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.”