He first appeared on the business scene in 1989, when he started Logovaz for automaker Avtovaz.
Later Glushkov served as head of finance for Avtovaz and was one of the founders of Logovaz.
His company, called Logovaz, was the automaker's largest dealer, selling 45, 000 Avtovaz cars annually, nearly 10% of its domestic sales.
His base is Logovaz, Russia's largest car dealership, but this is only the most visible tip of a golden iceberg.
There, eight years ago, Berezovsky founded Logovaz, taking the giant automaker as partner and reinforcing the relationship with cross-shareholding and numerous joint ventures.
The "conversation" between the Russian and the Chechen gangsters over the Moscow auto market took place outside a Logovaz showroom, near the Kazakhstan Cinema.
His company, Logovaz, became the center of his economic interests, but also a political nexus that he set up in a Moscow palace known as the Logovaz mansion.
"We no longer have direct links with Logovaz, " Nikolaev mumbled.
According to several top Russian law enforcement officials, Berezovsky built his dealership, Logovaz, under the protection of the Chechen Commune, one of the most feared organized crime groups in Russia.
Berezovsky, the largest Avtovaz dealer, had the best "personal relationship" imaginable, since the Avtovaz chairman, its head of finance and its head of aftersale service each owned a substantial portion of Logovaz stock.
One of the first attacks occurred on the afternoon of July 19, 1993, when a gang led by a man named Igor Ovchinnikov descended on a Logovaz showroom at the Kazakhstan Cinema on 105 Lenin Prospekt.
Avtovaz was selling its cars at a loss to Berezovsky's dealership, Logovaz, and engaging Logovaz to handle its finances at the same time that the top executives at the auto factory benefited personally from the relationship as Logovaz shareholders.
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