OREANDA-NEWS The former top manager of Novatek, Sergey Protosenya, was found hanged from a tree in the courtyard of his house in the Spanish city of Lloret de Mar, the police of the Generalitat of Catalonia said in an interview with Russian media Lenta.ru. According to reports, the body of Protosenya's 53-year-old wife and daughter were found inside the house.

On April 19, the bodies of ex-top manager of Novatek Sergey Protosenya, his wife and 15-year-old daughter were found in a house in the resort town of Lloret de Mar (Girona province). The Catalan police are considering the version that the head of the family could have killed his wife and daughter, and later committed suicide.

Earlier it became known that Protosenya's property was estimated at €400 million. The billionaire lived in France, came to Spain with his family for the Easter holidays.

Earlier it was reported that Vladislav Avaev, who was a shareholder of Novatek and executive director of Gazprombank, was found dead with a gun in his hand in his Moscow apartment. His wife Elena and their 13-year-old daughter Maria were also shot dead. Avaev's eldest daughter found her family dead when she returned home because they didn't answer her phone calls.