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The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia filed a court claim for the confiscation of the assets of the founder of Freedom Holding and the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Timur Tkurov and related structures 'worth hundreds of millions of dollars'. The Interfax agency was informed about this by law enforcement agencies. What happened. Besides Tkurov, the defendants in the claim are companies related to him: Freedom Holding Corp., Freedom Finance Europe Ltd and W-Empirical Holding Corp., as well as his business partner Arkady Shchukin. The hearing of the claim will take place on October 15. The reasons for filing the claim are not disclosed. According to Kommersant, the Prosecutor General's Office wants to recognize Tkurov and other defendants as 'extremists', as they are suspected of funding 'Ukrainian structures opposing the Russian armed forces'. Journalists refer to information from Kazakh and Ukrainian media, according to which Tkurov donated 1 billion tenge (over 2 million dollars) to the Embassy of Ukraine in Kazakhstan and more than 370 million tenge (over 720 thousand dollars) to charitable foundations for the purchase of humanitarian aid. In addition, it is stated that Freedom Holding transferred 2 million euros to ambulances through the Ukrainian platform UNITED24. Similar donors in Russia have already been recognized as 'extremists', emphasizes 'Kommersant'. Representative of the defendant told 'Kommersant' that Tkurov has long left the Russian business, and details of the lawsuit requirements in Kazakhstan are not yet known. Who is this. Timur Tkurov is an entrepreneur and financier, founder of the investment company Freedom Holding. He was born in Moscow. In 2022 he received Kazakh citizenship and renounced the Russian one. In September of this year Tkurov was elected to the post of president of the International Chess Federation, replacing Arkady Dvorkovich.
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