Putin moves fast

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Russian minister sacked by Putin found dead

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7nvxzrvr0o

Russia's Investigative Committee says former Russian transport minister Roman Starovoit has been found dead, apparently with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
He was dismissed earlier on Monday by President Vladimir Putin.

[Spock]

Russian minister sacked by Putin found dead

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7nvxzrvr0o

Russia's Investigative Committee says former Russian transport minister Roman Starovoit has been found dead, apparently with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
He was dismissed earlier on Monday by President Vladimir Putin.

Well at least he didn't fall out of a window.

[SteveG]

Falling out the window works if the car was doing 60mph at the time.

[atilla]

An effective way to deal with corruption during war.

Before that, Starovoit had served as governor of the Kursk region for almost six years, until May 2024. 
The region was partly seized by Ukrainian troops in August 2024 in a surprise offensive. Moscow only recently managed to drive out the Ukrainian forces, although in late June Kyiv said it was still holding a small area of territory inside Russia.
Starovoit's successor, Aleksey Smirnov, was only in post for a short while. He was arrested in April and was later accused of embezzling funds that had been allocated for the building of fortifications on the border with Ukraine. 
According to Russian outlet Kommersant, Starovoit was about to be brought in as a defendant in the same case.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7nvxzrvr0o

Very analogues to the situation across the border in Sumy, except in Sumy nobody has been found responsible.