Russian financier and cryptocurrency entrepreneur A Vyacheslav Taran has a helicopter crash in French territory. The accident is the latest in a string of fatalities for cryptocurrency executives, adding another name to the list of Russian billionaires who have died under mysterious circumstances this year.
} Libertex president dies in helicopter crash bound for Monaco
Russian businessman Vyacheslav Taran, founder of the Forex Club and head of the Libertex Group, died in a helicopter crash in southeastern France. Death. The 53-year-old billionaire was the only passenger on a plane piloted by a 35-year-old Frenchman who also died.
Taran was traveling from the Swiss city of Lucerne to Monaco on Friday, November 25, when an accident occurred near the Italian border. The news of his death was confirmed by Libertex, a trading platform for various assets, including cryptocurrencies, and the Russian Embassy in Paris.
On Monday, a diplomatic mission told TASS news agency that a helicopter owned by Monacair had crashed in the Villefranche-sur-Mer area. French authorities have launched an investigation into the incident, but the exact cause of the accident has yet to be determined.
The death of Vyacheslav Taran is the latest in a string of events in the cryptocurrency industry. On November 23, her Tiantian Kullander, co-founder of Hong Kong-based company Amber Group, died in her sleep at just 30 years old. Old Nikolai Musezian drowned in Puerto Rico.
Taran is also one of several Russian businessmen who recently died mysteriously. The group includes Ivan Pechorin, his 39-year-old managing director of the Russian company for Far East and Arctic Development, who fell off a boat and drowned near Vladivostok on September 10.
At least 10 top executives have reportedly died in suicides or bizarre accidents this year, half of them at Russian energy giant state-owned Gazprom and private companies. In another example, oil company chairman Ravil Maganov, 67, also died in September after reportedly falling from a Moscow hospital window.
Taran Forex Club, a group of companies specializing in contracts for differential and foreign exchange trading in the retail market, lost its Russian license in 2018 and was forced to close by the Central Bank of Russia. Founded in 1997, he was one of the largest platforms in the country.
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