Lithuanians to sue Gorbachev for Soviet crackdown in Vilnius

On behalf of the relatives of the four who died in the events of January 13, 1991 – Vidas Maciulevičius, Algimantas Petras Kavolukas, Virginijus Druskis, Apolinaras Juozas Povilaitis – a civil lawsuit was filed to bring former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev to justice, lrt.lt reported. “The lawsuit Continue Reading

Lawsuits from green energy producers could hit $1 billion a year

State losses due to lawsuits from green energy producers could hit $1 billion a year, predicts Oleg Gramotenko, General Director of Tesla Energy, ubn.news reports. “More than half of investors in renewable energy are already negotiating with international law firms regarding the preparation of lawsuits against the state of Ukraine,” Continue Reading

PrivatBank brings new $5.5 billion suit against its former owners

PrivatBank has recently issued a new claim in the Cypriot courts seeking damages of US$5.5 billion in respect of schemes bearing all the hallmarks of fraud and money laundering which the Bank alleges were perpetrated by its former owners, Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov, one of its former senior executives, Continue Reading

SBU asked PrivatBank to stop filing new lawsuits against former owners

With PrivatBank’s new management pursuing hundreds of millions of dollars in claims against the bank’s former owners in London, Tel Aviv and Delaware, the State Security Service, or SBU, has asked the bank to stop filing new lawsuits. Volodymyr Horbenko, the deputy head of SBU, wrote that foreign lawsuits “may Continue Reading