The death by strangulation in 2018 of a Russian businessman who fled Vladimir Putin’s regime was a crime made to look like suicide, decided a British forensic scientist.
Nikolai Glushkov, a critic of Putin and a close associate of billionaire oligarch Boris Berezovsky, was found strangled in his south-west London home in March 2018 – just days after a nerve-wracking attack on former spy Sergei Skripal, another Russian emigrant living in Great Britain.
Glushkov’s fatal injuries “could be consistent with a grip on the neck, applied from behind, and the aggressor being behind the victim,” according to the BBC.
Three years later, coroner Chinyere Inyama ruled that Glushkov had been killed illegally. The anti-terrorism police are investigating his death.
Glushkov’s former boss, Berezovsky, who once owned the Russian airline Aeroflot and spent millions on an anti-Putin denunciation campaign after the Russian leader forced him to flee in 2003, was hanged in an alleged suicide at the former house. his wives in London in 2013.
