US prosecutors yesterday said the sudden death of a former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Washington hotel was an accident, and occurred after days of heavy drinking and successive falls.
Mikhail Lesin, 57, a former press minister accused of curtailing media freedoms in Putin’s Russia, was found dead at the Dupont Circle Hotel on November 5, 2015, prompting wild theories of conspiracy over the murky death.
But following a nearly yearlong probe, “the chief medical examiner of the District of Columbia has amended Lesin’s manner of death from ‘undetermined’ to ‘accident’ with acute ethanol intoxication as a contributory cause …read more
Source: Gulf times
