3. Mikhail Watford
Three days later on February 28, Ukraine-born Mikhail Watford was also found hanged in the garage of his home by his gardener, but this time it was not in an affluent part of Russia, but an affluent part of the United Kingdom. Watford, born Mikhail Tolstosheya and known by his friends as Misha, made his fortune in oil and gas after the demise of the Soviet Union and anglicized his surname after moving to the UK in the early 2000s with his Estonian wife Jane..
Although the UK police are treating the father of three’s death as “unexplained” and have stressed that they are not treating it as suspicious at this stage, Watford’s neighbor would seem to suggest otherwise. The as yet unnamed female neighbor claimed that Watford had been worried for two years that Russian President Vladimir Putin had put him on a hit list due to his close ties to Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky.
Berezovsky was also found hanged at his home in Ascot, Berkshire, in 2013, after self-exiling to the UK after falling out with Putin. He vowed to bring down the president.
