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Russian Billionaire In Exile Boris Berezovsky Commits Suicide - The First Cyprus Casualty?
Just your ordinary run of the mill Russian billionaire oligarch in exile who had so much money he was terminally depressed... or just the opposite, and the first tragic casualty of the Cyprus capital controls which are about to eviscerate a whole lot of Russian wealth (and ultraluxury Manhattan real estate prices)?
Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has died at the age 67, according to a Facebook post from his son-in-law Egor Schuppe. Details regarding the nature of his death are yet to be released.
His death has not been officially confirmed, and details have not been disclosed.
According to Schuppe, Berezovsky was recently depressed. He failed to keep in touch with friends and acquaintances, and often chose to stay at home rather than go out.
Damian Kudriavtsev, the former CEO of Kommersant Publishing House also commented on the businessman’s death saying he passed away at 11:00 GMT in London.
On his twitter account, Kudriavtsev said there were no signs of a violent death.
Aleksandr Dobrovinksy, a famous lawyer and head of Moscow-based The Alexander Dobrovinsky & Partners law firm has said that Berezovsky committed suicide.
“Just got a call from London. Boris [Abramovich] Berezovsky committed suicide. He was a difficult man. A move of disparity? Impossible to live poor? A strike of blows? I am afraid no one will get to know now,” the lawyer said on his social network page.
BBC confirms the death:
Berezovsky has been found dead at his home in Surrey.
The circumstances of the death of Mr Berezovsky - a wanted man in Russia, and an opponent of President Vladimir Putin - are not yet known.
A former Kremlin power-broker whose fortunes declined under Mr Putin, Mr Berezovsky emigrated to the UK in 2000.
Last year, he lost a £3bn ($4.7bn) damages claim against Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich.
Mr Berezovsky claimed he had been intimidated by Mr Abramovich into selling shares in Russian oil giant Sibneft for a "fraction of their true worth".
The allegations were completely rejected by the London Commercial Court judge, who called Mr Berozovsky an "inherently unreliable" witness
His name was Boris Berezovsky.
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ekm - you post some very thought provoking ideas. Much appreciated.
Thx a lot.
People who are born and grew up in the west live in a bubble.
Like for example the idea to tax 15% of italian deposits. This is lunacy.
That's where italian and other international western mafia has the money.
There is one thing to rob from russians and chinese, there's another thing, totally different, to rob from your own bad guys.
you think like a russian. or at least like an east european
born and lived for the first 19 years of my life in Albania during which I tasted communism.
Came to Canada in 1999 when I was 27.
I've long contended the most aware folks tend to be those whose allegiance to a particular nationstate-flag gets interrupted by the reality of living abroad.
the better to see how different cultures work (on/in their peoples minds), observation/correlation, awareness may arise.
fascinating times, eh.
I leave specific predictions to others cuz you're way better at it! To me, this is just more proof the West is dead and the oligarchs are merely fighting over the carcass like they did when the Soviet Union imploded.
OK, one prediction: In 3 years it will be commonplace for people in West to be bartering household items on the streets.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/02/euro-greece-barter-poverty-c...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/birth-barter-how-one-greek-town-dropped-eu...
Poster BINGFA located in USA here on ZH says that he barters.
http://barternews.com/mappage/default.htm
http://www.u-exchange.com/barterusa
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-26/rise-of-the-barter-economy
It seems to be a 12 billion dollar industry in USA
ha! you have been researching! some more grist. . .
put "barter networks" into a search engine folks, see what alternatives exist outside of supporting the bankster-systems. . .
"Again and again, this seems to me like INTERNATIONAL ELITE INFIGHTING."
Indeed. Like the general population, Elites can be separated into those who are descendants of liberal hunter-gather culture and those who are descendants of the conservative pharonic culture.
They too have been enemies for thousands of years.
Oops there goes another water bug.
Probably have that ole oligarch's money already put to work even as the corpse is still warm.There are other ways than stealing from poor people that banksters get money. That's why they call them banksters.
Watch these nimble apes. See how they clamor over one another.
He was Russian? I thought he was a jew. I guess we can take it as Putin's answer to international financial mafia in the Cyprus affair.
tzar nicholas must be smiling in his grave
Putin is from that line, a white Russian not a bolshevik commie two faced lying bastid of the Rotchild gangster bankster Trilateral Commission Zionist sort.
Here's a guy who made his billions only because of the actions of GOVERNMENT.
