UK Treating Death of Russian Businessman Glushkov as Murder: Police

A police car and a police tent are positioned outside the gates of the house of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky in Sunningdale near Ascot in Berkshire, southwest of London, on March 25, 2013. Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

LONDON—British police said on Friday they had launched a murder investigation following the death this week of a Russian associate of late tycoon Boris Berezovsky.

“A murder investigation has been launched following the results of a post mortem into the death of 68-year-old Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov,” London’s Metropolitan Police said, adding the cause of death was “compression to the neck”.