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Serge Pugachev, French citizen ( he renounced his Russian citizenship in 2012) is an international investor, a public person and a politician, founder of the United Industrial Corporation — Russia’s largest private investment company, with assets worth 15 billion dollars. Mr Pugachev’s assets were expropriated by the Russian Federation during the period 2012-2014. In 2015 Mr Pugachev filed a claim against Russia before The Hague International Court, for an amount in excess of 12 billion dollars. The tribunal’s hearings are public and are presided by Eduardo Zuleta.

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22/03/2022

Moscow 1996, vote or lose!

23/09/2018

Browder, Navalny and Pugachev likely top Putin’s hit list, Eidman says

Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some subordinate group,

16/03/2022

Putin’s ‘junta’ and why Ukraine marks its downfall

Exiled Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev, who became dubbed “the Kremlin’s banker”, was once part of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, until

03/10/2021

The Kremlin is not yet aware of changes in the case of ex-Senator Pugachev

The Kremlin is not yet aware of changes in the case of ex-Senator Pugachev Press Secretary of the President of

02/10/2021

The Paris Court of Appeal has decided to open an investigation into the trial of former Mezhprombank owner Sergei Pugachev

PARIS, September 29. / TASS /. The Paris Court of Appeal has decided to open an investigation into the trial

18/06/2021

The Power of Money: How Autocrats Use London to Strike Foes Worldwide

Olena Tyshchenko, a lawyer based in Britain, was facing years in a crowded Russian prison cell, when a chance at

02/11/2020

On the 2th of November, Mr. Pugachev’s lawyers filed an appeal against the award of the Hague Tribunal made on

On June 18, 2020, the Hague Tribunal made a ruling based on the hearings held last November in Paris. The

22/06/2020

Decision of the last session of the Hague Tribunal on the claim of Sergei Pugachev against the Russian Federation

Today it became known about the decision of the last session of the Hague Tribunal on the claim of Sergei

12/04/2020

BBC Two Documentary Premiere

Stand-alone doc The Countess & The Russian Billionaire steps inside the secret world of Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev and his

30/03/2020

Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West

It was late in the evening in May 2015, and Sergei Pugachev was flicking through an old family photo album

17/03/2020

BBC2 docs probe lives of super rich

UK pubcaster BBC2 has picked up two factual shows detailing the lives of the super rich, titled Inside Monaco and

21/09/2015

Sergei Pugachev’s 12 Billion Dollars Claim against Russian Federation in The Hague International Tribunal

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23/11/2019

FSB colonel Cherkalin has testified against Miroshnikov, former deputy head of the DIA.

FSB colonel Cherkalin has testified against Miroshnikov, former deputy head of the DIA. The latter is charged with setting up

27/11/2019

Sergei Pugachev, the oligarch who claims 12 billion from Putin.

INVESTIGATION – The Russian billionaire used to be the owner of shipyards, coal mines and of Hédiard. Fallen from grace,

12/07/2019

Former banker Pugachev complained to Putin of threats received from runaway Miroshnikov

It has become known to The Bell that the former owner of Mezhprombank, Sergei Pugachev, wrote a letter to Vladimir

23/09/2015

Bloomberg: Why Pugachev is suing Russia for $12 billion

The renowned author and journalist Leonid Bershidsky wrote today in his Bloomberg View column...

30/01/2019

Russia seeks to seize Russian billionaire’s property on the French Riviera… Oligarch takes the upper hand in legal battle

By Christophe Perrin, 30 January 2019. 6.30 a.m. On Tuesday 29 January, the Civil Court of Nice, France, rejected

26/04/2017

David Goldberg comments on Sergei Pugachev’s claim

The head of the legal team of White & Case, representing Russia in the process of Sergei Pugachev against the

21/05/2016

NYT: Tycoon on the Run Hopes Russia’s Reach Stops at the French Riviera’s Edge

Sergei Pugachev gave the interview to New York Times

29/07/2015

Sergei Pugachev for the Guardian: “Putin is the richest person in the World as long as he stays in power”

The Guardian interviews Sergei Pugachev for the first time since he left Britain +VIDEO

30/06/2015

Suspected homemade car bomb found by Sergei Pugachev who has accused Kremlin of trying to kill him

Sergei Pugachev said he is the target of a “KGB-style” campaign of terror after the devices were found under his

24/07/2015

Sergei Pugachev for The Financial Times: “I personally brought Putin to power”

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24/09/2015

VIDEO: Sergei Pugachev on the French news programme Le Grand Journal

Sergei Pugachev appeared on a popular French nightly news and talk show Le Grand Journal...

