Police investigating the death of a Russian whistleblower who died while jogging found “no evidence he was poisoned”, an inquest heard. Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, is said to have been helping specialist investment firm Hermitage Capital Management uncover a $230m (£150m) Russian money-laundering operation before he collapsed near his home in Weybridge, Surrey, on the afternoon of 10 November 2012. The married father of two had taken out £3.5m worth of life insurance and applied for another £5m worth of policies. The inquest at the Old Bailey in London is examining whether he was poisoned or died of natural causes. On Friday, DS Ian Pollard of Surrey police told the court the original postmortem found no signs of third-party involvement or foul play. A later forensic postmortem did not identify the cause of death, but Pollard said: “It’s not uncommon, sometimes you don’t, particularly when there was absolutely no evidence of third-party restraint, assault, attack, hypodermic injection or alien bodies found.”(guardian)…[+]