UK police have begun to contact a number of Russian exiles to discuss their safety as they investigate the murder of businessman Nikolai Glushkov.
The 68-year-old's body was found at his home in south London on 12 March.
The BBC has been told police and the security services have reassessed their view that exiles are at a low risk.
Former Aeroflot executive Mr Glushkov was given political asylum in 2010 and the UK had blocked attempts by Russia to extradite him.
Police say there is no evidence at this stage linking Mr Glushkov's death to the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury on 4 March.
The Metropolitan Police said a post-mortem examination found Mr Glushkov died from "compression to the neck".
They said the force's Counter Terrorism Command would continue to take charge of the investigation "because of the associations Mr Glushkov is believed to have had".
Detectives are said to be keeping an open mind and are appealing for any information that will assist the investigation.
In particular, they are appealing for anyone who may have seen or heard anything suspicious at or near his home in Clarence Avenue, New Malden, between Sunday 11 March and Monday 12 March to contact them.
Mr Glushkov is the former deputy director of Russian state airline Aeroflot.
He was jailed in 1999 for five years after being charged with money laundering and fraud.
BuzzFeed News claimed to have evidence of 14 deaths in the UK that were actually murders by the Russian state or mafia allies, including that of Mr Berezovsky.
In each of the cases, police investigations and inquests did not find evidence of any crime.
Mr Glushkov's death comes in the same week as Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced that some of the deaths are to be reinvestigated by the police and MI5.
Moscow has denied any involvement in the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skrpal, which is being treated as attempted murder. The pair remain in a critical but stable condition in hospital.
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