I did read it in PdL forum. It was a very sad moment. We did play together dozens of PBEM and talked by Skype almost every day for years. We met, non virtually, in 2015 or 2016 summer at Puerto Santa Maria. A really nice person. His contribution to AGEOD games was impressive (translation, graphics, mods, AAR and so on).
There is a PdL podcast about AGEOD games, you can miss it.