Legal Opinion
Estate of Yevgenyi Scherban v. Suntrust Bank
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 12, 2016No. Civil Action No. 2015-1966PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
Reading like the plot of one of John le Carré’s Cold War novels, the Complaint in this case opens with the assassinations of Yevgenyi Scherban, a Ukrainian politician and businessman, and Nadejda Nikitina, his wife. In 1996, both were gunned down on the tarmac of an airport in Donetsk, Ukraine, by contract killers dressed as police officers and a flight technician. Although those gunmen were prosecuted, Scherban’s three sons were left to hunt globally for their father’s overseas cash reserves. Some assets had been stashed in the…
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