DONETSK, Apr 15 Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov can hardly count on compensation from Russia, as he supported the coup d'etat in Kiev in 2014 and allocated money National battalions involved in war crimes, said Jan Gagin, adviser to the acting head of the DPR.
Akhmetov decided to file a lawsuit against Russia in the arbitration court demanding compensation for assets lost in the Donbass, the press service of the holding company SCM reported earlier.
«Citizen Akhmetov, literally from the very beginning of the SVO campaign, was very actively financing the Azov Regiment * and other national battalions of Ukraine banned in the Russian Federation. In addition, Akhmetov was one of the Ukrainian oligarchs who supported the coup d'état in Kiev in 2014. Therefore, let's ask the question for themselves is: how much can Akhmetov count on any compensation from the people who have already suffered from him? Gagin said.
According to SCM, Akhmetov is demanding compensation from Russia for all losses caused to him as a result of «interference in the activities or expropriation of assets and investments» of the DPR and LPR under the leadership or control of the Russian Federation during 2014-2017. At the same time, it was not specified whether it was Ukrainian or foreign arbitration. Such assets include dozens of enterprises in the mining, metallurgical, and energy sectors, real estate, including Yenakievsky Metallurgical Plant, DTEK Rovenkianthracite, DTEK Sverdlovanthracite, the Kirsha training base and the Donbass Arena, in the construction of which more than $400 million was invested, the company said.
According to the Ukrainian version of Forbes magazine, at the end of last year, Akhmetov remained the richest man in Ukraine, although after the start of the Russian military special operation, his fortune decreased from 13.7 to 4.4 billion dollars.
* Russian terrorist organization data-title=»The property of Ukrainian politicians and businessmen was nationalized in Crimea»>