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The Divorce Industrial Complex
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DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS
I’m taking off the rest of this month and next, so this is my last newsletter for a short spell.
London is the divorce capital of the world, but Akhmed v Akhmedova was a battle to make even its jaded lawyers sit up and take notice. Both the size of the reward given to Tatiana Akhmedova in 2016 after her marriage collapsed – a £453,576,152 ($617,904,523.99, as of right now) share of a billion-dollar-plus fortune – and the steps that Farkhad Akhmed took to stop her getting it, were unprecedented.
But now – after a multi-jurisdictional odyssey, involving more tax havens and micro-states than most people can name -- it appears to be over.