Vladimir Potanin's Ex wife, Natalie Demands $15Bn In Final Divorce Settlement

The 55-year-old Natalia, who is the ex-wife of Russian oligarch, Vladimir Potanin, 56, has filed a fighting demanding $15billion from him. She's seeking half of his immense sum, including dividends from Norilsk Nickel, which Potanin owns 30 per cent of, and Interros International, his investment company.

The couple were settled a divorce in 2014 after 23 years of marriage and have three children together. She claims he betrayed and humiliated her after starting a connection as soon as a younger employee, subsequently whom he has a worship child.

Courts have twice rejected her attempts to lay her hands on the subject of the order of the shares, saying that while her ex husband does gain from them, he does not own them directly. However, in supplementary papers filed in Moscow, Natalie claims she should be entitled to half of the dividends from the shares, even though she cannot have the shares themselves.

Although Potanin told Moscow courts that he is no longer a billionaire and is active regarding a salary of $480,000 a month, Forbes estimates that he's worth $13.4billion. Now although Natalie was previously awarded $4.8million from the sale of a luxury apartment in central Moscow, along when three plots of house in the region, she claims her former husband hid gigantic quantity in a series of offshore companies to subside her from accessing it.