Billionaire Taunts Exiled Ex-Banker in Moscow Property Spat
- U.K. court hearing dispute over valuable Moscow factory site
- Deripaska brought case against rival businessman Chernukhin
Oleg Deripaska leaves after attending the court hearing on MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC at The Rolls Building in London on May 14, 2018.
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Billionaire Oleg Deripaska appeared in a London court for the second time this year, trading barbs about a fellow businessman’s lack of influence, before declaring that the #MeToo movement hadn’t yet arrived in Russia.
The prominent oligarch, who’s been battling U.S. sanctions since earlier this year, was giving evidence in a dispute over a valuable piece of land in central Moscow. The billionaire brought the case against Vladimir Chernukhin, an ally of the former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, who’s now an opposition politician.