Police have launched a murder investigation into the death of the Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov after a pathologist concluded he died from compression to the neck, suggesting he may have been strangled by hand or ligature. Glushkov failed to show up at court in central London on Monday and his body was discovered in south-west London that evening. In a sign that the Glushkov case is also becoming politicised, Russia’s Investigative Committee announced on Friday that it had opened a murder investigation into the death. In 1999, as Berezovsky fell out with Putin and fled to the UK, Glushkov was charged with money laundering and fraud. The former world chess champion and Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov said he was “not surprised” Glushkov was murdered.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2018 16:01 UTC