Russian billionaire Fridman says UK raid based on 'kompromat'

FILE PHOTO: Russian businessman and co-founder of Alfa-Group Mikhail Fridman attends a conference of the Israeli foundation Keren Hayesod in Moscow, Russia, September 17, 2019. Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman told London's High Court on Thursday that Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) raided his family home with an unlawfully-obtained search warrant based on "classic kompromat".

The sanctioned oligarch's lawyers say the warrant was based on false allegations, including claims he funded Russian organised crime, laundered money for Colombian drug cartels and was involved in the murder of two journalists.