Oil firm directors to be questioned in Russian oligarchs’ $2 billion legal clash

Leonid Lebedev suing fellow billionaires Len Blavatnik and Viktor Vekselberg

Viktor Vekselberg

Directors of Irish oil firm Coral Petroleum are to be questioned in a Dublin solicitors’ office next month as part of a $2 billion legal clash playing out among Russian oligarchs in New York.

As reported in The Sunday Business Post last month, the ex-politician, sometime filmmaker and oil industrialist Leonid Lebedev is suing fellow billionaires Len Blavatnik and Viktor Vekselberg, both based in the US, over an alleged breach of a 2001 ...