Two Russian gas tycoons kill their families at the same time in Lloret and Moscow and commit suicide

Two Russian billionaires, Sergei Protosenya and Vladislav Avayev, gas tycoons and businessmen, would have murdered their families before taking their own lives, at the same time, in Spain and Russia.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have been investigating since last April 20 the death of a family in a house in the Els Pinars urbanization in

(Gerona), after finding three bodies.

According to police sources, the man, Sergei Protosenya, 55, would have killed his wife, 53, and a 16-year-old daughter, and then committed suicide by hanging himself from a railing in the farm's garden.

The bodies of the women appeared covered with sheets and with numerous stab wounds.

Next to the body of the man, for seven years vice president of the Russian natural gas giant

, the police found a knife and, in fact, an ax with traces of blood

The agents entered the house after another son of the couple, who lives in France, alerted the emergency services as he tried to contact the mother and sister without success since Monday night, according to police sources.

3,500 kilometers away, on the same day, in Moscow, Vladislav Avayev, a former senior

official and former vice president of

, was found dead in his

apartment along with the bodies of his wife,

, 47, and their daughter minor,

, 13. According to information released by the Russian police, the man had a gun in his hand and the three bodies had gunshot wounds.

The main clue on which the crime is investigated is that of a double femicide followed by suicide, but it is not possible to exclude other clues at the moment: the man's personal and professional life is being investigated.

The bodies were discovered by Avayev's eldest daughter,

, when she arrived at the apartment after trying in vain to reach her parents by phone.

In the house, closed from the inside, 13 weapons were allegedly found.

Gazprombank

is the key bank in the scheme devised by Vladimir Putin for European companies to pay for Russian gas in rubles: according to his strategy, importers must open two checking accounts with the institution, one in rubles and the other in foreign currency;

pay the amount due in foreign currency and wait for the bank to complete the conversion by moving the equivalent of the amount paid to the ruble account, from which the payment is finalized.

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