Sound familiar? Yet the governments are never held to account...only the "evil" capitalists - who include, unfortunately, many men who ARE self-made...
Trade his life for those of his family?
JUst in case any testy European political leaders start to think they should actually stand up for their people and national interests before those representing the NWO and international banksters and consider for one nanosecond withdrawing from the EU,never forget the power of a suicidal impulse,the likelyhood of an accident or the pot of Polonium tea to persuade minds.
When Russia started going capitalist, shares in companies were distributed to the employees. Of course at the time, these tiny shareholders had no idea what a stock was. The Russian mob bought up many of these shares.. This is where the fortune came from. He left Russia and was granted asylum in Britian because of his incredible wealth. There has been a price for his head for a long time. With due respect to chainsaw weilding late night visitors thats all that should be said.
Anyone heard from Boris Alotovkrap recently?
He contracted toxoplasmosis from some undercooked grilled cat.
So he was visiting China then?
The Chinese know how to cook a cat, unlike Comrade Alatovkrap.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-22/ecb-set-fair-cypriot-standard-l...
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ROR!
Explains why Just Killed Cat, or JKC for short, having much growing popularity as Chinese citizenism fastfood restaurant chain.
JKC franchise giving profitable for AnAnonymous in concurrence with scheme of extorting the cat owners, harvesting the cats.
It was the furball that did him in. He even said it himself. "Must learn shave pussy"
The Russians are Coming
"that was no heart attack" - Willie Cicci
It is not impossible that this is a fictious death. Nor impossible that he was suicided. Only don't know.
1. The UK desperately needs money,
2. The Inheritance rate is 40% of the value of the estate over the first 325,000 pounds.
Look for more suicides.
As the intrigue deepens, the dynamic Cyprus revelations in M.E. Synon’s Irish Daily Mail blog today -- that provide an incredible blueprint of how the Cyprus developments mirror the architecture of Communism -- are too critical to pass up. So I want to provide just a couple more excerpts from Synon to this teaser I posted earlier:
“But above all, there is what happened over the night of the 15th on the sealed-off upper floors of the European Council building. It was the best illustration yet of why a former senior European Commission economist now refers to the EU as the New Soviet Union: the treatment of the President of Cyprus that night showed just how the power over the member states has shifted away from democratic control and into the hands of the unelected elite of a transnational European empire. And what happened to the Cypriot president that night could happen to any Taoiseach.”
Here’s more from Synon:
… Before I can explain what this Cyprus crisis means to Ireland, I have to dust off some Soviet-era vocabulary: nothing else will do.
First, nomenklatura. This was the name given to the self-propagating Communist Party elite who controlled Soviet government, industry, finance and most of the caviar.
… It started on the Friday evening when Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the eurogroup, called an emergency meeting after the European summit. According to the (Wall Street) Journal, ‘Just after 5 p.m., finance ministers, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, ECB executive board member Jorg Asmussen and the EU’s economic-affairs commissioner, Olli Rehn, filed into a meeting room on the fifth floor of the Justus Lipsius, which houses the EU’s ministerial meetings and summits.’
Now, this is significant: ‘Cyprus’s newly elected President Nicos Anastasiades stayed behind in the country’s delegation on the seventh floor.’ The democratically-elected president was not allowed in the room as the unelected Olli Rehn began with his plans for how to get €5.8bn out of Cypriot bank depositors.
Mr Rehn wanted a straight ‘haircut’ on all deposits in all banks. But then Christine Lagarde said they must gouge between 30 percent and 40 percent from all deposits over €100,000 in the two main Cypriot banks.
The horrified Cypriot finance minister said this couldn’t happen. He began the first of several scrambles upstairs to where President Anastasiades was being kept in isolation. Of course he was. This is how an empire treats uncooperative colonial natives. In the 19th century, Belgian colonial gang-masters would lock Congolese wives alone in windowless sheds until their husbands harvested the right amount of rubber.
… I am not the only one to see that Soviet similarity [of the pressures used in Cyprus]. I go back to that former senior commission economist I mentioned at the top. He is Bernard Connolly. I have quoted before from the new edition of his book, The Rotten Heart of Europe.
Mr Connolly was infamously forced out of his job in 1995 when he wrote the book questioning the prospects of monetary union. From his vantage point as one of the nomenklatura, Mr Connolly saw the truth of the ambitions of this elite. They wanted ‘to complete the elimination of sovereignty, law and political legitimacy in Europe, freeing elites – a European nomenklatura – from any residual constraints either of democratic control or law.’
