6. Sergey Protosenya
The very next day on April 19 in a rented luxury villa in Lloret de Mar, Spain, yet another Russian billionaire would apparently take his own life and that of his wife and daughter. Sergei Protosenya, 55, a former director for Russian natural gas company Novatek, was found hanged in the courtyard of the luxury Spanish villa with the bodies of his wife, Natalya, and teenage daughter, Maria, found hacked to death inside.
Protosenya’s body was reportedly found with a bloodied knife and an ax nearby, However, suspicions arose when it was discovered that there were no bloodstains on his person, highly unlikely that he was responsible for this gruesome crime. It was also noted that no suicide note was found at the scene.
Their son Fedor, who had called the Spanish authorities when he could not contact his family, completely rejected the murder-suicide theory. In addition to his doubts, Protosenya’s former company Novatek released a statement suggesting that the idea that its former employee could be responsible for the deaths bears “no relation to reality.”
