Boris Berezovsky
Berezovsky Died Alone by Hanging in a Locked Bathroom
26 March, 04:22 2 U.K. Home
Office pathologists have determined that Boris Berezovsky died of hanging.
This would indicate that the man, whose life seemed to be ruled by selfish
greed and who would do anything to enrich himself, ended as selfishly as it
had been led. Near the end he tried to run back to the country he had fled
from in order to flee the country that had generously taken him in but sadly
for Berezovsky this was not to be and apparently, sadly for those who cared
about him, he ran to the only place he could. After a
postmortem examination, according to officials in the UK, the cause of death
of fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky was “consistent with hanging.” The
Themes Valley police report that a Home Office pathologist stated Berezovsky
was hanged and his body showed no signs that there was a struggle. British police
have said that Berezovsky left no suicide note and that there was no
evidence of injuries or damage that pointed to third-party involvement in
the sudden death of the fugitive oligarch. All signs point
to the fact that Berezovsky’s death was sudden and unexpected even for those
around Berezovsky. He apparently left no suicide note and there are reports
that it is unknown whether or not he left a will or instructions on where he
was to be buried. If he did leave a will it may have been with lawyers who
have made no comment to the press. Initially
speculation that he may have been poisoned was fueled by the fact the
authorities had called in biological, chemical and radiological emergency
response teams and had cordoned off the area surrounding the
ex-billionaire’s home in Ascot, Berkshire, not too far from London. These
suspicions may now be laid to rest as the Themes Valley Police have made the
announcement that his death bears the signs of hanging. What the exact signs
are the police have not said. This also brings to question how it was that
Berezovsky was reportedly found on the floor of the bathroom. Perhaps he had
merely let his feet slide out from under him as he hung from a bathroom
fixture. Some of the
western media are of course bringing up the death of Alexander Litvinenko,
who was poisoned with Polonium 210, as he was a close associate of
Berezovsky, but as more information comes in, it is a possibility that
Berezovsky had something to do with the death of Litvinenko and the fact
that an upcoming inquest into Litvinenko’s death may in fact expose a
connection, may have played a role in Berezovsky’s suicide, if it was in
fact such. This was stated recently by Michael John Smith an intelligence
expert who has been following both of these cases. The fact that
his body was not removed for almost a day after his death has further fueled
the speculation that his death was not accidental, and if he was in fact
found hanged, this would explain the delay as investigators combed the scene
for clues making sure absolutely no rock was unturned in a case the eyes of
the world are watching. Perhaps those who found Berezovsky’s body were
attempting to hide the fact of a suicide in order to obtain insurance money
or for other reasons and may have tried to stage an alternative scenario
which may explain why it took police this long to make an announcement and
why it took those who found the body so long to call emergency services. According to
verified accounts one of Berezovsky’s bodyguards had to force open a door to
one of Berezovsky’s bathrooms in order to determine if his boss was okay as
there was no response when he knocked and the billionaire had gone missing. It seems
unlikely that foul play was involved as he died alone and in a locked
bathroom and the absence of a ready will and the fact that he was broke
leaves out the motive of foul play by someone close to him ready to take his
money. The fact that the door was locked from the inside would rule out
strange assassination theories even by the most intrepid conspiracy
theorists but stranger things might happen. If the death
was a suicide, which it appears more and more that it was, it might be worth
noting that with Berezovsky’s business acumen and knowledge of the law and
business practices, including no doubt insurance company policies, there is
little chance he would have left a suicide note for the world to know about.
Undoubtedly he had life insurance and he knew his beneficiaries would not
receive anything if he committed suicide. The Guardian
reported there was a scarf at the scene and that witnesses reported that
Berezovsky had marks around his neck. The Guardian also reports that since
the loss of the court case against Mr. Abramovich, Berezovsky was in a deep
depression that apparently continued until his death. The widow of
Alexander Litvinenko told the Telegraph she doubted that he had committed
suicide but there are many signs he may have had a motive for taking the
easy way out. Not only did he recently lose a lawsuit against Roman
Abramovich, where he attempted to fabricate a case against the Russian
billionaire, but he was called out on his fabrications in open court by the
judge who called him an, “unimpressive, deliberately dishonest, inherently
unreliable witness who viewed truth as a transitory, flexible concept.”
