With a sober look

The US Federal Bureau of Investigations did not find evidence of the violent death of the former minister of the press of Russia and the head of the Gazprom-Media holding Mikhail Lesin. This is stated in the first part of the report on the investigation of the death of the ex-minister published on the FBI website.

Lesin died due to a blow to a dumb object, the report said. Experts believe that the ex-minister, while intoxicated, could not maintain balance and fell. As a result, the FBI came to the conclusion that death occurred due to an accident related to alcohol.

In October 2016, the Washington prosecutor’s office came to the same conclusion. "The chief forensic expert of the Columbia district re -qualified the cause of Lesin’s death with an" indefinite "for an" accident ", noting the acute poisoning of ethanol as an additional circumstance," the report said.

As the study of video cameras and an eyewitness survey showed, 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 alcoholic poisoning.

Meanwhile, in July last year, Buzzfeed reported that Lesin was beaten before death on the eve of the testimony of the US Ministry of Justice. At the same time, the publication referred to two FBI agents and an American intelligence officer. They themselves did not participate in the investigation, but knew 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 application.

On November 5, 2015, the Dupont Circle Hotel hotel room in the Washington Center found the body of Lesin . 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.

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.