Anatoli Chubáis, who was against the war from the beginning, suffered from a sudden imbalance in the immune system
Although his environment assures that his health is improving and that there are no signs of poisoning, Anatoli Chubais, 67, is still hospitalized, according to the Russian agency TASS, the emblematic head of the “privatization plan” of the Boris Yeltsin era. after suffering from a sudden imbalance in the immune system. Until the end of March, Chubais was the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for relations with international organizations, but because of his dissent on the war against Ukraine, he left the post and fled abroad, to Turkey as his first destination.
The information about the Russian businessman’s hospitalization was provided by the daughter of the former mayor of St. Petersburg in the 1990s, Anatoli Sobchak, now deceased and mentor of the current Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Ksenia Sobchak assured via Telegram that it was Chubáis himself and his wife Avdotia Smirnova who informed her of her illness.
At the time of admission to the ICU of a European clinic that the Italian press puts in Sardinia, Sobchak said his condition was “very unstable and he had difficulty moving his limbs.” Chubáis reportedly said he had been diagnosed with ‘Guillain-Barré syndrome with a poor prognosis’. In any case, the doctors who treated him examined him in the room in protective suits against dangerous chemicals.
The World Health Organization (WHO) website describes Guillain-Barré syndrome as a “rare condition in which a person’s immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system.” The syndrome can affect anyone, but is more common in adult males. Most people make a full recovery in even the most severe cases, but Guillain-Barré syndrome can be fatal, according to the WHO. In recent months there have been mysterious “suicides” of top Russian businessmen or deaths under strange circumstances or in accidents. They all had in common their opposition to the war against Ukraine.
Chubáis headed the Russian technology consortium ‘Rosnano’ until December 2020, when he was appointed Putin’s representative to international organizations. The anonymous interlocutor quoted by TASS this Monday stated that “Chubáis went to hospital after showing symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Now his condition has improved» and although he still has motor problems, he can speak normally. His brother Igor told the Russian TV channel ‘Zvezdá’ on Sunday that “he will get better, everything will be fine, don’t worry. The man is strong, he has no chronic disease.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, for his part, spoke of “sad news” when talking about the businessman and wished him “a speedy recovery”. Peskov insisted that the Russian presidency “does not know the details of what happened” with Chubais. In May, Putin’s spokesman stated that the Kremlin had neither the capacity nor the desire to monitor what happened to his former adviser and his flight abroad. “He no longer works for us,” Peskov emphasized at the time.
Chubáis was the very person who recommended Putin’s name to Yeltsin to work in the Kremlin government, his first job in Moscow after leaving the mayor of St. Petersburg after losing the Sobchak elections. The oligarch was the most influential of a group of Russian economists who sought to lead the transition from the Soviet system to capitalism. He privatized and sold some of Russia’s largest industrial groups, from which he profited.
Source: La Verdad
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