 He was a business partner and close friend of Boris Berezovsky, who from November 2000 resided in Britain; Berezovsky had to give up his ownership of the ORT TV channel transferred them to Roman Abramovich's Sibneft) in exchange for the promise to release Glushkov, which was not fulfilled.In April 2001 Andrey Lugovoy organised an "escape" of Glushkov from a hospital where he was kept by authorities.According to Glushkov, that was a set-up by FSB.