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Graice Taiga is dead. She was a former director of Legal Services of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, who was accused of collecting bribe in P&ID fraud
By Monidipa Fouzder2021-04-23T11:33:00+01:00 Two days on and my eyes are still a bit bleary from reading all 404 paragraphs of Mrs Justice Knowles’ judgment on the latest chapter of a high-profile £450m divorce battle. It was the opening paragraph of Mrs Justice Knowles’ judgment that attracted widespread attention, at least among the legal community: ‘ All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. With apologies to Tolstoy, the Akhmedov family is one of the unhappiest ever to have appeared in my courtroom.’ I’ve never read any Tolstoy – my editors ...
By Monidipa Fouzder2021-04-22T10:23:00+01:00 A High Court judge has described a family at the centre of a high-profile £450m divorce battle one of the unhappiest ever to have appeared in her courtroom. Tatiana Akhmedova, the ex-wife of Russian billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov, won a High Court case against her eldest son, Temur Akhmedov, in a long-running battle to recover what she is owed. In December 2016, Farkhad Akhmedov was ordered to pay his ex-wife £453,576,152 following their divorce. In a judgment handed down yesterday, Mrs Justice Knowles said Tatiana Akhmedova had been the ‘vict...