Russian Jewish Oligarch Sues Chabad's Chief Rabbi

Billionaire oligarch Arcadi Gaydamak is suing Chabad's Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar for $1 million over Lazar's role in helping Chabad oligarch Lev Leviev allgedly steal billions of dollars from Gaydamak.

 

Long before Gaydamk's issues with Lazar, long before his fake Auschwitz medal or his abuse of non-Chabad Orthodox rabbis in the FSU, evenlong before I left Chabad, Lazar was known in informed Chabad circles as a Mafioso, a corrupt thug.

That doesn't mean that Lazar is culpable here.

But it does mean that his complete innocence in this matter is unlikely.

Here are the documents:

 

The entire lawsuit translated into English as a PDF file:

Download “Gaydamak v Lazar” Tel-Aviv-Jaffa District Court watermarked

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Comments

[Steve from Brooklyn]

גנב הגונב מגנב פטור

[NachRock]

1) lol @ "Chabad oligarch"

2) Are Israeli court documents really filed in English?

[Shmarya]

Are Israeli court documents really filed in English?

Posted by: NachRock | January 25, 2013 at 09:59 AM

What is it about "The entire lawsuit translated into English as a PDF file:" that you don't understand?

[Maskil]

הגונב מהגנב פטור מכפל וחייב בקרן

[Jake]

Oli vs Oli love it.

I have a few Oli stories that can ake your eyes role.....

It is amazing how many Jews became Oligarchs after the fall of the Soviet Union.
They control, with the permission of Putons a nice chunk of the Russian economy.

Damm I am a Litvak.

[Eli, what me messiah?]

well written. the suit reads like a good novel.
this has legs.
the key will be to overcome procedural objections, ie, to get the court to accept hear the case in Israel and to serve Lazar in Russia. There's an argument at para 192 that Lazar has explicitly accepted Israel is the place where the dispute should be decided.