The strangulation death of a Russian businessman who fled Vladimir Putin’s regime in 2018 was a murder that looked like suicide, according to a British coroner.
Nikolai Glushkov, Putin’s critic and close partner of billionaire oligarch Boris Berezovsky, was found strangled at his home in south-west London in March 2018, just days after a nerve gas attack on the spy Sergei Skripal, another Russian emigrant living in Britain.
According to the BBC, Glushkov’s fatal injuries “could be consistent with a neck strap applied from behind and the assailant being behind the victim”.
Three years later, forensic major Chinyere Inyama has ruled that Glushkov was illegally murdered. Anti-terrorist police are investigating his death.
Former Glushkov chief Berezovsky, who owned Russian airline Aeroflot and spent millions on a campaign to denounce Putin after the Russian leader forced him to flee in 2003, was hanged in an alleged suicide at his ex-wife’s home in London in 2013.
