Mikhail Mihailyuk

OBITER RU is currently monitoring reports that the burnt body of Mikhail Mikhailyuk, Ukrainian high economic court judge, has been found in his car outside of Kiev. Police investigating the crime have reported unofficially that there is an 80% certainty at least that the body in the car is that of the judge. No official confirmation has been forthcoming and no comment has been made on the cause of death.

Judge Mikhailyuk came to prominence over several high profile commercial court cases including that of Altimo v. Telenor which resulted in a temporarily punitive sanction applied to Altimo, owned by Russian Alfa Group, in the New York Southern District Court at the end of 2008.