The son of Russian oligarch Sergey Protesenya, who died in Spain, claimed that his father, who was accused of murdering his wife and young daughter before committing suicide, did not commit suicide, but was killed. Sergey Protosenya, a multi-millionaire former gas manager, was found hanging in the garden of his summer home in Spain, while the bodies of his wife Natalya and 18-year-old daughter Maria were found inside the same property, attacked to death with an axe. Spanish authorities claimed that 55-year-old Protosenia killed his wife and daughter before killing himself in a fit of rage.
‘ MY FATHER IS NOT A KILLER’
But his son Fedor claimed that his father, vice president of the large Russian gas company Novotek, “could never harm” his wife and daughter, and suggested that all three members of his family were killed. “My father is not a murderer,” said Fedor Protosenya, a 22-year-old college student, who was not in the villa as he spent Easter at his family home in Bordeaux, France.
TOLD NOT TO DISCUSS THE CASE
He said of his father, “He loved my mother and especially my sister Maria very much. She was his princess. She can’t do anything to hurt them. I don’t know what happened that night, but I know my father didn’t hurt them.” he argued. Fedor said that the police told him not to discuss the case.
POLICE DOESN’T EXPLAIN
Protosenia did not leave any suicide notes, and his fingerprints were not found on the weapons used to kill his wife and daughter. There was no blood stain on his body. Spanish police refused to release the findings of post-mortem examinations of the three bodies over the weekend, citing ‘police investigation secrecy’.
The friends of the Russian oligarch also rejected the possibility that Protesenya might have murdered the family and pointed out the possibility that it was a murder.