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Russian oligarch takes Nordic banks to court
By EUobserver
A confidante of Russian president Vladimir Putin, billionaire Boris Rotenberg, has taken four Nordic banks - Nordea, Danske Bank, Handelsbanken and Finland's OP Corporate Bank - to court for breaching service agreements as a result of US sanctions imposed on him in 2014. According to Bloomberg, he filed a suit with the Helsinki District court on 4 October. Rotenberg is not currently a target of EU sanctions.