© Peter Nicholls / ReutersPolice vehicles and officers guard the home of Nikolai Glushkov while his corpse is removed, in New Malden, Britain March 13, 2018.
A post mortem revealed that Glushkov, an associate of the late-Putin critic and oligarch Boris Berezovsky, died from a compression to the neck.
Police released a statement on Friday confirming that they have launched a murder investigation into Glushkov's death. "A murder investigation has been launched following the results of a post mortem into the death of 68-year-old Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov," London's Metropolitan Police said.
The Met also says there is nothing to link the case to the attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury on March 4. Police also said there is currently no evidence that Glushkov was poisoned.
Comment: What a coincidence. The strangest thing about this is that it is NOT being connected to the Skripal poisoning, and hasn't yet been exploited as a Putin-directed assassination. Why would the British establishment ignore such a golden opportunity?