London, the crime scene
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April 09, 2021 A former Russian oligarch in exile in London, Nikolai Glushokov, found dead in his New Malden home in southwest London in March 2018, was strangled.
The coroner established it.
Examinations on the body of the businessman, a critic of the Kremlin, showed evidence that his death, which was initially cataloged as a suicide, was caused by the "involvement of third parties", therefore it is a "murder".
Glushkov had left Russia after allegations of fraud during his tenure as deputy director of the Russian airline Aeroflot. He was granted political asylum in Britain in 2010. He was sentenced to eight years by a Russian court in 2017 for stealing £ 87 million from the company. He was due to report to the London Commercial Court to defend himself on March 12, the day his body was discovered by his daughter Natalia. The death occurred a week after the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia.