Former Dragons’ Den investor Nick Jenkins has said he left Russia in the wake of a death threat being posted to his door.

The man behind the ubiquitous Moonpig cards, 58, has spoken in a new podcast interview about a ‘ding dong’ he had with a Siberian warlord over several warehouses of sugar which mysteriously vanished.

Jenkins was a fearsome Dragon on the BBC One entrepreneurial show for seasons 13 and 14, before he announced he would be exiting the programme in 2017 to focus on his own businesses.

The greeting card company founder – who made six investments totalling £842,000 on Dragons’ Den – has now detailed the sticky situation of his youth, when a deal went sour.

‘I was quite young and it was the first time I ever had a death threat. To some extent you think that’s quite exciting

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