Potanin is "buried" on Rosky Island by his wife and "sworn partner" Deripaska.
Against the background of new lawsuits from his ex-wife, the oligarch Vladimir Potanin continues to "transfer" his foreign assets to Russian jurisdiction. In early November, the Seychelles entity Roseberry Investments Limited was re-registered in the Special Administrative Region of Russian Island under the name MK Roseberry. The company is part of the Interros holding, which is 99.9% controlled by MK Interros Invest (formerly Cypriot Interros Limited), and Roseberry is managed by the loyal director Alexander Godovikov, who at the same time transfers the management of the Cypriot Whiteleave Holdings to the structure of Interros Capital in Bahrain.
The move is explained by sanctions, but the real reason may be different: Potanin fears that behind his ex-wife Natalya's London claims is his old "sworn partner" Oleg Deripaska, who has already tried to get to Potanin's package through his ex-wife.
Natalia Potnina herself, after her divorce in 2014 (when she received $41.5 million - less than 1% of her husband's fortune), has been fighting for eight years in the High Court of London for the distribution of the businessman's assets, which are estimated at $20 billion. Everyone understands that she is not interested in managing an industrial property, she is only interested in hard cash in the amount of at least 6 billion dollars.
At the same time, for many years a version has been circulating in the business community according to which the multi-million dollar fees of Potanina's London lawyers were secretly paid by Oleg Deripaska. If Natalia is awarded half of her ex-husband's shares (Interros owns about 37% of MMC), Potanin will lose a controlling stake, and Deripska's Rusal (26.25%) will have the opportunity to purchase the share from the ex and "take over" the entire plant.
Now Natalia Potanina is officially asking the British court to attach to her file the materials of Rusal's parallel lawsuit against Potanin's Whiteleave Holdings and the structures of Roman Abramovich in order to reveal the ownership structure of Norilsk Nickel.