Russian judge known for punishing the Kremlin's foes is found dead after falling from a high window in Moscow
- An investigation has been launched into the death of Natalia Larina, 50
- Investigators are checking one theory put forward in local reports which suggested she had lost a large sum of money to 'telephone scammers'
Larina had a young daughter, according to reports.
Investigators are understood to be checking one theory in local reports which suggested she had lost a large sum of money to 'telephone scammers'.
Shortly before her death, she allegedly reported to police that fraudsters convinced her that her bank account was under threat from people seeking to send her funds to help the armed forces of Ukraine.
She transferred her cash - said to be one million rubles (around £8,800) to another account, and in doing so became victim of a scam.
Many Russians have fallen for this type of fraud in recent months.
Sources say she became upset that she was 'deceived', and left a note.
However, there is no official confirmation so far of this version of events.
Larina was a criminal judge for more than 15 years, and her death came months after she suddenly quit the Tagansky Court.
She had acted as a judge in various high profile fraud cases.
In 2015, she remanded in custody artist Pyotr Pavlensky who set fire to a door of the FSB building in Lubyanka Square in a political protest.
Earlier she gave a judgement against the hardline National Bolsheviks.
And in 2011, Larina sentenced Ministry of Transport official Vladimir Makarov, accused of sexually abusing his daughter.
Larina is not the only high-ranking Russian official whose death from falling out of a window has aroused suspicion since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In December 2023, Vladimir Egorov, 46 - the Tobolsk City Duma deputy - dropped to his death from a third-floor window in the city.
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