Russia targets Billionaire’s empire over alleged Ukraine tie
September 14, 2025 – Denis Shtengelov grew up in Tomsk, Siberia. He built KDV Group from a tiny seed-selling venture into one of Russia’s biggest snack and candy makers. In…
Oligarch Dmitry Mazepin is behind ‘deliberate contempt’, High Court hears
October 20, 2022 – The High Court heard that a Russian oligarch under EU sanctions, along with his companies—including one registered in Dublin—engaged in a prolonged and deliberate act of…
Google wins injunction in the UK over Russian accounts case
January 22, 2025 – London (Reuters) – Russia’s attempt to enforce its judgements against Google over the closure and deletion of certain pro-Russia Google and YouTube accounts, has been soundly…
Dmitry Mazepin’s challenge to EU sanctions dismissed by The General Court (First Chamber)
July 3, 2024 – Dmitry Mazepin’s support of the military campaign taken by the Russian government regarding the invasion of Ukraine had led to the oligarch being sanctioned by the…
The legal dispute over ToAZ, Russia’s largest ammonia plant
January 24, 2024 – Due in part to Putin’s poor leadership, as well as exploitation of the weaknesses of the Russian legal system, reiderstvo has increased dramatically in Russia. Russian…
Oligarch Dmitry Mazepin flouts Cyprus law
November 3, 2023 – A long-running legal dispute over the ownership of a Russian ammonia producer, Togliattiazot (“ToAZ”) is also being played out in Cyprus. An oligarch, Dmitry Mazepin, is…
Contempt application in Cyprus
June 8, 2023 – On 2 July 2019, two of Mazepin’s companies, – Uralchem Holding PLC (“Holding”) and CI-Chemical Invest Limited (“CIC”) – gave formal and legally binding undertakings to…
Oligarch Dmitry Mazepin has until October, 2022 to file defence in ToAZ ‘corporate raiding’ case
May 10, 2022 — Dmitry Mazepin and his company have until October to file their defence to a legal action here over an alleged €2 billion “corporate raiding” scheme to…
Irish High Court rules against Aktum LLC in conspiracy-to-defraud case
March 31, 2022 — The Irish High Court has ruled against one of a number of Russian companies in a €2 billion alleged conspiracy-to-defraud case involving a Dublin-registered firm and…
Russian defendants scramble for lawyers as William Fry and Arthur Cox plan to pull out
The Times, March 31, 2022 — The defendants in the biggest corporate legal case before the High Court are hunting for new lawyers since two big firms said they would…