07/10/2015

VIDEO: The pro-Kremlin media reaction following Sergei Pugachev’s international arbitration case launch

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10/03/2018

BBC: Putin: The New Tsar

How did a poor boy from a tiny flat in St Petersburg become one of the world’s most powerful leaders?

15/10/2019

Till Putin Do Us Part: Oligarch’s Ex-Wife Is Taking On Russia

The ex-wife of an exiled oligarch is at the center of his court battle with the Russian state, with each

18/10/2019

The Rise and Fall of an FSB-Run Money Laundering Empire

The Bell and investigative website The Project looked into an FSB backed financial empire, and why it all fell apart.

03/08/2019

THE FEDERAL RESERVE(S) An enquiry into how the FSB is ‘sheltering’ banks

PROEKT — ‘Corruption fights’ cycle THE FEDERAL RESERVE(S) An enquiry into how the FSB is ‘sheltering’ banks By Anastasia

30/01/2019

Ex-Kremlin banker: Billionaire Pugachev wins French reprieve from $1.5B fine

By Agence France-Presse Former oligarch Sergei Pugachev won Tuesday a French ruling against Russian judicial proceedings that might save him

21/10/2019

Top officials invited to The Hague Tribunal to testify in $12 bln case “Sergei Pugachev VS Russia”

Audit Chamber head Aleksei Kudrin ( Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from May 2000 to March 2004 and from September

07/01/2019

The War between oligarch Pugachev and Putin is imported to nice

This may exacerbate the outflow of capital from Russia. “Today, Russia is threatening the entrepreneur with confiscation of all his

26/10/2018

S. Pugachev talks about Khodorkovsky’s arrest, the roots of the Russian business in the UK, & the High Court of

“I advised him to leave Russia with the money”: Sergei Pugachev, former advisor to Putin, talks about Khodorkovsky’s arrest, the

24/10/2018

Russian banker loses £9m London home in legal fight with Moscow

Court rules Russian state creditors own house of Sergei Pugachev, who claims Putin wants to kill him

24/10/2018

Russian billionaire banker forced to sell 9 million £ Chelsea mansion

Russian countess faces eviction as her billionaire banker ex who claims to be on a Putin death list is forced

24/10/2018

Tory peers told to come clean about Russia links

Peers across parties are on Russian payroll The security minister has turned down a meeting with a Tory peer who

29/11/2017

«Putin committed very many crimes against me»

Interview to DW

25/01/2018

Sergei Pugachev for Politique Internationale: “The hawks have won”

Interview with Sergei Pugachev, by Isabelle Lasserre

22/09/2018

“They spoil his sport”

‘They spoil his sport’: a political analyst explains why Putin has undesirable people killed :

29/11/2017

«Putin committed very many crimes against me»

Interview to DW

21/09/2018

How Putin’s Oligarchs Got Inside the Trump Team

“He was a black box,” recalls Sergei Pugachev, the financier behind the meeting, who was once known as the Kremlin’s

14/09/2018

Sergei Pugachev asks Supreme Court to overturn $1 bln ruling against him

Ex-Russian senator Sergei Pugachev has filed a claim with the Supreme Court seeking to overturn a ruling to recover 75.6

08/07/2018

Moscow court upholds recovery of $1.1 billion from Sergei Pugachev

The Moscow District Commercial Court has upheld rulings of lower courts recovering 75.6 billion rubles (about $1.1 billion) from Russian

30/03/2018

Britain is most corrupt country on Earth,

says Mafia expert Roberto Saviano.

10/03/2018

Spy mystery: Traitors are not safe on British soil, says Russia

Russian state television, a mouthpiece of the Kremlin, has warned “traitors” not to settle in Britain because of the risk

08/03/2018

Sergei Pugachev: ‘Great Britain is fairly corrupt and notoriously slow-moving’

Ex-senator Sergei Pugachev told the television channel Dozhd of the assassination attempt directed against him in England.

09/10/2014

Pugachev for the Financial Times: Businessmen are ‘serfs’ in Putin’s Russia

Sergei Pugachev in his first interview since the state seized his multibillion-dollar ship building empire...