To do this, they have persuaded the ‘useful idiots’ across the member states to suppress the results of referenda and to topple democratically-elected governments ‘in manoeuvres reminiscent of Stalin’s tactics in Eastern Europe after the war.’
… It is now clear the nomenklatura intend they should be without any constraints of democratic control. Mr Connolly notes that they have transferred powers to ‘unelected, unaccountable and explicitly anti-democratic bodies.’ These include the eurogroup, the ECB, the bail-out funds, in particular the new European Stability Mechanism, ‘which, astonishingly, has complete legal immunity for itself and its officers.’
He notes the undemocratic powers of the IMF and the G20. Then there are the banking and supervisory bodies, and the economic government of the euro area which is meant to ensure economic ‘discipline.'
http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2013/03/the-new-soviet-union-cyprus-shows-how-the-eu-destroys-democracy.html
Impressive, but people still won't understand. People born and raised in the west have hard time even believing what's happening.
Thx for your posts. Quite informative.
+1 ekm. The sheeple are being indoctrinated into believing that the upcoming planned collapse will be the ultimate fault of capitalism. Obama has been quoted numerous times as saying the system never worked and, in fact, caused the Great Depression and the '08 collapse.
As you have mentioned before, when the people are starving and the only way to eat is hand over what's left of freedom, it's an easy decision.
Capitalism is like a militia, if its not well regulated it usurps the rule of law with the barrel of a gun.
Capitalism has failed, what follows is survivalism in line with natures laws of population vs starvation.
Call yourself a blue rat instead of a red rat if it helps, you're still a rat.
A great read ! Thanks...
Good one, thanks. No surprise here.
They're all committed banco-socialists and socialism is open ended, so it's natural for them to look to the former Soviet Union model for where to go next. People won't truly recognize the ugly face of fascism until protestors are murdered. That's how they roll.
Obviously, this has all been given a green light from the USSA.
Very, very interesting particularly in light of what happened with Lagarde's apartment being searched. An open sign of infighting among the elite, or a huge misdirection...
IMHO the next few weeks/months are going to be historic, I just hope we all survive it...
(bankers/elites excepted)
However communist-style it may appear, the slimeball EU elites would claim there was nothing sinister in that meeting that the Cyprus president was not invited to attend, because it was a working meeting attended by EZ FinMins (including the Cypriot FinMin) and the IMF etc to thrash out options.
And of course they'd go on to claim that the Cypriot FinMin would speak on behalf of his president and would be expected to report back the outcome to him in the usual way.
Nothing to see here...move along.
EUSSR head Barosso is a 'former Communist'. Yeah, right. They are all 'former' this that or the other, rootless cosmopolitans with dual passports ready to fuck off back to their hidey hole wherever anyone will be stupid enough to house them.
Putin is a patriot, and I hope he uses this moment to slay the oligarchs who raped and robbed Mother Russia. Take Cyprus and any other bauble that collaborated with the AshekeNAZI.
A death is a death is a death.
We can joke but whatever the reason, the truth is we live in times of great pressure and uncertainty.
What we see of individuals on the outside is not necessarily what goes on on the inside and when that crazy moment arrives, death is embraced as escape.
We are in a depression that is slowly claiming its victims both financially and psychologically.
So he was on Putin's bad side.... OK got it. He got Qadaffied. His Cyprus money is now 100% gone and message sent to Putin's frenemies.
He just knew too much...
He knew too iittle, and played every side in order to get his filthy money at everyone's expense. He outlived his usefulness in the trade off among rootless cosmopolitans.
would abramovich, after litvinenko and berozovsky, be next?
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=8752
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=4292
You wanna Play Rough?, okay;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2wD5TaMf2k
". . . if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone. " M.C.
'cept the prophets
He was broke. This from last week about having to sell art. OK, the article is from RT and the Russian govt wanted him extradited, but it sounded like he was in serious shit
http://rt.com/news/berezovsky-sell-warholl-lenin-429/
It looks more like he was trying to show as if he was broke
I think KGB / FSB is going to close some opened files under CYprus cover.
Yep.
Putin is a patriot, father of the FSB. The two faced lying international bankster gangsters raped and robbed Mother Russia.
Politicians are expendable. Banksters are expendable. Patriots live and die for their country. No money can buy this priceless thing: love of one's country and people.
Are you some kind of soviet sleeper cell that putin has activated?
"Patriots live and die for their country", yes, they volunteer for being expended if necessary, and so expendable, too - you are completely right, even if your logic chip flickers at times
and yet I don't understand if you realize that as a person of your stated economic, racial, national and social status you are the natural exponent of the very vanguard of a progressive movement that finds nationalism and conservativism a quaint thing that has to be bought off the shelf, eventually
which leads me to either not believe you or to ask myself if you understand how big this bridge is you are spanning from New England to the Mother Russia - perhaps you should visit the Rodina and talk to the people there
You give your loyalty to a random chance of birth location and the people near that location.
How strange, my loyalty is earned not given without question.
Only Capo's obey orders without question.
His body will be buried in a lead-lined coffin... for some unknown reason.
The First Rule of Fraud Club is...
Is Boris survived by Natasha?
Interesting. Roman Abramovich’s lawyer in the case against Boris Berezovsky was also found dead recently, floating in the sea at his private island from an apparent suicide......
Roman should join him at the bottom of the sea. He could look for gefilte fish.
Background... from the perspective of the Jewish Daily Forward (2003) :
Kremlin Targets Jewish
Tycoons In War On Critics
By S.A. Greene
Forward Correspondent
11-2-3
LONDON - Oil titan Mikhail Khodorkovsky is not the first Jew who has risen to become Russia's richest citizen. Before him Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky had their stints, while Vladimir Gusinsky got close.
In Russia, however, life at the top is not all that it's cracked up to be.
Berezovsky and Gusinsky are now in exile, facing prosecution if they ever return to Russia, while Abramovich, having cashed in much of his Russian oil and metals empire and bought a British soccer team, is a frequent guest of Berezovsky in London. As for Khodorkovsky, he's in jail.
Russian authorities arrested Khodorkovsky at gunpoint October 25 on a snowy Siberian runway. He is being held on charges ranging from tax evasion to fraud. The charges concern post-communist privatization deals for the companies that went on to become Yukos, the oil behemoth that Khodorkovsky founded and recently merged with Sibneft, another firm that he bought from Abramovich. If a court so decides, both companies could end up back in state hands. The crackdown caused a sharp drop in Russia's stock market this week and has prompted warnings that foreign investors might back away.
It's not only the economy that took a hit, though. Russian antisemites are in trouble, too. Their favorite bogeymen, the Jewish "oligarchs," as the country's tycoons are called, are becoming an endangered species.
In the eyes of most Russians, the oligarchs are clearly guilty, of theft and corruption in the best case, and probably a lot worse. That much of their wealth is ill-gotten, no one really doubts. And what is to be done? Most Russians would answer: Lock 'em up, ship 'em out. There's plenty of room in Siberia.
This, of course, is not what's happening. As Khodorkovsky sits in Moscow's most notoriously disease-ridden prison, most non-Jewish oligarchs are still riding high, even if a few are not likely to step foot in Russia again. The metals empire of Vladimir Potanin - who, along with Berezovsky, most brazenly boasted of his influence over Boris Yeltsin's Kremlin - is thriving, as are Vagit Alekperov's oil wells. The list of safe oligarchs goes on, but there are only a few Jews still on it: Mikhail Fridman of Alfa Bank, for example.
What are we to make of the fact that almost all of the major oligarchs in jail or exile are Jews, while almost all of those still in business are not? The answer is not as obvious as it may seem.
Vladimir Putin, whatever else he may be, is not an antisemite. He's too practical for that, and too regularly appears at synagogues. Indeed, there is something beyond ethnicity that joins Khodorkovsky with Berezovsky and Gusinsky: political activism. Gusinsky ran the only media company that was openly critical of Putin. Berezovsky, after a falling out with Putin, whose presidential campaign he financed, declared himself in opposition and threw money at any political party that would take it. Khodorkovsky, once he was secure in his wealth, announced he was financing two liberal parties opposed to Putin.
Still, even if the cause of their travails are their politics and not their Jewishness, their ethnic background hardly goes unnoticed.
"The Kremlin went after Khodorkovsky because he became an opponent, and as we know, the Kremlin doesn't play nicely with its opponents," Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the opposition Communist Party, said in a recent interview. "But there are a lot of other people who should be in jail. After all, what good is it to the Russian man if the wealth is simply transferred from a Berezovsky to an Abramovich?"
