Terror of Russian whistleblower

A Russian whistleblower who may have have been poisoned refused to meet lawyers in his homeland because he was ‘fearful for his life’, an inquest heard today. Alexander Perepilichnyy collapsed and died suddenly while jogging near his £3m St George’s Hill estate in Weybridge, Surrey, on 10 November 2012. He had been assisting a specialist investment firm, Hermitage Capital Management, expose a £150million Russian money laundering operation at the time of his death. Perepilichnyy’s life insurance firm Legal and General…