LONDON: British police on Friday launched a murder probe into the death of Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov in London, after a post-mortem found he died from “compression to the neck”. “A murder investigation has been launched following the results of a post-mortem into the death of 68-year-old Russian businessman Nikolay Glushkov,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

The retired Russian executive was found dead on Monday evening at his home in southwest London, where he had lived for two years. “A special post-mortem began on Thursday, 15 March and we received the pathologist report today (Friday, 16 March), which gave the cause of death as compression to the neck,” police said.—

Published in Dawn, March 17th, 2018