Moscow banker kills his family and then self

A relative of the victims discovered the dead after being unable to contact them via phone. The woman was concerned and decided to pay a visit to her family. In one room, she discovered the remains of Gazprombank’s former vice president and his wife Elena. Maria, their 13-year-old daughter, was discovered dead in another room.

Because the deceased family patriarch, Vladislav Avaev, had a weapon in his hand, investigators decided that it was a murder and suicide. The cause of the tragedy is yet unknown.

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the City of Moscow confirmed the information about the death of the banker and his family.

It was later reported that Vladislav Avaev was in a legal dispute with his wife for the right to single-handedly raise their daughter Maria. He lost one lawsuit, while his wife withdrew the other one.

Avaev’s wife filed a lawsuit with the Nikulinsky court in October last year. The woman had not officially filed for divorce. On December, Avaev’s wife withdrew the lawsuit.

Noteworthy, Avaev’s daughter Maria suffered from epilepsy. The official used this argument at court. In 2014, he filed a lawsuit with the Nikulinsky Court against the Presidential Administration, where Avaev had worked as a deputy head of the department until 2012. He was given a 109,4-square-meter apartment under a social lease agreement. However, the official tried to obtain a larger apartment and filed a lawsuit against his former place of work that he subsequently lost.