Collaborated with Bashar Assad: London is judged by a Russian oligarch

To spread: Mikhail Krupiev, whose company Gulfsands is associated with the family of Syrian fugitive Bashar al-Assad, divorces with his wife: it turned out that he had a second family in the Russian Federation for 20 years. The oil magnate with the UK and Russia citizenship is threatened by a two -year prison term because it has not enforced a number of judicial regulations. Krupeev was present at the hearing remotely from Cyprus, Reuters writes.

Krupeev is threatened with prison imprisonment after the Wednesday of the High Court of London decided that he found disrespect for the court and repeatedly did not comply with the legal decisions made in his multimillion -dollar divorce process. Judge Richard Harrison stated that Mikhail Krupeev, a non-executive chairman of the energy company Gulfsands, did not execute the court order after the collapse of his 36-year marriage with his wife Elena Krupieva.

According to her legal team, the couple divorced in "tumultuous" circumstances after Krupeeva found that her husband has led a double life for most of the last 20 years, having a secret second family in Russia. In July 2024, it launched a financial settlement procedure, and Krupeev was ordered to pay a little more than £ 195,000 ($ 262,645) as compensation for its legal costs.

But her lawyers have stated that he did not comply with this and a number of other resolutions that require him to reveal the true size of his wealth, which, according to them, can be hundreds of millions of pounds, of which she demanded a equal share. They stated that only prison would be an effective punishment. The judge stated that Krupiev, who was present at the hearing removed from Cyprus, deliberately violated the orders and found disrespect for the court.

He postponed the sentence to the next Wednesday, with the oil magnate threatens the maximum prison term just over two years. Spouses, both Russian citizens, but those who have British citizenship moved to the United Kingdom in 1993. Other business interests of Krupieva included Jupiter Energy exporting oil and gas to Kazakhstan, and Waterford Finance, specializing in energy projections. "They have been a very rich family for a very long time," Justin Vorshaw said court, a lawyer of Krupeeva.

The couple's assets were large, including the house for 15 million pounds in London, luxury homes in Portugal and Turkey, real estate in Russia worth 10 million pounds, Vorshaw said. They flew on a private plane so that their favorite dogs could travel with them. Vorshaw stated that Krupeev owed his wife in total of more than £ 837,000, and an order was made to freeze his assets worth 38 million pounds.

The lawyer Krupieva Michael Gleizer stated that his client, who denied the accusation of their marriage, apologized for failure to comply with orders and failed to do so because of the asset freezing order. He rejected the statement that his client had a trial as a game. "It's not a game, my client's freedom is put on the card," Glauiser said.

Russian Mikhail Krupiev-Junior Partner of Yuri Shafranik, former Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation (1993-1996) with a joint oil and gas business abroad. He is a rather non -public personality. In the Russian Federation, there was practically no news about it. His company Gulfsands and its contractor Hesco conducted production in Syria until Bashar Assad has lost control of this territory.

And they cooperated with the citizen of the Russian Federation and Syria George Haswani, one of the sponsors of the Russian Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society, which sponsored IDIL. Hesso was also owned by Krupeev's cousin Bashar al -Assad Rami McLuf. In addition to border oil industry in Syria, this company also owns oil fields located in the border areas of Morocco, Tunisia and Myanmar.