Those words effectively obliterated what was left of his reputation. That
and his subsequent rants against the Crown and the UK authorities made him
seem a selfish figure convinced of his own righteousness and engaged in a
battle against the world. The suit
against Abramovich, seeking $5.6 billion for damages Berezovsky claimed were
owed to him due to “machinations” involving Sibneft the result of which he
claimed, caused him to be short changed and cheated, was supposed to infuse
his shrinking bank accounts with billions. Instead of refilling his coffers
with money gained from Abramovich, he instead was ordered to pay Mr.
Abramovich more than $5 million. Berezovsky also
recently lost more than $100 million in his recent divorce from Galina
Besharova, the largest divorce payout in UK history, and may have racked up
at least $100 million in legal bills since 2011. Recently
Berezovsky began selling his paintings and several properties pointing to
his growing desperation. That and his apology to Russian President Vladimir
Putin and his pleas to be allowed to return home, no doubt untouched, point
to a man at the end of his rope (excuse the paronomasia). Recently
Berezovsky was calling for the overthrowing of the Russian Government and
the Russian President so it seems rather odd that he would beg for
forgiveness and beg to return home and it seems extremely generous that the
President and the Government have been so gracious in their treatment of the
news of his death. The end of the wanted fugitive, who survived several assassination attempts, no doubt due to his double crossing business deals and reported deals with Chechen terrorists, seems a selfish and cowardly way out. But for a man who ran from Russia because of the problems he created for himself, then tried to run away from the country which had taken him in due to the same kinds of problems he created in his new homeland, it seems logical. Instead of standing his ground and facing the music, he chose to run to the only place he could, a place where he will have no escape from justice and will have no one to blame but himself.
Boris Berezovsky: A long way to fall after robbing billions, selling out his country
24 March, 2013
09:42 1 Russian
oligarch on the run Boris Berezovsky is done running, and with his death it
seems the end of an era. He met his end in the bath of his suburban London
home and even though the official cause of death has not been determined or
announced, already the world is beginning to look for answers and concoct
theories. What is true is that the man lived big, climbed high, and then
fell brutally from the very heights he had climbed. Toward the end he showed
signs of humility, but sometimes a little too little can be a little too
late. The mystery
surrounding the death of Boris Berezovsky continues to grow as more and more
facts continue to come in, with people all over the world trying to make
sense of the man’s death, which now seems to many of them to be as much of a
mystery as the man’s life. While experts
and pundits try to clarify and define who Berezovsky was and give their
opinion of a man the world felt symbolized what it meant to be a Russian
Oligarch, many of the facts surrounding his life seem to be getting blown
out of proportion or forgotten entirely. Regarding his
death, it is useless to put forth or contemplate endless conspiracy theories
as the official cause of death has not yet been announced although it is
most likely he committed suicide, or died of a heart attack. Those are the
first versions and in cases like sometimes the first versions are the most
honest ones. But there are questions that need to be answered. For example
there are reports that he may have died on Friday and that he was discovered
on Saturday morning but an ambulance was not called until sometime Saturday
afternoon. Why the delay? There are also
reports that radiological, chemical, biological and nuclear emergency
experts have closed off the entire scene, something I would not read too
much into as the UK authorities are more likely than not just being
thorough. Or are they? Berezovsky was
man who had made many enemies during his life but he was surrounded by a
cadre of body guards all of the time and since his humiliating loss of a
lawsuit against Arkady Abramovich for $5.6 billion, an expensive venture
designed to refill his deep coffers, he had kept a pretty low profile. Such a loss and
the humiliation of being labeled an unreliable witness in front of the
world, may have pushed Berezovsky over the edge. For those who want to
contemplate suicide as a motive, there are many reasons to believe that this
may have been true other than the lost lawsuit. Berezovsky’s
last wife recently left him which might be enough to drive any man over the
edge. He was also a man used to living an unbelievably, and in his case
unsustainable, extravagant way of life, and there are widespread rumors that
he was completely broke and selling off property to try to make ends meet. There was also
the mystery apology he made to President Vladimir Putin, in which he asked
for permission to return to Moscow and said he was sorry for the mistakes he
had made. Apparently he was rebuffed, after all he was a man who had
attempted to overthrow the Russian Government and the Russian President and
made an attempt to influence the last Russian elections in order to try to
open a door for him to return to Russia and be powerful again and regain his
past glory and influence. In all this he failed and was called irrelevant
