Former Russian Duma member Ashot Yegiazaryan is suspected to have left the U.S. after promising to pay more than $100 million to a former Russian business partner.
Mauricio Umansky, a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills regular and star of a new Netflix show, is accused of self-dealing in the $70-million sale of a spectacular Malibu estate seized from the vice president of Equatorial Guinea. He denies any wrongdoing.Yegiziaryan said he was forced to flee Russia after masked police armed with automatic weapons raided his offices and he received threats his children would be beheaded.
Smagin won his own $84-million arbitration award against Yegiazaryan in a dispute over a Moscow shopping mall they had developed together. The mall, called Europark, was used as collateral for a Hotel Moska construction loan that later was sold by the issuing bank, causing Smagin to lose his interest in the mall. Smagin alleged he had been defrauded.
Yegiazaryan was convicted of criminal fraud in absentia in Moscow in 2018 in the mall dispute and sentenced to seven years in a penal colony — a proceeding he characterizes as a kangaroo court. He also has fought paying Smagin through legal actions in courts in the United States, Europe, Russia and elsewhere — but in recent years has found himself running out of moves after repeated losses in U.S. and Liechtenstein courts.
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