EPSTEIN SYNDROME: Top Russian Oligarchs Commit Suicide Within Months Under Mysterious Circumstances, As Shown In A List Of High Profile Elites

Two Russian elites and their families were discovered dead in luxury houses in Russia and Spain this week, with the two incidents being discovered within 24 hours of each other. The evidence supporting these views is muddied by the fact that the occurrences occurred so close together, with the two oligarchs being the last of numerous who had died by suicide since the beginning of the year. The following is a list of all Russian oligarchs discovered deceased in unexplained circumstances since January.

Sergey Protosenya

On Tuesday, the death of Sergey Protosenya, the former senior manager of Russia’s energy firm Novatek, was discovered in a rented property in Spain, where the family was supposedly on vacation for Easter. According to Spanish media, the 55-year-old millionaire was discovered hung in the courtyard of his property in Lloret de Mar, while his wife and daughter were found in their beds with stab wounds. An ax and a knife were discovered near to Protosenya’s body, according to local news stations Telecinco and El Punt Avui.

According to Telecinco, police are looking into two scenarios: either the Russian oligarch murdered his wife and daughter before hanging himself, or the entire family was slain and the crime scene was subsequently constructed to look like a murder-suicide. On Thursday, Russian official agency TASS reported Protosenya’s death. The Protosenya family spent most of their time in France. Novatek is Russia’s second-largest natural-gas business.

Vladislav Avaev

On April 18, a day before Protosenya’s body was discovered in Spain, former Gazprombank vice-president Vladislav Avaev, together with his wife and children, was discovered dead in his multi-million dollar property on Universitetsky Prospekt in Moscow. A relative of the Avaevs was said to have discovered the dead after being unable to reach the family for many days. Investigators believe Avaev shot his wife and 13-year-old daughter before killing himself since the flat was locked from the inside and a handgun was recovered in his possession. Gazprombank, a privately held bank, is Russia’s third-largest bank by assets.

Vasily Melnikov

The death of millionaire Vasily Melnikov at his luxury property in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s sixth-largest city, was reported in the Russian newspaper Kommersant on March 24. Melnikov, who apparently worked for the medical business MedStom, was discovered dead in the residence with his wife Galina and two boys, according to police investigations published by Kommersant. They were all stabbed to death, and the knives used in the killings were discovered at the crime scene. Investigators decided that Melnikov killed his 41-year-old wife and 10- and 4-year-old children before killing himself, according to Kommersant, but neighbors and family are skeptical.

Melnikov’s firm, according to the Ukrainian news site Glavred, was experiencing massive losses as a result of Western sanctions. A probable encounter with a former business partner is another scenario, according to Glavred. However, investigators discovered no evidence of any external involvement or conflict in the Melnikovs’ flat, according to sources quoted by Kommersant. Melnikov’s wife was discovered in the bedroom, while the children were located in the children’s room. Melnikov was discovered with a severed artery in the restroom.

Mikhail Watford

On February 28, Ukrainian-born Russian businessman Mikhail Watford was discovered dead at his house in Surrey, England. Watford, whose name had been changed from Tolstosheya, was born in 1955 in then-Soviet Ukraine and had earned a name for himself as an oil and gas entrepreneur. A gardener discovered Watford, 66, hanging in his garage, according to The Daily Mail. According to the BBC, Surrey police claimed the circumstances surrounding his death were not suspicious. Watford, his Estonian wife Jane, and their three children resided in the house.

Alexander Tyulyakov

According to the Russian publication Gazeta, Gazprom’s Deputy General Director of the Unified Settlement Center (UCC) for Corporate Security, Alexander Tyulyakov, was discovered dead in a villa outside St. Petersburg on February 25. Tyulyakov’s body was found hanging in the apartment’s garage, according to reports. Police discovered a letter close to his body, leading them to think the oligarch committed suicide.

forensic specialists were already working at the scene of the apparent suicide when Gazprom’s security service staff arrived and cordoned off the crime scene, leaving police officers outside the house, according to an employee of the Investigative Committee for the Leningrad Region working on Tyulyakov’s death. Tyulyakov, 61, has been with Gazprom for approximately eleven years, most recently as the company’s Deputy General Director for Corporate Security and Human Resources.

Leonid Shulman

The first fatality related to Russian energy company Gazprom occurred in January, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. According to Gazeta and Russian media company RBC, 60-year-old Gazprom senior manager Leonid Shulman was discovered dead in the toilet of a cottage in the Leningrad area, next to a letter that led authorities to assume he died by suicide. According to RBC, Gazprom Invest claimed it was looking into Schulman’s death. “Leonid Aleksandrovich Shulman, our colleague and the chief of the transport service, has died. The situation is being looked into “According to RBC, the business stated. Shulman died while on sick leave, according to RBC.