Pavel Antov, a wealthy Russian politician who founded the meat conglomerate Vladimir Standard and criticized the shelling of Ukraines capital, died Saturday after an apparent fall from the third floor of his hotel in the Rayagada district in India, per The New York Times .

Antov had been traveling with his friend Vladimir Budanov, who died of an apparent heart attack on Antovs 65th birthday two days before the fatal fall. Both hotel and hospital staff alerted local police to the deaths with Antovs fall remaining under investigation.

Whether Mr. Antovs death is a suicide is a matter of investigation, Rasmi Ranjani Pradhan, who serves as an inspector with the Odisha Police Department in Rayagada, told local news outlets.

While Odisha police described the deaths as unnatural in a tweet on Tuesday, the BBC reported that the departments superintendent, Vivekananda Sharma, said Budanov died of a stroke and that Antov became so depressed after his death that he too died.

According to Russian state news agency TASS per CNN , Antov who was a member of the United Russia parliament party was the richest civil servant in the country in 2018 and earned 9.97 billion rubles, or $137 million, that year.

Antovs death follows several suspicious deaths of high-profile Russian oil chiefs , aviation tycoons and energy executives . It also comes on the heels of an anti-war message he allegedly posted online.

Its extremely difficult to call all this anything but terror, a message on Antovs WhatsApp account said last June, after Russian missiles struck Kyiv and killed a man and injured his 7-year-old daughter and her mother, per the BBC.

The businessman and lawmaker pledged his support for President Vladimir Putin in June 2021 and denied ever posting the statement. Antov called its appearance an unfortunate misunderstanding and a technical error. The message subsequently vanished.