April 26, 2022

Two Russian gas tycoons, Sergei Protosenya and Vladislav Avayev, murdered their families and then killed themselves. The death of both occurred on the same date but in different places, Spain and Russia.

Protosenya hanged himself from a railing in the garden of the estate and Avayev’s body was found with a gun in his hand in his Moscow apartment. The world.

The tycoon in Spain

The Mossos d’Esquadra They have been conducting investigations into this case since last April 20.

As part of the evidence, the police found a knife and an ax with traces of blood next to Protosenya’s body. For seven years he held the position of vice president of the giant russian gas natural Novatek, whose estimated assets are approximately 400 million euros.

Another son of the couple, who lives in France, was the one who alerted the authorities, following trying to contact his mother and sister without any results.

Caso de Vladislav Avayev

Russian authorities also found the body of Vladislav Avayev, a former top Kremlin official and former deputy chairman of Gazprombank, along with his 47-year-old wife and 13-year-old daughter, in his Moscow apartment. According to the police report, Avayev had a gun in his hand and the bodies had multiple gunshot wounds.

In this case, it was Avayev’s eldest daughter, Anastasia, who notified the police following finding the bodies inside the house. In the house, closed from the inside, 13 weapons were allegedly found.

The main clue on which the crime is investigated is that of a double femicide followed by suicide. However, the authorities do not exclude other clues. At the moment they investigate the personal and professional life of the man.