Abramovich is ‘a survivor,’ libel hearing is told

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has been described as a ‘survivor rather than the person perpetrating wrongdoing’ by a lawyer representing the Australian arm of HarperCollins. Billionaire Abramovich, 54, is suing HarperCollins in the High Court after writer Catherine Belton said he bought the club on the orders of Vladimir Putin. The allegations against Abramovich, 54, were made in Catherine Belton’s book ‘Putin’s People: How the KGB took back Russia and then took the West’. Belton quotes fugitive billionaire Sergei Pugachev,…