bigger mystery as his rapid rise to the peak of russian business and government. the english town of ascot forty kilometers from london has a population of about eighteen fells and is famous for the horse races frequented by the country's elite now it has a new claim to fame where boris berezovsky spent his final years before a mysterious death. one pm was there was the other. god for me what you deserved he says to himself as he looks at us from the other world you know. you see he had died in poverty at the age of eighty seated in a rocking chair. in the british social system but it just seemed to nurse to care for him. she had had to wipe his dripping nose and give him slippers to stop his

legs from swelling so i just can't imagine that. he was destined to die before that and that's what he did what he did elegantly and nicely using a silk scarf he'll think i see with. the well known russian lawyer of french descent alexander a doctor of inskeep has long been defending the interests of russian oligarchs there was a time when he was on good terms with better off. in a bid to turn business into power the wealthy entrepreneur asked a double of inskeep to be his lawyer but the invitation was declined. i don't like crazy people he was obsessed with the idea. how the tale would work out in the end . you always have to work with crazy people with someone but when one of them is obsessed with politics it's hard to work with them. politics and we are completely

different things. better he was equally insistent in calling on you to join the opposition but failed to gain the sinister rest of the ninety's was now the target of derision and jokes nobody took him seriously anymore alexander the doesn't believe better he was murdered by special services what would have been the point of killing him he had long since ceased to be a threat. still but it's an incredible number of people might say that security agents. britons the americans or irishmen got into the bathroom through the lavatory by dissolving into a molecular state. to realizing is james bond. with a scar but not before saying to him. we're going to strangle you after that they get reduced to molecules i went down to level tory with the steward later to emerge in the kremlin that i will be with you shortly before his death row to penitential

put in criminal cases against him to be dropped and to be allowed to return. for my head of security believes that better promise to hand over secret files on certain officials and businessmen in return for a pardon or. understood only to well let's just saying. i won't do it again wouldn't be enough i'm almost certain that he would only expect a pardon to shoot an exchange for something otherwise he wouldn't have written a letter. of the in. if you're a threat to several russian. overseas but if. knows first hand that you're in the one nine hundred ninety s. . compromising material on some of russia's top businessmen and officials he has no

doubt that better plans to use it against one of the country's oligarchs. they're trying to find that archive i think that's why they did. what he called the president he said. pardon me if i come back and i can incriminate a few people to your liking and he pointed to some interesting pieces of information simply writing a letter or talking in an interview with forbes would have been a foolish thing to do and i don't think he was a fool or a madman. before he died better he had lost the cold case of the century one russian oligarch. demanded that another. pay him five billion pounds owed from a deal with the oil company. however was unable to produce any evidence that had pocketed money that didn't belong to him in those times deals with sealed with handshakes rather than signature. business would russia fortunes were being

made in months even weeks but. outstripped everybody. lifestyle was a bit like a nuclear reactor in fact he was a nuclear reactor constantly generating and spewing out excess energy and of course no one despite how healthy a person is like that for a long time and then comes the apathy. he was the orchestra conductor and the center of the universe he wanted to be the focus of everybody's attention he wanted to be talked and written about well even if it was derogatory he said there is no black or white p.r. there is only. he started as a. ph d. in mathematics. at the academy of sciences. finally opened up forty years of age threw himself into business making up for lost time.

and became a key business figure in the country. t.v. interview for ukrainian. politics i was ready to spend any amount of money to achieve political. spending fifteen. that was the most effective business project in my life. to build it. he claimed the project. would get their revenge. one hundred forty million rubles. made all of his money into the one rule.

