A son of a billionaire oligarch was sentenced on Wednesday to pay his mother $ 104 million in damages by a London judge, who found he was trying to help his father hide property in his parents’ divorce, according to a report.
Temur Akhmedov allegedly worked with his father, oil tycoon Farkhad Akhmedov, to cover up the big man’s luxurious assets, such as a $ 400 million superiot and a massive art collection, so that mother Tatiana Akhmedova was unable to get her proper cut after the couple separated in 2016, The Guardian reported.
The trial judge dismissed Temur as “a dishonest individual who will do anything to help his father.”
“All happy families are equal, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. With apologies to Tolstoy, the Akhmedov family is one of the most unhappy to have appeared in my courtroom, “Judge Gwynneth Knowles added in her written sentence, referring to Leo Tolstoy’s. Anna Karenina.
Farkhad Akhmedov was sentenced in 2016 to pay Tatiana $ 631 million, or 41.5 percent of his fortune, for his divorce, which is one of the most expensive ever recorded.
So far, however, Farkhad Akhmedov has only paid about $ 6.9 million, which prompted Tatiana Akhmedova’s lawsuit against her son.
Temur was reportedly accused of acting as his rich father’s “lieutenant” to help hide the property.
In addition to the boat and the art, he allegedly also tried to hide several mansions with a helicopter and $ 150 million he put on the stock market for his father, the Guardian said, citing court testimony. He even admitted to losing $ 50 million in a day of trading while studying at the London School of Economics, according to the newspaper.
Akhmedova hailed the ruling on Wednesday.
“Today’s trial is the inevitable conclusion given the fact that Farkhad did not behave honorably in the first instance,” Judge Gwynneth Knowles agreed.
“Temur has learned well from his father’s past conduct and has done and said everything he could to prevent his mother from receiving a penny from the marital property.”
For his part, Temur Akhmedov tried to play well, although he did not agree with the sentence.
“He would consider it a price worth paying if it led to a reasonable agreement between the parents they both love,” his spokesman told the Guardian.
“I never tried to take sides or participate in it, but it inevitably found itself absorbed in the vortex of a bitter family dispute.”
There seems to be no lost love between mother and father.
Farkhad Akhmedov said in a statement: “Totally predictable, given his original wrong and wrong judgment, the London court has ruled in favor of visiting the” sins “of the father to an innocent and loyal son.”