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Updated: 21 Apr 2021, 13:44
A RUSSIAN billionaire s ex has won £453million in Britain s biggest divorce settlement today.
The finale to the High Court battle comes after a judge found Tatiana Akhmedova s former husband and son plotted to hide the huge fortune.
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Temur Akhmedov, son of oil and gas tycoon Farkhad and Tatiana AkhmedovaCredit: Reuters
She had argued her ex has hidden assets and accused their 27-year-old son, Temur Akhmedov, of acting as his dad s lieutenant in the legal scrap.
Today, a judge made rulings in Ms Akhmedova s favour and granted her the enormous sum after noting the formidable smokescreen created to conceal assets.
Russian family at heart of £450m divorce battle unhappiest to appear in my courtroom , judge says
Mrs Justice Knowles made the comment as she allowed a legal challenge brought by the ex-wife of a Russian billionaire against her son
Tatiana Akhmedova
Credit: Rick Findler/PA Wire
A High Court judge quoted Tolstoy on Wednesday as she said the Russian family at the centre of a £450 million divorce was “the unhappiest to ever appear in my courtroom”.
Mrs Justice Knowles referenced a passage from the Russian writer’s 19th century epic,
Anna Karenina, as she allowed a legal challenge brought by the ex-wife of a Russian billionaire against her son.
The son at the center of the U.K.’s largest divorce lost a London court ruling over his role in hiding assets from his mother with a judge calling him “a dishonest individual who will do anything to assist his father.”
Temur Akhmedov worked with his billionaire father, Farkhad Akhmedov, to do “all he could” to stop his mother from obtaining a 450 million-pound ($627 million) court-approved divorce payout, Judge Gwynneth Knowles said in a ruling Wednesday. The judge ruled Temur should pay his mother more than $100 million.
The trial attracted scrutiny after Temur revealed he’d lost more than $50 million day trading while a college student. He’d argued that far from hiding his father’s money from his mother, he’d instead lost some of it with bad trades.