Boris Avakyan, 43, was found dead with 'slit wrists' in the toilet of the Armenian consulate in St Petersburg after he fled a court trial which implicated him in a £37million fraud View 3 Images Putin's ex-official Boris Avakyan was mysteriously found dead (Image: social media / east2west news)

A multi-millionaire Russian tycoon has mysteriously been found dead in a toilet after fleeing a court case. Boris Avakyan, who was married to a beauty queen, was discovered with “slit wrists” in the toilet of the Armenian consulate in St Petersburg.

The 43-year-old had been implicated in a £37million fraud trial before he escaped to the consulate where he sought extradition to Armenia – where has a duel citizenship. During a break in the court proceedings, he asked to smoke outside –

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