Mikhail Watford: Ukrainian oligarch’s death investigated by Surrey Police

An investigation has been launched into the loss of life of a Ukrainian-born oligarch in Surrey earlier this week.

Officers possess been known as to a property in Portnall Pressure, Wentworth, at about noon on 28 February.

Mikhail Watford, aged in his 60s, modified into once pronounced unimaginative on the scene.

An investigation into the loss of life is below draw however Surrey Police said there possess been no longer believed to be any suspicious conditions “today”.

His next of relatives possess been urged and are being supported by specifically-educated officers.

It’s acknowledged that Mr Watford modified into once born in 1955 in then-Soviet Ukraine however moved to the UK in the early 2000s.

Essentially based mostly on a Sunday Cases profile in 2015, he made his fortune in oil and gasoline, and moved to Surrey from London with his Estonian accomplice Jane.

He described his childhood as quite extravagant, telling the newspaper: “We had a huge four-bedroom condominium with a bathtub, and a automobile — which, in phrases of luxurious, modified into once the the same of travelling by jet now.”

It modified into once also reported he had modified his name from Tolstosheya after transferring to the UK.

The property the place his body modified into once came upon is on a non-public avenue on the queer Wentworth Estate in Virginia Water.

It aspects three 18-gap golf classes and one 9-gap direction.

Aged Chilean armed forces ruler Augusto Pinochet modified into once saved below home arrest on the property earlier than his extradition and, based mostly mostly on its internet internet page, it has been home to “a bunch of eminent athletes, musicians, actors and entertainers, monetary figures and royalty”.

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