‘Tory lied,’ claims Russian billionaire

A lawyer representing a Russian oligarch and ally to President Vladimir Putin has accused a top Tory donor of lying to a court in a multi-million-pound legal battle. Vladimir Chernukhin’s wife Lubov is said to have given more than £600,000 to the Conservative Party since the pair married in 2007. She once successfully bid £160,000 at a Tory fundraiser to play tennis with David Cameron and Boris Johnson. Having served as Putin’s deputy finance minister, Mr Chernukhin, 50, became invested…