Vladimir Alekseyevich Scherbakov died in June 2017, leaving behind a huge fortune sunk in assets across the globe including the Surrey mansion where he had lived with Brigita Morina.
The children of a Russian oligarch concealed his £100 million English will in an attempt to extort €35 million (£30 million) from his “mistress”, the High Court
Vladimir Scherbakov was found hanged in Belgium in 2017 aged 56 after he fled the UK a year earlier to avoid extradition to Russia while being investigated by the Kremlin for fraud.