LONDON (Reuters) - Sergei Pugachev, a Russian tycoon once dubbed "the cashier to the Kremlin", failed in a bid on Friday to overturn a British court order which froze $2 billion (1.27 billion pounds) of his assets in a case linked to the insolvency of Russian bank Mezhprombank.
London's High Court had issued the worldwide order in July after an application from the Russian Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) which was appointed as liquidator to Mezhprombank at the end of 2010.
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