Andriy Pavlov, the younger brother of the late Kryvyi Rih Mayor Kostiantyn Pavlov, was found dead on Oct. 18 at home in Kryvyi Rih, according to police and media reports.
The Dnipropetrovsk regional police have released a statement that a 46-year-old man was found in his apartment with no signs of violent struggle. The circumstances of the death are still being investigated. The police did not name the victim.
News outlet Channel 112 cited Kryvyi Rih City Council deputy Viktoria Tretyak in confirming that the deceased man is Pavlov. Local news outlet Perviy Gorodskoi also cited law enforcement officials in reporting Pavlov’s death.
The body was found at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 18 by a friend checking up on the victim after work. According to the friend’s testimony, the deceased had called him at 5:07 a.m. and asked him to buy water and visit him, as he had been feeling unwell as the previous day.
When the friend arrived, the victim said he was feeling ill and would stay home to rest. The friend offered to call him an ambulance, but the man refused.
Throughout the day, the friend phoned the man multiple times but his calls went unanswered. Finally, the friend returned to the apartment after work and discovered that the man had passed away.
Just two months prior, Pavlov’s brother, Kryvyi Rih mayor Kostiantyn Pavlov, was found dead, next to a rifle in a puddle of blood in the village of Vil’ne in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The police had opened a criminal investigation.
Three weeks later, the police ruled the death a suicide and closed the case. Members of Pavlov’s pro-Russian party Opposition Platform – For Life rejected the investigation’s findings as “blatant lies,” insisted that the mayor was murdered and demanded for the authorities reopen the case.
