2 Russian oligarchs were found dead one day apart alongside their wives and children, reports say
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Vladislav Avayev, the former vice president of Gazprombank, was found dead of a gunshot wound in his Moscow apartment on Monday, Russia's state-run Tass news agency reported.
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Investigators wrote in their statement that they are prioritizing a theory that Avayev shot his wife and daughter, and then himself.
More than 2,000 miles away, in Spain, another oligarch Sergei Protosenya was found hanged, with his wife and daughter stabbed to death, Spanish TV channel Telecinco reported. His body was found Tuesday, Spanish outlet El Punta Vui reported.
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Mossos D'Esquadra did not assign a motive, but according to El Punta Vui, a working theory for investigators is also that Protosenya killed his family before hanging himself.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/2-russian-oligarchs-found-dead-spain-moscow-reports-2022-4
Things that make you go hmmm.
RockRaven
(14,969 posts)a locked hotel room, and ruled "natural causes" -- I can't remember the guy's name, but it was either in London or DC, IIRC.
James48
(4,436 posts)And he was found in the DC hotel in DuPont circle in 2015.
I remember because I stayed in that exact hotel several times before.
Cause of death: blunt force trama, inside his locked hotel room. Go figure: blunt force injuries to his head, neck, arms, legs, abdomen. Ruled as accidental death .
Seriously.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/2015-death-of-former-putin-aide-at-dc-hotel-ruled-accidental-result-of-alcohol/2016/10/28/f5b2a63e-9d1f-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html
zuul
(14,624 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)Putin or the Russian mob? Plenty of overlap between the two but they are not entirely the same. I wouldn't be surprised if these particular oligarchs, apparently living overseas, had dealings with the Russian mob.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)rickford66
(5,523 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)PSPS
(13,599 posts)Yeah, I guess it would be easier that way.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)The message.
housecat
(3,121 posts)KPN
(15,646 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,453 posts)bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)speak easy
(9,257 posts)Snoopy 7
(527 posts)a banker and energy owner, both things putin needs right now what a coinkydinky lol
NQAS
(10,749 posts)If they are being murdered, who's directing/doing the murdering? Putin and his army of assassins?
Ukrainian hit people?
Some other country's special forces?
Does this sort of stuff stir fear in others in the oligarchy? Are they next? Who's their enemy?
If not, how many dead would change their minds? Not two? Then three, four, more? Or is it who's highest on the oligarchy org chart?
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)Hekate
(90,705 posts)That was popular for awhile.
Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)Oligarchs.. and then killed them and staged it to look like suicide
Marcuse
(7,487 posts)C Moon
(12,213 posts)Knock off a couple of billionaires, problem solved for now.
They're like junkies getting their fix.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)why drag this out any longer
Raster
(20,998 posts)...in the U.S. to join him... you know solidarity and all that.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)"Oligarch over-indebted, insolvent" would be a big headline.
KS Toronado
(17,244 posts)70sEraVet
(3,503 posts)KS Toronado
(17,244 posts)Making sure everybody stays in line "or else". 70sEraVet here also Army 11B
70sEraVet
(3,503 posts)patphil
(6,180 posts)I don't believe for a second that these were both murder/suicides.
It's gang warfare.
Which side were these guys on? The same sides or opposite sides?
Is Putin reacting to an attempted coup?
Stay tuned, probably more to come.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,150 posts)they were discussing moving against, or financing a move against, Putin.
It's a conspiracy theory, but not necessarily a nutty conspiracy theory.