Eye Spy - May 2018

36 EYE SPY INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 115 2018

with a “slow and

painful death” by

people linked to the

Russian (and Turkish)

mafia if he didn’t kill

himself.

ALEXANDER PEREPILICHNYY, 2012.

Perepilichnyy was a financier who helped

expose fraud by Russian Government officials.

He died in Surrey, England in 2012 after

visiting Paris; it was reported that there were

“signs of a fatal plant poison” discovered in

his stomach. The probe into his death

continues today.

ROBBIE CURTIS,

2012. Curtis was a
      friend of Paul Castle,
      and like him, worked
      in property. He too
      killed himself, with
      US Intelligence
      reportedly believing
      he may have been driven to suicide by
      underworld players in Russia.

BORIS BEREZOVSKY,

2013. Berezovsky was
      an expat businessman
      and vocal critic of
      Putin. He was found
      dead at his home in an
      apparent suicide by
      hanging.

MI6 and MI5 worked together to thwart a previous assassination attempt on Boris

Berezovsky at the Hilton Hotel in London. This too involved a Russian national

UK politician Ian Austin, compared the upcoming

World Cup in Russia to the Berlin Olympics in 1936

and called for England to pull out of the tourna-

ment. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

agreed saying: “I think the comparison to 1936 is

certainly right... I think it’s an emetic prospect,

frankly, to think of Russian President Vladimir Putin

glorying in this sporting event.”

Hitler used the Olympic Games as a propaganda

tool to project an image of a new, strong and

unified Germany. He also attempted to ban Jewish

and non-white athletes. However, he gave up after

threats of a boycott grew too large.

UNDIPLOMATIC LANGUAGE OR AN

ACCURATE COMPARISON?

MORE CONTROVERSY

British Foreign Secretary Boris

Johnson. Inset: Jesse owens at the

1936 Olympic Games in Berlin

JOHNNY

ELICHAOFF, 2014.

Elichaoff was a

businessman and

the former husband

of TV presenter

Trinny Woodall. He

had battled painkiller

addiction, and

reportedly rolled himself off a shopping centre

roof in London after a string of oil investments

went wrong in ‘Project Moscow’.

SCOT YOUNG,

2014. Young was
      a wealthy ‘fixer’ to
      the super-rich and
      often fronted
      deals for Russian
      oligarch Boris
      Berezovsky. He
      was par t of a
      network of
      associates who funnelled Berezovsky’s cash
      through offshore companies, and repeatedly
      worried about being targeted by the Russian
      mafia. He was found impaled on railings
      beneath a London flat.

MATTHEW

PUNCHER, 2016.

Puncher was the

radiation expert who

discovered that

Alexander Litvinenko

had been given

Polonium-210. Five

months after a trip to

Russia, he was

found dead by multiple stab wounds. A

coroner ruled suicide.

NIKOLAI GLUSHKOV, 2018. Glushkov was an

associate of the late Boris Berezovsky, and

was questioned as part of a British inquiry into

the poisoning of Litvinenko. He was found

suffocated, just days after the Skripal attack.

Some suggest he was the victim of a sex

game which went wrong, and liken it to the

demise of Gareth Williams.

MIKHAIL LESIN,

2015. In the US,
      meanwhile, Lesin, a
      former adviser to
      Putin and founder of
      Kremlin-sponsored