Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The heir of top Putin crony Igor Sechin died suddenly at the age of 35 earlier this month and his death was apparently kept secret from the public.Ivan Sechin, the son of ...

Born in 1989, Ivan is reported to have worked as an analyst in Gazprombank, before being summoned to Rosneft’s offshore development department.

It is not known if Ivan has been awarded any shares by his new employer, his father already being a holder of around 0.0849% of the company following two rounds of share purchases last year.

It said Ivan Sechin, born in 1989, had joined last month as deputy head of a division involved in oil and gas exploration offshore and had previously worked at Gazprombank, Russia's third largest ...

Sechin, who worked alongside Vladimir Putin in the former imperial capital of St Petersburg and later under the president in the Kremlin, has run Rosneft since 2012. Rosneft accounts for about 40% ...