I will prove Russian mafia killed tycoon, says ex-wife

FEATURING the disappearance of hundreds of millions of pounds, Russian gangsters and a gruesome unexplained death, the fate of businessman Scot Young sounds like a plotline from McMafia, the new BBC series starring James Norton.

But for Young’s ex-wife, Michelle (right), it is all too real.

Dundee-born Young was fatally impaled on railing spikes after plunging from a fifth-floor window in London in 2014.

At the inquest into the property and telecoms entrepreneur’s death, the coroner ruled that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that it had been suicide.

Now, after making her own painstaking investigation, Michelle has sent ‘key elements’ of her dossier to Scotland Yard, in a bid to establish the cause of Young’s death once and for all — and also to resolve what happened to his billion-pound fortune which allegedly disappeared without trace in a deal called ‘Project Moscow’.

Michelle, 53, who was awarded a £26.6million divorce settlement in 2013 but never received a penny of it, knows that her tactics are not without risk.

Four of Scot’s cronies, whom he regularly met at a West

London restaurant, died in murky circumstances before he did. Property man Paul Castle threw himself under a Tube train in 2010; fellow property entrepreneur Robbie Curtis, believed to have had dealings with the Russian mob, threw himself under a train in 2012; Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was found hanged in a bathroom at Titness Park, his Berkshire estate, in 2013; and Johnny Elichaoff, ex-husband of TV presenter Trinny Woodall — current squeeze of advertising tycoon Charles Saatchi — leapt to his death from a London shopping centre in November 2014.

Michelle, adamant that those who helped Scot hide his money eventually sanctioned his murder, is undaunted.

‘There is not one part of me that is scared. These people don’t frighten me,’ she tells next month’s edition of Tatler.

Verdicts of suicide were recorded for Castle, Curtis and Elichaoff — but not for Berezovsky, with the coroner ruling that it was ‘impossible to say’ whether the oligarch had taken his own life or had been unlawfully killed.