Abramovich libeled in slush fund claim

Billionaire Roman Abramovich was wrongly described as the ‘custodian of Kremlin slush funds’ in a book about Putin’s Russia, the High Court heard. Mr Abramovich, 54, is suing HarperCollins and former FT Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton over claims he bought Chelsea FC in 2003 on the order of the Russian president: ‘Putin’s People: How the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West’. Mikhail Fridman, co-founder of of Russia’s largest bank AlfaGroup, oil and prand Russian oil company…