Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, was found dead outside his home in Weybridge, Surrey, in November 2012. He had fled to the UK in 2010 after falling out with a series of powerful clients in Russia, the inquest heard on Tuesday. Giving evidence by video link from Moscow, Perepilichnyy’s lawyer, Dmitry Lipkin, said he met Perepilichnyy in December 2010 in London. The inquest heard that Perpilichnyy was being sued by Dzhirsa, a Moscow-based business consultancy whose general director is Dmitry Kovtun. A public inquiry concluded that Kovtun poisoned Litvinenko, a critic of Vladimir Putin, with a radioactive cup of tea in 2006.

Source: The Guardian April 10, 2018 11:50 UTC