4. Vasily Melnikov
On March 23 in a luxury apartment in Nizhny Novgorod, a large city on the Volga River in western Russia, a truly horrifying discovery was made. Russian businessman, Vasily Melnikov, was found dead alongside his wife Galina, 41, and their two children aged four and 10. They were all found stabbed to death in an apparent murder-suicide with reports saying the murder weapon was found at the scene of the crime.
The 43-year-old Melnikov owned Medical equipment supply company MedStom, and Ukrainian outlet Glavred, and made his fortune working for one of the medical companies affected by Western sanctions. Investigators claim that he was on the verge of bankruptcy due to the sanctions imposed in retaliation for the war in Ukraine and this was the reason he murdered his family and took his own life but few people close to the family believe this.
Sadly, Melnikov was only the first of a few more apparent murder/suicides in the Russian business community.
