Berezovsky and Nemtsov

Boris Berezovsky was killed in his bathroom because he was preparing to give Vladimir Putin evidence of a plot involving leading oligarchs to topple the strongman in a coup, it was claimed today.

The exiled Russian tycoon was slain by Western secret services linked to the plan to overthrow the Kremlin leader.

The theory comes from Berezovsky's former long-time head of security Sergei Sokolov, who disputed the version of British police that the ex-billionaire took his own life, aged 67, in Berkshire in March 2013.

'I am convinced it was done by the Western secret services,' he said.

'If Berezovsky's death is a puzzle for you, it is a problem solved for me. Boris was killed simply because he possessed certain secret information and was going to make it public. This is not just my guess, I know it for sure.'

Sokolov, the head of a major Moscow private security agency, said his ex-boss was intent on returning to Russia, and had opened negotiations with Putin on allowing him back despite years of bitter opposition to the president.

'Boris forwarded Vladimir Putin a letter with repentance,' he said.

'It was a part of the big venture he had been planning. Berezovsky was living and looking forward to his return to Russia. Of course, he was hoping for indulgence.

'Boris was killed only because he possessed information which he was going to share with Putin.

'I am absolutely sure that Boris had video and audio evidence about certain oligarchs who offered to organise a coup in the country, promising him to be seen as being at the head of the attack.

'Berezovsky planned to come back to his motherland with this sensational material.

'You understand it now: those people he had gathered compromising materials for, considered him to be a serious threat.'

Berezovsky - who had a penchant for secretly recording conversations - had hidden his treasure trove, claimed Sokolov.

Sokolov also claimed that in the 1990s, Berezovsky had ordered him to follow Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition leader killed in Moscow on 27 February.

He claimed that Nemtsov could have been killed by a jealous husband.

'But first of all, Western secret services are the beneficiaries of Nemtsov's death.'

'From the point of view how it was planned, it is very much like CIA operation,' he claimed

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