The key facts
- The singer's father, Viktor Kungurov, suggested his son died in a fall from the third, not the ninth, floor
- In his version, Yevgeny may have been deliberately thrown off to present the incident as a suicide
- The singer died in Moscow on April 8, 2024; the family had earlier suspected the suicide was staged
A new version of the death
Viktor Kungurov, father of opera singer Yevgeny Kungurov, has suggested that his son may have died in a fall from the third floor rather than the ninth, as previously believed. In his view, the singer could have been deliberately thrown off to make the incident look like a suicide. He said this in an interview with RT, reports Life.ru.
What points to the third floor
The singer's father drew attention to the layout of the building near which the body was found: the first two floors are occupied by offices, while the third is a non-residential technical space. «We have a theory that Yevgeny was simply taken down there and thrown out to stage a suicide,» Life.ru quotes him as saying.
Background
Yevgeny Kungurov died in Moscow on April 8, 2024, and it was reported at the time as a suicide. Later, information emerged that the singer had been experiencing mental health problems, and afterwards the singer's family came to suspect the suicide had been staged. Thus, the father's statement is a continuation of doubts the family had already voiced about the official version, while the new detail concerns the presumed place of the fall. The publication gives no official findings of the investigation, so the father's version remains a hypothesis.
