Asked about the lawsuit, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov said Russia was no longer under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights.
THE Ukraine’s richest man today filed a lawsuit against Russia to Europe’s top human rights court, asking compensation for billions of dollars in losses who suffered, as he said, after the invasion of Russia.
THE Rinat Akhmetovowner of the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol, where Ukrainian fighters have been fighting for weeks in defiance of Russian bombing, has filed a lawsuit against Russia for “Serious violations of his property rights” at the European Court of Human Rights, announced its portfolio management company, System Capital Management (SCM).
The company also said in a statement that Akhmetov had also requested a court order to “Prevent Russia from engaging in further blockade, looting, diversion and destruction of grain and steel” produced by its companies.
«Evil cannot go unpunished. “Russia’s crimes against Ukraine and our people are unheard of and those responsible must be held accountable.”refers to the SCM statement citing Akhmetov.
«The looting of Ukrainian exports, including grain and steel, has already led to rising prices and people dying of global hunger. These barbaric acts must stop and Russia must pay in full».
The representative of the Kremlin Dmitry Peshkov when asked about the lawsuit he stated that Russia is no longer under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights.
«We have departed from the (jurisdiction of) the relevant documents. Therefore, the answer here is absolutely obvious“, Said the representative of the Kremlin.
Russia has once again denied Ukraine’s allegations of theft from the territories it has occupied during the military invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow describes as a “special military operation”.
According to Forbes magazine, Akhmetov’s fortune reached $ 15.4 billion in 2013. Since then, his business empire has been hit by the Russian invasion of February 24 and years of fighting in eastern Ukraine since Russian-backed separatists seized territory there in 2014.
Akhmetov had stated last month that his company MetinvestUkraine’s largest steelmaker, had suffered losses of 17 to 20 billion. dollars because of the Russian bombing of its steelworks in Mariupol, saying that the final amount will be determined in a lawsuit.
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