LONDON: A post-mortem examination on the body of exiled Russian oligarch and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky has found the cause of death to be “consistent with hanging”, British police said.
The findings of a pathologist said there was no sign of a violent struggle.
Detectives are focusing on 67-year-old tycoon’s state of mind in the final days of his life. His friends have said he had been deeply depressed in recent weeks and was left distraught by his defeat last year in a multi-million-pound court battle with Roman Abramovich, another Britain-based Russian oligarch who owns English Premier League football club Chelsea.
Berezovsky’s body was found in his locked bathroom at his mansion in Ascot, an upmarket town to the west of London, on Saturday. AFP
