[Closed] Natural causes?

Castor beans again.

Get the Geiger counter out, well dodgy.

well dodgy would be to mention names 😉

If the post mortem reveals an umbrella up his arse then the Bulgarians did it.....

I initially thought it dodgy, but listening to R4 half hour ago revealed the fact that he's been smoking 40-50 a day and is a heavy Vodka drinker, like most Russians I guess and he's 67... And all the stress of not having enough money to fund his case..
Don't think it dodgy anymore.

NBC police on site now.

Hmm.

67s a good innings for a Russian. By that age the alcohol level in their blood reaches 100%! Natural. Or as natural as pickling oneself may be.

We might not be so willing to jump to conclusions if the Russians did not have a habit of spiking people's tea and stabbing them with umbrellas.
They seem to find very British ways of doing it. I would not be surprised if it was a suspicious pork pie, or he choked to death on a pork scratching?!

They seem to find very British ways of doing it

Bute poisoning?

The new pope did it, with the pipe, in the conservatory.

Being murdered seems to be natural for ex oligarchs,Roman should watch out.

Yeah, I reckon garrotted by someone dressed as a pearly king.
Sorry, I will stop now before it gets silly.

I can't imagine why the Russian ruling elite would want to make the effort, or take the inherent risks involved, to assassinate someone who had become a nonexistent threat to them.

Having become totally discredited in his homeland he had also recently become totally discredited in the country which had offered him refuge from Russian justice. This is what a British judge said of Berezovsky last year :

[i]"On my analysis of the entirety of the evidence, I found Mr Berezovsky an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes."[/i]

Indeed Berezovsky stood outside the court afterwards strongly denouncing the judgement by claiming that it could have been written by Putin himself.

The court case left Berezovsky not only utterly discredited but also broke, so a funny time for the Kremlin to decide that now was a good time to have him eliminated ..... when he was no longer any threat at all to them.

There once was a time when Berezovsky was a powerful and influential multi-billionaire who could bankroll politicians and political parties in Russia, and beyond, he had some economic clout too. But those days were gone and he was now a broken man. Suicide is much more likely explanation than assassination, imho. Although for obvious reason those investigating the cause of death have to eliminate all possible causes.