Putin Ally's Son Dies in 'Strange' Circumstances

Ivan Sechin, the son of Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, died on February 5 at the age of 35, it has been reported.

The death of Sechin, who has worked for Rosneft since March 2014, hadn't been reported until exiled Russian oligarch and staunch Russian President Vladimir Putin critic Leonid Nevzlin drew attention to an entry in the national register of inheritance cases.

The entry in the registry is registered to Ivan Igorevich Sechin, born in 1989, who lived at a building that was previously described as "a house for President Putin's associates," independent Russian news outlets reported.

In a post on Facebook, Nevzlin, the one-time head of the Yukos oil giant, described the news as a "strange coincidence."

"Today, when we recalled with my friends and partners why the Kremlin war against Yukos began...it was today that I learned that Igor Sechin had just lost his son. The very same man who fabricated every blatant and bloody case against us. And still," he wrote, sharing a screen grab of the entry.

"Probably hard to believe but my heart goes out to a father who lost his child. How I sympathize with Alexei Navalny's mother. How I sympathized in recent years to Bory Nemtsov's mother, who left us this month," Nevzlin added. "My condolences to Sechin's family, who are forced to hide their grief."

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