Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov, who was an associate of Boris Berezovsky, was strangled by an unknown person in 2018, wrapping a dog leash around his neck.
Such conclusions of the investigation were made public during a hearing in the Coroner’s Court of West London, writes Reuters… It is noted that they tried to arrange this as a suicide.
Detectives believe that Glushkov was the victim of a professional murderer who could have been sent by the Kremlin. During the investigation, they interrogated 537 people, but it was not possible to establish the identity of the suspect or several suspects.
Glushkov was found lying face down in the corridor, and his neck was tied with a red dog leash. Also, traces of bruises were found on the body, and there was a two-step stepladder nearby and a blue rope.
During the autopsy, traces of violent death were found: fractures of the larynx and hyoid bone, as well as superficial injuries to the face.
Also, paramedic Dominic Bale, who was at the scene, explained that usually in cases of suicide, the stairs topple over. But in this case, she remained standing upright.
As reported OBOZREVATEL, about the death of 68-year-old Glushkov became known on March 13, 2018… Then the friends of the Russian businessman said that consider his death suspicious.
He was found dead at his New Malden home a week after being poisoned by Novichok, a former Russian double agent. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in Salisbury.
Glushkov fled Russia after being accused of fraud while working as deputy director of Aeroflot. In 2010, he received political asylum in the UK, and in 2017, a Russian court sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of embezzling £ 87 million from an airline.
He was an associate of the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who died at 67 in London.
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