A Ukrainian billionaire with lavish homes in London paid his wife £7 million to leave the capital in a failed attempt to avoid legal action against him and another oligarch over a huge alleged fraud, the High Court has been told.
Court documents state that Gennadiy Bogolyubov, who lived for years in a £62.5 mansion in Belgrave Square, made the payment to his reluctant spouse Sofia at the same time as “threatening to cut off support to his own children” if she failed to move.
