A Gazprom employee found dead late on Saturday in western Moscow did not work as a top manager at the gas monopoly, the Gazprom press office said on Sunday.
Earlier reports said that a Gazprom top manager, Sergei Klyuka, who held the post of deputy head of the finance department at Russia's energy giant Gazprom, had been found dead in his car on a street in western Moscow. According to preliminary investigation, Klyuka died from a single gunshot wound to the head, the reports said.
"Sergei Klyuka, indeed, was found dead last night. Law-enforcement authorities are investigating the cause of his death. Klyuka held the post of chief economist at Gazprom's financial and economic department and, therefore, was not a top manager as was reported by some media," the press office said.
Investigators believe that Klyuka could have committed suicide because police found the body and a Czech-made CZ-75 automatic pistol in a garage that belonged to the victim.
Klyuka, 36, left home early on Saturday morning to meet a relative at a railway station. He never showed up at the meeting and did not answer phone calls, which prompted his wife to call the police.
MOSCOW, October 17 (RIA Novosti)
