BuzzFeed: Lesin was killed on the eve of the testimony of the US Ministry of Justice

The former Minister of Press of Russia and the head of the Gazprom-Media holding, Mikhail Lesin, was beaten until death on the eve of the testimony of the US Ministry of Justice. This was reported by BuzzFeed with reference to two FBI agents and an American intelligence officer. The sources of the publication themselves did not participate in the investigation, but they know about him from colleagues.

“Lesin was beaten to death,” said one of the FBI agents. “I can tell you that there is no one in the bureau who believes that this guy got drunk, fell and died. Everyone thinks that he was killed and Putin was behind it.” They try to hide this fact, the source noted, but he does not understand why. Another source said that the murder gun was a baseball bat.

According to sources, Lesin was going to meet with the US Ministry of Justice, who investigated the activities of the Russian TV channel Russia Today. The ex-minister was supposed to tell, "how the propaganda machine works." It is alleged that the American Ministry of Justice paid Lesin's accommodation at the Dupont Hotel, where they later found his body.

The FBI and the Ministry of Justice refused to comment. The office of the prosecutor of the Colombia district said that they had nothing to add to last year’s statement in which Lesin’s death is called an accident.

On November 5, 2015, the Dupont Circle Hotel hotel room in the Washington Center found the body of Lesin . Representatives of his family reported that the cause of death was a heart attack. The New York police report reported that the police officer went into Lesin’s room and saw his body on the floor. The caused paramedics stated death, and the body was sent for examination. Regarding the possible causes of death, the police report only clarified that there were no gunshot wounds on the body.

In mid -March 2016, the Communications Director of the Office of the Judgeum of Judgeum Washington, Lashon Bimon, said that the cause of Lesin’s death was “stupid strength head injuries”. According to her, Lesin also received stupid injuries of the neck, body, upper and lower extremities. At the same time, the joint statement of the office of the forensic expert and the Washington police said that the circumstances of Lesin’s death have not yet been established, and the police "continues to actively investigate the incident."

In April of the same year, the White House spokesman Josh Ernest said that the FBI joined the investigation of the death of Lesin. He recalled that "death is still investigated by the Washington police department." “As far as I understand, the FBI is involved,” said the official representative of the US president. At the same time, he did not go into details, saying that he had "no information about this ongoing investigation."

However, the sources of The New York Times saidthe FBI and the Ministry of Justice are not participating in the investigation of Lesin's death. Its cause is still considered injuries of unknown origin. According to one of the sources, Lesin was removed by surveillance cameras returning to his number "in a battered state" at night before death. It is assumed that the ex-minister of the press could be a participant in a household quarrel or a car accident.

On October 28, the Washington prosecutor's office stated that the investigators came to the conclusion: the death of Lesin occurred as a result of an accident that was facilitated by excessive alcohol consumption. "The chief forensic expert of the Columbia district re -qualified the cause of Lesin’s death with an" indefinite "for" accident ", noting the acute poisoning of ethanol as an additional circumstance," the message said.

The study of video cameras and an eyewitness survey showed that on November 4, 2015 at 10:48 Lesin entered his hotel room "after several days of alcohol abuse" and died alone from multiple injuries. They were obtained as a result of falls caused by severe alcohol poisoning, the prosecutor's report said.

From 1999 to 2004, Lesin was the Minister of Printing, Broadcasting and Mass Communications. He played one of the key roles in the establishment of state monopoli on television. In 2000, Lesin signed the famous Protocol No. 6 (an appendix to an agreement with Gazprom-Media), which guaranteed the media Magnate Vladimir Gusinsky the termination of the criminal case in exchange for his assets.