and not to stick his nose where it did not belong, surely a humiliation. There was also
the inquest into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, who some say was ordered
assassinated by Berezovsky himself, or at least with his knowledge. And this
was by far not the only dirty deal that Berezovsky was involved in. The fact that
he was a fugitive from justice in Russia and attempted to paint a picture of
being persecuted due to his “political persuasion” was also a disingenuous
argument, he was a criminal who stole billions of dollars taking advantage
of the instability and disorder that befell Russia after the collapse of the
Soviet Union and made billions upon billions of dollars doing so. The fact that
he backed Chechen terrorists and along with Litvinenko attempted to initiate
the overthrowing of the Russian Government both from within and without are
also reasons that he may have been driven to suicide if these facts were
becoming increasingly widespread. Despite all of
the possibilities, the most likely is the simplest and most banal. He was
broke and for a man used to such an extravagant lifestyle that was enough to
drive him to suicide or simply cause him to suffer a heart attack. The Voice of
Russia spoke to Fyodor Lukyanov and in an interview he stated that
Berezovsky was one of the most talented and most visible figures who was
able to obtain almost anything while manipulating the situation that existed
after the fall of the Soviet Union. Mr. Lukyanov stated that at the end of
the 90s Berezovsky was one of the five most influential people in Russia but
that when that stage was over he happened to find himself out of the game. In an another
interview shortly after the death of Berezovsky Michael John Smith, the last
person who was convicted for spy ing for the Soviet Union in the world and a
man who has become an expert on intelligence and such affairs since his
wrongful conviction said that Berezovsky was not very loved in UK. Mr. Smith
characterized him as a rude and loud inconvenience and an embarrassment for
the government of the UK and some one who was in reality damaging Russian UK
relations. Mr. Smith also
broke the news that Berezovsky may have died on Friday night and that he was
found in his bath at about 11 o’clock in the morning by his bodyguard. Mr.
Smith also said that the ambulance was not called until 15:30 in the
afternoon, a fact from which many conclusions could be made. In a previous
interview Mr. Smith spoke about the likely connections between Berezovsky
and the death of Litvinenko and he gave his views on the apology to
President Vladimir Putin and his plea to be allowed to return home, no
doubt, without having to face the courts for his crimes. Mr. Smith said
he was a broken man, facing legal problems in the UK, who realized that he
had nowhere left to run and would have rather faced what he had to face in
Russia rather than what was coming up in the near future in the UK. Broken man or
not one can not be that sympathetic to a man who did everything and anything
to grab power and enrich himself, including but not limited to attempting to
overthrow governments.
Fugitive Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has died
in London at the age of 67 The report
emerged in the Facebook account of his son-in-law Yegor Shuppe. Boris
Berezovsky, a Russian business oligarch, government official and
former mathematician, was born on 23 January 1946 in Moscow. He graduated
from the Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute in 1968, then he worked as an
engineer, from 1969 till 1987 serving as assistant research officer, then he
headed a department in the Institute of Management Problems of the USSR
Academy of Sciences. Berezovsky conducted research
on optimization and control theory, publishing 16 books and articles between
1975 and 1989.
Berezovsky made his fortune in Russia in the 1990s when the country went
through privatisation of state property. He profited from gaining control
over various assets, including the country's main television
channel, Channel One. In 1997 Forbes magazine
estimated Berezovsky's wealth at US$3 billion. Berezovsky
helped fund Unity – the political party, which formed Vladimir Putin's
parliamentary base, and was elected to the Duma on Putin's slate. However,
following the Russian presidential election in March 2000, Berezovsky went
into opposition and resigned from the Duma. Later he moved to Britain where
he has been living until his death. Berezovsky
established the International Foundation for Civil Liberties, to "support
the abused and the vulnerable in society – prisoners, national minorities
and business people" in Russia and criticized Putin's record in the West. In 2012
Berezovsky lost a High Court case he brought against Roman Abramovich in
London over the ownership of Sibneft, where he sought over £3 billion in
damages. The court judged Berezovsky as an "inherently unreliable" witness,
who "regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be
moulded to suit his current purposes" and that "At times the evidence which
he gave was deliberately dishonest; sometimes he was clearly making his
evidence up as he went along in response to the perceived difficulty in
answering the questions." The court concluded that Berezovsky had never been
a co-owner of Sibneft. Voice of Russia, RIA, BBC, AFP, RT, Reuters
Sedition: Berezovsky (Oligarch on the Run) 31 May 2012, 02:28 He fled the Russian Federation with billions of
dollars that he amassed in criminal schemes after the collapse of the Soviet
