A Russian businessman who fled Vladimir Putin’s death in 2018 was a suicide-like murder, a British coroner has ruled.
Nikolai Glushkov, a Putin critic and closest aide to the temporary billionaire oligarch Boris Berezovsky, was found strangled in his home in south-west London in March 2018 – a few days after a nervous gas attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal, a other Russian emigrant living in Britain.
Glushkov’s fatal injuries “could be similar to a neck grab being inflicted from behind and the attacker being behind the victim,” according to the BBC.
Three years later, senior coroner Chinyere Inyama ruled that Glushkov had been killed illegally. The police against terrorism are investigating his death.
Glushkov’s former boss Berezovsky, who once owned the Russian Aeroflot airline and spent millions on an opposition campaign against Putin after the Russian leader forced him to flee in 2003, is in a suspected suicide in the house of his ex-wife was hanged in London in 2013.
