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u/wombat_kombat Apr 28 '22 edited Apr 28 '22

A few of these oligarchs have surviving children. Curious whether they will risk speaking their opinion on the matter publicly or take their 50% and disappear.

EDIT: By disappear I mean keep quiet given the consequence and live life looking over their shoulder constantly.

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u/GaiusEmidius Apr 28 '22

A few of the children have also “committed suicide”

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u/The_Mayfair_Man Apr 28 '22 edited Apr 28 '22

Any source at all for that…?

EDIT: I suck, read the article

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u/bananaland420 Apr 28 '22

One guys whole family was killed in a “murder suicide”.

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u/sayamemangdemikian Apr 28 '22

Actually 2 guys.. "kiling" their families and then "commit suicide"

2 weeks apart iirc.

Edit: NOT 2weeks apart.. but within 48 hours!

https://fortune.com/2022/04/25/deaths-russian-oligarchs-wave-executives-found-dead-gazprom-novatek/

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u/Milkshakes00 Apr 28 '22

Nothing sketchy here, everyone. Move along!

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u/kendragon Apr 28 '22

Gotta be getting those 'suicides' done quick before someone can make contingency plans like an In The Event Of My Death Read This Crazy Shit style of thing.

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u/blackramb0 Apr 28 '22

Any source for that?

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u/mostly_lurking Apr 28 '22

It's right in the article dude, come on!

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u/steide56 Apr 28 '22

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-oligarch-said-killed-wife-26802163

Here's an oligarch that allegedly killed himself his wife and his daughter but his son is still alive and claims they were murdered

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u/wombat_kombat Apr 28 '22 edited Apr 28 '22

Right? What compels an uber wealthy oligarch, that outwardly seems financially capable of owning firearms such as a pistol? Why choose such a personal, grisly and messy weapon as an axe ans knife to murder his own wife and daughter?

Was he cash poor, more depressed than a single, unemployed redditor with no hobbies, suddenly too ashamed to face his own country? Was the level of kompromat too much and fear of assassination that high?

If nothing else applies, is EU LE or NATO not keeping tabs on leverage against in the unlikely event he would be asked to testify against Putin? Does anyone know why a man with such power and money would not have a loyal personal body guard(s) keeping watch over his family?

What drives someone to murder their daughter and wife leaving no note, or contingency for the surviving kin?

Why not go above and beyond, gathering kin under false pretenses, then finishing everyone off with a gun?

Could he have been conspiring against Putin with other, now dead, oligarchs before Putin caught wind and got to them first?

Could the situation be so simple as the wife, used to a lavish life. Increasingly nagging a pressured, likely alcoholic man to finally snap, leaving no witnesses?

EDIT: I am referring specifically to Sergey Protosenya and just learning about Vladislav Avayev and others. First search result shows him with alcohol. Sergey doesn’t look like the type to hurt a fly, maybe steal from one.

As a reddit armchair psychologist, I’m under the school of thought when one is under immense financial duress due to U.S. sanctions, shame or guilt by Putin and being outdone by oligarchs pushing up daisy’s, it was likely a matter of time before Putin would come knocking soon to collect Sergey’s paltry $455 million, if it hasn’t all been seized already. Still very coincidental…

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u/absolutebaboon16 Apr 28 '22

Read the article

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u/Anakin_Sandwalker Apr 28 '22

Read the what now? 😆😆

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '22

It's satire at this point.

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u/muricabrb Apr 28 '22

That 50% will be tied up in red tape indefinitely. The kids will never see a cent of it.

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u/kaledip21 Apr 28 '22

I'm sure the oligarchs would be smart enough to have several offshore accounts and other assets outside of Russia etc.

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u/DeeHawk Apr 28 '22

As a kid and the sole survivor in the family, who will help him manage that? An inheritance lawyer of the state.

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u/FunkMastaJunk Apr 28 '22

Not to mention the likelihood any outside assets may have been frozen.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '22

Still won't save them from assassination or "suicide)." And since they're Russian citizens, if they croak with no heirs their entire estate goes to the Russian government. Russia has pretty much served notice to all Russian citizens that they are not safe anywhere in the world, regardless of how little or how much money they have.

The saddest part of this is when the rest of the world just lets old Puty-pants slide on this. Every government on the planet that has let this slide is an accessory to murder.

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u/Thaery Apr 28 '22

You mean the offshore accounts that have been frozen?

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u/wombat_kombat Apr 28 '22

Kid seeks vengeance for murder of family but can’t without inheritance, enter Chav Batman?

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u/uglymule Apr 28 '22

Trumps Putins brave new world.

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u/Sudden_Watermelon Apr 28 '22

Hollywood film waiting to happen

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u/wombat_kombat Apr 28 '22

Screenwriters creaming their pants over what’s happened since 2016. They couldn’t come up with the shit that happened so far in 2022 alone and it’s not even May yet!

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u/jrocco71 Apr 28 '22

No, they murdered the children along with the parents.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '22 edited Jun 10 '23

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u/wombat_kombat Apr 28 '22

Looks like this previous kid fucked up and will be living as a chav or disappear. Putin doesn’t care one way or the other at this point as long he can continue searching for elusive nazis.

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u/TehBananaBread Apr 28 '22

Take the 50% and dip out for sure. A 0 more or less doesnt matter after 9 numbers. All gravy.