By Andrew  Malone With the door to the steam room shut at his Ascot home, Boris Berezovsky liked to retreat from the stresses of being a sworn enemy of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB man he bankrolled to become Russia’s president. But it was in this sanctuary that his body was found on Saturday, a discovery that has started a firestorm of suspicion about the manner of his death. Once such good friends that Berezovsky spent millions creating a political party for Putin, the pair fell out spectacularly in 2000, prompting the Russian leader’s supposed ‘godfather’ to flee to Britain.
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Surrounded himself with bodyguards at former home of TV star Chris Evans
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Was convinced Kremlin enemies would track him down and kill him
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Forged ties with Chechen gangsters in the Nineties
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Survived gun battle and car bomb attacks
He joined forces with other exiles to implicate the @placeholder state in killings.