Russian housewife fights to get £300m yacht transferred to her name
Housewife who is owed almost £453 million following a London divorce court battle with her Russian billionaire ex-husband is fighting to get his £300 million yacht transferred into her name
- Tatiana Akhmedova was awarded 41.5% share of husband’s fortune in late 2016
- Farkhad Akhmedov made his £1bn fortune selling shares in firm ZAO Northgas
- Pair are fighting over £346m superyacht – MV Luna – which is currently in Dubai
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A housewife who is owed almost £453million from her Russian billionaire ex-husband is fighting to get his £300million yacht transferred into her name.
Tatiana Akhmedova, who is in her 40s, was awarded a 41.5 per cent share of businessman Farkhad Akhmedov’s £1billion-plus fortune by a judge in late 2016.
She says Mr Akhmedov, who is in his 60s, has yet to hand over the vast majority of the fortune Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said she should get during the trial at the High Court in London.
Last year, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave ruled that Mr Akhmedov’s £346 million yacht – the MV Luna which is currently in Dubai – should be transferred into Ms Akhmedova’s name.
Ms Akhmedova’s lawyers on Tuesday took legal action in a bid to ensure that the Luna stays where it is.
Tatiana Akhmedova, pictured outside court last February, is fighting to get her ex-husband’s £300million superyacht transferred into her name
Farkhad Akhmedov made his £1billion-plus fortune when he sold shares in Russian firm ZAO Northgas in 2012
The superyacht, pictured, is currently in Dubai. Judge Mrs Justice Gwynneth Knowles made an order to prevent the MV Luna being sailed away
They persuaded another judge, Mrs Justice Gwynneth Knowles, to make an order aimed at preventing the yacht being sailed away.
Lawyers said they were worried that the Luna might be moved from Dubai to a part of the world where it would be harder for them to enforce orders made by judges in England.
Mrs Justice Knowles made the order after analysing evidence at a further hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London.
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She heard that the yacht had been owned by a company based in Lichtenstein and indicated that directors could be penalised if the Luna was moved.
Neither Ms Akhmedova, nor Mr Akhmedov, were at Tuesday’s hearing.
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave had concluded that the company was Mr Akhmedov’s ‘alter ego’.
The £453million he awarded Ms Akhmedova is thought to be the biggest award made by a divorce court judge in England.
The Luna – which boasts the largest swimming pool on any of the world’s super yachts – is considered one of the prize assets of billionaire Akhmedov’s fortune
He previously said he made his wife a generous settlement by allowing her to keep the contents of their Surrey hom, pictured, worth £2.5million
He said Ms Akhmedova came from eastern Europe, but had been a British citizen since 2000.
She had been a housewife and mother to the couple’s now grown-up sons.
Mr Akhmedov argued he had made a ‘special contribution’ to the generation of wealth.
But Mr Justice Haddon-Cave concluded that both had made ‘equal contributions to the welfare of the family’.
Mr Akhmedov, who was born in Azerbaijan, previously said the British court ruling has no jurisdiction over the two Russians – despite his wife taking British citizenship and having lived here since 1993, the year they married.
The billionaire made his fortune when he sold shares in Russian firm ZAO Northgas for almost £1billion in 2012.
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