By Max Hunder
KYIV – Ukraine’s richest man filed a lawsuit towards Russia at Europe’s high human rights court docket on Monday, searching for compensation over what he has mentioned are billions of dollars in enterprise losses since Russia’s invasion.
Rinat Akhmetov, proprietor of the Azovstal steelworks within the metropolis of Mariupol the place Ukrainian fighters defied weeks of Russian bombardment, sued Russia for “grievous violations of his property rights” on the European Court docket of Human Rights, his System Capital Administration (SCM) holding firm mentioned.
It mentioned Akhmetov was additionally searching for a court docket order “stopping Russia from participating in additional blockading, looting, diversion and destruction of grain and metal” produced by his firms.
“Evil can't go unpunished. Russia’s crimes towards Ukraine and our persons are egregious, and people responsible of them should be held liable,” SCM quoted Akhmetov as saying.
“The looting of Ukraine’s export commodities, together with grain and metal, has already resulted in increased costs and folks dying of starvation worldwide. These barbaric actions should be stopped, and Russia should pay in full.”
Requested in regards to the swimsuit, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned Russia was now not underneath the jurisdiction of the European Court docket of Human Rights.
“We left the (jurisdiction of) related paperwork. Subsequently, right here the reply is totally apparent,” he mentioned.
Russia has beforehand dismissed Ukrainian allegations of stealing from territories it has occupied throughout what it calls a particular army operation in Ukraine.
Forbes journal put Akhmetov’s web value at $15.4 billion in 2013. Since then, his enterprise empire has been hit by Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion and by years of combating in Ukraine’s east since Russia-backed separatists seized territory there in 2014.
Akhmetov mentioned final month his firm Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest steelmaker, had suffered $17 to $20 billion in losses due to Russia’s bombardment of its metal crops in Mariupol. The ultimate quantity can be decided in a lawsuit, he mentioned.
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