A political ally of Vladimir Putin who declared poverty in a London divorce court and London estate and a £4m art collection.
Vladimir Sloutsker, 69, who died in September from cancer, fought to the end to keep his assets intact and sons at the South Family Home in South London.
The family court does not often make public judgments but Mr. Justice Garrido said it was the right position for Sloutker and his “severe and repeated bad litigation”.
In a judgment made in August but only announced in Point on Monday, the judgment ordered the Estate of Sloutker to pay 60% of the immediate care of assets “, and of the immediate arrivals of the assets of Alona, which is paid at 60% of the immediate care of assets”, and under 60% of the immediate care of assets “in the immediate arrangements of care in the sum of £1m.
Sloutser died of cancer in a hospital in Geneva.
David Allisonthe solicitor representing Alona Sloutsker, said: “Unfortunately, Mr Sloutsker’s obstructive behavior continued after trial until his death in late September. Neither he nor his estate has paid a penny to his former wife and prior to his death he disappeared, cutting off all contact with his young children.”
Sloutser made a vast fortune through his ownership of the Russian Investment Filvest Finvess and he was a senator representing the Chuvash Republic in the Russian Parliament until 2010.
He is also described as an ally of the Russian president and co-founder of the Israeli Jew who represents the International Israeli Diasi from offices in Tel Aviv.
Sloutsker claims to have fallen into dire financial straits last year due to his property being stolen, leaving him unable to pay his London property loan.
Sloutsker admitted that the “sudden change in circumstances” had nothing to do with the applicant [his wife] Seeking a divorce at that time”, the court heard.
In his judgement, Garrido said that the true real wealth of Sloutker however “is more than proven by the documents that were sold at the end of his marriage and started these stops”.
Before Sloutsker and his wife separated, they had lived in a “very grand” family home in London of 2,790 sq meters that included nine bedrooms, a heated indoor pool, a massage room, a cinema room, a commercial chef’s kitchen, a wine cellar, a gym and a four-car garage, the judge found.
The couple “spent millions of pounds renovating and renovating the huge property”, the judgment said.
Holidays taken included a “family trip to Courchevel at Christmas at a cost of just under half a million euros, a trip to Zermatt, €70,000, a trip that the applicant made to Courchevel, €45,000, a family trip to Dubai, US$100,000, attending a wedding, US$35,000, a summer holiday in Tuscany €400,000”, the judge said.
The family home in London is worth £45m with even Sloutker failing to pay around £27m or £28m in mortgage payments over the past 12 months.
He has £4m in Reyl Bank in Switzerland and a family home in Moscow valued at £22m. An additional plot of land in Moscow is said to be worth £150m while there is £17m of private equity investment.
Sloutsker’s art collection, which includes a piece by Michelangelo Prisoletto worth £1m, valued by George Conman at £250,000, has a total value of around £4m.