‘Putin chef’ case shows London courts welcome Russians no more

Yevgeny Prigozhin — a Kremlin confidante higher often called “Putin’s chef” or because the founding father of the mercenary outfit referred to as the Wagner Group — noticed his defamation case thrown out in Might by a London court docket as a result of his attorneys now not needed to symbolize him.

The 61-year-old ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, sanctioned by the U.Ok., U.S. and the European Union, had sued the investigative journalism group Bellingcat for libel and was accused by its founding father of utilizing the courts to intimidate and silence the group. The case collapsed after Discreet Regulation, the agency representing Prigozhin, withdrew, saying it couldn’t threat its status after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Prigozhin was furious, along with his firm saying in a press release that it was “objectively unattainable to search out one other English authorized consultant.” One British legislation agency informed his assistants that if it took up his case, there can be “nothing left of our agency.”