Exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has been found dead in a bath at his home, Sky sources have revealed.
It is believed he had taken his own life.
Berezovsky made his fortune in Russia in the 1990s when he bought up state assets cheaply which were being sold off.
The report is understood to have emerged through the Facebook account of his son-in-law Yegor Shuppe.
He had lived in Great Britain from 2000 having fled from Russia after falling out with Russia's leader.
He openly called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be overthrown.
Berezovsky had been granted asylum in Britain, and died at his home in London.
In 1997 Forbes magazine estimated Berezovsky's wealth at US$3bn, (£2bn) but in recent years his wealth had been considerably reduced. It is thought he had done badly in the financial crisis.
James Nixey, Chatham House's Russian programme, said: "He is the most virulently anti Kremlin, anti Putin of the oligarchs.
"He was certainly willing to spend his money, what little he had left, in an attempt to use it to end the current regime in Russia.
"He lived in a heavily guarded flat in Mayfair. He had bodyguards, there were attempts on his life that even the security service in the UK had warned him about.
"Putin put in a request for extradition. This was denied on the basis that he wouldn't receive a proper trial in Russia. But he was a wanted man in Russia.
"It's certainly not the first case of Russians and people from the former Soviet Union, more broadly, who have been involved in difficult, embarrassing disputes with the Kremlin, to have died in relatively mysterious circumstances, perhaps before you might expect their natural life to end.
"Information is not always made public so I don't suppose we will find any answers particularly quickly."
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