, designer Artemy Lebedev and others. Lesin’s proposal to “take the entire Internet” was cut off. The translation of the material based on an excerpt from the book of Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan "Red Network: the struggle of Russian digital dictators with new online revolutionaries" publishes Inopressa.ru .

In July last year, the Republican Senator Roger Wicker turned to the FBI with a request to check whether Mikhail Lesin violated the legislation on corruption and laundering of money. The parliamentarian pointed out that the Russian acquired through the company registered in the British Virgin Islands, real estate in the United States at the moment when he still held the post of civil servant. The Whirlus of Lesin's property in the United States at $ 28 million and noted that the former Minister of Press of the Russian Federation transported his family to America. The senator also suggested that Lesin, perhaps, had business ties with persons on whom the United States imposed sanctions

After contacting the Senator, the FBI began to check. However, the death of Lesin most likely means the end of this trial. The FBI confirmed that they received a notification of the death of Lesin, and emphasized that they were not related to the investigation of his death, since the police are engaged in this case.

Mikhail Lesin from 1999 to 2004 served as Minister of Press of the Russian Federation. On his initiative in 2005, the State TV channel Russia Today was created. Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose Lesin worked as an assistant in the media, expressed condolences to his relatives and friends. "The president is highly appreciated by a huge contribution that Mikhail Lesin made to the formation of modern Russian media," the Kremlin press service said .