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| Paramedic says Nikolai Glushkov believed he was poisoned |
| 2018-09-08 |
| [BBC] A Russian who was murdered in Britain last March believed two men from Moscow had tried to poison him five years earlier, it has been reported. Nikolai Glushkov was found apparently strangled in his home in south-west London a week after the Novichok poisoning of the Skripals in Salisbury. The Guardian has now revealed he was allegedly poisoned in 2013 after he shared champagne with two Russians. The paper says the police are reinvestigating the incident. Mr Glushkov - a prominent Russian businessman and former deputy director of state airline Aeroflot - was jailed for five years in his home country in 1999 after being charged with money laundering and fraud. After being given a suspended sentence for another count of fraud in 2006, he was granted political asylum in the UK in 2010 and became a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Potentially related: Western Journal - Russia’s GRU: A Cold War Spy Power with the Cruelty of ISIS |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Is this an official Official roving assassin team? Actually a serious question when you remember the chaos in pre-WW2 Nazi Germany: everybody had their own spies and foreign agents... Is the Putin's Boys or one of his Corrupt oligarch's cronies adlibbing with cyanide? |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-09-08 10:18 |
| #2 ^Remarkably ineffective ones? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-08 03:58 |
| #1 It would appear the Russians have a very active cadre of international traveling enforcers and assassins. Perhaps we should not be too surprised. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-09-08 00:54 |