Nikolai Glushkov was always adamant that his friend Boris Berezovsky had not taken his own life.
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The idea that the oligarch and self-appointed chief nemesis of Vladimir Putin had committed suicide was, he insisted, "bullshit" "I will never accept the idea," he said after coroners recorded an open verdict in his fellow exile’s death in Berkshire in 2013.
Five years on, the same questions will be asked of his own death. Glushkov, who was 68 when he died on Tuesday, rose to wealth in the 1990s as a lieutenant of Berezovsky, the oligarch who amassed immense wealth and influence under the Boris Yeltsin’s government but fled to Britain after falling out with Vladimir Putin.
The two men would later…
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