Ex Kremlin official and Gazprombank vice president is found dead ‘with gun in his hand’

By Larry John Brown

Published: April 19, 2022 | 12:42 PM GMT

A former Kremlin official and Gazprombank vice-president has been found dead in his elite £2 million Moscow apartment by his 26-year-old daughter, police have said.

Alongside the body of multimillionaire Vladislav Avayev, 51, was his ‘pregnant’ wife Yelena, 47, and younger daughter Maria, 13.

The bodies – all with gunshot wounds – were found by the couple’s distraught adult daughter Anastasia, when she opened the apartment after failing to reach her family.

Investigators said they are keeping an open mind on the 14th floor massacre, carried out ‘with Avayev’s pistol’, and investigating any links to his work and personal life.

Anastasia told officers that the gun had been in her father’s hand when she found his body, say reports.

Avayev previously worked as a high-flying executive at Gazprombank, a key part of Vladimir Putin’s gas-for-roubles scheme to hit back at Western sanctions – in which Putin demanded foreign companies open an account with the bank.

The 51-year-old had left the privately run bank as vice-president, but it was unclear if he retained connections to it

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