Statement: English High Court case
A spokesman for Mr Magomedov said: We are naturally disappointed with the decision and intend to seek permission to appeal. The Court was satisfied that
In March 2018, Ziyavudin Magomedov was arrested on unevidenced and incoherent embezzlement charges, having fallen foul of Russian state interests.
Read more below about Mr Magomedov’s legal claim and the criminal proceedings brought against him in Russia.
Following his arrest in 2018, Mr Magomedov was held for almost five years without a trial, before being convicted in December 2022 by a Moscow judge whose verdict uncritically parroted the prosecution’s case.
As well as being deprived of his liberty, Mr Magomedov has faced an unbridled assault on his business interests – in both FESCO and his NCSP port business.
In a wide-ranging claim filed at the English High Court, Mr Magomedov and his representatives accuse a number of parties – both western corporations and entities linked to the Russian state – of unlawfully conspiring against him and his business interests.
A spokesman for Mr Magomedov said: We are naturally disappointed with the decision and intend to seek permission to appeal. The Court was satisfied that
It has been reported on FESCO’s website that a company associated with Mr Ziyavudin Magomedov withdrew its defence in London Court of International Arbitration proceedings
Ziyavudin Magomedov was arrested in March 2018 in the midst of an apparent criminal investigation led by Nicolai Budillo, who was previously involved in the
A spokesman for Mr Magomedov said: We are naturally disappointed with the decision and intend to seek permission to appeal. The Court was satisfied that
It has been reported on FESCO’s website that a company associated with Mr Ziyavudin Magomedov withdrew its defence in London Court of International Arbitration proceedings
A spokesman for Mr Magomedov said: We are naturally disappointed with the decision and intend to seek permission to appeal. The Court was satisfied that
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