There has been a string of mysterious deaths among Russian oligarchs lately, and the latest victim was found dead in his home in Spain. Police are still trying to determine the cause of death, but it is believed that he may have been poisoned.
This is just the latest in a series of deaths among Russian businessmen who have fled to Spain to escape prosecution back home.
Russian Oligarchs Killed In Spain
Vladislav Avayev, an ex-vice president of Gazprombank, was found shot to death at his apartment in Moscow on Monday, according to the state-run Tass news agency.
Although the victims’ identities were confirmed by an unidentified source, Tass reported that the Moscow investigations department did not include them in its official statement regarding the case.
Another Russian oligarch Sergei Protosenya was discovered hanging, and his wife and daughter had been stabbed to death more than 2,000 miles away in Spain, according to Spanish TV station Telecinco. Tuesday, according to Spanish news outlet El Punta Vui, his body was discovered.
According to Telecinco and the Russian state news agency, he was discovered holding an axe and a knife that were both covered in blood.
Former Vice President and Chief Accountant of Novatek, a sizable gas firm with connections to Gazprombank, was Protosenya.
According to Telecinco, he was spending Easter in a rented luxury property with his wife and daughter in the coastal Catalan town of Lloret de Mar.
Protosenya’s son, who was abroad in France, raised the alarm after no one answered the phone, according to Telecinco, and police were informed of the fatalities.
The Catalan police force, Mossos D’Esquadra, announced on Tuesday that it is looking into three fatalities but did not identify the victims. When Insider questioned the force about additional details on Protosenya’s passing, a representative pointed them to the public statement.
El Punta Vui reports that while Mossos D’Esquadra did not specify a motive, a working assumption among detectives is that Protosenya murdered his family before hanging himself.
El Punta Vui reported Protosenya’s death without identifying any sources and noted that he did not leave a suicide note or have any bloodstains on his body.
The 2022 episodes are notable in that none of the slain oligarchs was known to have publicly criticized the invasion of Ukraine.
In addition, none of them appeared on the lists of international sanctions that were created in the wake of the invasion.
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