Svetlana Petrenko, the official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee, reported the information."Today, in the Odintsovo city district, the body of the former Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, Roman Vladimirovich Starovoit, was found in a personal vehicle with a gunshot wound," she informed.According to her, investigators are currently establishing the circumstances of his death, but the main version is suicide.Earlier, a source from Izvestia reported Starovoit's death, but stated that the body was found in his house, not in a car."The body of Roman Starovoit was found in his house in the Odintsovo city district," the report said.Journalists reported that a shotgun was allegedly found next to him.At the same time, the Telegram channel VChK-OGPU claims that the former official shot himself with an award weapon that was presented to him by the Ministry of Internal Affairs leadership in 2023.The day before, former governor of the Kursk region Alexey Smirnov, who is under arrest for embezzlement during the construction of fortifications, gave testimony against Starovoit.Investigators are also checking Starovoit's possible involvement in violations related to the procurement of medicines for regional hospitals and the failed transport reform in Kursk, according to Mash.It became known on the morning of July 7 that Putin had dismissed Starovoit. Although the official reasons for his resignation were not named, the most discussed version is corruption during the construction of defense structures in the Kursk region, when Starovoit was governor there. These abuses may have affected the successful advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the attack on the region in August 2023.