Sergei Pugachev gave the interview to New York Times
“When his bodyguards found a small brown package with protruding wires taped to the undercarriage of his Rolls-Royce in London, Sergei Pugachev decided it was time to take cover. Already on the run fromRussia, he fled Britain last year for what he now hopes will be a less stressful refuge on the French Riviera.
“London is a dangerous place,” said the 53-year-old Russian tycoon and bitterly estranged former friend of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, noting that at least three Russian exiles at odds with the Kremlin had died under mysterious circumstances in or near the British capital over the last decade”…