Telecommunication Minister Leonid Reiman, left, and Minister of Press, Television and Radio Broadcasting, Mikhail Lesin, right, confer over documents during a meeting on Aug. 28, 2000.(Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
A prominent Russian millionaire and former official under Vladimir Putin found dead last year in a Washington hotel died of blunt force injuries to the head, Washington's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner announced Thursday.
Beverly Seals, chief of staff, confirmed the finding involving the death of Mikhail Lesin, former head of media affairs for the Russian government. Initial reports placed Lesin's cause of death as a heart attack. He was found dead Nov. 5 at the Hotel Dupont, where he'd been staying.
In a joint statement released Thursday, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and Washington's Metropolitan Police Department identified the cause of death for Lesin, 59, as "blunt force injuries to the head." The statement also identified "other contributing factors" as "blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities."
The statement said the manner of death was undertermined.
At the time of his death, it was unclear why Lesin would have been in the United States.
He served as Russia's minister of press from 2009 to 2014, according to ABC News, often traveling with Putin on official trips.
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