Estate of former Russian senator Vladimir Sloutsker, who died in September, ordered to pay £25m to his ex-wife
A political ally of Vladimir Putin who declared poverty to a London divorce court had £217m-worth of property and land in London and Moscow as well as £21m in investments and a £4m art collection, a judge has found.
Vladimir Sloutsker, 69, who died in September from cancer, fought until the end to hide his assets despite previously enjoying “a lifestyle consistent with extreme wealth” with his ex-wife and children, including a nine-bedroom £45m family home in South Kensington in central London.
The family court does not usually make its judgments public but Mr Justice Garrido said it was appropriate given Sloutsker’s position as a former senator in the Russian parliament and his “serious and repeated litigation misconduct”.
In a judgment made in August but made public only on Monday, the judge ordered Sloutsker’s estate to pay £25m to his ex-wife Alona, which was said to constitute “just under 60% of the readily liquid assets”, and to pay arrears of maintenance and legal fees of more than £1m.
