Moscow court orders four critics to pay Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska 40 million rubles in defamation case
Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has ruled partly in Oleg Deripaska’s favor in his defamation lawsuit against Anti-Corruption Foundation investigators Maria Pevchikh and Sergey Yezhov, former Popular Politics host Irina Alleman, and human rights activist Olga Romanova, the businessman’s lawyer, Alexey Melnikov, told Interfax.
Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has ruled in favor of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in a defamation lawsuit against four critics, according to his lawyer Alexey Melnikov. The court found that the information the defendants had spread was false and defamatory, ordering them to pay a total of 40 million rubles in compensation.
Deripaska had sought 1 billion rubles from Maria Pevchikh, Sergey Yezhov, Irina Alleman, and Olga Romanova. The lawsuit stemmed from a video titled "Organized Crime, Officials, Girls: The Criminal Biography of Oleg Deripaska" on the Navalny Live YouTube channel, which called Deripaska "an oligarch for whom crime has always been the norm."
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