The son of the Russian oligarch accused of killing his wife and daughter assures that his father was murdered: "Dad was not"

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New hypothesis in the crime of

in which the Russian oligarch

allegedly murdered his wife and daughter with an ax and then committed suicide: the murder of the entire family.

This has been assured by

's son to the

newspaper .

The Russian oligarch accused of massacring his wife and teenage daughter before committing suicide has been killed, his son claims.

According to the investigation

, 55, executed his wife

and their daughter

before committing suicide in an unusual fit of rage while the family enjoyed an Easter holiday on the Costa Brava last week.

However, his son

claims that his father, who had been vice president of the major Russian gas company

, "could never harm" his wife and daughter and suggested that all three of his family members were killed.

"My father is not a murderer,"

told the

.

Sergey Protosenya

did not leave a suicide note, and no fingerprints were found on the weapons (an ax and a knife) used for the crime.

There were also no blood stains on his body.

At the moment, the investigation is under summary secrecy.

Fedor

, a 22-year-old university student, was not at home because he was spending Easter at the family home in Bordeaux, France.

Speaking to the

,

defends his father saying: "He loved my mother and especially

, my sister. She was his princess. He could never do anything to harm them

. He didn't go."

Fedor

said the police had told him not to talk about the case.

He sounded the alarm when he was unable to contact any of his relatives by phone on Tuesday last week.

The Mossos went to the villa and found Sergey

hanged in the courtyard and the mutilated bodies of his wife ,

, 53, and

inside the house.

The head of the Mossos d'Esquadra, Commissioner Josep Milan, stated that the evidence suggested that the deaths were the result of a double murder and suicide with

as the main suspect.

"The investigators are focusing on one person who committed suicide and two people who were murdered in his house, this is what we are seeing," he explained after the discovery of the bodies.

However, his son's version is also joined by that of a family friend,

, who, like

, is convinced that Sergey did not do it: "Sergey did not do it.

." . It's impossible. I don't want to talk about what could have happened in the house that night, but I know that Sergey is not a murderer."

The oligarch's death is the

of Russian gas company executives and their families linked to Russian President

's inner circle .

Just days earlier, the body of

was found in his elite Moscow penthouse alongside his wife

and 13-year-old daughter

in another apparent murder-suicide.

Avayev

, 51, was the chairman of

, a bank set up to work for Russian gas giant

, and had also been a

official .

In February, the battered and butchered bodies of top Gazprom executives

and

were found in their luxury apartments in an elite housing estate near St. Petersburg.

Russian natural gas giant

, of which

had been deputy chairman before retiring with a £300m fortune, also questioned whether he could have been responsible for the brutal killings.

In a statement,

said: "Sergey Protosenya established himself as an outstanding person and a wonderful family man, a strong professional who made a considerable contribution to the formation and development of the company. Unfortunately, media speculation has arisen about this subject, but we are convinced that these speculations bear no relation to reality".

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