The Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov, found dead in his London apartment in March 2018, was strangled with a dog collar so that the murder would mean a suicide. The British media wrote it citing the outcome of the findings of the coroner of a London court that is investigating the matter. The oligarch was considered a critic of Vladimir Putin. The proceeding has been ongoing since March 2018, when Glushkov, 69, was found lifeless in a villa in New Malden.
Glushkov fled Russia after being accused of fraud at the time he was deputy director of the Aeroflot and in 2010 he was granted political refugee status in Great Britain. In 2017, after a trial in absentia, he was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Russian court.
Glushkov was friends with Boris Berezovsky, found dead in 2013, and together with Alexander Litvinenko – killed with radioactive tea – was considered one of the leading figures in the London-based opposition to Putin. His death occurred a week after the former Russian intelligence agent poisoned with the Novichok in Salisbury Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia.
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