Union (Mainly involving Aeroflot but who is keeping track?) and claimed that
he was being politically persecuted because the government was seeking to
prosecute him for his crimes. He fled the Russian Federation with billions of
dollars that he amassed in criminal schemes after the collapse of the Soviet
Union (Mainly involving Aeroflot but who is keeping track?) and claimed that
he was being politically persecuted because the government was seeking to
prosecute him for his crimes. With his billions he fled to the UK where he was
quickly given asylum and a new identity and quickly began working with MI-5
and 6 against the interests of the Russian Federation. He told them what
they wanted to hear saying anything to malign Russia and to paint himself as
a poor victim of the system. He also paid millions of dollars to political
parties and politicians and to anyone else who could help him and who was
willing to take his money to look the other way. Even though he has a record of funding Chechen
terrorists and direct involvement in other criminal enterprises including in
the killing of police the UK continues to give him asylum, and they continue
to protect him for the sole reason that he helps them to keep their
anti-Russian rhetoric and policies alive and well. In case you haven’t noticed every time it seems
that there is a concerted effort by the intelligence services of the West to
attack or to attempt to change the political or economic landscape of the
Russian Federation, somewhere in the mix Berezovsky’s name inadvertently
pops up. When the Litvienko affair caused Russian-British
relationship to almost return to cold war levels, whose name kept coming up
again and again? Gordievsky? Yes. Berezovsky? Yes. When efforts by the West were stepped up right
before the latest presidential elections to try to throw the country into a
state of upheaval whose name came up and who threw his two cents into the
mix? You got it, Berezovsky. The West has many of their agents in Moscow and
their efforts are becoming more open, concerted, active and energetic but
the agents they have, have so far proven to be ineffective and the Russian
people are much too intelligent to fall for the lies and the provocations
that the West keeps putting forward. Whose name keeps popping up?
Berezovsky. One of the most official bodies of state power, the
Russian Investigative Committee, does not do things lightly and takes its
responsibilities very seriously. They do not open cases where there is not
enough evidence to convict and they have opened two more criminal cases
against Boris Berezovsky, this time for publicly instigating mass-scale
unrest, or in other words “sedition”. According to the spokesperson for the Investigative
Committee, Vladimir Markin, in April Berezovsky posted statements on the
Internet calling for massive violent riots and for preventing the
inauguration of the legally elected Russian President. Not only were there
calls for violence but Berezovsky even promised to pay huge sums for evil
deeds against the state. And here we have that word again, “sedition”, for
that is exactly what Berezovsky is guilty of. If anyone were attempting to
do such things to the US Government, i.e. attempting to overthrow it, the
instigators would be targeted by Obama’s hit teams and liquidated, let there
be no doubt. Yet here in Russia, for some reason the government
is supposed to tolerate such things; to show that they are “democratic” and
allow dissent. Why doesn’t Russia do the same as the American government and
sanction extra-judicial executions? Russia could also come up with a hit list and the
president could also play God like Obama does and decide who lives and who
dies. One of the people on the first list could be Berezovsky. Why not? If
Obama can do it why can’t Putin or any other president for that matter? Boris Berezovsky’s candidacy to be on such a list
would be backed by almost anyone who loves Russia even the slightest bit.
Not just for his calls for the Russian opposition to wreck the presidential
vote, but also for attempting to interfere in the country’s internal
affairs. Even Russia’s real opposition leaders such as
Sergey Mironov are tired of Berezovsky. Mironov recently said: “Let Mr.
Berezovsky mind his own business and not pry into Russia’s internal affairs,
he is Russia’s enemy.” Berezovsky has even alienated Orthodox Christians
with his purported attempt to form a party with the word Christian in the
name. “I think Boris Berezovsky must first prove his
devotion to Christian values and donate the capital that he has to the
Russian Pension Fund or to charity foundations.” Yabloko leader Sergey
Mitrokhinwas quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. According to RT a Russian Orthodox Church cleric
said Berezovsky should create a “Party of the Antichrist” and mentioned the
Vsevolod Chaplin of the Church and Society Relations Department of the Holy
Synod as saying Berezovsky’s reasoning sounded like parts from the Gospel
that described the antichrist. Whatever the case may be, and whoever Berezovsky
really is, be he Mi-5 tool, Chechen terrorist financier, mafia-boss in
hiding or the anti-Christ, few would argue, it is time for the UK to wake up
stop harboring the fugitive. Or is it time for Russia to also start drawing
up lists? Just a thought, have a great day.
Berezovsky knows something will come out - Smith 7 January, 2013 18:57 http://www.jar2.com/Interviews/Michael_Smith.html
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