Introducing: SAD OLIGARCH

Sad Oligarch is a modern true crime style investigative podcast series that looks into the many Russian oligarch deaths of 2022, unravelling a dark tale of Kremlin corruption and Russian political influence across the world.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the space of a year, more than a dozen
rich Russian businessmen have died in either brutal or mysterious circumstances.
Many fell out of windows, some had heart attacks, and
a few even killed their whole families before committing suicide.
The official line from the Russian authorities is that most

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of these deaths were accidents or violent consequences of mental illness.
Maybe that's true, but considering the majority of these dead
rich Russians are either outright oligarchs or have other links
to the Kremlin, it's possible that something much dark it
is taking place. These deaths have all occurred within the

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backdrop of the Ukraine War, a brutal invasion that has
shown the whole world that Russia's President Putin is both
ruthless and brazen. Maybe the Kremlin has been tying up
loose ends or making examples of those who go against them,
like several of the dead oligarchs did. For some walk
can actually be bad for business. This is sad oligarch

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With me, Jake Canrahan, I'll be investigating the numerous strange
deaths of these Russian businessmen. I'll be doing this with
my friend and colleague journalist Sergei Slipchenko. We believe that
to understand how these businessmen died is to understand more
realistically how the Kremlin truly operates. Listen the sad oligarch

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start in June fourteenth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.