Russian-Uzbek billionaire Usmanov wins lawsuit against German newspaper, documents show


Russian businessman and founder of USM Holdings Alisher Usmanov attends a session during the Week of Russian Business, organized by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), in Moscow, Russia March 16, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

MOSCOW, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Russian-Uzbek ‌billionaire Alisher Usmanov has won a legal complaint against German newspaper ‌Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung over an article it published about him, ‌court documents obtained by Reuters show.

In a ruling dated January 23, a Hamburg court prohibited the FAZ from disseminating several statements, including allegations about Usmanov's links to top Russian ‍officials, from an April 2023 article titled "On ‍the Kremlin's instructions".

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