Oligarch 'tipped off' about assassination

Oleg Deripaska: Russia's richest man being sued for £1.5 billion A High Court judge has ruled that a Russian oligarch linked to a leading Labour MP faced the risk of assassination – after accepting evidence based on tip-offs from the intelligence services. Mr Justice Christopher Clarke decided last week that a multi-billion-pound court case between Michael Cherney, an aluminium tycoon, and Oleg Deripaska, Russia’s richest man, should not be held in Moscow because there was a risk to Mr Cherney of ‘assassination, arrest on trumped-up charges and lack of a fair trial’. The extraordinary judgment followed last week’s Mail on Sunday report that Labour MP Andrew Mackinlay had allegedly been named as the target of a ‘dirty tricks’ campaign by Mr Deripaska’s aides. The Bulgarian paper Standart claimed the aides had tried to use Mr... [read full story]