Russian billionaire and crypto businessman dies in helicopter crash in France – Bitcoin News

Russian financier and cryptocurrency entrepreneur Vyacheslav Taran has been killed in a helicopter crash on French territory. The accident marks the latest in a series of deaths among crypto leaders and adds another name to a list of Russian billionaires who died this year under mysterious circumstances.

Libertex president dies when his helicopter crashes en route to Monaco

Russian businessman Vyacheslav Taran, founder of Forex Club and head of Libertex Group, has died in a helicopter crash in South-East France. The 53-year-old billionaire was the only passenger on the plane, which was piloted by a 35-year-old French national who was also killed.

Taran was traveling from the Swiss city of Lucerne to Monaco when the accident took place on Friday 25 November, near the Italian border. The news of his death was confirmed by Libertex, a trading platform for various assets including cryptocurrencies, and by the Russian Embassy in Paris.

On Monday, the diplomatic mission told the Tass news agency that the helicopter owned by Monacair crashed in the area of ​​Villefranche-sur-Mer. French authorities have launched an investigation into the case, but the exact cause of the accident has not yet been established.

Vyacheslav Taran’s death is the latest in a series of such incidents in the crypto space. On November 23, the co-founder of the Hong Kong-based company Amber Group, Tiantian Kullander, died in his sleep at the age of just 30. On October 28, crypto developer and co-founder Makerdao, 29-year-old Nikolai Mushegian, drowned in Puerto Rico.

Taran is also one of several Russian businessmen who have recently died under mysterious circumstances. The group includes the 39-year-old CEO of Russia’s Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, Ivan Pechorin, who drowned after falling off a boat near Vladivostok on September 10.

At least 10 top executives are said to have died this year either by suicide or in freak accidents, half of which are linked to two of Russia’s energy giants, state-owned Gazprom and privately owned Lukoil. In another example, oil company chairman Ravil Maganov, 67, died after falling from a window at a Moscow hospital, also in September.

Taran’s Forex Club, a group of companies specializing in contract for difference and retail currency trading, lost its Russian license in 2018 and was forced to shut down by the Central Bank of Russia. Founded in 1997, it was one of the largest such platforms in the country.

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Lubomir Tassev

Lubomir Tassev is a journalist from tech-savvy Eastern Europe who likes Hitchens’ quote: “To be a writer is what I am, rather than what I do.” Besides crypto, blockchain and fintech, international politics and economics are two other sources of inspiration.