09/02/2018

Anna Stavitskaia: “The tribunal failed to provide Sergei Pugachev with a chance to set forth his arguments”

Sergei Pugachev’s lawyer comments on the decision of the Appellate Court dated 8 February 2018

08/02/2018

Hand over the dough or DIA…

How the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) wrings money out of Russian citizens, while its head Yuri Isaev puts a brave

31/01/2018

Further to DIA’s communiqué dated 31 January 2018

The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) and its legal counsels have no authority to represent the interests of Mezhprombank.

16/12/2017

Sergei Pugachev commented on the verdict to Alexei Ulyukayev

On the air of the TV channel “Rain”

12/05/2017

Sergei Pugachev in pursuit of Russian billions

The former close friend of President Vladimir Putin, residing in France, claims being victim of an orderly expropriation of assets.

21/01/2016

The Kremlin’s Western Lawyers

Russia is increasingly turning to armies of legal professionals to press its interests and bully its detractors in the West.

21/11/2017

Sergei Pugachev: Putin knows that he is a dictator

Interview of Sergei Pugachev to publicist Zoya Svetova

27/11/2017

The deadline for delivery of the frigate «Admiral Gorshkov» may be postponed again

The warship whose construction began in 2006, at the time of Sergei Pugachev, remains unfinished

16/11/2017

«Putin is not a man of religious faith»

Sergei Pugachev tells how he introduced Shevkunov to the President and whether the latter has a «confessor».

03/03/2017

“Vladimir Putin is a rather private man”

The interview of Sergei Pugachev on Radio Svoboda

27/11/2017

Deputy Minister of transportation of the Russian Federation Alan Lushnikov about the Kyzyl-Kuragino railroad

«When an investor becomes financially involved in an infrastructure project, it is paramount for him that risks should be properly

24/10/2017

Commentary on The Times about Alexandra Tolstoy

Sergei Pugachev gave a comment to the correspondent of The Times David Brown.

11/11/2017

Interview of Sergey Pugachev to the TV Rain

He is suing Russia for 12 billion dollars. Russia has issued an international arrest warrant against him. Kremlin’s banker, an

14/11/2017

15 years of terrorist attack on Dubrovka (Nord-Ost)

Sergey Pugachev on Radio Svoboda

07/11/2017

“If 2 million people go and vote for him, he can just walk into the Kremlin and be inaugurated”

Sergei Pugachev on the chances of Navalny to get into the Kremlin

07/11/2017

“A state machine’s game in which everyone hates each other”

Sergei Pugachev on the “unique opportunity” Sechin, which he received beside to Putin.

07/11/2017

“Putin is a man that has never stood for election nor was ever elected”

Sergei Pugachev on how Putin became president.

07/11/2017

Sergey Pugachev about Putin, Sechin and Navalny

He is suing Russia for 12 billion dollars; Russia has issued an international arrest warrant against him.

28/10/2017

The Kremlin pays for loyalty

What cost to the state Trustees of Vladimir Putin

24/10/2017

Exclusive interview of Sergey Pugachev to the television channel “Rain”

He is suing Russia for 12 billion dollars. Russia has issued an international arrest warrant against him.

21/10/2017

Sergei Pugachev told about an attempt by Prosecutor General Chaika’s son to seize Putin’s residence

This is what he told TV channel Dozhd in an interview.

19/07/2017

Sergey Pugachev challenges recovery of $1.3 bln because of new evidence

Sergey Pugachev has filed an application with the Moscow Commercial Court seeking to overturn a ruling requiring him and other

27/04/2017

“Putin said, “All they need is a tsar”

Sergei Pugachev about his bygone friendship with the president and his claim for 6 billion dollars against the Russian Federation.

26/04/2017

“Fanatic judge”

Economist Sergei Aleksashenko about the verdict to Dmitri Amunts

18/04/2017

Interview with Sergei Pugachev on TV Rain

The ex-head of Rostourism was sentenced to 7 years in prison.

