2023-11-17 16:28:00
It was on January 12, 2016 that Russian oligarch Vladimir Scherbakov arrived in Belgium to flee the Kremlin. Living in England, the billionaire, a former banker, decided to flee the country when he learned that Russia was preparing to issue an arrest warrant against him and that Great Britain was considering extraditing him, as reports Sudinfo. Once he arrived on Belgian soil, Vladimir Scherbakov holed up in a house in Waterloo. However, the Russian oligarch felt trapped there and lived in constant distrust, fearing being poisoned. The man wanted to leave Belgium as quickly as possible, as soon as the Russian investigation was over, to reunite with his second wife and children. It was only a year later, in June 2017, that he was found hanged. According to the investigation which followed the discovery of his body, the oligarch had committed suicide.
Today, the name of Vladimir Scherbakov is back in the news following the trial currently taking place between his wife and his ex-wife who are both after the inheritance of nearly 114 million euros from the oligarch. The latter had amassed an impressive fortune and was suspected by the Kremlin of having illegally embezzled several hundred million rubles from Russia, making him an enemy of the country.
The two families, made up of his first wife, Elena, and their daughter Olga, then his second wife, Brigita, and their two children, Luca and Oliviya, are fighting in court in London to recover the inheritance in the United Kingdom . But the billionaire’s adult children want to move the trial to Belgium where the oligarch had dual Russian and Belgian nationality.
The man was posthumously exonerated in 2020.
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