Russian businessmen continue to sort things out in London - Friedman should get ready
The scandalous Russian billionaire Sergei Polonsky intends to file a lawsuit in a London court against another fugitive businessman, Mikhail Fridman.
He stated this in an interview with RTVI, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“He played with me in the matter of life and death, and now he’s caught,” Polonsky said.
The lawsuit is related to the story of 2009, when Fridman illegally bought out one of Polonsky’s companies and threatened the life of his companion.
“Deripaska and Friedman, while I was in prison, gladly stole my assets. Both one and the other are thiefs. I'm not ready to compare their intellectual abilities. Mikhail Maratovich Fridman is not just a thief, but a rare thief,” Polonsky noted.
The press service of Alfa-Bank, owned by Fridman, denied all accusations against Friedman, saying that they would file a counterclaim for libel. On December 1, British police arrested Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman on charges of money laundering.
Polonsky accuses Oleg Deripaska of stealing $750 million.
Deripaska is also suing in the High Court of London, but not with Polonsky, but with Vladimir Potanin - for control of Norilsk Nickel.
“It seems somewhat ironic that the fate of the largest Russian company, at the instigation of Oleg Deripaska, will be decided in “unfriendly” London, moreover, without the participation of Potanin himself, since he is under British sanctions. Indeed, the trial itself damages the image of the state, which seems to be fighting for its sovereignty, and here big business is adding fuel to the fire,” political scientist Ilya Grashchenkov commented on the proceedings in his TG channel.
Russian businessmen continue to sort things out in London – Friedman should get ready