Russian crypto billionaire Vyacheslav Taran, 53, died after the helicopter he was traveling in crashed near Monaco after taking off from Switzerland.
The helicopter mysteriously crashed in good weather and reports in Russia suggest another unidentified passenger had been due to join Taran on the flight but canceled at the last minute.
Taran is the third cryptocurrency entrepreneur to die unexpectedly in the past few weeks.
Tiantian Kullander, 30, died ‘in his sleep’ last week, while fellow crypto millionaire Nikolai Mushegian, 29, drowned on a Puerto Rico beach just days after tweeting that he feared the CIA and Mossad were going to murder him.
Mushegian tweeted from his personal account: “CIA and Mossad and pedo elite are running some kind of sex trafficking entrapment blackmail ring out of Puerto Rico and caribbean islands. They are going to frame me with a laptop planted by my ex gf who was a spy. They will torture me to death.”
Daily Mail reported:
Since the crash that killed Taran happened in good, clear weather – and after another passenger reportedly cancelled last minute – mystery now surrounds the billionaire’s death.
Taran, the co-founder of trading and investment platform Libertex and Forex Club, was flying from Lausanne with an experience pilot in a single-engined H130 helicopter when it crashed at around 1pm on November 25.
A 35-year-old French pilot was also killed.
The deputy public prosecutor of Nice, who visited the scene, said the fault of a third party could not be ruled out.
Another unidentified passenger had been due to join Taran on the flight, but they cancelled last minute, according to local media.
Taran, a highly successful offshore specialist who has lived in Monaco for the past ten years, has three children with wife Olga, founder of Hello Monaco media.
Ukrainian news agency UNIAN claimed, without citing any evidence, that Taran was a ‘billionaire crypto businessman with likely ties to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service’.
It alleged he was linked to the SVR foreign espionage agency and was responsible for ‘laundering Russian funds through a system of cryptocurrency operations’.
The mysterious death of the crypto billionaire also follows the sudden death of Belarusian foreign minister Vladimir Makei.
As we have learned, there are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences either.
