Two former gas industry executives, both worth millions of dollars, have died in a matter of two days.
According to a Daily Beast report published yesterday, Sergei Protosenya, the former chief accountant at Russian gas giant Novatek, was found dead along with his wife and daughter at a Barcelona villa this week. Protosenya may have stabbed his wife and daughter to death and then hanged himself, or he may have staged the scene after a murder.
He died a day after the former vice president of Russia's Gazprombank. The body of a man was next to that of his wife. The girl was found in her bed.
Vagit Alekperov, a Putin ally and president of Lukoil, stepped down Thursday. The Beast says that the company called for an end to the invasion of Ukraine last month.
It's hard to guess what happened to the two men and their families because authorities only said they were trying to find out.
It's definitely not normal. Payments to Gazprombank will stop on May 31 because of sanctions. The countries that rely on Russian gas and oil are trying to make it harder for the country to continue its assault. It makes sense that industry barons would be opposed to Putin's continued war.
The Russian president is no stranger to poisoning people who try to get in his way. He could see that the opposition in his country was a big threat.
He might not have had anything to do with the deaths, but it is a possibility until proven otherwise.
The internet was aghast at the use of facial recognition software to identify dead Russian soldiers.
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