Oligarch’s son told to pay mother $104M after world’s largest divorce case

The son of a billionaire oligarch was ordered to pay his mother $104 million in damages Wednesday by a London choose, who discovered he tried to assist his dad disguise property in his dad and mom’ divorce, in accordance to a report.

Temur Akhmedov allegedly labored along with his dad, oil tycoon Farkhad Akhmedov, to cowl up the older man’s lavish property, equivalent to a $400 million superyacht and a large artwork assortment, so mother Tatiana Akhmedova couldn’t get her correct reduce after the couple’s 2016 break up, the Guardian reported.

The choose within the case ripped Temur as “a dishonest particular person who will do something to help his father.”

“All glad households are alike, every sad household is sad in its personal manner. With apologies to Tolstoy, the Akhmedov household is likely one of the unhappiest ever to have appeared in my courtroom,” choose Gwynneth Knowles added in her written ruling, in a reference to Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

Farkhad Akhmedov was ordered in 2016 to pay Tatiana $631 million, or 41.5 % of his fortune, of their divorce — which is among the many most costly ever recorded.

To this point, although, Farkhad Akhmedov has solely paid about $6.9 million, which introduced on Tatiana Akhmedova’s courtroom motion towards her son.

Temur was reportedly accused of performing as his rich dad’s “lieutenant” to assist disguise property.

As well as to the boat and artwork, he additionally allegedly tried to conceal a number of mansions a helicopter and $150 million he put into the inventory marketplace for his dad, the Guardian stated, citing courtroom testimony. He even admitted shedding $50 million in at some point of buying and selling whereas learning at London’s Faculty of Economics, the paper stated.

Akhmedova hailed the ruling Wednesday.

“Right this moment’s judgment is the inevitable conclusion given Farkhad’s failure to behave honorably within the first occasion,” Decide Gwynneth Knowles agreed.

“Temur has discovered nicely from his father’s previous conduct and has carried out and stated all he may to stop his mother receiving a penny of the matrimonial property.”

For his half, Temur Akhmedov tried to play good, although he didn’t agree with the ruling.

“He would take into account it a worth price paying for ought to it lead to an inexpensive settlement between the dad and mom he each loves,” His spokesman told the Guardian.

“By no means sought to take sides or get entangled however inevitably discovered himself sucked into the vortex of a bitter household dispute.”

There appears to be no love misplaced between the mother and father.

Farkhad Akhmedov stated in an announcement, “Fully predictably, given its unique unsuitable and misguided judgment, the London courtroom has dominated in favor of visiting ‘the sins’ of the daddy on an harmless and constant son.”