Boris Berezovsky died

Entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky died at the 68th year of his life in his house in Ascot near London. Egor Shuppe, the husband of the eldest daughter of Berezovsky Catherine, was the first to report on his death. It is reported that the body found a guard in the bath. The media manager and friend of Berezovsky Demyan Kudryavtsev did not confirm the version of suicide. “No! This is not so! Nobody knows this,” he said in an interview with RIA Novosti. “There are no external signs of suicide. There are no traces of syringes, there are no signs of taking some pills - it is not known what the heart has occurred from.” Earlier, lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky wrote on Facebook that Berezovsky committed suicide.

The British police launched an investigation into the circumstances of the death of Berezovsky. "Now the causes of death are considered as unexplained. There is a comprehensive investigation," RIA Novosti quotes the representative of the County Police Berkshire.

Press Secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov said that a few months ago, Berezovsky handed over to Vladimir Putin a repentant letter. The political emigrant allegedly admitted that he made a lot of mistakes, and asked Putin to allow him to return to his homeland, Peskov said on the Russia 24 television channel.

Berezovsky-a mathematician, in the 90s became an oligarch and influenced important domestic political decisions in the era of Boris Yeltsin. Berezovsky played a key role in the coming to power of Vladimir Putin, for which he subsequently asked for forgiveness from Russian citizens.

In 2000, Berezovsky emigrated. Together with his associate Julius Dubov in 2003, he received a political asylum in the UK. The British court admitted that the criminal prosecution of Berezovsky and Dubov was dictated by political motives.

In Russia, Berezovsky was accused of fraud, money laundering and an attempt to violent power and was sentenced to imprisonment in absentia.

In 2008, Forbes magazine estimated Berezovsky’s condition of $ 1.3 billion. In the same year, Berezovsky Badri Patarkatsishvili, the Berezovsky Partner, died, on which part of his assets was recorded. Berezovsky tried to sue the family of Patarkatsishvili, but then withdrew his lawsuit. Last year, he lost in the London Court a case against Roman Abramovich. Berezovsky tried to sue him 5.5 billion dollars for Rusal and Sibneft shares. By a court decision, Berezovsky was supposed to pay Abramovich $ 50 million on account of legal costs.

After a loss in court, Berezovsky put up several mansions and a rare Rolls -Royce for sale, closed the London office in a prestigious area and refused to finance Marina Litvinenko’s lawyers, a widow of a former FSB officer who died in London from Polonia poisoning. The other day, Berezovsky sold at an auction for 110 thousand pounds the picture of Andy Warhol "Red Lenin".

In 2007, Scotland-Yard said that Berezovsky was preparing an attempt that was prevented. The suspect was deported from the UK. Berezovsky himself said that he knew in advance about the attempt preparing for him. “Skotland -Jard officers informed me that an attempt is being prepared for me and that I know the person who will execute it. And this completely coincided with the information that I received three months ago from my sources in Moscow: a person who is familiar to you will come, he will kill you completely, at the same time that you had a clarification of business relations,” the businessman said. After that, according to Berezovsky, he left the UK, and the police, together with intelligence and counterintelligence agents, intercepted the alleged killer. According to the entrepreneur, the conspiracy "bore all signs of what was organized by Russian special services."

Berezovsky about his last meeting with Putin: