The UK authorities are refusing to cooperate with Russia on investigation into the death of Nikolai Glushkov, the former top manager of Russian flag carrier Aeroflot, and focusing on leaking to press the theories comfortable for the US government, a press secretary of the Russian Embassy to London told Sputnik on Saturday.
LONDON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 08th September, 2018) The UK authorities are refusing to cooperate with Russia on investigation into the death of Nikolai Glushkov, the former top manager of Russian flag carrier Aeroflot, and focusing on leaking to press the theories comfortable for the US government, a press secretary of the Russian Embassy to London told Sputnik on Saturday.
Glushkov, who had been sentenced in absentia in Russia to eight years in prison on embezzlement charges, died in London in mid-March. The UK police are treating the probe into his death as a murder inquiry. In Russia, an investigation has been opened as well.
"We have to admit that London is refusing to cooperate [with Russia] on investigation into the strange death of former top manager of Aeroflot Nikolai Glushkov on March 12, leaking more and more versions comfortable for the Conservative government to mass media," the press secretary said.
On Friday, The Guardian newspaper reported that the UK police was also probing an earlier poisoning attempt on Glushkov, which occurred back in 2013.
