Natalia Glushkova, the daughter of the former Aeroflot deputy director Nikolay Glushkov said her father's death looked like 'cheap, set-up' suicide
The daughter of a murdered Kremlin critic said his death will 'haunt' her forever as she recalled discovering his body in a 'trashy set-up of a suicide'.
Natalia Glushkova said she cries every day and feels as though she has been 'inserted into some sort of different reality' as she tries to cope a year after her father's death.
Former Aeroflot deputy director Nikolay Glushkov was found apparently strangled in his home in New Malden, south-west London, a week after the Novichok poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.
The body of the 68-year-old Russian businessman, a close friend of Vladimir Putin critic Boris Berezovsky, was discovered by his daughter on March 12 last year.
Miss Glushkova, who is in her 30s, has appealed for help to find out what happened to her father.
She said: 'My father was the most important person in my life and he was an amazing man. He was extremely caring, smart, funny and wise and he gave me so much support and love throughout my life, but especially so when I came to live in the UK, where we grew even closer.
'I will never forget the 12th March 2018 and I still live with the picture of my father when I found him that day. That image will haunt me for my whole life. It is something that I thought could only happen to other people or in the movies, but nothing could have prepared me for what I saw and don't think I will ever fully recover from it. Quite simply, it has left me devastated.
Nikolai Glushkov, 68, was found dead by his daughter, Natalia, right, at his suburban home in New Malden just eight days after the nerve agent attack on spy Sergei Skripal in March 2018
'Not knowing how or why he was killed or who did it makes this even harder. I know that there will be somebody somewhere who will have information that could help the police with their investigation. If you do, then I ask, please come forward and tell them.
'Nothing will be able to bring my father back, but getting some answers as to what happened, I hope, will in some way help me and my family start to move on and focus on what a great and wonderful man my father was, rather than what happened to him last year.'
She told the Guardian: 'I could see some traces of physical harm done to him.
'The picture was so trashy. It looked like a cheap set-up of a suicide.
'I had never seen any sort of depression in him,' she said, adding that she believed there could be a link between her father's death and the Salisbury poisoning.
A black Volkswagen van that detectives investigating the suspected murder of Nikolay Glushkov want to trace (Metropolitan Police/PA)
Police said at the time they wanted to find the driver of the Volkswagen Transporter filmed near Nikolay Glushkov's suburban house the night before he was found dead.
Mr Glushkov fled Russia after being accused of fraud during his time at Aeroflot.
After a trial in absentia he was sentenced to eight years in a Russian prison, convicted of stealing £87 million from the airline.
Mr Glushkov claimed political asylum in Britain and decided to live a quieter life in suburban south London before he was found dead
London forensics officers erecting sheeting at the home in New Malden of former Aeroflot deputy director Nikolay Glushkov (Image March 2018)
He was due to attend the Commercial Court in London to defend himself on Monday March 12, 2018 – the day his body was discovered.
He previously feared he had been poisoned in 2013 by mystery Russians who gave him Champagne, according to a paramedic who treated him.
Miss Glushkova said: 'Apparently I have his character, and somewhere deep inside I must be a strong person, but I don't think I'm in any way recovered.
'I can hold my tears, I can smile, I can live a life but what happens behind it, nobody will know, nobody will see, but it's just my little world in which I emerged since last year, and it is hard to deal with it, impossible to deal with it, and I think it will haunt me my whole life, but it's something I need to get used to now.'
Police outside the home of Nikolay Glushkov in New Malden, south-west London, in March 2018 (Yui Mok/PA)
Mr Glushkov's friend Boris Berezovsky was found dead in his Berkshire home in 2013 and the death of another of their circle, Badri Patarkatsishvili, is also unexplained
Miss Glushkova would not be drawn on who may have been responsible for her father's death, instead referring to the 'ongoing investigation'.
Mr Glushkov, an outspoken critic of Putin, was strangled but police were initially unsure if it was suicide
No arrests have been made since Scotland Yard launched a murder probe four days after the businessman's body was found.
However, detectives have contacted more than 1,800 witnesses and taken almost 400 statements. Officers have also viewed 2,200hrs of CCTV footage and 1,200 exhibits - including forensic samples, as well as physical items - have been collected as part of the investigation.
Miss Glushkova said it was 'literally devastating' to not know what happened to her father, urging people to 'care and spend time with the ones they love, as much as they can, and never think there is a tomorrow for somebody they care about'.
She added: 'I think life puts its own judgment to those who deserve it.
