Dmitry Mazepin: claimed the Irish courts had no jurisdiction to hear the case. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/TASS

March 24, 2022 — The High Court has refused to halt an alleged €2 billion conspiracy-to-defraud case against a Russia-based EU-sanctioned billionaire who allegedly controls an Irish-registered company central to the dispute. Dmitry Mazepin, who is a close associate of Russian president Vladimir Putin, along with other Russia-based co-defendants, had claimed the Irish courts had no jurisdiction to hear the case and the service of the proceedings against them should be set aside.

Click here to read the full article on the website of the Irish Times.

Russian president Vladimir Putin and Uralchem chief executive Dmitry Mazepin at the Kremlin in January. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel\Tass via Getty
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