Publisher made false statements about businessmen

Publisher HarperCollins has settled a claim with two businessmen after an author made false allegations that they were connected to the KGB. The references to Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman have been cut from the book ‘Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Turned on the West.’ Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is currently suing HarperCollins in the High Court after writer Catherine Belton said he bought the club on the orders of Vladimir Putin. Belton quotes exiled…