Mon12Jan Oligarchs exec Nikolai Glushkov found dead in Ascot

[TonyGosling]

Who was Nikolai Glushkov? The Russian exile and friend of Vladimir Putin critic Boris Berezovsky found dead at his London home
SEAN MORRISON
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/who-was-nikolai-glushkov-the-russia n-exile-and-friend-of-vladimir-putin-critic-boris-berezovsky-a3789096. html

Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov has been found dead at his London home.

Counter-terror police are investigating after the 68-year-old was discovered by his family and friends on Monday night.

He was a close associate of late tycoon Boris Berezovsky, an outspoken critic of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Mr Berezovsky was found hanged at his home near Ascot, Berkshire, in March 2013, aged 67. A coroner recorded an open verdict after an inquest.

The exact circumstances of Mr Glushkov’s death are not yet known and police have not yet formally identified him.

Who was Russian businessman Mr Glushkov?

Mr Glushkov left Russia after he received a two-year suspended prison sentence for fraud in 2006 from a Moscow court and moved to London.

He was a former deputy director of Aeroflot, a Russian airline company.

In March last year, he was handed a second eight-year sentence in absentia and a one million Russian Ruble fine for allegedly defrauding the airline firm of $122 million during his tenure as finance director there in the late 1990s.

Mr Glushkov lived in the UK, in a home in New Malden, Kingston, south-west London, after being granted political asylum in the country in 2010.

What do we know so far about his death?

Counter-terror police have launched an investigation after he was found dead at his home in New Malden, south-west London, on Monday night.

The Met Police this afternoon confirmed the death of Mr Glushkov was being treated as "unexplained".

Scotland Yard in statement said: “The death is currently being treated as an unexplained. If there is a change in the status of the investigation, an update will be provided.

“At this stage the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command is leading the investigation as a precaution because of associations that the man is believed to have had.

“There is no evidence to suggest a link to the incident in Salisbury.”

Who was his close associate Mr Berezovsky and what were the circumstances of his death?

Mr Berezovsky was once one of the most powerful businessmen in Russia.

The tycoon amassed a fortune in the 1990s following the privatisation of state assets after the collapse of Soviet communism.

He was an outspoken critic of Russian leader Mr Putin.

He was found hanged at his home near Ascot, Berkshire, in March 2013, aged 67.

A coroner recorded an open verdict after an inquest.

Due to "contradictory" evidence, the coroner said he could not prove beyond all reasonable doubt that he either took his own life or was unlawfully killed.

[TonyGosling]

The murder of Nikolai Glushkov
March 17, 2018
https://johnplatinumgoss.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/the-murder-of-nikola i-glushkov/

Hunting the wren

The police have just announced that Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov, living in London at the time of his death, was murdered by compression to the neck. This came a week after the Skripal case in which, according to our press, there was an attempt by Russia to murder Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. Two days ago the Russian newspaper Kommersant (Businessman), owned by oligarch Usimov contained an article entitled “Strangulation on the Thames”.

Do I believe the Russians were involved in the so-called attempted murder of the Skripals? No. I believe it was a false flag set up by our government to scupper the World Cup. Do I believe that some Russian agents may have killed Glushkov? Quite possibly. That murder opens up a whole can of worms.

In one way it could have been done to demonstrate to Theresa May just how the Russian secret services commit murder. They have never used a nerve agent in the past and never tried to endanger anybody but the target. If this theory is correct then our government is to blame for Glushkov’s death. Without the Skripal nonsense this murder would have been unnecessary. Of course it may not be the Russians. That we will never know.

As with all real murder enquiries they are rarely solved within days, like the Skripal farrago. Before an arrest is made there needs to be a suspect who can be arrested. That is where Boris Johnson, already a laughing stock on the world stage, made his big mistake claiming a 9.98 out of 10 certainty that Vladimir Putin was to blame. Come on then Boris, tell us who killed Glushkov.

The Can of Worms

Amid all the hype of the Skripal false-flag a real murder took place eight days after that alleged event. Glushkov’s death was formerly denoted as ‘unexplained’ and it took our police two days to say pretty much the same thing as Kommersant had claimed earlier. My purpose here is not to describe the circumstances of Glushkov’s death, though I understand that his daughter found the 68 year old’s body.

Glushkov was a friend of Boris Berezovsky, who allegedly committed suicide. He was part of the get-rich quick oligarch fraternity of Russians who screwed their country and settled in the cesspool of London money-launderers. Some might refer to this clique as the Russian mafia. He had a top executive position with the Russian airline Aeroflot and was found guilty of large-scale fraud. He was sentenced to eight years in a penal colony for siphoning off millions of rubles belonging to Aeroflot.

Now here’s the rub. According to an article in OffGuardian an individual tried to help Glushkov escape from hospital and avoid justice. That individual was Andrei Lugovoi. The OffGuardian article which everyone should read says:

“It also turns out that Lugovoi not only had a close association with Berezovsky right up to the moment of Litvinenko’s death, but was also convicted by a Russian court shortly after Berezovsky fled Russia of trying to arrange the escape of Nikolai Glushkov, one of Berezovsky’s close associates, from a hospital where he was in pre-trial detention on a fraud charge.”

For those who did not follow the Litvinenko farce Lugovoi was one of the two people accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko, the other being Dmitry Kovtun. According to our media, and Sir Robert Owen who pronounced in the Litvinenko Inquiry, these were KGB agents, when in fact they were small-time criminals and friends of Litvinenko, Berezovsky and other oligarchs.

The problems this is likely to cause are massive. This murder will show that the two aforementioned Russians were not responsible for the death of Litvinenko, who was probably smuggling polonium 210 on behalf of Berezovsky. Therefore Russia could have had him murdered to bring to light the injustice of the false accusations against Lugovoi and Kovtun for the murder of Litvinenko. At the same time it shows what a load of tosh the Skripal business is and how much of our taxes have been squandered on the show to scupper the World Cup.

How this will eventually pan out is anyone’s guess but it will take a while and be much harder for fictional detectives like Miss Marples and Boris Johnson to solve in a fortnight. This story really could run and run. At the moment the score is Russia 2 – UK/US 0.

[outsider]

Regarding Berezovsky, it is interesting that the Russians say he had asked Putin to allow him to return to Russia, before he 'committed suicide' or was 'suicided) (like Skripal is also alleged to have done):
'Full translated transcript of the Russian MFA on the “Skripal” false flag operation':
http://thesaker.is/full-translated-transcript-of-the-russsian-mfa-on-t he-skripal-false-flag-operation/

'...Drawing an analogy, we can evoke the case of Boris Berezovsky who asked President Putin to allow him to come back to Russia, but then committed suicide in London. Such “accidents” never stop happening to our British colleagues. This is not an isolated incident, it has already become a trend with the potential to make conspiracy theorists out of all of us. I would very much like not to see such accidents happen. If they do happen, then let’s investigate them, if you want. If you are a civilised state, then make all the data available and let’s investigate it together. Blaming Russia is foolish. Russia will never answer to you......'

I'll be posting the same article on the Skripal thread, but it has relevance here as well.