Nikolai Alexejewitsch Gluschkov

Nikolai Alexejewitsch Gluschkow ( Russian: Николай Алексеевич Глушков ; * December 24, 1949 in Maikop ; † March 12, 2018 in London ) was a Russian manager. He was murdered in his London apartment on March 12, 2018.

Life

Nikolai Gluschkow initially worked for the largest Russian car manufacturer AwtoWAS . Then he became deputy director of the airline Aeroflot . In 2004 he was sentenced by a Russian court to more than three years in prison for money laundering and fraud. In 2010, Gluschkow finally came to Great Britain and received political asylum there .

According to tagesschau.de, Gluschkow is said to have intensively supported the Russian opposition. He was a friend of Alexander Litvinenko and was friends with Boris Berezovsky . Berezovsky was a Russian oligarch and a critic of President Vladimir Putin . In 2011, Berezovsky sued the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich for $ 5 billion and Glushkov testified against Abramovich in the trial. Berezovsky was found hanged in his home near London in 2013. In May 2013, Glushkov accused the Kremlin of commissioning the murder of Berezovsky. Six months later, he met two men from Moscow at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol . He was concerned for his safety and had carefully chosen the meeting place because of the video surveillance at the airport. He later met the two Russians again on a trip to Bristol . He drank the champagne they'd bought with the men . Glushkov collapsed and was rushed to the hospital the next day with symptoms of intoxication. Glushkov and British investigators saw the case as an attempted murder.

A few days before Glushkov's death, the Russian ex-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in Salisbury . The British Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced after the Skripal case that she wanted to re-investigate Berezovskis and 13 other deaths with a possible connection to Russia. Buzzfeed claimed in 2017 that it had evidence that 14 murder cases, which were classified as unsuspicious by British authorities, were actually committed by the Russian state or the Russian mafia .

Nikolai Glushkov was discovered dead in his London apartment on March 12, 2018. The investigation was taken over by the anti-terrorist unit of the British police because he was friends with the Putin critic Berezovsky and was wanted by Russia on an arrest warrant. Britain had refused to extradite him. The autopsy revealed that the corpse showed traces of strangulation on the neck and Gluschkow died by "exerting pressure on the neck". The anti-terrorist unit released CCTV footage of a black delivery truck that was sighted on March 11 at the time of Glushkov's death. Investigators are investigating whether Glushkov, like the Skripals, was the victim of an assassination attempt commissioned by Russian secret services.

After Glushkov's murder, British police contacted several Russian exiles and advised them to be careful.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} London: Russian businessman murdered. In: tagesschau.de. March 16, 2018, accessed March 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Murdered Russian exile survived earlier poisoning attempt, police believe . In: The Guardian , September 7, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} London: murder investigation in the case of Nikolai Gluschkow. In: Deutsche Welle. March 16, 2018, accessed March 16, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Russian Nikolai Glushkov's London death now a murder inquiry . In: BBC , March 16, 2018.
5. ↑ Heidi Blake, Tom Warren, Richard Holmes, Jason Leopold, Jane Bradley and Alex Campbell: From Russia With Blood . In: BuzzFeed News , June 15, 2017.
6. ↑ Putin enemy found dead in London eight days after Skripal poisoning, as counter-terror police launch investigation . In: The Telegraph , March 13, 2018.
7. ↑ Judith Vonberg: Police 'contact Russian exiles over safety' after murder probe launched into death Glushkov . In: The Independent , March 17, 2018.