Mystery deepens as Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov turns up dead in London
Glushkov, found dead from unexplained causes in his home, was a friend of Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky, whose 2013 hanging also remains unexplained
The unexplained death of a Russian man in the UK is being investigated by London’s counterterrorism police, 10 days after former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was poisoned with a nerve agent in the country.
Nikolai Glushkov, a prominent businessman whose associates include a prominent critic of the Kremlin who died in 2013, was found dead in his home on Tuesday, according to his lawyer, Andrei Borovkov.
Reports in British and Russian media say Glushkov, who was 68, was found dead at his home in New Malden, southwest London, by his family and friends.
One of his friends, the newspaper editor Damian Kudryavtsev, posted the news on his Facebook page.
Glushkov was a friend of Boris Berezovsky, a Russian oligarch who was found hanged in his London home in 2013. An inquest failed to determine whether he had killed himself or died from foul play.
London’s Metropolitan Police force confirmed that officers are investigating the “unexplained” death of a man found at a house in the New Malden late on Monday, but did not identify him by name.
It said counterterrorism detectives are leading the investigation “as a precaution because of associations that the man is believed to have had.”