Zyuganov's words were carefully chosen. In the Russian language, there are two words for Russian. The one most often used in politics, rossiisky, is a civic definition, meaning any citizen of the Russian Federation. But Zyuganov used the word russky, an ethnic definition that encompasses the majority of the population, but not Berezovsky, not Abramovich and not Khodorkovsky.
Moreover, in their war on Putin's political enemies, the Kremlin and its allies have often played to the deep reservoir of anti-Jewish feeling that exists in Russian society.
One loaded phrase that has cropped up in the Khodorkovsky affairs - in the press, as well as in comments by the prosecutors - is "economic crimes." The words sound banal enough, but students of Soviet history will recall it as one of two special charges, along with Zionism, reserved especially for Jews by communist prosecutors.
It is, of course, possible that most Russians nowadays do not really remember such connotations. But Putin certainly does; after all, investigating economic crimes is something he would have been trained in back in his days at the KGB.
The Khodorkovsky affair - like those of Berezovsky and Gusinsky before him, and whoever will follow - does not represent a new wave of Russian antisemitism. It represents a very old wave, and it accompanies the revival of old modes of action that may have been buried but never died. Russia under Putin has now seen almost as many rigged elections as under Brezhnev and more repression of the press than Gorbachev or Yeltsin could ever stomach. Is it any wonder that political imprisonment would be next?
The Soviet Union, it was once declared, would be national in form, socialist in content. It was a nicer way of saying divide and conquer, a tried and tested way of ruling unruly populations. These tactics are back, and that's not good for anyone - especially not Russia's Jews.
http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.10.31/news5.khodorkovsky.html
By Nikolaus von Twickel
The St. Petersburg Times
Published: November 27, 2009 (Issue # 1530)
MOSCOW — The sons of multimillionaire Telman Ismailov were two of the drivers said to have been involved in a luxury-car race in Switzerland that ended in a crash leaving an elderly German badly injured, media reported Tuesday.
Alekper and Sarkhan Ismailov were steering the $1.9 million Bugatti Veyron and the $670,000 Mercedes SLR McLaren along Lake Geneva late Thursday when a third participant crashed a Lamborghini Murcielago into a Volkswagen, Kommersant reported, citing a source in the Swiss police.
The name of the Lamborghini’s driver has not been revealed because he is the son of a high-ranking Russian government official, the report said.
The fact that his sons were linked to a high-profile act of decadence comes as the latest blow to Telman Ismailov, who lost a significant part of his Moscow business this year. http://www.sptimesrussia.com/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=30419
Burn those old Bolshevik bastards!!!
This is what I'm thinking right now.
Now it's the russian oligarchs. But, how about.........CHINESE OLIGARCHS?
Are we about to hear soon that a chinese communist elite member with money deposited in the west, suicided or was found dead?
that was exiled oligarch cash.. not a friend of Putin by any stretch
If there is one thing that is totally uncertain, is Putin's friendship
Then we must all pray for Pussy Riot.
I could spend hours admiring photos of the Femen protests in solidarity with Pussy Riot.
yeah, you force yourself to stare at them for political reasons, eh?
Hey, some of those slogans are difficult to read.
Putin's gotta cover the shortfall from the haircut somehow.
The first Cyprus casualty?
He will call for others.
Signed: an American.
Would that be a suicide with Polonium 210 or 2 to the back of the head?
first of all, he was not russian, he was a jew - one of those jews who fucked the russian/ukrainian people after collapse of the ussr. i for one am quite pleased to see those guys screwed for their money in Cyprus - not nearly enough of a punishment for what they did, but a revenge of sorts anyway.
second, if the plan is to suicide billionnaires for their money, i am all for it, except that i do not believe the elites can be so antisemitic.
Him being Jewish, youre saying he comes from a country called Jew, and not Russia?
That means people I know come from lands and countries," Catholic, Muslim, Budha, Hindu" etc.
I need a new globe
Got your ethnic races mixed up with your believer religions. An honest mistake.
Let me clarify,
With your believer religions every ones God represents love and caring to one another and too each other. Some believer religions have variations on that theme. Like kill anyone who doesn't believe what I taught you and assorted violent shit like that.
So as gods go some are a little fucked in the head. I guess all gods are not created equal , kinda like us?
Now race or ethnicity describes what part of the planet your species of human first inhabited . Thats why we have Italians, Greeks, Russians, Swedes, Mexicans(native), Colombians(native), and variations on the theme,etc .etc.
Now the Jew is a very old race, very old, They wrote the bible for Christ sake. They killed Christ too but thats another story. Hey just like the stories in the bible they wrote ! (old stories)the before JC came on the scene stories.
Through history the Jewish race has been persecuted not because of their race. Come on now, NOT all Jews are bad. Just like all Mexicans, French, Chinese are NOT bad People but because of a criminal element in their race. A nasty immoral occupation of the Jewish race usually ends up destroying a hell of alot people, cities, and even countries. Now remember this is an old race. That criminal element is the BANKSTER. Now remember the Jew is not the problem but the criminal occupation.
Now it would be foolish to believe that all Banksters are Jews. There is a enough non-Jew criminal banksters to go around too! They're just as immoral, and demented. Their all hoarders just like the crazy fucks who won't throw out magazines and newspapers. These crazy fucks hoard money, they will do anything to have control over it.
Its Organized crime or a sick hording psychosis on a planetary scale at this time in earths history.
Damn wouldn't be a fucking mind fuck to come back to this planet in a thousand years to see what we have done to each other? Did the majority finally wake up remove the criminals and that occupation from society?After a thousand years time have we finally learned to live together? Eventually live and trade without paying a third party for doing actually nothing?
If history is any guide no fucking way. Ain't happening!!
Did the gangsters have a small gang war and only kill off a million or 2 or 3 in some far off shit hole? They have been kinda doing this on a continuous basis pretty much since the end of ww2
Did they really get greedy and start a world war 3 and kill of 1 billion or 2? Chances of this happening looking better every day!
What would the planet look like if one of those three scenarios played out after a thousand years?
Damn, Lifes too short.
Like my dick!
Golden age technology dont go well with bronze age superstitions.
Ezekiel 23:19
Many of the descendents of people from the country of Khazaria call themselves "Jews".
"I need a new globe" FYI:
http://www.historytoday.com/nicolas-soteri/khazaria-forgotten-jewish-empire
It's not uncommon because many Ashkenazi jews do not see themselves as really belonging to any nation state. They are jews first and [nation state] second. Consider the case of quite a few American neo-cons...Wolfowitz et al.
Here’s the speel from RT:
“Some time ago, maybe a couple of months ago, Berezovsky addressed Putin in a letter, written by him personally, in which he admitted he made a lot of mistakes and was asking for forgiveness and to help him to return to the motherland,” Peskov told Russia 24 channel.
Berezovsky left Russia in the late 1990s over a money laundering scandal with Aeroflot airlines.
He has been on Russia’s wanted list since 2001 on charges of fraud, money-laundering and attempted violent power takeover.
In 2007, a Moscow court found him guilty in absentia of stealing 215 billion rubles from the company and sentenced him to six years behind bars.
The tycoon was given a total of 19 years in prison by a number of Russian courts over various charges. He claimed the cases against him were provoked by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In 2003, the UK granted Berezovsky political asylum.
http://rt.com/news/berezovsky-tycoon-dies-russia-723/
Thanks JR
I was too lazy to Google so read 4 pages of comments to find out why he was depressed.
And, as if that weren’t enough, this two months ago from Russia Today (the incredibly informative site mentioned by Grimbert above):
Berezovsky court saga: Oligarch sued by ex-lover demanding millions
January 24, 2013
Berezovsky faces just another lawsuit - his ex-lover demands almost US$8 million compensation. The UK court ordered to freeze oligarch’s assets, worth millions, in order to make the payment if he loses the case.
Elena Gorbunova, Berezovsky`s partner of 20 years and the mother of two of his children, who broke up with the tycoon last year, claims he owes her one fifth of the money he received after selling his home in Surrey. The house was estimated at 25 million pounds (some $40 million). She also says her ex-partner is trying to sell two properties in the South of France which he promised to her.
Gorbunova, who is in her early 40s, filed the case in 2012, but it was held privately up until now when the press urged the judge to make the hearings public.
According to the ruling made by Judge George Mann on January 18 and released on Wednesday, Gorbunova won an asset-freeze of Berezovsky`s luxury properties in France. The initial figure was 200 million pounds, but it was reported that the judge reduced the sum.
“On the evidence, Mr. Berezovsky is a man under financial pressure. It is likely he will feel a more pressing need to satisfy creditors than satisfy Ms. Gorbunova,” Judge Mann said, adding that she is "fearful that she will not receive the proceeds of any such sale because Mr. Berezovsky needs the money for himself.”
Gorbunova is not the first woman seeking a substantial compensation for her years with the notorious Russian tycoon.
In 2011, his ex-wife Galina Besharova received what became the biggest divorce settlement in the UK – some 100 million pounds (over $150 million).
The Russian runaway oligarch`s fortune has significantly decreased in recent years due to the number of scandalous court cases that saw him paying millions of dollars in compensation and legal expenses.
The latter in the series was his court battle with another Russian oligarch and the owner of Chelsea football club, Roman Abramovich. Berezovsky accused Abramovich of using his ties with the Kremlin to make him sell Sibneft, a profitable oil company, at a low price in the 1990s.
Berezovsky lost the case in August 2012 and was left with paying bill for legal expenses reportedly reaching 40 million pounds (approximately over $63 million).
His lawyers also report that Berezovsky has cumulative debt around 200 million pounds (over $300 million).
As of 2012, Forbes estimated Berezovsky’s fortune at $700 million. However, the account may have included some assets the oligarch is no longer in procession of.
http://rt.com/news/berezovsky-lawsuit-lover-641/
Putin is pro-Russia, anti-oligarchs who raped and robbed Mother Russia. Some of them are two faced lying dual passport holder rootless cosmopolitan zionists.
He is not anti-semite.
Putin is an oligarch fuckwit, where do ya think he keeps his cash given his reaction to cyprus, why is he trying to protect the oligarchs ill gotten gains, putin is a stooge for Money interests, at least yeltsin was a patriot.
Would be interesting to know if he had a hand in the Cyprus bankrun uh bailout negotiations
Anyone view the CNBS interview? Anything disclosed that someone wasnt Ren & Stimpy Happy, Happy, Joy Joyful about?
Hidden behind every fortune is a crime.
Suicided, who'll be next?
Well, Ollie, that's another B(l)ankfein you got us into!
If I was the Metropolitan police in London, I'd want to know who now goes in and out of Berezovsky's office @ 7 Down Street, Mayfair, London W1J 7AJ. Some pretty interesting documents there for sure....and a jacuzzi
Rest easy. Done. Yet don't place any confidence in Britain's feudal free mason fucktard PC Plod Bramshill jerks who are paid to jail the poor and protect the rich boy buggering Establishment.
A death can send a powerfull message. He was far off reservation no doubt or perhaps just low hanging/weak fruit.
1996:Two Moscow newspapers reported last week that Jewish business tycoon Boris Berezovsky received Israeli citizenship during a visit to the Jewish state three years ago.
2011 His yacht siezed: Berezovsky, who was granted political asylum by the British authorities in 2000, said he viewed the statement by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office in the context of Thursday's resolution by the European Parliament.
2012 - Nov: A Russian businessman helping Swiss prosecutors uncover a powerful fraud syndicate has died in unexplained circumstances near his mansion in Britain, in a chilling twist to a Russian mafia scandal that has strained Moscow's ties with the West. He is now the fourth person linked to the Magnitsky case to have died in strange circumstances.Nov-12: Arafat Poisoning Results Due in Several Months
Mar-13: Secrecy battle forces new delay in Alexander Litvinenko case Mar 13: Trial of Dead Lawyer Magnitsky Begins in MoscowRobert Maxwell: Mossad murdered Robert Maxwell; The ties between Maxwell and the Mossad went back a long way. Elements within the Mossad had offered to finance Maxwell's first big business ventures, and in later years Maxwell received inside information on global matters from the Office. Maxwell was originally codenamed "the Little Czech," and the sobriquet stuck. Only a handful of people in the Israeli intelligence community knew who the Little Czech was, yet he provided an unending supply of slush money for the organization whenever it ran low.But the Mossad had used its ace in the hole one time too many. Asking Maxwell to get involved in a matter of secondary importance (namely, the Vanunu affair) had been a big mistake, for which the media mogul would be made to pay the price.That involvement caused suspicion in the British Parliament that there was no smoke without fire, particularly after the publication of a book by an American reporter claiming Maxwll was a Mossad agent. Maxwell retaliated in a lawsuit, but the ground was starting to burn under his feet. The Mossad was late in giving him back his money, and the usual....
2010: Targeted Killing in Dubai: A Mossad Operation Gone Awry?