'And I am not in power to say what should happen to who, but hope dies the last and I just want this investigation to come to some good ending, rather than just remain open for the whole time.'
Miss Glushkova also revealed that she has been in touch with the families of her father's past business associates and friends, including relatives of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was fatally poisoned in 2006.
She said she has not returned to Russia and has no plans to do so.
'I am settled here and my life is here now,' she added.
The Metropolitan Police said officers had contacted more than 1,800 witnesses, viewed 2,200 hours of CCTV footage and collected 1,200 exhibits during their investigation.
Commander Clarke Jarrett, head of the Met's counter-terrorism command, which is investigating the murder, said: 'Mr Glushkov was murdered a year ago and we have made and continue to make extensive inquiries to establish the motive and identify anyone who may have been involved.
'We remain absolutely committed and determined to identify and bring those responsible for his murder to justice and I would urge anyone who may have information to contact us. Alternatively, you can contact the Crimestoppers charity, which is completely anonymous.'
Who was Nikolai Glushkov?
Nikolai Glushkov spent five years in jail in Russia before he was freed and claimed asylum in Britain
By David Wilkes for The Daily Mail
From a high-flying role at Russia's state airline, to jail, and then being forced into exile in Britain, the trajectory of Nikolai Glushkov's life all too chillingly reflects the perils of falling out of favour with Vladimir Putin.
Back in the 1990s, the debonair businessman Mr Glushkov worked for Aeroflot, where he held the title deputy director in charge of finance, and also for the oligarch Boris Berezovsky's car manufacturing company LogoVAZ.
But after falling out with Putin, Mr Glushkov was jailed for five years on charges of money laundering and fraud.
Claims have since emerged that Mr Glushkov had discovered that the airline worked as a 'cash cow' to support international spying operations.
Crucially, too, he was also a close friend of Mr Berezovsky, who, of course, had helped Putin to power in 2000, but later turned on him, accusing him of running a gangster state.
In his book The Putin Corporation, author Yuri Felshtinsky relates a claim that - 'on Putin's instructions' - if he wanted to obtain Mr Glushkov's release, Mr Berezovsky was told he would have to renounce all political activity and sell all his media holdings, 'everything, including the newspapers'.
Glushkov (right in recent years and, left, during his time in Russia) was jailed in absentia in Russia last year over allegations of financial irregularities
After serving his sentence and being released in 2004, Mr Glushkov was later handed another sentence for fraud, this time two years suspended, but then fled to Britain. He remained in the UK after being granted political asylum seven years ago.
For the last couple of years he made his home in New Malden, South-West London, in a suburban street where the average house price is £698,000.
There, he is believed to have lived alone and was regarded by neighbours as 'a nice man'. One said the Russian used to give presents to their children at Christmas.
But while he lived quietly at home, Mr Glushkov increasingly became an outspoken critic of Putin in his forays into public life.
In 2011, Mr Glushkov gave evidence in a multi-billion pound High Court case brought by Mr Berezovsky against his former business partner and fellow oligarch Roman Abramovich, who has maintained a good relationship with Putin.
He said that he was told he would be killed shortly before he was jailed for financial crimes in Russia in 2000. He fled to England on his release and claimed political asylum
Many observers remarked that the case sometimes seemed as much an attempt to embarrass the Russian president as to hold Mr Abramovich to account.
Mr Berezvosky's claim was rejected by the court and he withdrew from public life. Then, in March 2013, Mr Berezovsky, 67, was found hanged at his home in Ascot, Berkshire.
Suicide was suspected and police found no signs of a struggle, but a coroner recorded an open verdict into Mr Berezvosky's death.
Mr Glushkov was close to Putin critic Boris Berezovsky, pictured
Mr Glushkov was among friends and fellow Russian exiles who were sceptical he had had committed suicide, saying in an interview that he was 'definite Boris was killed.'
He also referred to the murder of former Russian spy and Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko, who was killed in 2006 when Russian assassins poisoned him with polonium, a highly radioactive metal.
'Too many deaths [of Russian exiles] have been happening,' Mr Glushkov said.
All the while, he himself was still being pursued by the Kremlin. Only last year he was convicted in absentia by a Russian court and prosecutors demanded an eight-year prison sentence for Mr Glushkov, claiming he had embezzled $122.5 million (£88 million) from Aeroflot.
They alleged he had conspired with Mr Berezvosky to carry out financial restructuring of the company and that the loans for this were then embezzled.
Friends of Mr Glushkov always saw him as a victim of politically motivated accusations. Now, in a tragic final twist, his life has abruptly ended at the age of 68.
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