L&G ‘spread poisoned soup theories’

Insurance giant Legal and General has been accused of spreading ‘florid theories’ about poisoned soup to explain the death of a Russian whistleblower. Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, collapsed and died while he was running up a steep hill in his £3 million St George’s Hill estate in Weybridge, Surrey, on 10 November 2012. A paramedic at the scene said the father-of-two’s death looked like a ‘textbook cardiac arrest.’ But claims have since been made that his death may have been suspicious…