Abramovich settles libel case

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has settled with Harper Collins after the publisher agreed to make substantial changes to the defamatory claims about his purchase of Chelsea Football Club and the ownership of oil company Sibneft made in a book on Vladimir Putin. The book repeated untrue allegations made by a discredited fugitive that the Russian premier had somehow been involved in Mr Abramovich’s purchase of the Premier League team. Catherine Belton and the publisher of her best selling book ‘Putin’s…