A high-ranking employee of Gazprom invest was found dead in the Gazprom Nest mansion in the Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region. 47news found out how they found him in the bathroom, where the knife lay. Found a note.
At the beginning of the ninth hour in the evening, on January 29, the police received a message from the guards of the cottage village in Leninsky. In a three-story mansion on Zhemchuzhnaya Street, the bloody body of the 60-year-old owner of the house , Leonid Shulman , was found . He served as head of the transport service at Gazprom Invest. On the morning of January 30, 47news became aware of the incident.
Gazprom Invest operates throughout Russia. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gazprom. The main areas of work are design, construction and commissioning of gas industry facilities.
Arriving at the scene, police officers found the deceased on the floor in the bathroom. The dead man was lying on his stomach. Deep cut wounds were recorded on both hands, everything was covered in blood around. A retractable construction knife was found on the side of the bath. A note was also found. According to preliminary data, it refers to unbearable pains that he cannot endure. The now deceased had an Ilizarov apparatus installed on his leg, which is used to splice bones (Shulman was on sick leave, he lived alone). He was injured by accident in the same Leninsky during some regular fun. As they say, this was a big problem. That is, the last time there were problems with both behavior and treatment.
According to preliminary information, at the end of the year, Gazprom invest's security service conducted an inspection of the transport block. The information about the overestimation of the cost of repairing the fleet was checked.
Shulman is survived by an adult son and daughter. According to preliminary data, in September last year, he divorced. His wife and son arrived late at night at the house where the police were already working.
47news said that many of the top managers of the gas monopoly live in the village. It is even called "Gazprom's nest" . For example, one of the mansions is designed for the full namesake of the son of the head of the corporation, Alexei Miller. The houses are designed in the same style, around - "fortress wall".
Shulman's house is located in the depths of the village, two or three minutes drive from the security post. It is difficult to assume that someone made his way inside. Nevertheless, all versions will be studied, the Investigative Committee said. It is also known that the body of the deceased was discovered by a friend, possibly a fitness trainer.
The Gazprom invest company in the public field is known for the story of the missing pipe near Priozersk . Recently became a customer for the construction of a megapipe for the delivery of ethane-containing gas from the Leningrad region to Western Siberia (cost not disclosed) .
Shulman worked in various structures of Gazprom. For example, at Gazprom Transgaz St. Petersburg, where he was also involved in the transport sector. According to SPARK-Interfax, until 2012, Shulman managed the St. Petersburg company Riker, registered as an offshore company in the Netherlands and operating as a transportation business.
Back in 2020, in an interview with Gazprom’s corporate newspaper, Shulman commented on the work of his sector at Gazprom Invest: “Over the long years of work, the company managed to form a close-knit team of like-minded people. This is important. not a soulless cog in the mechanism, but a man of action, the overall success depends on him, he is involved in the history of the company."
47news called the head of Gazprom Invest Vyacheslav Tyurin . Apparently, the wife picked up the phone. The interlocutor said that she would pass on a request to contact the editorial office. Miller's press secretary Sergei Kupriyanov , who also has a plot in Leninsky , has not yet returned calls.
Victor Smirnov, 47news
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