Twilight had settled over the tranquil country lane when officers arrived to find the slumped frame of a middle-aged man, his dog lying dead nearby. The fatally wounded figure was Dmitry Obretetsky, a billionaire who had made his fortune in the smash-and-grab chaos of post-communist Russia before moving to Britain with his wife and children. He had been walking his dog near his home in the exclusive Surrey village of Oxshott when he was mown down in a crash involving three vehicles.
Although police are not treating it as suspicious, when Obretetsky’s death became public in Russia last week, rumours began swirling. “People drive very carefully in Britain,” a friend of his said, in an interview with Life, a Russian news outlet. “I don’t exclude
