By
JILL LAWLESS | March 16, 2018 2:51 pm
LONDON
(AP) — British police said Friday they have launched a murder investigation into
the death of London-based Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov after an autopsy
revealed that he died from compression to the neck.
Counterterrorism
detectives are leading the case “because of the associations Mr. Glushkov is
believed to have had,” the Metropolitan Police force said.
Russia’s
top agency for major crimes, meanwhile, said it has launched its own
investigation into Glushkov’s death, which it is probing as murder.
Glushkov,
68, was an associate of Boris Berezovsky, a Russian oligarch and strong Kremlin
critic who died under disputed circumstances in 2013.
Glushkov
was found dead at his south London home on Monday. His death came a week after
former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were left critically ill from
nerve agent poisoning in the city of Salisbury.
The
London police force said “at this stage there is nothing to suggest any link to
the attempted murders in Salisbury,” and they said there was no evidence that
Glushkov has been poisoned.
British
authorities say the substance that poisoned the Skripals is a powerful
Russian-developed nerve agent known as Novichok. A British police officer who
responded to the attack in Salisbury is in serious condition, and police say 131
people may have come into contact with the nerve agent.
U.K.
police say “there are no wider public health concerns” around the investigation
into Glushkov’s death.
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