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Gangster impaled on railings at his luxury London pad was 'Russian Mafia fixer'



Scot Young, from Dundee, died in 2014 after falling to his death from a fourth-floor window. It is now claimed that feared for his life after he said he was targeted by hitmen
A British man who fell and was impaled on railings at his luxury London home was a fixer for Russian gangsters.
Scot Young, 52, from Dundee, was killed when he landed on wrought iron spikes after falling from a fourth-floor window in 2014.
He had reportedly warned police along with friends and family that he was being targeted by hitmen.
It is claimed that he was a “go-to fixer” for billionaire Boris Berezovsky, a one time friend and then enemy of Russian president Vladimir Putin who was found hanged at his home in 2013.
A 2014 police investigation into Young’s death decided it was not suspicious while an inquest found “conflicting evidence” but no foul play.
BuzzFeed investigative journalist Heidi Blake said Young “fell in with a major organised crime group and began laundering money for them”.
She said: “He became the go-to fixer for Berezovsky and his associates as they sought ways to stash their ill-gotten cash in an extraordinary array of luxury British properties, vehicles, private jets and helicopters.”
She alleges he was rewarded with plenty of cash as he also sort “highly risky” property deals in Russia.
Ms Blake said: “He exposed himself to huge danger as part of that role and ultimately he plunged from a window from his fourth-floor apartment in Marylebone, London, and was impaled on the spikes of a wrought iron
Robbie Curtis and Paul Castle died after being hit by trains in 2012 and 2010 while Johnny Elichaoff, ex-husband of TV star Trinny Woodall, jumped to his death from Bayswater shopping centre in 2014.
It is claimed Young was able to launder money as the law at the time meant that he had immunity over revealing money he declared voluntarily to the tax authorities.
Ms Blake said: “So the tax authorities weren’t able to notify the police that this money was stolen.
“This was what Scott did, he moved money into the UK and put it in a UK bank account, declared that was how he made it and the taxman let him get on with spending it.”