Blavatnik Is Sued for $2 Billion Over TNK Energy Sale

Billionaires Leonard Blavatnik and Viktor Vekselberg were sued by a Russian businessman and lawmaker who claims he’s owed more than $2 billion from the sale of his country’s third-largest oil and gas producer.

Leonid Lebedev, a member of the upper house of the Russian legislature, said in a complaint filed yesterday in New York that the sum came due last year when the company, in which the men all held stakes, was sold to Rosneft OAO, Russia’s largest oil company, for $55 billion.