Not your death

The British police investigate as the murder of the death of Nikolai Glushkov, a friend and business partnership Boris Berezovsky. This was reported on the official Twitter Scotland Yard.

The autopsy showed that the death of 68-year-old Glushkov came from "squeezing the neck", that is, from strangulation. "The London police department to combat terrorism, which leads the investigation, now considers the death of Mr. Glushkov a murder," the statement said.

The Scotland Yard emphasizes that so far no connection is seen between the death of Glushkov and the attempt in Salisbury on the former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. No signs of Glushkov’s poisoning were found, there is no danger to others.

On Monday late in London , the body of Glushkov was found in London. The investigation of the incident, originally qualified as "death from unidentified causes", was engaged in the national counter -terrorist police network.

Since 1989, Glushkov held senior positions in the structures of Berezovsky - "Logovaz" and "AvtoVAZ". In 1996, he was appointed Deputy General Director of Aeroflot appointed.

In 1999, Glushkov and Berezovsky became a defendant in Aeroflot’s case. Both of the withdrawal of most of the airline’s foreign exchange earnings was charged with the Swiss company Andava, the shareholders of which they themselves were. It also turned out that Aeroflot regularly took loans from another Berezovsky Swiss company-FORUS. In 1996-1999, in 1996-1999 Over 900 million dollars passed through these two companies, and a significant part of this amount was stolen.

Later, Berezovsky was transferred from suspects to witnesses in the case. Meanwhile, Glushkov in December 2000 was sent to a pre -trial detention center. In 2004, the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the businessman to 3 years 3 months of the colony on charges of abuse of powers. At the same time, on charges of theft and money laundering the defendant was justified. Glushkov was released in the courtroom, since he had already left for his term in jail.

However, the Moscow City Court, having examined the cassation appeal of the prosecutor's office, canceled the verdict and returned the case for a new consideration. In 2006, the Savelovsky District Court stopped the persecution of Glushkov on charges of embezzlement during the expiration of the statute of limitations, and for other accusations he gave him two years conditionally.

In 2010, the businessman received political asylum in the UK. Meanwhile, in Russia, a new business was opened against Glushkov. In March 2017, he was in absentia to eight years in a colony on charges of theft of $ 123 million at Aeroflot.

On Friday, the Investigative Committee of the death of Glushkov, who remained a citizen of Russia, opened a criminal case under Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder). The case was also opened under part 3 of Article 30 - paragraph "E" of part 2 of Article 105 (attempted murder committed in a generally hazardous way) in connection with the poisoning of Julia Skripal, who also has Russian citizenship. "The investigation will be carried out in accordance with the requirements of Russian legislation and the norms of international law. The investigation is planned to involve highly qualified experts in the investigation of highly qualified experts, as well as investigators are ready to jointly work with the competent authorities of Great Britain," said the representative of the Investigative Committee of Svetlana Petrenko.