A sacked Russian official who was found dead with a gunshot wound in a park outside Moscow was implicated in an official investigation into the embezzlement of funds for strengthening the border with Ukraine,

Roman V. Starovoyt, the transport minister, had governed the Kursk region before Ukrainian forces occupied part of it in 2024.

Former Kursk governor and dismissed Russian transport minister Roman Starovoyt found dead in his car with gunshot wound, as investigators consider suicide as possible cause.