The court recovered 20 million rubles from Polonsky based on Deripaska’s claim – Kommersant

The Ust-Labinsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory recognized that the words that businessman Sergei Polonsky said in an interview with RTVI about billionaire Oleg Deripaska are not true. The court ordered Sergei Polonsky to pay compensation of 20 million rubles. and 100 thousand for each day of absence of a refutation. The billionaire’s lawyer Alexey Melnikov told Interfax about this.

The court found information from Sergei Polonsky’s RTVI interview dated December 10, 2022 defamatory. As Oleg Deripaska’s representative previously said RBCin an interview with RTVI correspondent Marianna Minsker, Sergei Polonsky “in an expressive manner” accused Oleg Deripaska and several other people of the fact that “when he was in prison, they plundered the Kazakov plant”, and also “named several more examples of various offenses” .

The defense presented two demands to Sergei Polonsky for a total amount of 2 billion rubles: 1 billion rubles. compensation for moral damage and another 1 billion in compensation for reputational damage. RTVI deleted this interview in the spring, as soon as the billionaire filed a lawsuit.

On the eve of the Tagansky Court of Moscow satisfied lawsuit by Oleg Deripaska against human rights activist and head of the Sitting Rus’ Foundation (declared a foreign agent) Olga Romanova (declared a foreign agent). The basis was an interview with Olga Romanova, in which she stated that the businessman owns a number of private military companies (PMCs).

Anastasia Larina