NEIL BUSH hangs out with Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky.

Berezovsky and Bush's brother in the crowd at the Emirates

Paul KelsoTuesday September 5, 2006The Guardian

The exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has made his first public appearance since being linked with the takeover of West Ham. Berezovsky was at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday in the company of Neil Bush the brother of the US president, George Bush.

Berezovsky has invested in an online educational company founded by the president's younger brother and invited Bush to join him in his box at Arsenal to watch the Brazil-Argentina friendly. Also present were Alberto Dualib and Nesi Curi, president and vice-president of Corinthians, the Brazilian club that sold the Argentinian internationals Carlos Tévez and Javier Mascherano to West Ham United in the surprise deal of transfer deadline day.

A spokesman for Berezovsky yesterday denied he is an investor in a takeover for West Ham fronted by the Iranian businessman Kia Joorabchian. Joorabchian spent yesterday in talks with his lawyers about the takeover and discussing the possibility of legal action over media coverage of the deal. He insists his backers are from the Middle East and the United Kingdom, with a British multimillionaire thought to be involved. West Ham insiders, meanwhile, believe that after the takeover speculation of the last five days a deal to sell the club is no more than 50-50 likely to happen.

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