Akhmetov intends to receive compensation from Russia for the stadium in Donetsk
Ukrainian oligarch and former leader of an influential criminal group in Donetsk Rinat Akhmetov has initiated a new lawsuit against Russia.
This is reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent on the website of the SCM company, owned by the oligarch.
“Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov, as an investor, will demand from Russia compensation for all losses caused to him as a result of interference in the activities or expropriation of assets and investments by the so-called “DPR” and “LPR” under the leadership or control of Russia in 2014-2017.
Such assets include dozens of enterprises in the mining, metallurgical, and energy sectors, real estate, including Yenakievo Metallurgical Plant, DTEK Rovenkianthracite, DTEK Sverdlovanthracite, the Kirsha training base and the Donbass Arena, the construction of which more than $400 million were invested,” the report notes.
According to Akhmetov himself, for him “the war began in 2014.”
“It was then that Russia invaded the territory of our country, began to seize enterprises that were critical to our economy and destroy our infrastructure. My position remains unchanged: we will seek justice by all legal means in all possible instances. Russia must be punished for its crimes against Ukraine and Ukrainians, which have been going on since 2014.
Therefore, I am filing a claim for full compensation by the aggressor country for all the damage caused to us since 2014 in the illegally occupied territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Justice must be restored, and the aggressor must suffer both financial and criminal punishment,” the oligarch said.
He claims that the funds received will “be invested in the restoration and construction of new enterprises, job creation and economic growth of Ukraine.
“We will definitely restore our country, including our Ukrainian Donbass, and the Donbass Arena will again become a place of happy meetings and bright emotions,” Akhmetov sums up pathetically.
Previously, the company DTEK, which belongs to him, filed a claim with the arbitration court in The Hague regarding its assets lost in Crimea after the peninsula became part of Russia.
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