VLADISLAV AVAYEV, 50

WHO: Putin intimate and veep of $400 million Gazprombank WHEN: April 18 WHERE: Found dead of a gunshot wound in his Moscow apartment, a pistol in his hand. His wife, Yelena, and daughter Maria, 13, were also killed and tortured.

WHY: An assassination staged to look like a domestic violence murder/suicide because the secret policeman turned banker had access to Putin’s personal accounts and knew where other powerful figures stashed their cash outside Russia.