Vladislav Avayev

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Sergey Protosenya [Protosenya] worked in the Novatek Group from 1997 to 2015 and has proven himself to be a wonderful person and a wonderful family man, a strong professional who has made a great contribution to the formation and development of the company. Spanish authorities are reportedly so far working on the hypothesis that the incident was indeed a murder-suicide. An archived page on gas giant Novatek's website, dating back to March 2015 and seen by Newsweek, named Sergey Protosenya as the company's deputy chairman after a shake-up of the management board. Spanish detectives will be combing through the evidence to establish whether the incidents were tragedies sparked by domestic violence, or whether they had been staged. The bodies were found by distraught 26-year-old daughter Anastasia after she was unable to get hold of her family. The following day former Novatek deputy chairman Sergey Protosenya, 55, his wife Natalya, 53, and 18-year-old daughter, Maria, were found dead at their Spanish mansion.

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On April 18, Russian state news agency Tass reported that Vladislav Avayev, former vice president of Gazprombank, and his wife and daughter were found dead in their Moscow apartment. “Two lives struck down by a structural problem that we must eradicate: machismo.” We hope that the Spanish law enforcement authorities will conduct a thorough and impartial investigation to determine what happened,” Novatek said.

The bodies of the trio were found on Tuesday, just one day after another Russian multimillionaire, his wife and 13-year-old daughter were found dead in ...

The teen son called the Catalan police on Tuesday when he was unable to contact any of his family members. Anastasia told officers that the gun had been in her father's hand when she found his body, reports said. 'I looked out the window - I thought it was fireworks... He was a nerd. And while initial reports suggested Protosenya used an axe and knife to kill the two women, no blood was found on his body. 'He had no reason to do that. There's no way a man like that could kill. Alongside the body of multimillionaire Vladislav Avayev, 51, was his wife Yelena, 47, and younger daughter Maria, 13. Protosenya (pictured) was Deputy Chairman on the Board of Directors for natural gas company Novatek for seven years. A woman was screaming. No-one else was screaming. Pictured: A forensic investigator at the house

Sergei Protosenya, formerly the chief accountant at Russian gas giant Novatek, is the latest to turn up dead, Spanish news site Telecino reports. Advertisement.

Vladislav Avayev, 51, was found with a fatal gunshot wound in his multi-million dollar apartment on Universitetsky Prospekt on April 18, local authorities said. He had served as the deputy general director of Gazprom's unified settlement center, or the treasury, for corporate security. Investigators are said to be examining two different scenarios: that Protosenya killed his wife and daughter before taking his own life, or that all three were murdered by someone who then staged the crime scene. Protosenya was said to be worth about 400 million euros. His death reportedly took place on April 19—just a day after a former vice president of Russia’s Gazprombank was found dead along with his wife and daughter in similar circumstances in Moscow. Police have not officially named the family, however.