14/04/2017

Russia asked the Hague Tribunal to classify as secret the hearings on Sergei Pugachev’s claim

Currently, the Hague International Tribunal is considering a claim filed by Sergei Pugachev against the Russian Federation on compensation of

03/03/2017

Chances for extradition of Pugachev to Russia are close to zero

Comments of an expert on the request of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation about the extradition of Sergei

30/12/2016

Sergei Pugachev in the program of TV channel France 2 “Putin’s Secret”

02/11/2016

Arbitration panel formed for hearing $12 bln claim lodged by Sergei Pugachev

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague has formed a panel of arbitrators for considering a claim filed

06/10/2016

The DIA is going out of business

Why the Central Bank decided to close the “collections chapter” of the story of the Deposit Insurance Agency

20/06/2016

Danger Forum!

he 20th International Economic Forum opened June 16 in St Petersburg. If the St Petersburg forum hadn’t played a dirty trick on

11/06/2016

“Hold on here. I wish you all the best, a good mood and good health”

(A quote from Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, after telling pensioners in Crimea May 23 2016 there is no

18/05/2016

Russian money in England

It turned out that Russian oligarchs are not just buying mansions, but also academic societies

29/04/2016

Trust Quarterly Review: And what’s yours is mine too

Power, control and ownership: offshore structures under attack in recent commercial cases.

21/12/2015

Le Nouvel Observateur: Khodorkovsky, Pugachev… Putin owes billions to the oligarchs

In Moscow, Tsar Putin has the power to make and unmake fortunes at will...

20/11/2015

PRESS RELEASE: Official Statement by Sergei Pugachev’s Press Office

In response to recent publications in the Russian media...

19/11/2015

Sergei Pugachev on Putin’s control of the Russian media in the latest biographical read on Russia’s President

The author, quoting Sergei Pugachev from an interview conducted in 2014, wrote the following in regards to the 2001 seizure

06/11/2015

Sergei Pugachev in the big read of the French magazine Paris Match

French businessman tells Paris Match how his empire was stolen by Putin's lieutenants...

16/10/2015

The reaction of the Russian Parliament following Sergei Pugachev’s international arbitration claim launch

The Russian newspaper ‘Novye Vedomosti’ reported that the prospect of the recovery of $12 billion...

14/10/2015

Pugachev could win the arbitration case against Russia due to deterioration of foreign relations

The article published by the Russian newspaper ‘Obschaya Gazeta’ refers to the recent comment...

10/10/2015

Moscow Chief Arbitrator: Pugachev’s arbitration claim could be awarded as early as within six months

The president of the Moscow Court of Arbitration, Alexey Kravtsov, stated...

08/10/2015

Pugachev for Reuters: ”Putin is a hostage of his entourage”

The Reuters London bureau chief Guy Faulconbridge exclusively interviewed Pugachev...

24/09/2015

Sergei Pugachev in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro

Isabelle Lasserre interviews Pugachev for the French newspaper Le Figaro...

22/09/2015

PRESS RELEASE: International Arbitration Claim Launch

Pugachev Files International Arbitration Against the Russian Federation...

22/08/2015

Sky News: Sergei Pugachev now lives in hiding as he takes on the Russian state

Sam Kiley, the Sky News Foreign Affairs Editor, visits Sergei Pugachev to discuss the upcoming litigation process against the Kremlin...

08/07/2015

PRESS RELEASE: Pugachev Forced to Leave London Due to Severe Threats Against His Life

Sergei Pugachev, a French citizen, former Russian Senator and business magnate is confirming today that he was forced to leave

25/06/2015

TV Rain: Sergei Pugachev on his role in the election of President Putin

The former Senator Sergei Pugachev gave an interview to the independent Russian TV channel Dozhd (TV Rain), in which he

14/06/2015

FT: Extradition attempt is political ploy, says Sergei Pugachev

Neil Buckley, Eastern Europe Editor of the Financial Times interviewed Sergei Pugachev...

23/04/2015

Pugachev for the FT: The Russian Government had abused the London court proceedings

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27/02/2015

Sergei Pugachev welcomes the decision of the London Court of Appeal

The Appeal court of London has rendered its decision in respect of three appeals…

28/11/2014

Pugachev for Bloomberg: The Russian authorities are misusing Interpol

The article published by the Bloomberg stated that "Sergei Pugachyov, a former banker...

07/02/2014

PRESS RELEASE: Sergei Pugachev denies allegations of intentional bankruptcy and misappropriation

The Moscow City Court on Monday upheld the refusal of the Basmanny District Court to arrest businessman Sergei Pugachev...