Mystery surrounds reports of the death of a Russian gas oligarch and his family inside their Spanish mansion. Investigators are reportedly trying to figure out whether the incident was a domestic murder-suicide or an organized hit. Their bodies were discovered just one day after another Russian gas boss was found dead in similar circumstances alongside his family in Moscow. Spanish news website El Punt Avui reported the bodies of Sergey Protosenya, 55, his wife and his daughter were found at around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19 at their home in the seaside resort of Lloret de Mar in Spain’s Catalonia region. A composite picture of Sergey Protosenya. Mystery surrounds the death of the Russian gas oligarch and his family inside their Spanish mansion. The alarm was raised by the couple’s eldest son, who lives in France, when he was unable to reach them, it said. The website reported the mother and daughter were stabbed to death, while Sergey Protosenya had apparently hanged himself. Other news sites said Protosenya’s wife Natalya was 53, and their daughter, Maria, had just turned 18. The incident comes amid similar reports from Moscow, of another executive linked to a gas company who also allegedly killed his wife and daughter before committing suicide. Former Kremlin official and Gazprombank vice-president Vladislav Avayev, 51, was found dead in his luxury Moscow apartment by his 26-year-old daughter on Monday, police said. The bodies of his wife Yelena, 47, and younger daughter Maria, 13, were also discovered. All had suffered gunshot wounds.
via newsweek: Russian Oligarch Sergey Protosenya and Family Found Dead in Spain
siehe auch: Mystery as multi-millionaire Russian gas executive is found hanged and his wife and daughter, 18, hacked to death in their Spanish villa days after ex Gazprombank official and his family were discovered dead in Moscow flat. Sergey Protosenya, 55, is believed to have carried out the murder-suicide. He was found hanged in the courtyard of his holiday home in Spain, and his wife Natalia and their 18-year-old daughter were found murdered inside. Police are reportedly working to the assumption he killed them before taking his own life. However, reports suggest the evidence is not conclusive. It comes after another Russian businessman, Vladislav Avayev, 51, was found dead in Moscow with his wife Yelena, 47, and their younger daughter Maria. Both men, found just one day apart, had separate links to Russian gas companies (…) Investigators are said to be working on the assumption that Sergey Protosenya, 55, killed the two women with an axe and knife, before taking his own life in the courtyard of his Lloret de Mar villa on Spain’s Costa Brava. However, local reports said evidence does not conclusively point towards this explanation, as no suicide note was found in the property and it appeared steps had been taken to ensure there were no fingerprints on the murder weapons. The investigation remains open, officials have said. The bodies of the trio were found on Tuesday, just one day after another Russian multimillionaire was found dead with his wife and daughter in their Moscow apartment, in another apparent murder suicide involving a gun. Alongside the body of multimillionaire Vladislav Avayev, 51, was his wife Yelena, 47, and younger daughter Maria, 13. The bodies – all with gunshot wounds – were found by the couple’s distraught adult daughter Anastasia on Monday. In both cases, the men had connections to Russian gas companies – many of which have faced western sanctions since Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine.