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Next week, one of the most expensive divorce cases in history, the most expensive in the UK, begins a public hearing in London. The battle for 453 million pounds (just over 5.3 billion crowns) is between Putin’s oligarch ally Farkhad Akhmedov (65), his divorced wife Tatjana Akhmedova (52) and their common son Temur Akhmedov (27).
I won but didn’t get the money
In 2016, Tatjana won the largest divorce case of 453 million pounds, when a British court ordered her ex-husband to pay her 41.5 percent of his fortune, estimated at around one billion pounds.
But Farkhad has not paid and the case is therefore brought up again in a higher court in London.
Tatjana claims that her ex-husband has hidden money and valuables in order not to pay. He is said to have turned down an offer of 100 million pounds, almost 1.2 billion crowns, in a final settlement to take the case to the death.
The couple married in 1993 and Tatjana filed for divorce in the UK in 2003, where she lived with her two children together. The two did not finally divorce until 2013. Farkhad has three more children from other marriages.
Involve son and Google
Since the trial in 2016, the relationship between mother and son Temur has completely soured. Mother Tatjana claims that the father illegally transferred much of the property to their common son to avoid paying for the divorce.
All Temur assets have been frozen by the British court pending the outcome of the trial. Meanwhile, Temur, who lives in Dubai, has eaten on a weekly salary of 3,000 pounds.
Temur tells The Guardian that he will never be able to reconcile with his mother again, and that his “outrageous and vengeful behavior” has completely ruined the mother-son relationship. She notes, among other things, that the police, at her request, searched her London home, a £ 30 million apartment in Hyde Park that her father had illegally transferred to her, according to her mother. During the ten-hour raid, several valuables were seized, including Xbox and Playstation consoles.
– My mother gave us a good education, she was a good mother. But these demands come because he doesn’t like me because I didn’t take his side. Never in a million years could I imagine donating my own blood. She only seeks revenge. How can you give birth to a child and then fight them in court? Temur Akhmedov tells the newspaper.
Tatjana Akhmedova has also been confirmed by the court that Google must deliver her son’s email correspondence, seeking evidence that he has acted as “his father’s lieutenant,” as it claims.
The son says that he could understand if the mother needed the money. He maintains that she lives a life of luxury and can follow her many shopping trips and WhatsApp trips, most recently to Ibiza and Italy earlier this fall.
It says that the parents in practice divorced twenty years ago, after the mother had an affair with a younger lover. He believes that the mother has no legitimate claim to all of the father’s money.
Real estate, cars, boats, helicopters, planes and art, as well as cash, are among the values in dispute.
Skin and gas
Farkhad Akhmedov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan during the Soviet era, and when he was 15 years old, his parents were arrested by the KGB and he moved to Moscow.
In Moscow, he met several of those who would become the richest and most famous oligarchs after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, such as Roman Abramovich and Boris Beresovsky.
Among other things, it started exporting saber skins to the UK and eventually landed lucrative contracts with Russian gas companies such as the state-owned Gazprom.
Akhmedov has very good contacts with both the Kremlin and the regime in the oil-rich homeland of Azerbaijan. He has been a member of the Federation Council and a senator in Russia, and has Russian and Azerbaijani citizenship.
Unlike many of his fellow oligarchs, Akhmedov has not bought football clubs, but is interested in art and has contributed to various exhibitions, and has a very valuable private art collection with works by, among others, Mark Rothko. , Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol.(Terms)Copyright Dagens Næringsliv AS and / or our suppliers. We want you to share our cases via a link, which leads directly to our pages. Copying or other use of all or part of the content may only be made with written permission or as permitted by law. For more terms, see here.
