British police say experts in hazardous materials have searched a property after the death of exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky.
They have since given the all-clear and cordons around the property have now mostly been lifted.
Police said a 67-year-old "believed to be" Berezovsky was found dead at the property in Ascot, a town 40km west of London yesterday.
Thames Valley police say his death is being treated as "unexplained".
Police said they have set up a cordon and that officers are conducting the search "as a precaution" and there is no risk to neighbours.
The BBC described the site as Berezovsky's home.
"It is important we take all necessary measures to ensure a full and thorough investigation can be carried out," Police Superintendant Stuart Greenfield said in a statement.
Mr Berezovsky - who had survived a number of assassination attempts - amassed a fortune through oil and automobiles during Russia's chaotic privatisation of state assets following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Once a member of Russian President Boris Yeltsin's inner circle, Mr Berezovsky fell out with Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin, and fled Britain in the early 2000s to escape fraud charges that he said were politically motivated.
He became a strident and frequent critic of Mr Putin, accusing the leader of ushering in a dictatorship, and accused the security services of organizing the 1999 apartment house bombings in Moscow and two other Russian cities that became a pretext for Russian troops to sweep into Chechnya for the second war there in half a decade.
Russia repeatedly sought to extradite Mr Berezovksy on a wide variety of criminal charges, and the tycoon vehemently rejected allegations over the years that he was linked to several deaths, including that of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
Last year, Mr Berezovsky lost a multibillion-pound High Court case against fellow Russian Roman Abramovich and was ordered to pay £35m in legal costs.
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