Police investigators in Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Monday discovered the decapitated body of the CEO of a local fertilizer company.

Police investigators in Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Monday discovered the decapitated body of the CEO of a local fertilizer company.

The chief executive, Alexei Sinitsyn, is believed to have died by suicide, according to a law enforcement source cited by the Vedomosti business newspaper.

Investigators told state news agencies that Sinitsyn’s body was found with an attached towing cable under a bridge outside the city of Kaliningrad. They said they were establishing the circumstances of his death.

Sinitsyn, 43, was the CEO of K-Potash Service, which has been developing the Nivensky-1 potassium-magnesium deposit in Kaliningrad since 2014. The ambitious project was originally planned to be launched in 2021, but has since been pushed back to 2032.

  • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Decapitation is one of the potential outcomes of an improperly orchestrated hanging, though that’s more for a capital punishment. Usually people hang themselves with a short rope and choke themselves out.

      • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Hahaaaaa…

        Very good, but it’s ‘hanged’.

        But hung also works, my apologies.

          • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            This feels like one of them literally and figuratively things.

            As an englishperson i feel inclined to despair. About a lot of things, not so much this though. Thanks for setting me straight

            • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              1 hour ago

              It might be less common in the UK (eg I know you guys still keep the lay/lie distinction commonly but it’s pretty muddled in the US these days), but you can find usage notes in US-based dictionaries:

              the past and past participle hung, as well as hanged, is standard. Hanged is most appropriate for official executions

              he was to be hanged, cut down whilst still alive … and his bowels torn out
              —Louis Allen

              but hung is also used.

              gave orders that she should be hung
              —Peter Quennell

              Hung is more appropriate for less formal hangings.

              by morning I’ll be hung in effigy
              —Ronald Reagan

              https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hang

    • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Sounds like it was a metal towing cable, like from a winch? I could definitely see that taking a head off easier than a sturdy rope.