Dubai Court Restores Yacht to Russia Tycoon, Move Disputed in Divorce Contest

Dubai Court Restores Yacht to Russia Tycoon, Move Disputed in Divorce Contest
Superyacht Luna owned by Russian billionaire Farkad Akhmedov is docked at Port Rashid in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on March 28, 2019. Christopher Pike/Reuters
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DUBAI—A $436 million superyacht belonging to a Russian billionaire at the center of one of the world’s costliest divorce battles has been released by a Dubai court after being impounded last year, but legal wrangling over the fate of the vessel continued.

Oil and gas tycoon Farkhad Akhmedov was ordered to pay about 40 percent of his fortune to his former wife Tatiana Akhmedova by London’s High Court in 2016 in one of the largest divorce settlements in legal history.