7. Alexander Subbotin
One of the more bizarre deaths on this list is that of a former top executive of Russian oil company Lukoil, the country’s second-largest oil producer, Alexander Subbotin, who was found dead in a basement used for “Jamaican voodoo rituals” in a house in the town of Mytishchi near the Russian capital on May 8. Reports said the house belonged to a self-styled healer, Shaman Magua (real name Aleksei Pindurin) who practiced purification rites, who Subbotin was apparently visiting to receive a healing ritual for hangover symptoms.
The apparent hangover cure involved the venom of a poisonous toad which caused Subbotin, who was reportedly highly intoxicated when he showed up at the house, to go into cardiac arrest and die. Although this bizarre cause of death has been reported, many have cast doubt on this by suggesting that because he was a former top manager of Russian energy company Lukoil, who called for a quick end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, he was marked for assassination.