that made it possible for him to plunder. make money from off and. he liked under the his friendship with the family. company already controlled a russian motor industry but still he wanted more. with the highest authorities could bring in the really big money. officials and even members of his family. well he showed them with lavish gifts this will he found a weak link to some of the people at the president's younger daughter tatiana. she had been married several times she wasn't chanted by you so was yeltsin's wife naive you heard many good things about the entrepreneur from her daughter both were

frequent guests a lot of was where a french chef served sumptuous food in the relationship simplified for gifts and money with money and gifts nothing else but point came on june the seventh nine hundred ninety four when better limousine was blown up the driver died instantly decapitated by the blast the targets bodyguards and several innocent bystanders sustained serious injuries miraculously better is asking himself escaped unharmed. and i thought i'd be burned alive if i stayed in the car but if i got out it was a shoot me my driver died but in fact he saved my life because as usual he forgot to lock the door i just opened it in god it was an incredible sensation it's not even like being reborn it's a sense of purity what's happened before is of no importance to all your problems

are unimportant you have an airy feeling overwhelming. never. unusually took the backseat with a blast caused little how many would later speculate that the only god must a mind to the attempt on his own life to join russia is ruling elite. to the apex of power. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia. is a very high return on investment. he said but i've been

working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups i mean that is the managers who change their name and strategy but i just feel the same budrus. high ranking suspects you know coming. pretty upset about that mr president says. the president. but. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. investigation is it. says sick you stop your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. even if they're your bodyguards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. regards from since i've never heard of such

a case as ours were so much money and gold still so many. for all the gold in colombia. oh this. conflict. has changed. a modern islamic nation. and a peaceful one the stone islam is first secular last second. in place of. to do films still. cannot go on the catwalk in a swimsuit in. a republican country see.

below. please. the murder attempt provided better with a ticket to the presidential club. of the highest officials associated to yeltsin and his family they met only a few times and better. suffering for the ideals of entrepreneurship he was a laughing stock after the car bomb that was the first time he appeared among the

elite in the early nineties even nicknamed him smokey they were all glamorous people and suddenly the a man with burnt hairs on his bald head and a bandage face this way he takes advantage of the opportunity to attract attention heard and take another step forward in his career at first better he had no real power he set himself a different tosk he simply wanted to be seen among the presidents. as he could to impress on ole that he was welcome at the highest levels. he was very funny i think it was there any importance for him to establish himself in the kremlin and make it clear to everybody that he. was there he was fond of making phone calls from the kremlin he would say he was calling from the waiting room of this official about official felt it was very important for him to

see the official in question after sitting in the waiting room for a long time but getting no concrete decision from him. we would get the inner circle created his image they would say for us just. then the gunmen in the gangsters are all going to show up instantly look at him. they'd exclaim but actually he was a completely different person around the same time bettors off he was often seen in georgia with another eccentric multimillionaire. with. a handsome face and a liking for flashy ties they would have. business friendship and a fondness for eccentricity and self promotion. i remember in my waiting room for hours on end. holding his hands like this when he brought bad dream to me for the first time he made a better impression. later that he'd been up to his ears in crime

it was badgering who did the dirty work that the jewel was responsible for. really would die just as suddenly as. a heart attack his funeral would be attended by almost half of tbilisi's population. and even former president shevardnadze. he would not pay his last respects to his friend he feared he could be arrested. death was a terrible blow to. the ninety's they had together moved from being ordinary businessmen to becoming rulers of destiny. as a complete surprise to everyone he left his office in the evening and somebody called me at two am. i usually control myself in any situation. i said every word i knew i couldn't believe

it. to the funeral of had given all his assets to. be able to get them back off to bed trees death because they contracted with me a handshake. last financial support after death. was left with no money because had hidden it somewhere but nobody knew exactly where on top of. because he lost a good deal of money he could no longer afford to fund the activities. with the life he influenced. with his. political weight by controlling several russian t.v. broadcasters and the country's most successful publishing house. was in a human rights campaigner. committee activist. for

political competition. but he knew how far he could push journalists. between truth and truth. the difference between half truths. one was a t.v. adored by the public to reshape the t.v. advertising market. chief editor of forbes in russia he had written about financial dealings but there was no proof that he was involved. because he feared prosecution not political persecution. should be kept at a distance from the authorities disable the mechanism that he made it possible for himself to make money by maintaining close links with the government. played

