WSJ: Berezovsky's strangled associate planned to prove Aeroflot’s connection with the FSB
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- October 22nd, 2018
One of the closest associates of Boris Berezovsky, the former deputy director of Aeroflot, Nikolai Glushkov, who died of strangulation , was planning to prove the connection of the airline with the Russian special services in court. About this, referring to documents from the London court, writes "The Wall Street Journal".
Since Soviet times, Aeroflot has been used by special services to send wages to agents all over the world. The special services also delivered illegal cargoes through the company, according to WSJ with reference to the widow of Alexander Litvinenko Marina.
In one of his interviews, Glushakov himself also stated that at the time of his arrival at Aeroflot in 1996, the company employed about three thousand FSB employees. At the same time, 14 thousand employees worked in Aeroflot.
The court’s materials state that Glushkov suggested that the managers of “the two main special services” of Russia pay their own salaries at the airline, since they are actively exploiting it. After this statement, he began to receive threats. In particular, “to tear off the head” and “put in prison” if Glushakov “continues to violate the rights of the FSB” was threatened by the head of the security service of the president of Russia Boris Yeltsin Alexander Korzhakov.
Korzhakov in the WSJ comment denied this data.
On the eve of his death, Glushkov told friends about plans to prove the connection of Aeroflot with the special services in a London court. However, shortly before the preliminary hearing in March 2018, he was found dead.
Recall, March 13, 2018 Glushkov's body was discovered by his relatives . In 2010, he received political asylum in the UK. In March 2017, the Savelovsky Court of Moscow sentenced Glushkov in absentia to 8 years in a general regime penal colony in a case of embezzling Aeroflot funds in the 1990s.
