Ukraine’s SBU security service has indicted Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in absentia and detained two top managers of his company in Ukraine, its press service announced on Feb. 15. According to the investigation, the suspects supplied Russia with raw materials for the production of various types of weapons, including Iskander missiles. Read also: Russian oligarch […]
The High Anti-Corruption Court has decided to uphold the claim filed by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and seized the assets of Russian oligarch Ivan Savvidis, the State Bureau of Investigations (DBR) reported on Telegram on Feb. 13. “The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court upheld the claim of the Ministry of Justice, prepared on the basis […]
Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court upheld the claim of the Justice Ministry to confiscate the assets of Russian-Greek oligarch Ivan Savvidi (Savvidis) and his wife Kiriyaki, the Anti-Corruption Action Center (ANTAC) NGO, which supported the lawsuit, reported on Feb. 8. The decision was made by a panel of three judges. In the summer of 2023, the […]
Russian-Uzbek metals and telecoms tycoon Alisher Usmanov will remain on the EU sanctions list. Source: Reuters, citing a top EU court on Wednesday after it dismissed Usmanov’s appeal. In its decision to add him to the sanctions list in March 2022, shortly after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU described Usmanov […]
An EU court dismissed the appeal of Russian-Uzbek oligarch Alisher Usmanov to be removed from the EU sanctions list on Feb. 7. The EU imposed sanctions against Usmanov and other top Russian oligarchs and officials in February 2022, shortly after the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the 2022 decision to impose sanctions, […]
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (NACU) has satisfied the Ministry of Justice’s lawsuit for the nationalisation of Ukrainian assets belonging to the sanctioned Russian oligarch Eduard Khudainatov. Source: Ukraine’s Security Service “Ukraine shall seize 100% of his stake in the statutory capital of LLC Naftova Kompaniia Alliance-Ukraine, valued at nearly half a billion hryvnias,” […]
The Supreme Court of Ukraine has finally recognised the state’s ownership of the Ukrainian part of the Samara-Western Direction oil product pipeline, known as the Medvedchuk’s Pipeline (Viktor Medvedchuk is a former Ukrainian MP and pro-Russian oligarch who has Putin as a godfather of his daughter – ed.). Source: Vitalii Koval, the head of the […]
The U.K.’s House of Lords issued a report on Jan. 31 condemning the “incomprehensible” failure of the government to spend frozen funds from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich‘s sale of Chelsea football club (FC) on aid for Ukraine. Abramovich has a net worth estimated to be around $9 billion and has Russian, Israeli, and Portuguese citizenship. […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service has placed Mikhail Fridman, a Russian oligarch and former owner of Ukraine’s Alfa-Bank (now Sense Bank), on the wanted list, according to a statement by Fridman’s holding company, ABH Holdings S.A (ABHH), on Dec. 21. ABHH claims that the Ukrainian government’s actions are the latest step in a dispute over the […]
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) added Russian-Israeli business tycoon Mikhail Fridman to Ukraine’s wanted list, according to the Interior Ministry’s website. Fridman was charged by the SBU on Sept. 5 for helping to finance Russia’s war against Ukraine. According to the security service, the oligarch has poured around 2 billion rubles ($22 million) into […]