Court freezes $820m of Ukrainian oligarch’s assets

Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, has been served with an order from a Cyprus court freezing $820m of his assets in a long-running legal dispute with a rival over the country’s biggest fixed-line telecoms group.Mr Akhmetov, estimated by Forbes magazine last year to have a fortune of $4.6bn, has assets spanning coal, steel, energy and telecoms, as well as Shakhtar Donetsk, the Uefa Champions League football club.