a key. election in one thousand nine hundred ninety six by using his media assets after he became a leading figure in the president's. thoughts . i think politics all the time that's what i like. the right to do. here. you can't imagine how much. needed both financial support. for the election confronted with a conflict between business and special services. he had to find his own chief bodyguard. involved in a disagreement with other oligarchs. on june twenty nine hundred ninety six i left the kremlin and i took no part in further events. should

think about repenting their own sins i've never been like that i didn't raise him so high. i once said i'd live long enough to see the end of him and a few others so far he's the only one who's gone. after the success of yeltsin's presidential campaign there was also he was given control of the signal to company for practically nothing he was also made a high ranking government official deputy secretary of the security council whose task was to settle the conflict in chechnya. was in my days a very interesting case when i get down to stealing an oil pipeline or pump oil out of it certainly not i thought it was the all important for business politics and for russian general. was the most distant a lasting issue at the time. back

home by taking advantage of his longstanding contacts in chechnya t.v. channels that he controlled repeatedly pictures of men rescued from chips in a captivity. the airliner touches down and stops some distant short of the airport building comes to the airport and gets into the plane. it approaches a group of journalists on the apron. to liberate or appears on the stairs it was a constant feature on the war teach channel it seemed that he grabbed all the glory . at that time a wise people were still unaware of the fact that the time would come when they pay a heavy price for that glory. nearly all analysts are certain that for better results politics was an extension of his business so he only tackled the problems in chechnya so he'd be able to win contracts for its restoration. and. they

said that his office he expected to get gazprom and the rest of the russian federation as well as c. but you have to that was a conspiracy theory. ready had enough and simply needed to protect what i have. the means of creating a stable political system. so that to. continued to do. after winning the election there were only two official meetings between them only one appearance with yeltsin was broadcast on t.v. that was when he was being appointed to the post of executive secretary or something for russia's security council. influence on the media if he'd had a hundred meetings with yeltsin i'm certain. unable to influence. the

confidence of the president's elder daughter. she was the president's most trusted confidant it became clear towards the end would have to leave early for health reasons. convinced that he had made the choice and was sure the new president would appreciate his efforts. brought him down he had to go because his time had run. into trouble. and. the country against my will i can't. do or i'm going to kick the bucket because i

already think. it will. all go back as soon as the prosecutor. trying to create a political party to influence the course. of the presidential election in two thousand and four. former security council had mysteriously disappeared before the vote. some claim he arranged. to disrupt the ballot. possibility. that i don't think i'm in a position to say in front of cold feet that he betrayed me or anything two years later russian intelligence officer. was murdered. with.

british intelligence accused. but he is convinced that it was in fact. he was obviously lying we have all the records of little interrogations they contain no mention of anything like that that means this was another. charge of security for the t.v. channel under control. exposing his former chief. pay sixty million rubles to anyone who would give putin away or arrest him because he allegedly came to power illegitimately and that was complete nonsense it makes absolutely no sense. over time. oppositionist became the butt of many jokes. of power in russia even prompted the british authorities to issue a warning that his political asylum status could be reviewed. six or

seven years ago. he said still the country's principle. still being demonized. and this is what i said to. all say whatever you want to hear me say yes i'm guilty. he walked off to buy some pictures. losing. two hundred million pounds. even more money. remains with the. market value he also had to cut down service and security. people who in the months before his death he was taking antidepressants. did smoke before but not

much then at one point he started smoking two packs a day and drinking heavily his personality began to split he would say one thing in the morning but it would be something different at lunch time or in the evening several times in november he said that he'd lost the meaning of life and realized that he made many mistakes. business was synonymous money opened the door and even to the president. would no longer work and at the end of his life he knew there was no way back for him.

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