Chabad 'Chief Rabbi' Dodges Court Summons As Billions In Diamonds Go To Lev Leviev – For Now

Chabad’s ‘Chief Rabbi of Russia’ Berel Lazar gave “very much depreciated” testimony in the fight between two Russian Jewish oligarchs, Arcadi Gaydamak and Lev Leviev who are fighting over billions of dollars in profits from African diamond sales, a judge who sits on Britain’s High Court said yesterday.

Chabad 'Chief Rabbi' Dodges Court Summons As Billions In Diamonds Go To Lev Leviev – For Now
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Chabad’s ‘Chief Rabbi of Russia’ Berel Lazar reportedly gave “very much depreciated” testimony in the fight between two Russian Jewish oligarchs, Arcadi Gaydamak and Lev Leviev, who are fighting over billions of dollars in profits from African diamond mones, a judge who sits on Britain’s High Court said yesterday.

Leviev is Lazar’s patron and Chabad’s major financial backer in the FSU.

Lazar refused to testify in person or by video link, instead submitting a written witness statement.

The judge criticized Lazar, who gave “no satisfactory explanation” for not attending the hearing or for his “unwillingness” to testify by video link.

Testimony given in person or by video link would have subjected Lazar to questioning and possible perjury charges.

“The force of his written evidence is, therefore, I regret to say, very much depreciated,” the judge said.

Gaydamak sued Leviev in an attempt to enforce an agreement Gaydamak claimed they had to split profits from an Angolan diamond exploration and trading company.

Leviev denied signing agreement.

Gaydamak claimed the agreement was signed by both men and given to Lazar to hold for safekeeping.

Lazar previously admitted on a television interview show that the two men had given him an envelope for safekeeping. But Lazar claimed that he did not know the contents of the envelope, and said that he lost it sometime after it was given to him.

FailedMessiah.com exclusively interviewed Gaydamak in 2010 about the agreement and Lazar's claim. At the time, Lazar refused to comment on Gaydamk's claims and hung up the phone when questioned.

Earlier today in London, the judge dismissed Gaydamak’s damage claim against Leviev, ruling that while a valid agreement between the two men had in fact been been made in 2001, the two men had “released all claims against each other” in a 2011 settlement agreement that Gaydamak claims he was tricked and coerced into signing.

Gaydamak reportedly plans to appeal.

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Comments

[TheRealJoe]

OK so your upset that the guy you had the honor of interviewing lost the court case, get over it. Lazar is the chief Rabbi of Russia, not of Beverly Hills. It take's a certain kind of toughness to hold that position, and he's doing a pretty good job, so focus your energies elsewhere as I don't think Putin gives a rat's a*s about this site.

[anchell]

hmmm. . . billions of dollars in profits from Diamonds alone. Riches from the bowls of Africa all appropriated to the cause of yahuda. And yet still, the deepest contempt for the African people to whom all this profit truty belongs. No grace is given to greed and selfishness!

[Jeff]

If diamonds were discovered on lands belonging to Ethiopian Jews, I wonder if Chabad would suddenly change its position on their ancestry?

[Reb Mendel]

What good wee these diamonds doing the dark ones before we came along? thanks to us at least we pay them something for them. otherewise they would have nothing.

[dh]

Jeff @ 11:38

Redact "I wonder if. "

[Jake]

You do not coerce Russian oligarchs and keep on breathing.

[kosher]

shmarya
i think that was an oil deal, not diamonds

[Shmarya]

shmarya
i think that was an oil deal, not diamonds

Posted by: kosher | July 02, 2012 at 03:54 PM

Nope.

Click the links.

[Marc]

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000762172

[anchell]

Rob mendel. . . your comment reminds me of the early beginning of the skin head movement whose members often spew their hatred of both people of color and of course those whom they consider to be yahuda. The irony in the midst of all this hatred was their identification with Ska music: Never knowing that the musical evolution of Ska preceded Reggae. And all this from the tiny Island of Jamaica. Oh by the way, jamaicans are overwhelmingly people of color. . .

As to your capitulation regarding "paying them something for them" lets sell the Sinai Desert for pennies it's only desert after all. . . right?

[Abu Jihad Schneerson]

Reb Mendel is W4M,Heshy Friedman and ALL the other Charedi trolls on this site.As a matter of fact,it is always the same guy who pretends to be a frum bigot(while I guess he's as religious as Hugh Hefner)in order to get people on this blog mad!

[Jeff]

Heshy Friedman is, unfortunately, all too real:

http://heshyshouse.blogspot.com/

[Eli, what me messiah?]

Shmarya, the decision ought to be publicly available in the UK and it would be good if you could get ahold of a copy to publish. From your post and the linked site, it appears that:
(1) the judge ruled against Gaydamak on the basis of the "settlement" reached under dubious circumstances in 2011. It would be interesting to see what was said about that.
More important, (2) the judge's reference to Lazar's refusal to testify would likely have been made only if the judge was inclined to find that an agreement had in fact been reached and that Lazar aided Leviev in avoiding it.
Point 2 is significant. A judge of the High Court in London is basically calling Chabad's senior representative Russia a scoundrel.