Four dead are connected with the Russian state energy giant Gazprom.
At least five famous Russian businessmen have imposed on hands since late January, with three of them allegedly killing members of their families before committing suicide, according to CNN./strong> or one of its subsidiaries.
According to Russian state media RIA Novosti, on January 30, 2022 in the village of Leninsky near Leningrad was found dead top manager of “Gazprom”.
RIA reported that a death note was found at the scene and that investigators are investigating the death as a suicide. Russia's national television and radio company, RenTV, has identified the husband of Leonid Shulman, head of Gazprom Invest's transport department. ». Alexander Tyulak. Russia's independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that he committed suicide.
CNN asked Russia's Investigative Committee to comment on the two cases, but received no response.
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Mikhail Watford, a Russian billionaire of Ukrainian descent, was found dead at his home in the English county of Surrey on February 28.
Surrey police told CNN that the death was being investigated and that a hearing would take place on July 29.
Another Russian businessman, Vasily Melnikov, was found dead with his family in Nizhny Novgorod in late March, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported./p>
Melnikov owned MedStom, a company that produced medical goods. According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, on March 23, 43-year-old man, his 41-year-old wife and two children aged 4 and 10 were stabbed.
The committee did not name Melnikov, but the age of the dead and the scene correspond to the report.
[Investigators] are considering several versions of the incident, including the murder of children and his wife by the head of the family with subsequent suicide, “the committee said.
Earlier this month, two more Russian businessmen were killed in apparent homicides and suicides.
Former Gazprombank Vice President Vladislav Avayev was found dead with his wife and daughter in his Moscow apartment on April 18, Russia's state news agency TARS reported.
Citing a law enforcement source, TARS said that the authorities are investigating the Avaevs' death as a suicide. contact them by phone or get to the apartment because the door was locked from the inside.
Igor Volobuev, a former vice president of Gazprombank who recently left Russia for Ukraine, told CNN he did not believe Avayev committed suicide.
“His job was to therefore, to engage in private banking, ie to deal with VIP-clients. He had very large sums of money at his disposal. So he committed suicide? I don't think so, “Volobuev told CNN.
Just a day later, on April 19, Serhiy Protosen, the former head of the gas company Novatek, which is partly owned by Gazprom, was found dead north of Barcelona. The bodies of his wife and daughter were found nearby, an official source close to the investigation told CNN last week.
The protester, his wife and daughter were found at their home in Lloret de Mar. , a Mediterranean resort near Barcelona.
According to the source, the bodies of two women with traces of violence were found in a luxurious family home, and the body of Protosenia was found in a garden outside. The case is being investigated as double murder and subsequent suicide in a domestic violence case.
In a conversation with the Daily Mail, Protosena's son questioned the version of events, suggesting that his father had been killed instead.
“He loved my mother and especially Maria, my sister. She was his princess. He could never do anything to harm them. I don't know what happened that night, but I know that my father did not harm them, “said Fedor Protosenya, who was away at the time of the murder.