2011:Report: Israeli killed in New Zealand earthquake was Mossad agent.Local media reports Ofer Mizrahi, killed in the Christchurch earthquake in February, was part of a team trying to infiltrate sensitive computer systems.
2013 'Prisoner X' took part in Mossad operation of killing Hamas operative in Dubai?
'Prisoner X' revelation puts spotlight on MossadThe Australian-Israeli ‘Mossad agent’ who has become known as ‘Prisoner X’ may have been linked to the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai in 2010, the same year he was found dead in a maximum security jail near Tel Aviv, a report says.
Excellent synopsis. The point is this: these Zionist pigs claim citizenship anywhere that suits their bank balance, while waging endless war and excuses with their fucktard political pets.
Putin is a patriot, and other patriots can do honest business with him and his beloved country. This is the way of patriots: mutual respect, negotiation. Kill traitors.
How can we get Obama to really piss off Putin?
No help needed, hes doing fine on his own
so now Russia's like. ok we'll loan you the money.
I'm beginning to think that Louis Armstrong was incorrect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM
A fucking Jew used car dealer. Good riddance. Nice job Putin.
pfft...
Does anyone think that's the kind of guy who suicides? I don't. Once you live past your springtime years, you generally are here to stay.
"Enemy of Putin Commits Suicide." My Ass.
If I was a billionaire, I would hire someone to be depressed for me...
A fluffer to re-inflate the deflation!?
That's what is known as a "Russian Margin Call."
His name was Boris Berezovsky. Bitchez.
He was a two faced whoring greedy Zionist pig who got stuffed by his own greed and the duplicity of his cohorts. He raped and robbed Mother Russia. As did his cohorts.
He is dead. Good. Let that be a warning to his circle.
Good. The wicked witch is dead. The rootless cosmopolitan who robbed Russia is dead.
Dead in the London lair given to him by his other City of London tribe, those who plot the world's biggest economic crimes, along with their central bank cabal. The gangster banksters are turning on each other. Good.
Putin is a patriot who loves his country. The EUSSR is no match for him, as it seeks to protect the bankster gangster class of its own making.
This past week has handed Putin the best opportunity in his lifetime to avenge Mother Russia, for the crimes committed by the oligarchs and other rootless cosmopolitans.
Gas. A presence in the Med. Smite the international financiers. All good.
PS
A bodyguard claims to have found the body in a bath. Where? When? How?
The corrupt British court system will find a way to cover up this interesting demise which embarasses its Rotchild-Sassoon-Oppenheimer- Queenies-House of Saxe Coburg zionist ninnies.
This had nothing to do with Cyprus. Zero Hedge readers have an extreme susceptiblility to selection and confirmation bias.
Candle in the Wind. [start music]
Execute traitors, and the two faced lying dual passport zionists should stay in Israel or be shot on sight for their international financier oligarch treachery, deceit, theft, murder most horrible committed against anyone not of their freak tribe.
Zionist communist socialist masks like Gordon Brown who sold UKs gold, and Bliar who fckd the ME, and sodomite Mandelson oh Lord of Everything GB and EUSSR and his special pal Derepwotsisface silly bint oligarch sodomite...all who harbor the horrible zionist bitch traitors, the dual passport holders that promote an EUSSR and one world order of AshkeNAZIS.
Execute them.
They showed no mercy for Czar Nicholas, his wife and children. Nor do they show any mercy for any Russian, nor anyone else.
Why on earth would any decent human being show mercy to the tsar or his family, now be a good little capo/untermenschen and get back to licking out your masters ass.
really interesting - because of one family that was murdered in WWI you are asking for the murder... of how many exactly? would a couple of millions sate your thirst for blood? would you settle for a couple of thousands?
Nothing like a questionable death to bring the tin-foil beanies out... :>D
No question about it. The lying two faced raping robber zionist is dead, by any means necessary. His apologists are afraid, cowards fearful that they will be next, by any means necessary.
I would like to comment but my better half is saying 'get off the grid'.
You are on your own. Good luck.
who's taking his wealth now?
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/iraq-wars-legacy-of-cancer/
And here I predicted a Russian oligarchs vs. Western oligarchs assassination competition just the other day. I thought the first shot would be in the other direction, though. The question from here is what do the rest of the Russian oligarchs do? Sit there and take it? Or retaliate?
This is not Boris, this is actually gerald celente.
It was suicide alright. Sixteen shots in the back of the head with a 6 shot pistol.
(He asked for it.) That makes it "suicide".