Austrian newspaper Kurier was found guilty of violating the rights of billionaire Alisher Usmanov when it used the moniker
A court in Hamburg, Germany on Friday ruled in favor of Russian-Uzbek billionaire and USM Holding founder Alisher Usmanov in his lawsuit against Austrian newspaper Kurier, EU Today has reported, citing court documents.
According to the report, in an August 2023 article entitled “Oligarchs of Russia: Financing Putin’s Wars and Profiting from Them” Kurier called Usmanov “one of Putin’s favorite oligarchs,” referring to the Russian president.
“The native of Uzbekistan enjoys the reputation of being ‘Putin’s favorite oligarch,’ a title bestowed upon him by Putin himself,” the article claimed.
The court did not find any public record that the Russian president had made the statement the article referred to. The newspaper had argued that Usmanov had been described using the same phrase in the justification for EU…