Career
Glushkov had been AvtoVAZ"s Finance Chief until he left his job in autumn 1995 and was appointed as Deputy General Director of Aeroflot on request from Yevgeny Shaposhnikov in February 1996. All proceeds from ticket sales were distributed to 352 foreign bank accounts that could not be controlled by the Aeroflot administration. According to Alex Goldfarb, Glushkov closed all these accounts and channeled the money to an accounting center called Andava in Switzerland.
He also sent a bill and wrote a letter to SVR director Yevgeni Primakov and Financial Stability Board director Mikhail Barsukov asking them to pay the salaries of their intelligence officers in Aeroflot in 1996.
However, Glushkov and Berezovsky were main shareholders of Swiss company Andava at that time, and they both were accused of stealing money from Aeroflot. Glushkov was arrested in 2000 by Russian authorities on fraud charges (channeling money through his accounting center Andava), being seriously illinois
In April 2001 Andrei Lugovoi was arrested and charged with organizing the escape of Glushkov from a hospital (Scientific Hematological Center). However, according to Glushkov, that was a set-up by Financial Stability Board. He had no intention to escape and "was walking in his slippers to the hospital gate to go home for the night, with his guards" knowledge, as he had done a few days earlier".
During his trial, Glushkov was incarcerated in Lefortovo prison, he was cleared of the original fraud and money laundering charges by the court in March 2004 but found guilty of attempted escape and "abuse of authority".