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Undated: German Borisovich Khan (born 24 October 1961) is a Ukrainian-Russian billionaire businessman.[3][4] After graduating from university in 1988 he worked in a wholesale business selling consumer items,[5][5] before setting up his own cooperative.[1] He was then appointed the head of the wholesale trade business Alfa Eco as part of the Alfa Group Consortium, by Mikhail Fridman.[5][5][6] He became president of Alfa Eco in 1996[7] and was instrumental in directing the company to focus on export and the oil trade.[1] When Alfa bought Tyumen Oil (TNK) in 1997, he joined the board of directors.[1] He was deputy chairman of TNK Oil Company[8] from 1997 until 2003.[5] In 2003, Khan worked with the other TNK owners to form a 50–50 joint venture with British Petroleum (BP),[9] in what was the largest foreign investment in Russia to date,[10] at US$8 billion.[11]
In May 2017 Khan, along with fellow Alfa Bank owners Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed for publishing the unverified Donald Trump–Russia dossier,[56][57][58] which alleges financial ties and collusion between Putin, Trump, and the three bank owners.[59][60] In October 2017 Khan, Fridman, and Aven also filed a libel suit against the private-investigation firm Fusion GPS and its founder Glenn Simpson, who had commissioned former MI6 agent Christopher Steele to compile the dossier, for circulating the dossier among journalists and allowing it to be published.[61] In April 2018 Khan, Fridman, and Aven filed a libel suit against Steele in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia,[62][63] but the suit was dismissed with prejudice the following August.[64]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Khan
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October 5: 3 Russian Businessmen File Second Defamation Lawsuit In Connection with 'Steele Dossier'
https://www.rferl.org/a/steele-dossier-trump-russia-alfa-bank-fusion-gps-aven-fridman-khan/28774687.html
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April 20: Three Russian businessmen this week filed a lawsuit against Trump dossier author Christopher Steele and a London-based corporate intelligence company, claiming the infamous document falsely accused them of being complicit in the alleged Russian effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.courthousenews.com/russians-sue-trump-dossier-author-for-defamation/
August 21: Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court
Suit against Christopher Steele by three Russian oligarchs thrown out by judge
The former MI6 officer Christopher Steele has won a legal battle in the United States against three Russian oligarchs who sued him over allegations made in his dossier about the Trump campaign and its links with Moscow.
The oligarchs – Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan – claimed that Steele and his intelligence firm, Orbis, defamed them in the dossier, which was leaked and published in early 2017. The Russians own stakes in Moscow-based Alfa Bank. All are billionaires.
On Monday, a judge in the District of Columbia, Anthony C Epstein, upheld a motion by Steele to have the oligarchs’ case thrown out. Epstein did not determine whether the dossier – which Donald Trump has repeatedly dismissed as “fake” – was “accurate or not accurate”.
But the judge concluded that it was covered by the US first amendment, which protects free speech. He ruled that the oligarchs had failed to prove a key part of their case: that Steele knew that some information in the dossier was inaccurate, and had acted “with reckless disregard as to its falsity”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/21/author-of-trump-russia-dossier-wins-libel-case-in-us-court-christopher-steele
September 26: In Steele dossier suit, a skirmish over Russian oligarchs' international profile
Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan, all billionaire investors in Russia’s Alfa Bank, allege they were defamed by one of the reports included in the dossier that suggested a longstanding, shady relationship between the men and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/steele-dossier-suit-skirmish-russian-oligarchs-international-profile/story?id=58111345
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