Sanctioned Russian billionaire files London bankruptcy petition against former associate

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The Russian billionaire approved submitted a bankruptcy in London against a former colleague on the legal costs caused by a dispute over a share of hundreds of millions of dollars in one of the largest fertilizer producers in the world.

Andrei Journal, a bankruptcy procedure against Alexander Gorbachev, who filed a lawsuit against Goriev last year due to allegations that he is highlighting an oral promise – partially submitted on the sauna and on the street outside a bar – to give him great interest in the phosgro.

Gorbachev, who has nothing to do with the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, lost the lawsuit after the Supreme Court judge found that there are “non -interpreted contradictions and cannot be explained” in his allegations.

He ordered the legal costs of Guryev, which amounted to 12 million pounds. Gorbachev had to secure the litigation in place for 10 milliliters of £ 10, according to the court in October, leaving a shortage of two million pounds.

The court’s order added that Gurryev had to apply to the Office for the Implementation of Financial Penalties, which is an arm of the Treasury in the United Kingdom, to license “to allow receipt by the amounts due.”

Legal records show that Gurryev submitted a bankruptcy – a request to the assets that will be taken and sold to pay debts – at the Supreme Court in December against Gorbachev, who attended a preliminary hearing in central London this week.

Daniel Kashman, the lawyer who represents Goriev, told the court that his client was entitled to “millions” of “millions” arising from the failed court lawsuit of Jourbashov.

Gorbachev’s lawyer, James Colvisov, said that the bankruptcy petition was competing. The procedures were postponed to a later date.

The dispute over the Poseagro’s share was one of the many clashes between Russian businessmen in the London courts about the disputed ownership of companies that were created in the era of boats that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Gorbachev was a long director in Phosagro, but he fled Russia to demand resort to the United Kingdom in 2004. He claimed that he was entitled to obtain 25 percent of Gurryev’s shares in the field of fertilizers, with an estimated value of a hundred million dollars.

In support of the lawsuit, Gorbachev referred to the talks almost almost and Goriev before London, including in the sauna, outside a bar and restaurants.

Goriev said that Gorbachev’s assurances did not have a “realistic basis” and described legal procedures as “cracks.”

A six -week trial was heard last year, as Judge Mark Belling K. traveled.

In his rule, the judge found that there is “a lot of unjustified, unjustified contradictions, separation and origin” in Gorbachev’s claims. Gorbachev said at the time that the ruling was “very disappointing.”